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What is Ollier Disease?

Ollier disease (OD) is a rare, nonhereditary benign bone disease. This article explores the condition in depth.

16 Jun 2022

How are Zoonotic Pathogens Threatening Global Healthcare Systems?

Zoonotic pathogens present a major global health problem.

15 Jun 2022

How Can Sleep Affect Men's Health?

Dysfunctional sleeping patterns have been shown to impact men's health conditions such as erectile dysfunction, lower urinary tract symptoms and infertility.

15 Jun 2022

What are the Health Benefits of Fermented Foods?

Fermented food or food fermentation is a food processing technology that harnesses the growth and metabolic activity of microorganisms for the stability and transformation of food.

13 Jun 2022

Integrating Mental and Sexual Health

Sexual health is essential for well-being, general health, and overall quality of life.

10 Jun 2022

Human Monkeypox – Epidemiology, Clinical Characteristics, Diagnosis, and Prevention

The human monkeypox virus, which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus of the family Poxviridae, is a DNA virus.

9 Jun 2022

Intersectionality in Healthcare

What is intersectionality? This relatively new term has to do with each individual's unique experiences of discrimination and stigma, experiencing intersecting layers of oppression from different social identities.

8 Jun 2022

How Can Maggots Save Limbs?

Maggot therapy has been used in the field of medicine since ancient times.

8 Jun 2022

What are the Health Benefits of Beetroot?

Research has demonstrated that the consumption of nitrates from sources such as beetroot may increase the body's available nitric oxide.

8 Jun 2022

What does the Future Look Like for New Medicines?

What will the future of medicine look like? Will we manage to cure cancer? Will lab-grown organs render human donation obsolete?

8 Jun 2022

The Science Behind Healthy Hair

What is healthy hair and what is the science behind it? Here we discuss the structure of the hair and its propensity to exhibit a healthy appearance or otherwise.

8 Jun 2022

How Do Your Emotions Affect Your Physical Health?

Unhealthy emotions, or healthy emotions that are not allowed any expression, may leach away the energy of living and increase the propensity to unhealthy coping mechanisms, chronic disease, or autoimmune manifestations.

6 Jun 2022

Compassion Fatigue in Healthcare Professionals

Compassion fatigue – what is it? This article aims to find out.

11 Jun 2022

What is Chorionic Villus Sampling?

Chorionic villus sampling is a prenatal diagnostic test performed for prenatal genetic testing involving a biopsy of placental tissue between 10 to 13 weeks gestation.

7 Jun 2022

Health Technology Around the World

Health technologies can support the implementation o effective national health and care systems.

17 Jun 2022

What Does Blood in Semen Mean?

Semen is a fluid that is composed of sperm as well as fluids from the prostate and other glands.

15 Jun 2022

The Importance of Regulating Medical Devices

Medical devices are primarily the brainchildren of engineers, in comparison to pharmaceuticals derived from chemical specialists' work.

14 Jun 2022

Future of Sustainable Pharmaceuticals

Sustainability in pharmaceutical development and marketing is crucial for human welfare since the use and role played by medicines will only increase as the human lifespan increases, and greater numbers of people live out their lifespans.

13 Jun 2022

Virtualization within Healthcare; Why is it Important?

The transition of healthcare to a virtual environment is a global societal movement toward a better and more convenient organization of medical care for a person and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

10 Jun 2022