What is Cushing's syndrome? Cushing's syndrome is a hormonal disorder. It’s caused when you have high levels of the hormone cortisol over a long time. Cushing's syndrome is fairly rare. It most often ...

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. Both ...

Examples of conditions classified as FSDs include: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS): One of several functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) that causes chronic abdomen pain along with diarrhea, ...

Thyroid disease is caused by over- or underproduction of thyroid hormones. An overproduction of thyroid hormones is called hyperthyroidism, and an underproduction of thyroid hormones is called ...

Liver disease is any disease that directly affects your liver. Unlike acute liver failure, which happens suddenly, liver disease progresses slowly over time. Some types of liver disease, like ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Updated at 10:44 a.m. on January 9, 2024 In the summer of 2018, 59-year-old David Gould ...

Nine patients had a syndrome characterized by the presence of a sea-blue histiocyte and splenomegaly. Lipid analysis of liver from the most recent patient revealed accumulations of specific ...

We'd had experience with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome (MERS) causing large outbreaks. Both are caused by viruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2 ...

In early December, international alarm bells went off because of a mysterious disease circulating in a remote part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Africa Centers for Disease Control and ...

Forward Jacob Gaucher is sticking around with the Philadelphia Flyers organization. Gaucher has signed a two-year, entry-level contract with the Flyers, the team announced Thursday. Before ...

The Canada Communicable Disease Report is a bilingual, open-access, peer-reviewed journal on the prevention and control of emerging and persistent infectious diseases. Learn more about CCDR.

Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is an umbrella term used for a large group of diseases that cause scarring (fibrosis) of the lungs. The scarring causes stiffness in the lungs which makes it difficult ...