Articulating a comprehensive definition of health and disease has been a historically intricate task. The earliest conceptual frameworks for health and disease can be traced back to the ancient ...
Using a new definition that includes waist-based measurements, the team found that more than 75% of adults may meet criteria ...
"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...
Several dozen studies focused on oligometastatic disease (OMD) were presented across four major oncology meetings of 2025, underscoring that what was once a speculative concept is now a cornerstone of ...
As you go through your day, you may not think about your heart, the organ central to your life as it pumps blood throughout your body. But that can change quickly if you experience a potentially ...
Using a new definition of obesity that considers both BMI and waist-based measurements, researchers have found that a ...
Lewy body diseases -- Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies -- should be defined as neuronal alpha-synuclein disease, not as clinical syndromes, a new position paper proposed. "Parkinson's ...
Adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) is a rare inflammatory disorder. Thanks to a new initiative, AOSD is now considered to be the adult counterpart of systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis, but in ...
The Global Neurodegeneration Proteomics Consortium (GNPC) has published a series of research papers detailing their efforts to identify patterns in neurodegenerative disease. Sifting through roughly ...
Refsum disease is a metabolic condition. It occurs due to genetic variations, which results in the buildup of a fatty acid in the body. This fatty acid can then cause damage to the white matter of the ...
Tangier disease is an inherited metabolic condition. It occurs due to a problem with an enzyme that processes cholesterol. This can cause an accumulation of toxic cholesterol in certain body tissues.