TORONTO (CTV Network) — A recent Canadian case of scurvy shows the disease is not just an archaic diagnosis of 18th-century seafarers. After a 65-year-old woman from Toronto was diagnosed with scurvy ...

A 37-year-old woman’s bruising from a massage gun ended up having a cause stranger than anyone could have expected. In a recent report, doctors documented how the woman had developed the rare ...

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Arrr! Now considered an ancient disease of sailors, recent research shows that scurvy is still harming vulnerable populations struggling to eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables. Reading time 4 ...

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life was not for him. English singer James Blunt was so committed to being a carnivore in college that he went on an all-meat diet to show up his vegan and vegetarian ...

Scurvy doesn't just turn your skin yellow. In fact, in the later stages of the disease, the skin turns black, often right before you die, horribly, from massive internal hemorrhaging near the brain or ...