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What is Cushing's syndrome? Cushing's syndrome is a hormonal disorder. It’s caused when you have high levels of the hormone cortisol over a long time. Cushing's syndrome is fairly rare. It most often ...

Diagnostics criteria for familial Mediterranean fever. A recent study conducted on the largest childhood FMF cohort in the United States, a non-endemic area, concluded that a negative family history ...

The hereditary periodic fever syndromes consist of a spectrum of rare, inherited, chronic, multisystem, auto-inflammatory syndromes. They include familial Mediterranean fever, hyperimmunoglobulin ...

Scarlet fever, slapped cheek syndrome and hand, foot and mouth disease all surged into the top 10 most viewed NHS advice pages last year after a post-pandemic increase in cases of the diseases.

Disease name: Tularemia, also known as "rabbit fever" or "deer fly fever" Affected populations: This disease is rare in the U.S. Between 2011 and 2022, 2,462 cases of tularemia were reported in 47 ...

Valley fever, also called coccidioidomycosis or "cocci," is an infectious disease caused by the Coccidioides fungus that grows in the soil and dirt in some areas of California. Valley fever is a ...

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1 Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2 Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Department of ...