In a 2017 New Yorker profile, Ophelia Dahl, one of the founders of the nonprofit Partners in Health, described the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa as “acute on chronic.” What she meant was that the ...

Chronic malabsorption syndromes such as Crohn disease, chronic pancreatitis, and short bowel syndrome are associated with an increased risk for AMD.

Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the heart that may occur because of infections, immune system activation, or exposure to drugs. The diagnosis of myocarditis has changed due to the ...

Chronic liver disease is long-term liver damage that worsens over months to years. Ongoing inflammation can lead to fibrosis, which can progress to permanent scarring called cirrhosis. Common causes ...

A complete list of the CARPO investigators is provided in the Appendix. Acute pancreatitis (AP) is without specific drug therapy. We conducted a phase 2b trial of the calcium release-activated calcium ...