UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics is seeing hand, foot and mouth and viral upper respiratory infections this week. Pediatricians at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital are seeing strep throat, ...

Up to 30% of people with chronic hives (also known as chronic urticaria) have an underlying autoimmune disease that affects the thyroid gland in the neck. Chronic hives are especially common in people ...

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If student has a high fever and/or a rash, Escambia and Santa Rosa schools will send them home amid a measles scare across ...

Casey Gallagher, MD, is a dermatologist and clinical professor in the Department of Dermatology at the University of Colorado Denver. Grover's disease is a rare skin condition that causes a severe ...

Most people with lupus have it affect the skin. The types of rashes can be divided into two large groups. First, when lupus affects the skin with problems only seen in lupus, it’s called cutaneous ...

Eric Kinnell, now aged 42, nearly died from a bout of exceptionally rare Kawasaki disease as a five-year-old boy. Eric Kinnell was five years old when his family's Catholic priest came to perform his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lyme disease season begins with the spring and summer months — and with confirmed cases of Lyme disease now on the rise, ...