Upset woman feeling like a social outcast as she has been suffering from bullying and discrimination. She feels excluded, offended and hurt and is sitting alone in cafe. Disease names are confusing, ...

Most people hear the names of medical conditions every day without giving them a second thought, but those names shape how we understand illness, how doctors diagnose it, and how society treats the ...

Ayik is an advocate for people living with rare diseases. Recently, the smoldering embers of conflict in my family’s rare disease community have burst into flames over the use of an eponym: ...

The pharma marketing world has unique insight into how words play into their world: Many months and many dollars are spent ...

Coffman is a writer, actor, and multi-hyphenate creative. In 2022, I gave birth to a healthy baby girl and triggered a wildly violent chain of events: multiple organ failure, hemorrhaging, blood clots ...

A group of global experts convened by WHO has agreed on new names for monkeypox virus variants, as part of ongoing efforts to align the names of the monkeypox disease, virus and variants—or ...

Without explanation, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under the Trump administration has reverted from using the disease name “mpox” to the obsolete “monkeypox,” which the world ...