Viking Disease: What it is and who gets it

SUBSCRIBE | SHOP | ARCHIVE Written by Dr. Nick Golinvaux Good morning. If you’ve seen About Time, Love Actually, or Pirates of the Caribbean, you’ve seen Dupuytren’s. Actor Bill Nighy has it in both hands — his ring and small fingers are stuck in a flexed position, and his palms show the telltale cords of the disease. It’s a striking, even bizarre condition, and it’s far more common than you might think. Credit: Martin Smith, Creative Commons license About 1 in 20 people will develop some...