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 ...
SAN ANTONIO – Has your child recently had a mysterious rash that started on their cheeks? There’s a good chance it was caused by a virus known as fifth disease. It’s also known as “slapped cheek” ...
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, ...
OUR resident specialist and NHS GP, Dr Zoe Williams, shares her expert advice. Today, Dr Zoe helps a reader who is suffering ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Each month, The Clinical Advisor makes one new clinical feature available ahead of print. Don’t forget to take the poll. The results will be published in the next month’s issue. Several acquired and ...
Most rashes in babies and young children are being wrongly labelled as chickenpox (‘mata’), leading to unnecessary panic and ...