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[case_image][/case_image] [case_image_citation] Stephen Colden Cahill, DO, and Schield Wikas, DO - Series Editor [/case_image_citation] [signs_symptoms] At the end of summer, a 37-year-old woman presented for consultation about a 5-year history of a pruritic rash. The rash originally had started...

[case_player][/case_player] Hungarian researchers, in collaboration with the Allen Institute for Brain Science, a Seattle-based nonprofit, discovered a new type of brain cell that has not yet been observed in any other organism. The cells — named "rosehip" neurons — feature a large rosehip-shaped...

Vanderbilt neurosurgeons fit DBS electrodes with extraordinary precision on patients to treat Parkinson’s disease tremors that cannot be treated with medications....

Chronic severe pain affects one in five Americans. Complex regional pain syndrome, a subtype of chronic severe pain, is a severe pain disorder that develops following minor surgery or trauma as a result of the healing process going awry. The syndrome — sometimes referred to as suicide disease — is...

[case_image][/case_image] [case_image_citation] Alexander K. C. Leung, MD, and Benjamin Barankin, MD - Series Editor [/case_image_citation] [signs_symptoms] A 34-year-old man presented with a 2-year history of a slowly enlarging painless papule on the left side of his face. Apart from gentle...

A millimeter-scale soft robotic spider for medical applications built by Harvard researchers has capabilities previously possible only on a larger scale.

Researchers transform pineapples and fruit waste into a wound-healing bandage.

How would you diagnose this week's Derm Case Challenge?