congenital polycystic disease and medullary cystic disease of either infectious or congenital origin. 3 During the sodium-losing phase these cases are characterized clinically by anemia ...

I was honored to be invited to sit on a panel of rare disease patients and discuss the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in a patient’s lifetime. These are interesting times. Technology, in ...

Thyroid cancer can be hereditary or acquired. Associated familial diseases have their own inheritance pattern, and some have known gene defects. They include familial medullary thyroid carcinoma (RET ...

Diseases spread through saliva include mononucleosis, strep throat, rotavirus, and even tooth decay. Many diseases can be spread through saliva alone, including viral and bacterial infections. Our ...

High blood pressure affects multiple organs. Not only can hypertension add stress to the heart and damage arteries, leading to heart disease, but it also can cause strokes and kidney disease as ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of intestinal disorders that cause prolonged inflammation of the digestive tract. It can include ulcerative colitis (UC) or Crohn’s disease.

Video: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard At a glance: Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though patients are born ...

IgG4-autoimmune pancreatitis is a rare but largely treatable disease; hence, clinical awareness and early diagnosis are key. Immunoglobulin G4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a rare inflammatory disorder ...

In California alone, the disease struck 2,000 people between January and October last year. More than 60 infants younger than 4 months were hospitalized in the state. One died. Whooping cough ...

Cystic fibrosis is a rare, life-shortening disease that affects over 90,000 people worldwide. It is caused by mutations in the CFTR ion channel, resulting in the aberrant flow of salt and water in ...