"People have forgotten what life is all about," Robert De Niro's character says in the film "Awakenings" after being revived from the shut-down state he had been in for 30 years. "They've forgotten ...

Paul Foley received funding from the Australian Research Council, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) and the National Library of Medicine in the course of his investigation of ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn comparisons to the 1918 influenza pandemic. Both spread globally with remarkable speed, and their acute phases led to millions of deaths. What might come as a surprise ...

No one knew how to cure encephalitis lethargica (sleeping sickness) two years ago when Mrs. Jane Norton Grew Morgan, wife of John Pierpont Morgan contracted the disease. She drowsed for eight weeks, ...

Five cases of “sleeping sickness, known to the medical profession as encephalitis lethargica,” were reported in Spokane. A 21-year-old in Newport, Washington, died after a month’s illness. This was a ...

A terrifying illness that dominated the world for an entire decade is still leaving doctors perplexed. Half a million people lost their lives to the mysterious disease, which saw some patients undergo ...

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