This Presidents Day article is from the book Uncle...  ...ife, when he suffered from almost every childhood illness imaginable- plus a few more: scarlet fever, bronc...  ...d nausea. The Kennedys did their best to keep the illness a secret, especially during JFK’s run for t...

Back in May, Emily McDowell brought us a collectio...  ...second set of designs that work for a variety of illnesses and “general crappy situations.” They...

Emily McDowell is an illustrator, greeting card de...  ...alled Empathy Cards.The most difficult part of my illness wasn’t losing my hair, or being erroneously...

[http://youtu.be/bYXZP8eZKCw] (YouTube link)The sk...  ...CIENCE looks at home remedies for colds and other illnesses that have been in use for a long time, and the fa...

Every language develops its own diagnoses of malad...  ...own.” There are plenty more uniquely German illnesses

[http://youtu.be/RWiOhlqEDz4] (YouTube link)"You'll catch your death of cold!" Grandma says when you show up with just a sweater on in the winter. So you once again explain to her that you aren't allowed to wear a coat i...

After a few weeks of feeling under the weather, the essayist and poet Charles Lamb (above) sent a letter to his friend Bernard Barton to inform him of his condition. An excerpt reveals that Lamb was either gazing directl...

Flu: 1, Flu Shot: 0. - ‏@simplebits...

The Awl has some great charts detailing how the common cold is transferred, profiling the one guy who infects your entire workplace, and a flow chart to determine whether you will catch a cold. That's in addition to...

For someone who knows a lot about science, Sid the Science Kid is doing NOTHING about his jaundice. - @JohnRossBowie ~Illustration by: Lily Churgin~...