June 10, 2024 — Scientists have grown 'mini-guts' in the lab to help understand Crohn's disease, showing that 'switches' that modify DNA in gut cells play an important role in the disease ...

Adulting Is Hard on the Heart: Teen to Young Adulthood Is a Critical Time to Address Risk Mar. 26, 2025 — Many youth have heart disease risk factors by their late teens, and preventing or ...

Autoimmune diseases are a pathophysiological state wherein immune responses are directed against, and damage, the body's own tissues (autoimmunity). Common examples of autoimmune disease include ...

Skin diseases are pathologic conditions that affect the body's surfaces (also called the integument), including skin, hair, nails and associated glands. They can involve all layers of the skin and ...

For instance, who wants to hear that their loved one has chronic, severe, progressive senility when they can be told the gentler name Alzheimer's disease? The term "mongolism" has long been ...

The disease effectively wipes the memory of our immune systems, which has led health experts to warn that a large measles outbreak might consequently lead to a national rise in other infections. The ...