Researchers digitally reconstructed the skull of the ancient Hippopotamus creutzburgi, an extinct dwarf hippo of the Greek ...

Nephronophthisis (NPH) is a recessive cystic kidney disease responsible for 10% to 20% of pediatric end-stage renal disease cases. NPHP1 (nephrocystin 1) is the most frequently implicated among over ...

In a statement yesterday, the Taipei Zoo, which was home to Thabo, confirmed that the 2-year-old hippo from Singapore’s Mandai Wildlife Group passed away sometime after 4 am, despite efforts to treat ...

For more than a decade, I have worked as a physician and public-health expert responding to infectious diseases around the world. In 2014, while treating Ebola patients in Guinea, I contracted and ...

Thyroid diseases are characterized by hyperfunction (hyperthyroidism), hypofunction (hypothyoidism) or inflammation (thyroiditis) of the thyroid gland or the presence of thyroid nodules ...

Marcela Henao-Tamayo receives funding from NIAID, NIH and OEDIT. An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) refers to long-term conditions that involve inflammation of the digestive tract or gut. It can lead to a range of digestive symptoms. According to the Centers for ...

“It is much more complicated than just pointing the finger at ultraprocessed foods as the driver of chronic disease in the United States.” “The greatest perpetrator of misinformation during the ...

At least 1,318 people have exhibited symptoms and 53 have died, the WHO said. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is closely monitoring an unknown disease that has killed dozens in ...

This led to a lack of access to vaccines and a clear, early decrease in rates of vaccination,” Dr. Richard Martinello chief medical officer and professor of infectious diseases at Yale Medicine ...

Key diseases to watch include H5N1 Bird Flu, Measles, Polio, Mpox, an unnamed illness in Congo, and Guillain-Barré Syndrome. “The COVID-19 crisis may have passed, but a harsh lesson remains ...

Health authorities are conducting tests in regions of DR Congo affected by a mystery disease that has killed 60 people. https://p.dw.com/p/4rC2q Plasmodium falciparum ...