Yet another scary illness has emerged from the coronavirus pandemic, and it affects children: a condition that looks eerily similar to Kawasaki disease. As of Friday, 73 kids in New York state have ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Kawasaki disease, also known as mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, is an inflammation of the blood ...

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Nearly six decades after Dr. Tomisaku Kawasaki first described the condition, Kawasaki disease (KD) remains the leading cause of acquired heart disease in ...

At the end of April, medical trend reports revealed a chilling trend: Children appear to be increasingly sick with a virus similar to Kawasaki disease, a very rare illness that causes inflammation ...

Researchers have identified a new way to treat young children with Kawasaki disease (KD) to prevent life-threatening coronary artery damage and heart attacks. The WEHI-led study showed that treatment ...

While most pediatric COVID-19 cases are mild, the disease has been tied to a serious new syndrome in kids. In recent weeks, dozens of children who tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies have ...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced a plan to test all children with symptoms of a rare inflammatory condition for the coronavirus and its antibodies as dozens of cases have been ...

Researchers report that while Kawasaki disease occurs in clusters, the traits, and thus the triggers of the inflammatory disease vary among clusters. Researchers at University of California San Diego ...