Ménière disease is a balance disorder. It’s caused by an abnormality in part the inner ear called the labyrinth. Fluid build-up here can cause a severe spinning sensation (vertigo) and affect the ...

To improve access to care, many professional organizations have advocated for classifying obesity as a disease. However, the ...

About 1 in 5 classified as overweight based on BMI alone considered to have obesity according to European society definition.

The SLE Disease Activity Score (SLE-DAS) may provide a solution for accurate and practical discrimination of disease activity categories. The SLE-DAS is a validated, composite instrument for measuring ...

A new Delphi consensus led by the National Psoriasis Foundation proposes a standardized definition of on-treatment remission ...

Everything you need to know about vaccine-preventable diseases "Vaccines prevent outbreaks, they build immunity and herd community infrastructure," according to Dr. Zahra Shajani ...

Tropical diseases are illnesses commonly found in, or specific to, tropical and subtropical regions. Tropical diseases encompass communicable and non-communicable diseases, genetic disorders, and ...

Key Takeaways Autoimmune diseases can nearly double risk of a mood disorder People with an autoimmune disease are 87% to 97% more likely to suffer depression, anxiety or bipolar disorder Women ...

Methodology on overdiagnosis estimation and definition provided a source for extensive discussion. Other contexts of discussion included definition of disease, overdiagnosis communication, trends in ...

Atherosclerotic lower extremity peripheral artery disease (PAD) is increasingly recognized as an important cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality that affects >230 million people worldwide ...

Discover the definition of communicable diseases, the symptoms of the different types, and how to avoid them here.

A Detroit-based father, journalist, and patient advocate, Clifton has lived with sickle cell disease (SCD), a genetic blood disorder that causes chronic pain and organ damage, for 38 years.