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Juice Fasting: Pros and Cons

Juice fasting involves following a diet that is mostly made up of fruit and vegetable puree. It can be both beneficial and harmful depending on how long it is undertaken for.

16 May 2018

Radiotherapy and surgical interventions were the only two options available to treat Ewing's Sarcoma (ES), until the middle of the last century. However, several treatment options and many new chemotherapeutic agents have been introduced as a part of recent medical development.

15 May 2018

Leber Congenital Amaurosis Causes

Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) is a severe form of congenital blindness due to inherited recessive traits. As such it is typically caused by the inheritance of two copies of a mutated gene, one from each parent. The parents are heterozygous and clinically unaffected by the disease.

15 May 2018

Q Fever Symptoms

The signs and symptoms of Q fever are extremely variable besides being very mild in the majority of clinical cases, which themselves make up only about 45% of the infected population. Most infected individuals are asymptomatic.

15 May 2018

Causes of Bowler's Thumb

The term 'Bowler’s thumb' can happen to the bowlers. The act of throwing the ball causes chronic tension build-up in the thumb's ulnar digital nerve.

15 May 2018

Q Fever Diagnosis

Query (Q) fever is a zoonotic illness caused by Coxiella burnetii transmitted by inhalation or ingestion.

15 May 2018

Limbic System and Motivation

The limbic system is a collection of specified neural networking structures, which is associated with emotional behaviors, memory and motivation

15 May 2018

Limbic System and Behavior

The limbic system is defined as the brain networking system responsible for controlling emotional drives and memory formation.

15 May 2018

Overhydration / Hyponatremia

Overhydration is the term used for the excessive intake of water. It is also often referred to as water intoxication. Water is a vital component for the proper functioning of the body. It helps in a plethora of biological processes including digestion, absorption, and distribution of food and nutrients.

15 May 2018

What is Folliculitis Decalvans?

Folliculitis decalvans (FD) is a condition in which there is loss of hair in a patchy fashion over the scalp, due to a chronic inflammation with scarring. The first description was by Quinquaud in the 19th century.

15 May 2018

Water-Borne Diseases

Water-borne diseases are the ones caused by pathogenic microbes spread via contaminated water.

14 May 2018

What is Activated Charcoal?

Activated charcoal is a special type of fine black powder made from materials such as charred bones, coal, petroleum coke, and coconut shells, among others.

14 May 2018

Leigh's Syndrome Prognosis

Leigh's syndrome is a progressive neurological disease caused by mitochondrial dysfunction leading to loss of oxidative phosphorylation, the process primarily responsible for the production of ATP in the body. Since ATP is the chief source of energy within all body cells, such disorders threaten the fundamental life processes.

14 May 2018

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

People have investigated brain stimulation since very early times, in ancient Rome torpedo fish were applied to the heads of some patients to relieve headaches, for instance, by their electrical currents. In 1802, Aldini of Italy applied electrical current to the exposed cortex of the human brain and attempted also to treat melancholia with a voltaic pile.

14 May 2018

History of Hematidrosis

Hematidrosis represents a strange and extremely rare medical condition where the affected individual literally sweats bloody fluid through the sweat pores. The skin is usually anatomically and histologically normal, though a few studies have reported some abnormalities such as blood-filled spaces in the skin at the time of the bloody sweat. This has not been confirmed in most other research, however.

14 May 2018

Broken Bone First Aid

A broken bone or a fracture is a very painful injury. Immediate first aid is crucial for broken bones. Moving the injured bones may increase pain and bleeding. Also, it may lead to tissue damage.

14 May 2018

Campylobacteriosis Treatment

Campylobacteriosis is an infection in the small intestine which causes gastroenteritis. It is caused by the bacterium, Campylobacter jejuni.

14 May 2018

What is Health Anxiety Disorder?

Individuals with health anxiety disorder have an obsessional concern that they are currently (or will be in the future) experiencing a serious physical illness.

14 May 2018

What is Quinsy?

Quinsy, or peritonsillar abscess, is among the commonest deep infections of the adult head and neck. In contrast to tonsillitis, it occurs in adults and the bacteria responsible are different, thus it appears to be a different condition rather than a late complication of tonsillitis.

14 May 2018

What is Ewing's Sarcoma?

Ewing's sarcoma (ES) is a rare cancerous tumor that grows in bone or in soft tissue. This type of malignant tumor possesses heterogeneous morphological characteristics.

14 May 2018