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A novel cross-cultural adaptation of the Urticaria Control Test (UCT) for clinical applications in Thailand proved every bit as effective as its German predecessor.

Researchers evaluated the correlation between clinical and laboratory findings to identify biomarkers for a range of chronic spontaneous urticaria criteria including differential diagnosis, activity, duration, patient subgroups allocation, and response to treatment.

Researchers compiled best practices for clinicians diagnosing and treating aquagenic urticaria (AU), a rare, but debilitating form of the skin disorder that leaves patients unable to bathe, sweat, or cry without breaking out in painful wheals.

A new study reported no increased incidence of heart disease in patients treated for chronic urticaria, despite prior research highlighting a potential association with other cardiac risk precursors.

Researchers highlight a new set of tests that could streamline the process involved in identifying autoimmune chronic urticaria.

Prisoners who are able to get hepatitis C antivirals while they are still incarcerated can be lost to treatment when they are freed. A community linkage program in the Bronx, NY is having success keeping the patients on their drug regimens.

When patients with chronic kidney disease also have untreated hepatitis C, the prognosis is grim. The combination can lead to end-stage renal disease, a study found.

Despite intense efforts to disinfect hospital surfaces, C. difficile can be difficult to eliminate a two-year followup showed in Costa Rica.

A disease that was much-feared but now so rare it is often mistaken for atopic dermatitis, leprosy has been confirmed in a California elementary school pupil. Armadillos are known to harbor and spread the bacteria that cause it.

The family dog has been implicated in an epidemiological study tracing the spread of Clostridium difficile (C. difficile).

Too much television isn't just bad for kids' heads, it appears to weaken their bones as well, Australian researchers found.

Location should matter more than non-profit status when it comes to forgiving medical school debt for physicians who work in underserved areas, a group of medical residents believes.

When it comes to having a parent in jail, the kids are not alright. Psychiatrists discuss ways to help.

An alternative treatment for healing injuries is believed to have spread hepatitis C infection among patients in California, the CDC reports.

When addicted physicians seek treatment, they generally succeed. Addiction specialist Joseph Garbely, DO, says physicians usually have too much at stake to fail.

The nation's opioid addiction crisis is not limited to patients. In a Q&A with MD Magazine, addiction specialist Joseph Garbely, DO, says doctors are vulnerable and often wait too long to get help.

New neuroimaging research out of Indiana University offers visual proof that anticholinergic drugs such as Nyquil, Excedrin PM, and Benadryl can cause cognitive impairment in mature patients.

A multi-national workplace fitness event got workers out of their chairs by racing around the globe, virtually.

Can “Chest Pain Choice†an informative chart designed to guide emergency patients in making treatment decisions make a difference in care, patient anxiety, and costs? Mayo Clinic doctors say it did in their study.

The American College of Cardiology's outgoing President Kim A. Williams, MD, went vegan in 2003 and never looked back. He talks about the diet's power to heal and how being the ACC's first vegan leader played out.

There were hundreds of presentations on high-tech innovations and the latest drugs for heart disease. But unless cardiologists find better ways to prevent cardiovascular illness, deaths will keep rising, the ACC's Kim Williams, MD said in his welcome speech.

Stress directly impacts the arteries. Imaging studies enable physicians to actually see the proof, a Boston, MA team reports.

In findings that shocked the Cleveland Clinic researchers who compiled them, heart attack patients are getting younger and have more comorbidities than expected.

A mysterious microbe is stalking the elderly in the Midwest. The CDC and local health officials are stumped.

Microcalcifications that can show up on mammograms can also predict a woman's risk of heart disease. MD Magazine spoke to Khurram Nasir, MD, co-author of an editorial urging physicians and their specialty societies to put this finding into practice.

In a potentially practice-changing finding, New York researchers found mammograms can predict coronary arterial calcifications and heart disease risk.

A Long Island otolaryngologist has agreed to pay $75,000 and attend discrimination training to settle charges he refused to operate upon learning his patient was HIV positive.

Epinephrine auto-injectors can save lives in cases of anaphylaxis, but their needles are too long for toddlers and infants who weigh less than 15 kg, a device manufacturer confirms. The injectors can strike bone in small children.

The poor continue to get more asthma and are far less likely to get successful treatment, a new study found.

Allergy researchers are making progress in the cat allergy field. The first step is seeing which kitties are the most likely to trigger allergies.