Health And Fitness

The various contributions of physicians and scientists over the years have laid the foundations of modern medicine. Two important contributions could be the creation of Microscope and the vaccination for smallpox. […]

Modern medicine would not be what it is today if not for the contributions of the inventors and innovators, whose contributions have helped shape the history of medicine as well as human beings. […]

Fungal diseases can have a massive impact on the lives of human beings. Fungi not only affects humans, but animals and plants as well. […]

There are certain fungal diseases that are unique to certain geographical areas in the United States. Many instances of fungal infections originating in particular areas can be found all over the United States. […]

A more complex life form, fungi are eukaryotic cells that contain a nucleus and many organelles. Fungal diseases can be quite harmful even though they do not affect humans directly. […]

Viral diseases such as syphilis and typhus caused severe epidemics in the past that led to thousands of deaths. These diseases are less common today. […]

There are four main viruses of clinical significance in the herpes virus family. The viruses are never eliminated from the human body and after the primary infection can recur due to precipitating factors. […]

Unlike bacteria, viruses cannot survive outside a living organism. They can only live and multiply inside host cells. They are the smallest microbes and were first seen through the electron microscope that was invented in 1931. […]