Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Spencer Dorn is a gastroenterologist who covers healthcare and tech. Throughout the 20th century, doctors primarily searched for ...

The general public are worryingly ignorant about the symptoms and risk factors that contribute to serious medical conditions such as stroke and HIV/AIDS, according to a new study. Surprisingly, those ...

In everyday usage, knowledge refers to awareness of or familiarity with various objects, events, ideas, or ways of doing things. But, as philosophers have noted for centuries, things get complicated ...