Though rare in the United States, it primarily impacts children ages 5 to 15 with untreated or undertreated strep throat ...

UNLIKE certain other common diseases of childhood, rheumatic fever leaves no known immunity and seems to create an increased susceptibility to recurrent attacks. The effects of these recurrent ...

Born to Sukumaran, a schoolteacher, and Kamalamma in Neyyattinkara, Thiruvananthapuram in 1959, Jayamohan was struck by acute ...

(NewsNation) — Six in 10 adults will live and die with heart disease by 2050, according to forecasts by the American Heart Association. Cardiovascular disease, which encompasses a range of heart ...