Primary immunodeficiency disorders (PIDs) are a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized, as the name suggests, by deficiencies (abnormal, poor or absent function) in the immune system. As ...

There is no agreement on how to classify, define or diagnose hip-related pain—a common cause of hip and groin pain in young and middle-aged active adults. This complicates the work of clinicians and ...

You could call it class warfare, except the warfare is on the very idea of class. For generations now, various prominent scholars have decided we’d be better off abolishing it. Back in 1939, the ...

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International Journal of Sociology of the Family, Vol. 11, No. 2 (July-December 1981), pp. 347-366 (20 pages) This paper focuses on the meaning and usage of status and kinship terms in different ...

Neurotrophic keratitis, also known as neurotrophic keratopathy (NK), is a degenerative disease of the cornea caused by damage to the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve. A healthy cornea and a ...