BIomarky

Haemochromatosis moves quietly. For years — sometimes decades — iron accumulates in the liver, pancreas, heart, and joints without producing symptoms specific enough to raise immediate concern. The fatigue gets attributed to stress, the joint stiffness to aging, the slightly abnormal bloodwork to a lab error.

Rheumatic fever sits at an uncomfortable crossroads between infection and immunity. It begins with something as ordinary as a strep throat — a Group A Streptococcus pyogenes infection — yet in some people, the immune response spirals into something far more damaging: inflammation attacking the heart, joints, brain, and skin.