Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The first proposed definition for disease modification in systemic lupus erythematosus, including lupus ...

Getting diagnosed with a chronic illness can be devastating. It can also be scary to realize that you’re dealing with a health issue that may never go away. The U.S. National Center for Health ...

With more than 250 peer-reviewed papers published in several high-impact journals, Katalin Susztak, MD, PhD, has opened the ...

New therapies for kidney disease could be developed more quickly by revising the definition of kidney disease progression used during clinical trials, experts say. If adopted, the new definition could ...

Scientists at the University of Oxford, have identified how rare populations of abnormal cells drive the formation and ...

An international team of data scientists and rare disease specialists write that they've come up with a way to characterize and define diseases so that they eventually would be sharable among ...

Brain maps define diseases Researchers have identified well-delineated brain networks that are linked to five distinct neurodegenerative diseases, according to a paper published in Neuron today (April ...

Some diseases are like black swans. They occur so rarely that many physicians never encounter them in their clinical practice, complicating efforts to treat them. How many rare diseases are there?

An international coalition of brain researchers is suggesting a new way of looking at Alzheimer's. Instead of defining the disease through symptoms like memory problems or fuzzy thinking, the ...

Lewy body diseases -- Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies -- should be defined as neuronal alpha-synuclein disease, not as clinical syndromes, a new position paper proposed. "Parkinson's ...

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests that new therapies for kidney disease could be developed more quickly by revising the definition of ...