THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala is poised to achieve another significant public-health milestone — eliminating rheumatic fever (RF), a potentially serious inflammatory disease that can lead to ...

Thus, the epidemiological setting in which the diagnosis of rheumatic fever and its recurrence are considered is particularly important. For example, acute monoarticular arthritis among the indigenous ...

In them, I read the dry, short, and ultimately disappointing entries for rheumatoid arthritis. But I also noticed the entries for “rheumatic fever.” Might there be some correlation? I didn’t recall ...

Rheumatic heart disease is one of those conditions. Rheumatic heart disease is a condition in which rheumatic fever has permanently damaged the heart valves, causing symptoms of shortness of breath, ...

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 ...

From the Cardiac Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital. † Medical-social worker, Cardiac Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital. Talbot, F. B. A Consideration of the Social Service Work of the ...

Scientist Julian Paton: "The situation with rheumatic heart disease in this ... Julian Paton bought the oldest Land Rover in New Zealand, he sensed an opportunity. He decided to drive the vehicle ...

A young boy with a cancer-like tumour in his brain is selling his old toys and books so he can visit his favourite cousin in ...

Renowned General and Interventional Cardiologist Dr Vijay Kapadia, based at the Gold Coast University Hospital in Australia, has stressed the need for rheumatic ... of rheumatic fever in the ...

Also speech therapy for years for speaking." 2."I was a kid in the 1940s-'50s and had ALL the diseases except polio, scarlet fever, and rheumatic fever. Whooping cough (pertussis) was the very ...