When Jan Frodeno announced last Friday that he won't be in Kona this year due to an unusual post-bike crash complication called a Morel-Lavallee lesion, there were a couple of common responses. Of ...

If you have upper motor neuron lesions, you have damage to certain nerve cells that help you move. Medicines and therapy can help control symptoms like muscle spasms and help you walk and talk more ...

Sclerotic lesions can be malignant or benign. They are usually localized to a single bone or area of your body. A malignant lesion is often cancerous, posing a risk to your health if it is not treated ...

MS is a condition in which the immune system attacks the protective covering of the nerves in your brain and spinal cord. These damaged areas are called lesions and are part of an MS diagnosis. Share ...

Vocal cord lesions alter the contour of the vocal cords and impair the ability of the vocal cords to close properly on vibration when a person is speaking or singing. During certain phases of ...

In my response to a related question, How Do I Differentiate Normal Aging of the Skin From Pathologic Conditions? I described some of the most common benign lesions that are encountered in geriatric ...

These nine cases will test your ability to distinguish ringworm from infections that can cause similar eruptions. See how many diagnoses you get right. Even though tinea infection is a common cause ...

When trying to understand the health of long-past populations, sometimes you have to rely on nothing but the bones. In anthropology, porous cranial lesions (PCLs) — areas of pitting on the roof of the ...

As a study in Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology points out, Kaposi lesions may be less visible in people who have darker skin tones. Although Kaposi lesions can be asymptomatic, they may sometimes ...

MRI-invisible prostate lesions. It sounds like the stuff of science fiction and fantasy, a creation from the minds of H.G. Wells, who wrote The Invisible Man, or J.K. Rowling, who authored the Harry ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. COVID-19, the disease that has caused the coronavirus pandemic, is a respiratory illness that has symptoms ...

Our bodies’ nerve cells are important for transmitting electrical and chemical information between different parts of the brain and between the brain and other parts of the nervous system. One of the ...