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 ...

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 ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a public health challenge that affects more than 800 million people worldwide. 1 CKD can be caused by a variety of disease processes. Many causes are difficult to ...

Hospital admissions of patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy at a single institution from February 5, 2011, to September 5, 2023, were individually reviewed and adjudicated for ...

Advances in cardiac imaging techniques and risk categorization have led to improvements in diagnosis, initial treatment and long-term management of patients with Kawasaki Disease, according to a new ...

Dry Eye Syndrome (DES) encompasses a large number of distinct and related etiologies; however, these can broadly be divided into two groups: aqueous tear deficiency DES (also known as aqueous tear ...