Pulmonary sarcoidosis is a lung disease characterized by granulomas -- tiny clumps of immune cells that form in response to inflammation. It's the most inflammatory of the interstitial lung diseases ...

Soma Mandal, MD, is a board-certified internal medicine physician with a specialty in women’s health. Blue waffle disease is an internet hoax and not a real sexually transmitted infection (STI ...

If you have high cholesterol, you have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease. That can include coronary heart disease, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease. High cholesterol has also been ...

Experts in the UK have outlined four dangerous emerging viruses which could become the so-called “Disease X” to cause the next pandemic. As the Mirror reports, The UK Health Security Agency ...

Urgent action has been demanded to protect the UK from a host of diseases with the potential to devastate British farming and jeopardise food supply. Outbreaks of foot and mouth disease in Germany ...

Chronic wasting disease (CWD), a lethal and contagious neurological disorder, is spreading rapidly among wildlife across 36 US states and several other countries. Experts are emphasizing the grave ...

This influenza season has been particularly severe in the United States, with CDC data showing a rate of hospitalization related to flu that is higher than any other season in the past 14 years.

New Haven, Conn. — Advances in the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 over the past 15 years have yielded important new insights into the roles that specific genes play in many diseases. But ...

The Grand Ole Opry's centennial celebration was not only a night of emotional performances. It was another stop in Alan Jackson's farewell circuit. The live concert, which took place Wednesday ...

A deadly outbreak of Kala-azar, a parasitic disease caused by the Leishmania parasite, has hit Wajir County, leaving 18 dead and infecting more than 500 people in the last 3 months. With cases ...

Researchers have discovered that an enzyme can serve as an ideal target for developing new therapeutics against Lyme disease, and most likely other tick-borne diseases as well. The finding was ...

Scientists are using machine learning to find new treatments among thousands of old medicines. Scientists are using machine learning to find new treatments among thousands of old medicines.