Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Chronic kidney disease of uncertain etiology (CKDu) has emerged as a serious public health concern in farming ...

Background Initial studies investigating correlations between stroke etiology and clot composition are conflicting and do not account for clot size as determined by area. Radiological studies have ...

Inflammation, he says, “causes your body to act fluish, even in the absence of the flu virus.” Pro-inflammatory cytokines usually do their job and then disappear, but when stress is chronic ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered new details about how poxvirus hijacks its host's protein synthesis machinery ...

A new study leveraged data from the MSK-IMPACT tumor sequencing test to learn about the genetic complexity of cancer metastasis. When cancer spreads from a primary tumor to new sites throughout the ...

However, telangiectasias are also a classic feature of certain autoimmune diseases that affect the skin and other connective tissues (also called connective tissue diseases): There are many different ...

Background and purpose Studying the imaging and histopathologic characteristics of thrombi in ischemic stroke could provide insights into stroke etiology and ideal treatment strategies. We conducted a ...

Objective Haemorrhoidal disease (HEM) affects a large and silently suffering fraction of the population but its aetiology, including suspected genetic predisposition, is poorly understood. We report ...

Normally, a vacation to a tropical locale involves sunburns, maybe some bug bites, and sand stuck in your hair. For one ...

Twelve of 13 members of one family fell ill upon returning to the United States from a Costa Rica trip in late December. A ...

A new report describes how 12 members of an extended US family who toured a bat-colonized Costa Rican cave tied to a previous histoplasmosis outbreak returned with confirmed or likely cases of the ...

Histoplasmosis is a systemic mycosis caused by inhalation of Histoplasma capsulatum microconidia. The disease does not normally affect immunocompetent individuals after a single, transient inhalation ...