• What Color Is That?: Life with Color Blindness

    What Color Is That?: Life with Color Blindness

    Written by Jayne Thakur | Art by Maya Wen Often, people assume that having color blindness makes it so that the individual is unable to see any color whatsoever. However, color blindness is a more subtle disorder which involves the inability to differentiate between certain colors as opposed to seeing none at all. Color vision Read more

  • Celebrating Our 100 Articles Milestone: The Importance of Health Awareness

    Celebrating Our 100 Articles Milestone: The Importance of Health Awareness

    Written by Diya Desikan | Art by Srivalli Adarapu  Pathoscribe is proud to announce its 100th article! Our mission has always been to provide easily accessible educational medical content that everyday people can understand. We’ve been posting articles on various health topics, especially overlooked diseases and disorders for over a year now. We have witnessed Read more

  • Morgellons Disease Unraveled

    Morgellons Disease Unraveled

    Written by Shaurya Gulani | Art by Trevor Cheng For years, Morgellons disease was written off as simply imaginary. Still, the painful reality of spider leg-like fibers in the skin that more and more people are reporting, has brought the attention of experts to unravel its web.  Morgellons disease is an extremely rare condition that Read more

  • Beyond the Bone: A Study on Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva

    Beyond the Bone: A Study on Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva

    Written by Rihanna Mokhehle | Art by Lily Ozaeta Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva is a rare condition that has harmed many lives. With less than a thousand cases globally confirmed, some still live in pain trying to get the help needed.  Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is a rare genetic condition where bone gradually replaces skeletal muscles Read more

  • Immunotherapy

    Immunotherapy

    Written by Micaela Montinola | Art by Nourah Bakary Immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that essentially taps into our own immune system’s potential to fight cancer. Our immune system is the complex network of tissues, organs, and white blood cells that work together to help our body fight off infections and diseases in Read more

  • Deadly Bruises: The Life of a Hemophiliac

    Deadly Bruises: The Life of a Hemophiliac

    Written by Jayne Thakur | Art by Anoushka Pandya Hemophilia is a rare genetic disorder in which an affected individual is unable to clot their blood, which often means that a simple bruise may lead to catastrophic blood loss, usually internally. Caused by the absence of clotting factors in the blood, hemophiliacs will experience different Read more