Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

New guidelines on identifying fabricated or induced illness (FII) in children are needed after research has found previous guidance to be inaccurate and the cause of false accusations against parents.

A cholera outbreak in Sudan’s capital has killed 70 people in two days, health officials said, as Khartoum battles a fast-spreading epidemic amid a collapse of basic services.

A fast-spreading cholera outbreak has hit Sudan, killing 172 people, with more than 2,500 others becoming ill in the past week.

New treatment guidance has been developed to help doctors tackle uveitis—one of the leading causes of vision loss. The new clinical guidance, by a team at the University of Bristol, aims to help thousands of sufferers keep this painful eye condition at bay. The study is published in JAMA.

COVID-19 cases are rising again as a new variant begins to circulate in some parts of the world. The World Health Organization said Wednesday the rise in cases is primarily in the eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia and western Pacific regions.

The Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology divisions at MUSC have joined forces to create and test an algorithm for treating children with sickle cell disease who present to the Emergency Department (ED) with a fever.

Breathing in wildfire pollution may make it harder for people with lung cancer to survive, according to a new study from UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers.

In the early months of 2020, a curious thing happened. Around the globe, a new kind of number began appearing in government briefings and newspaper headlines. These weren’t just case counts or hospital admissions. They were predictions—curves plotted weeks into the future, graphs that told us when the COVID-19 wave would crest, how many ICU beds we’d need, and how soon we’d be safe again. The models had arrived.

Millions of people are affected by chronic dry mouth, or xerostomia, an agonizing side effect of damaged salivary glands. While chemotherapy and radiation treatment for head and neck cancer are the most common causes of this, aging, certain medications and other factors, including diabetes, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease and HIV/AIDS, can also cause chronic dry mouth. Currently, there is no cure for it.

Viral infectious diseases pose significant challenges due to the rapid evolution of viruses through mutations. This was particularly evident during the COVID-19 pandemic, when emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2 sparked new waves of infection. These variants often carry mutations that make them more transmissible, allowing them to spread rapidly across populations.