Dna of italian mummy reveals rheumatoid arthritis in europe before columbus

Some paleopathological studies suggest that Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) started in the New World, among ancient American Indians in Tennessee and neighbouring…

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This new field of medicine is like house – with a time machine

Long before there was a field of bioarchaeology — the study of human skeletons from archaeological sites — there was an interest in…

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Renaissance mummies in italy

The paleopathological study of 40 Italian Renaissance mummies has allowed us to perform about 20 diagnoses, of which 5 concern infectious (smallpox, hepatitis,…

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