A liver ultrasound focuses on your liver and the area around it. It’s used to screen for liver disease or other conditions, or to check the condition of your liver. This imaging test can provide ...

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 ... Major Cause of Inflammatory ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Dave Wessner is a virologist who covers infectious diseases. Experts from the World Health Organization provided an update on Sunday about ...

AI-Enabled Analysis of Images Meant to Catch One Disease Can Reveal Others Dec. 4, 2024 — With the help of an AI tool, computed tomography (CT) scans taken originally to look for tumors or ...

This unsettling event has reignited discussions about “Disease X.” Disease X is not an actual but a hypothetical disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) coined the term in 2018 to ...

[16] Focal nodular hyperplasia occur mainly in normal liver and should be distinguished from FNH-like lesions, which occur in livers affected by alcoholic cirrhosis or vascular diseases ...

Graves’ disease is an autoimmune condition that causes the thyroid gland to overproduce thyroid hormones. Treatment for Graves’ disease is relatively simple, but without it, the disease can ...

Infectious diseases tend to spread during the winter holiday season in the Northern Hemisphere. (Manuel Romano / NurPhoto via Getty Images) It's that time of year, when families and friends come ...

What Is Inflammatory Bowel Disease? Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of disorders in which the intestines become inflamed. It happens when your immune system launches repeated attacks ...

A comprehensive literature search was performed using electronic databases (Medline, PubMed, and Ovid; keywords: “inflammatory bowel disease”, “ulcerative colitis”, and “Crohn’s disease”) by Dr Carter ...

Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a chronic inflammatory liver disease which, if untreated, often leads to cirrhosis, liver failure and death. Major advances were made in its management based on ...

Diseases are abnormal conditions that have a specific set of signs and symptoms. Diseases can have an external cause, such as an infection, or an internal cause, such as autoimmune diseases. A ...