The historical record shows that the battle to prevent and find cures for infectious disease will lead to a lower incidence ...

Dr. Janine Zee-Cheng, a board-certified pediatrician in Indiana, told HuffPost that sometimes a child will come in with a ...

Higher rates of childhood Streptococcus pyogenes (group A Streptococcus (GAS)) infections following the COVID-19 pandemic have exposed uncertainty about the epidemiology of immune-mediated ...

Te Moana a Toi Iwi Māori Partnership Board (IMPB) met with Te Whatu Ora late yesterday following public meetings held last ...

Undergraduate medical schools show “significant variation” in rheumatology training, with some students receiving as few as 4 ...

A RECENT review of the literature 1 and our own experience at the House of the Good Samaritan 2–5 suggest that early treatment of rheumatic fever with ACTH and cortisone may prevent or mitigate ...

ACUTE rheumatic fever, in the absence of intercurrent streptococcal respiratory infections and rheumatic recrudescences, is generally a self-limited disease that subsides within twelve weeks.

Ageing is a natural and unavoidable phenomenon that brings with it various health challenges, including arthritis, memory ...

The disease results from damage to heart valves caused by one or several episodes of rheumatic fever also called Bouillaud’s disease, an autoimmune inflammatory reaction to throat infection with ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) happens when germs, like fungi and bacteria, develop the ability to defeat the drugs that are ...

Meade pointed out strep throat is a bacterial infection, while typical sore throats stem from viral infections associated with colds or a flu. Meade said this difference is significant, as untreated ...