It feels like every day there’s a worrying new science story coming our way, and it’s been revealed that an ancient disease ...

An ancient disease linked to malnutrition is on the rise among American children, 'troubling' data shows. The rate of scurvy - which can cause teeth to fall out and extreme pain - tripled between 2016 ...

AN ancient disease has been making a comeback and it could be caused by an acid reflux drug, a new study has warned. Health experts have recently suggested scurvy - a condition caused by a lack of ...

"This book is a rich source for information on ancient diseases...Mummies Disease and Ancient Cultures achieves a good balance of detail with general facts, and it is well written, well illustrated, ...

An ancient disease, tuberculosis has been found in the skulls and spinal cords of Egyptian mummies 3,000 years old. The Greek physician Hippocrates called "consumption" — as tuberculosis was oft ...

The study published in Nature magazine compares modern D-N-A with ancient human D-N-A from teeth and bones, revealing insights into prehistoric migration and disease-linked genes. Scientists ...

A disease most of us would think is long-gone in the UK has seen an uptick in cases over the last few years - as the cost of eating healthily has increased. Scurvy is something many people would ...

The work is a “great advance” for archaeology, history and the study of ancient diseases, says Pontus Skoglund, an expert in ancient genomics at the Francis Crick Institute in London who was ...

An ancient gene mutation among First Nations inhabitants of Oceania may make them more susceptible to infectious diseases like influenza, according to a new study by scientists at the University of ...

An ancient gene mutation among First Nations inhabitants of Oceania may make them more susceptible to infectious diseases like influenza, according to a new study. An ancient gene mutation among ...