UK paediatrics specialists have warned that a small but rising number of children are becoming ill with a rare syndrome that could be linked to coronavirus. On Sunday the Paediatric Intensive Care ...

Kawasaki disease is now considered the leading cause of acquired heart disease among children in developed countries such as the United States and Japan. In most cases, up to 80 percent, treatment ...

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Scientists now have some clues to what's causing Kawasaki disease, a rare inflammatory disease that can affect very young children. Doctors say it's important to recognize the signs of this condition ...

LONDON -- Doctors in Britain, Italy, and Spain have been warned to look out for a rare inflammatory condition in children that is possibly linked to the new coronavirus. Earlier this week, Britain's ...

Efforts to control spread of SARS-CoV-2 early on during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan were accompanied by a big drop in Kawasaki disease cases among young children, according to nationwide data. That ...

In another sign that the COVID-19-associated multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is not your typical Kawasaki disease, a center in Paris reported that fully 57% of its cases were in ...

San Diego's Children's Hospital is reviewing patients it recently treated for Kawasaki disease to determine if they were actually suffering from a similar but rare new illness connected to the novel ...

Cases of this rare, potentially dangerous childhood illness are growing in the U.S. It is often mistaken for scarlet fever, tick-borne diseases or common viruses. Here’s what to look for. By Emily ...

Dr. Jane C. Burns has studied Kawasaki disease for four decades. It took only four months for COVID-19 to turn her life’s work upside down. Unusual numbers of children and teenagers living in COVID-19 ...

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 ...