For many years, it was believed that when an individual develops liver scarring, it can not be reversed. Today, we know that ...

There are two types of inflammation: acute and chronic. Acute inflammation is the kind that lasts a few hours, days, or weeks, and it’s helpful to healing. It’s your immune system’s response when ...

Inside the deadly disease confounding medicine, researchers piecing together clues and the breakthrough that meant survival ...

Let this be a lesson to always advocate for yourself at the doctor, and if you're getting ignored, get a second opinion.

Liver fibrosis represents a serious worldwide health issue with a prevalence of around 5% in general populations.1 The most ...

High blood sugar can complicate symptoms of Peyronie’s disease, and getting it under control may help you see improvements.

In a bar, a poet meets the man behind the drug that saved his life — discovering how science, faith and chance created a ...

A new study suggests that COVID-19 may slightly increase the risk of lung cancer by triggering a biological chain reaction in the lungs, driven by the virus's spike protein, that promotes inflammation ...

Common symptoms like shortness of breath or a lingering cough may seem harmless, but when they persist, they could point to ...

High levels of the stress hormone cortisol can cause weight gain, skin changes, and muscle weakness. Although short term spikes in cortisol when you're stressed are normal, chron Cortisol, known as ...

A new COVID variant – dubbed Cicada – is being monitored by the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization. First detected in 2024 in South Africa, Cicada, officially known as ...

For many people, the COVID-19 pandemic feels like a distant memory. In reality, the SARS‑CoV‑2 coronavirus is still spreading widely across the globe and continues to evolve into new variants.