and sodium methylglucamine diacetylamino-triiodobenzoates (Renografin), and introduced the diagnostic possibilities of epidemic parotitis and salivary-duct calculus. Case Reports Case 1.

Parotitis is inflammation of one or both parotid glands, two large salivary glands responsible for making approximately 50% ...

Last year, the U.S. surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, issued a 71-page advisory warning of an American “epidemic of loneliness and isolation,” with all the danger that classification implies.

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In 1905 the final yellow fever epidemic in the United States took place in New Orleans, the city that had seen some of the nation's worst outbreaks. Though the danger of mosquitoes transmitting ...

It was also the site of the most fearsome epidemic to strike the young nation. Dr. Benjamin Rush, one of the city's most prominent physicians and a signer of the Declaration of Independence ...

The first wave of the pandemic had arrived. (What is the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic?) The Spanish flu strain killed its victims with a swiftness never seen before. In the United ...

A smallpox epidemic killed between 5 and 8 million of the native population in the following two years. Over the next century, less than 2 million would survive this and other communicable ...

Considering taking supplements to treat parotitis mumps? Below is a list of common natural remedies used to treat or reduce the symptoms of parotitis mumps. Follow the links to read common uses ...

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It is important to strengthen epidemic prevention by applying lessons learned on epidemic management and how to prevent the stoppage of basic services, and to raise the level of preparedness in ...

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