Thyroid eye disease (TED) is an autoimmune inflammatory disease of ocular orbit (orbitopathy) that causes swelling in the extraocular muscles and accumulation of adipose tissue in the orbit. It may ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patients with ophiasis may be categorized into 3 distinct subtypes that can guide early intervention and stratify treatment.

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.

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 ...