DURING the fall of 1962 an epidemic of histoplasmosis occurred in Mason City, Iowa. The source of the infection was a starling roost in the center of town, and the epidemic resulted when heavy ...

Sarah Bradley is a writer with six years of experience creating personal essays, reported features, and content related to health and parenting topics. Katlein Franca, MD, is a dermatologist and ...

Scarring, whether caused by acne, surgery or another wound-inducing experience, is almost as inevitable as it is permanent. If your scars create textural changes to your skin, medical intervention via ...

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Takayasu's arteritis is a rare, systemic vasculitis with varied presentations across multiple medical specialities. Here, we present a young woman who had recurrent episodes of erythema nodosum on the ...

A viral rash occurs as a symptom of an underlying viral infection. It can appear with other common viral symptoms like fever, headache, body aches, or fatigue. Most viral rashes start on your trunk or ...

Dermatographism is when scratching or pressing the skin causes raised red marks. Dermatographism usually goes away on its own within 30 minutes. Dermatographism (also known as dermatographia) is a ...

After the sixth day of therapeutic baths with 100 mg/L of P. hispidum essential oil, the blood of the fish was collected by puncturing the caudal vessel using syringes with EDTA (10%). Three ...