A new study from the University of Bergen shows that genes responsible for antibiotic resistance are present not only in ...

Smoking, obesity, and prolonged corticosteroid use are independent predictors of sarcoidosis recurrence, a recent study found ...

Sarcoidosis, which is also known as sarcoid or Besnier-Boeck disease, is a health condition involving the formation of small nodules known as granulomas at various sites of the body. Sarcoidosis is ...

About one in a thousand people get sarcoidosis and many may not realize they have it. But pulmonologist Dr. Gary Weinstein with Texas Health Dallas told KERA’s Sam Baker the inflammatory disease can ...

Not many people know how to say sarcoidosis (sar-coy-doe-sis). If people can’t say it, it is challenging to raise awareness, educate others about the disease, discuss the disease with physicians and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Additionally, patients with obstructive sleep apnea had lower odds for being diagnosed with sarcoidosis than ...

New guidance is available for physicians who must go through a number of steps to provide a probable diagnosis of sarcoidosis - an inflammatory disease that affects the lungs, lymph glands, and other ...

A research project supported by the National Institutes of Health has developed a tool to rapidly and inexpensively diagnose sarcoidosis, a chronic inflammatory disease marked by the growth of tiny ...

NEW YORK CITY -- Patients with longstanding sarcoidosis and skin involvement had dramatic improvement after 6 months of treatment with the Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor tofacitinib (Xeljanz), a small ...

MANAHAWKIN, N.J. (WPVI) -- Sarcoidosis is an immune system ailment that only got its name a century ago. And doctors are continually learning about this disorder, which can vary so much from one ...

Sarcoidosis has rarely been reported with polycythemia vera (PV), an acquired myeloproliferative neoplasm characterized by mutant Janus kinase 2 (JAK2) signaling leading to erythrocyte overproduction.

Sarcoidosis (pronounced SAR-COY-DOE-SIS) is an inflammatory disease characterized by the formation of granulomas—tiny clumps of inflammatory cells—in one or more organs of the body. When the immune ...