The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has published a list of more than 85 musculoskeletal conditions that can qualify ...

In Russia’s Yakutia region, mammoths and other ice-age creatures once roamed the land. Now, tens of thousands of years later, divers are searching beneath the ice for their bones. Yakutia, part ...

Paget’s disease of the breast is a rare kind of breast cancer that mostly affects the skin around the nipple. It happens in only a small number of breast cancer cases because it’s linked to ...

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 ...

How many deaths have been linked to the mystery disease in Congo? At least 60 deaths have been reported, according to the latest bulletin from the WHO's Africa office. In the initial outbreak ...

Addison’s disease, also called primary adrenal insufficiency, is a rare disorder that occurs when the body doesn’t make enough of two hormones called cortisol and aldosterone. Cortisol is an ...

Crohn’s disease causes inflammation that spreads deeply into the layers of bowel tissue and can lead to life threatening complications. Crohn’s disease is a lifelong chronic condition that ...

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It’s common for people with Paget disease of the breast to receive a diagnosis of eczema, which can delay diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer. The look-alike symptoms of Paget disease and ...

It fills in the gaps with new bone, which renews and strengthens the skeletal structure. In Paget’s disease, the balance between bone removal and bone building gets disrupted. Bone building ...