Analysis of men seen at a specialist clinic provides new insights into the classification of Peyronie's disease (PD) subtypes, according to a report in the September issue of The Journal of Urology®, ...

"Physicians should feel more confident in following the recent guideline recommendations both to use race-neutral reference equations and to use z scores for assessing severity…Together, these changes ...

Let’s talk about two of the main classifications of plant diseases — biotic and abiotic — and the differences between them. The term “abiotic” means “without life.” Examples include damage from the ...

Biomedical research and the practice of medicine, separately and together, are reaching an inflection point: the capacity for description and for collecting data, is expanding dramatically, but the ...

One of the things that makes developing effective treatments for Parkinson's disease so challenging is its complexity. While some forms are caused by genetics, others have environmental factors, and ...

Is obesity among the most misunderstood, misclassified, and mistreated diseases? Over the past 30 years, researchers have not only identified a key hormone (leptin) that helps regulate appetite and ...

The International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) was released last month. That's a big deal for a number of reasons, not least of which is that it is the first ICD revision in over two decades.

Globally, an estimated 300 million people live with a rare disease. They typically experience isolation, diagnostic difficulties, lack of therapies, fragmented care, stigma, a struggle for recognition ...