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What is fungal nail infection?

Fungal infections can affect skin, hair as well as nails. Nail infections are common especially in susceptible individuals. It leads to discoloured, ugly and misshapen nails that may even become painful.

22 Jul 2012

Prevention of cleft lip and palate

In most cases cleft lip and palate is an inherited condition. There is really nothing parents can do in such cases to prevent cleft lip and palate from forming in their babies.

18 Jul 2012

Treatment of cleft lip and palate

Cleft lip or palate refers to the separation due to non-fusion of the tissues of the upper lip and palate or roof of the mouth. Surgery is necessary to correct cleft lip and cleft palate.

18 Jul 2012

Symptoms and diagnosis of cleft lip and palate

Cleft lip and cleft palate is cause due to improper fusion of the facial tissues in the middle. It affects one in 700 babies.

18 Jul 2012

Causes of cleft lip and palate

Cleft lip or palate affects one in 700 babies in the United States and the United Kingdom. The reason for this defect lies in defects normal development of the face within the mother’s womb.

18 Jul 2012

What is cleft lip and palate?

Normally as the baby develops in the womb, the tissues that eventually form the upper lip and palate grow from both sides and fuse or join in the middle to give the final continuity and shape to the upper lip and the palate (roof of the mouth). This fusion takes place within the fourth and the eleventh weeks of pregnancy.

18 Jul 2012

Treatment of Polio

Polio is caused by a virus. In most cases it does not manifest clinically (subclinical infection) usually resolves by itself. This type of infection occurs in 95% cases.

17 Jul 2012

Diagnosis of Polio

Polio is caused by a viral infection. In most cases (95% infections) there are no clinical symptoms and these infections do not need treatment.

17 Jul 2012

Symptoms of Polio

Poliomyelitis may manifest with a range of symptoms. These may vary according to severity.

17 Jul 2012

Causes of Polio

Poliomyelitis is a viral illness. It leads to infection of the nerves and sometimes the spinal cord and the brain leading to partial or complete paralysis.

17 Jul 2012

What is Polio?

Polio (medically termed Poliomyelitis) is derived from Greek words Polio – meaning grey and myelon – meaning the spinal cord. The disease commonly affects the spinal cord leading to classic paralysis.

17 Jul 2012

Treatment of Kaposi's sarcoma

Kaposi's sarcoma is a cancer of the linings of the lymphatic channels and blood vessels. It commonly affects individuals with lowered immunity especially those with HIV infection or those on immune suppressing drugs after organ transplantation.

16 Jul 2012

Diagnosis of Kaposi's sarcoma

Kaposi's sarcoma diagnosis in most cases is made clinically and suspected in high risk individuals. High risk individuals include those with HIV infection and those who have received an organ transplant and are receiving immunity suppressing drugs.

16 Jul 2012

Symptoms of Kaposi's sarcoma

Kaposi's sarcoma is a cancer that affects the linings of the blood vessels of lymphatic channels in persons with a lowered immunity typically patients with HIV infection.

16 Jul 2012

Causes of Kaposi's sarcoma

Kaposi's sarcoma is a form of cancer that affects people with decreased immunity. It is seen in patients with HIV infection, elderly men of Mediterranean, Jewish or African descent and patients taking drugs for suppression of immunity after organ transplantation.

16 Jul 2012