Because the symptoms of peptic ulcer disease are often nonspecific, it is important that you see a gastroenterologist for diagnosis. Diagnosis of peptic ulcer disease begins with a comprehensive ...

Accurately diagnosing thyroid function is critical to avoid harms of unnecessary treatment. This study found that age-, sex-, and race-specific reference intervals reclassified nearly half of ...

cDepartment of Medicine and Therapeutics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China dState Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, Chinese University of Hong Kong, ...

What is Blount's disease? Blount's disease (also known as Blount disease) is a form of bowleg deformity at or just below the knee joint. It is caused by an abnormality of the growth plate in one or ...

Telangiectasia is a common condition that affects many otherwise healthy people. But can also be a sign of a more serious disease. Telangiectasias (commonly known as "spider veins") are dilated or ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA granted rare pediatric disease designation for OCU410ST, a gene therapy designed to treat ABCA4 ...

Those benefits included a reduction of risk for both chronic diseases and death from all causes. The study, published Tuesday in the journal JAMA Network Open, analyzed data of about 23,000 people ...

A new rapid blood test, to be presented at the European Society of Human Genetics conference, promises to improve the diagnosis of rare genetic diseases in children significantly While rare genetic ...

A patient has died in Rocket Pharmaceuticals’ pivotal Phase II trial for its investigational gene therapy RP-A501, which the biotech is developing for Danon disease. The patient in question developed ...

INFECTED. A horse infected with glanders, a deadly bacterial disease that can spread to humans through direct contact. World Organisation for Animal Heath website Siquijor Governor Jake Vincent ...

As it relates to Alzheimer’s disease, this is the most common form of dementia, making up roughly 70 percent of dementia cases worldwide. Based on the most current research, roughly 40 percent ...

While rare genetic diseases are uncommon, as their name suggests, there are more than 7,000 types of disease caused by mutations in more than 5,000 known genes, affecting approximately 300 million ...