Highly addictive and often dangerous, stimulants increase alertness, attention and energy, while also elevating blood pressure, heart rate and breathing.
A common virus that often spreads during the wintertime, the flu can become a serious condition, especially for the elderly.
MIS-C is an inflammatory syndrome that affects children and is associated with COVID-19.
A type of bacterium, Clostridium difficile (C. diff), causes one of the most common health care-associated infections in the United States.
ARDS is a potentially fatal form of respiratory failure characterized by low blood oxygen levels.
There are seven known coronaviruses that affect humans, and they can cause respiratory diseases as ordinary as a cold to life-threatening ones, like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and SARS-CoV-2.
Marijuana (cannabis) can cause paranoia and memory loss. Also called cannabis, it can be addictive and can disrupt a user’s life and relationships.
There are all sorts of ways to get an infectious disease—from people and animals, to eating contaminated foods, to environmental exposure.
A chronic brain disease characterized by continuing opioid use despite harmful consequences
Vaccines aren’t just for kids. Thousands of adults go to the hospital each year for a serious (sometimes even deadly) disease they might have avoided if they had received the vaccination to prevent it.