Romania confirms first leprosy cases in over 40 years, with two women diagnosed in Cluj-Napoca and two more under investigation. Authorities suspend spa operations and launch nationwide ...

A new study led by researchers at Mount Sinai Health System has identified distinct biological signatures in patients with mild Crohn's disease, offering a potential pathway toward more personalized ...

The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) has released a comprehensively updated clinical guideline on the pharmacological management of moderate-to-severe Crohn's disease. The new guideline ...

A breast biopsy may use local anesthesia to numb the area. Fine needle aspiration is quick and usually doesn't need general anesthesia. Core needle biopsy is used when breast cancer is suspected.

No blood test can definitively diagnose lung cancer at this time, but researchers hope to develop one in the future. Newer biomarker tests may soon guide the evaluation of lung nodules and make it ...

A Northwestern Medicine study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation has uncovered a connection between a well-known cancer-related protein and a major RNA modification process, which may ...

Nobody loves getting a Pap test, also known as a Pap smear. The stirrups, the cold speculum, that feeling of total exposure — it ranks right up there with bathing suit shopping and root canals. Still, ...

Correspondence to Professor David R Baldwin, Nottingham University Hospitals and University of Nottingham, Respiratory Medicine Unit, David Evans Research Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals, ...