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 ...

Leukoplakia and erythroplakia, or the combined erythroleukoplakia, are types of lesions that appear in the mouth or throat. They may be white or red, and they can be flat or raised. Most don't cause ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When trying to understand the health of long-past populations, sometimes you have to rely on nothing but the bones. Orbital lesions in a young child from the medieval site of Helgeandsholmen, ...

How can imaging biomarkers enhance our understanding of MS? Dr Anne Cross and Dr Matthew Brier examine MRI advancements that ...

Healthcare providers use continuous MRI scans performed over the course of a patient's life to monitor the progression of multiple sclerosis, where the immune system attacks the protective myelin ...

What types of noncarious lesions do dental practitioners most often choose to restore, and why? That was the question addressed in a new study in the Journal of the American Dental Association ...

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 ...

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 ...