SAN ANTONIO, Texas — An upcoming document will entirely reframe obesity as a “condition of excess adiposity” that constitutes a disease called “clinical obesity” when related tissue and organ ...

Lewy body diseases -- Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies -- should be defined as neuronal alpha-synuclein disease, not as clinical syndromes, a new position paper proposed. "Parkinson's ...

A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee is examining and recommending a new definition for Long COVID. Federal Government, Clinicians, Employers, and Others Should Adopt ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has been perceived mainly as a dangerous acute outbreak of infection that killed more than a million people in the United States and 7 million worldwide. 1,2 However, in the ...

Articulating a comprehensive definition of health and disease has been a historically intricate task. The earliest conceptual frameworks for health and disease can be traced back to the ancient ...

A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee is examining and recommending a new definition for Long COVID. A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine ...