Prader-Willi syndrome is a rare genetic disease that causes poor feeding in infancy but later triggers insatiable hunger.

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Authorities in Wales have warned people to be vigilant for symptoms of unpleasant disease amid a suspected outbreak of cryptosporidium. The nasty bug, also known as crypto, causes gastrointestinal ...

face in fighting the disease. These include widespread drug resistance to TB treatment, as patients are often prescribed the wrong drug regimen to treat their symptoms over and over again.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates nearly 13 million people in the U.S. have “latent TB infection.” ...

Membranous glomerulonephritis (MGN) is a type of kidney disease. Symptoms include facial swelling, weight gain, and an excessive need to urinate. While there’s no cure for MGN, treatment can ...

Researchers have discovered five specific blood proteins that can reliably predict an individual’s risk of developing a severe form of liver disease up to 16 years before symptoms arise. These ...

Mitochondrial disease can be difficult to diagnose because the disease can present with a wide variety of symptoms, ranging from mild to severe. There are hundreds of different types of mitochondrial ...

Unlike other infectious diseases like COVID, you can't spread tuberculosis germs unless it is active in the body and you are experiencing symptoms. That doesn't mean that latent TB isn't a big deal.

In an update from Yangon, the WHO medic warned that the risk of waterborne disease "is becoming a reality" for all those still living under plastic sheeting with stagnant water all around. A cholera ...