HFMD primarily spreads in the summer and fall, though it can occur any time of year. While most cases are considered mild and ...

Developing a rash under any circumstance can be concerning and a little annoying. But suddenly getting a rash with painful sores is understandably alarming. While plenty of health conditions can cause ...

Chemotherapy-induced hand-foot syndrome (HFS) is a common and distressing side effect experienced by patients undergoing cancer treatment. This condition, also known as palmar-plantar ...

Jane Haley was hospitalized after experiencing jaw and neck pain following a case of strep throat. Two months later, the ...

Certain chemotherapy drugs, notably capecitabine, can cause a side effect known as palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia (hand-foot syndrome), a painful swelling and inflammation of the hands and feet ...

ORLANDO—Patients with metastatic renal cell carcincoma (RCC) who develop hand-foot syndrome (HFS) while being treated with sunitinib may have better progression-free survival and overall survival than ...

The study covered in this summary was published on Research Square as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. PLD is a key drug for platinum-resistant recurrent ovarian cancer but the risk for ...

Hand-foot syndrome (HFS) is a dose-limiting side effect of capecitabine. Celecoxib prevents HFS by inhibiting cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) that is upregulated because of the underlying associated ...

European Union (EU) vs. non-EU (NOEU) countries study compliance: the experience of the phase III FLORENCE study testing febuxostat in the Tumor Lysis Syndrome (TLS) prevention. This is an ASCO ...

Hand-foot syndrome (HFS), or palmoplantar erythrodysesthesia, is a dermatological toxicity produced by the fluoropyrimidine chemotherapy agents capecitabine and fluorouracil and affects 43-71% of ...

Fingers frozen to the bone? It’s normal to be colder in the winter — but what’s not normal is extremities growing so cold ...

The condition causes loss of blood flow to extremities during exposure to cold or stress. Here's how one writer copes with it.