For patients and caregivers, understanding clinical progression, diagnostic imaging results, and pharmacological treatment options is vital for managing acute and chronic health conditions.
After you finish a tough workout, you should feel sore and a little worn out — like you have challenged your muscles but will recover with time. While muscles spasms or twitching may be normal, explosions that make you feel like your muscles are about to jump out of your skin are not.
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A bruised knee can make exercising uncomfortable, but it doesn't have to keep you sidelined. Athletes, dancers and everyday people exercise with a bruised knee. If your doctor has given you the OK to workout, you can still do your cardio and strength-training exercises.
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Thumb pain has multiple causes, including the overuse of the thumb joint, constant repetitive actions of the joint, tendinitis, injury to the joint, osteoarthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome or rheumatoid arthritis. Such pain can also cause a loss of gripping ability.
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Diarrhea is the second most common reported illness in the United States. Bouts of diarrhea may be acute and last only one to two days, or the condition may be chronic, lasting four weeks or more.
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Nighttime tooth pain can be caused by a number of factors, not all necessarily related to a problem with your tooth. When you experience this pain, knowing its causes and when to seek help can help you find relief.
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If you’re a coffee drinker, here’s one more of one of those “good-news/bad-news” situations that muddles your mind and drives you to straight to the coffee pot for another hit of joe.
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An integral part of the digestive system, the pancreas produces enzymes for digestion and insulin for glucose, or sugar, breakdown, according to Jackson Siegelbaum Gastroenterology in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. Diseases of the pancreas can destroy this organ and are frequently the cause for an enlarged pancreas.
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High blood sugar--abnormal, even dangerous levels of sugar in the blood--is known as hyperglycemia and is most often associated with the disease diabetes mellitus. However, different types of medications may also cause high blood sugar; this is sometimes known as medication-induced, or drug-induced, diabetes.
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A toothache isn’t typically a medical emergency, but it should always be examined by a dental care professional. Common causes of tooth pain include gum infection, tooth decay and trapped food or debris.
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A hysterectomy is a major surgery that involves removal of all or part of a woman's uterus, and sometimes the ovaries and fallopian tubes as well. After a hysterectomy, a woman will no longer menstruate or be able to become pregnant.
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A sore throat with the feeling of a lump is associated with post nasal drip, according to the American Academy of Otolaryngology.
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According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, professional and recreational athletes illegally use performance-enhancing drugs to enhance their abilities and improve their physique. These substances, called anabolic androgenic steroids, alter the body's testosterone system.
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A hiatial or hiatus hernia occurs when the stomach protrudes through a weakened portion of the diaphragm, a large muscle that separates the abdominal and chest cavities.
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According to The Mayo Clinic, "A bruise forms when a blow breaks small blood vessels near your skin's surface, allowing a small amount of blood to leak out into the tissues under your skin. The trapped blood appears as a black-and-blue mark".
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According to the World Health Organization, nearly 55,000 people die from rabies infections every year. Most of those deaths occur in Asia and Africa, though rabies infections have been reported in 155 countries and on every continent except Antarctica.
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Cerebral hypoxia, or brain hypoxia, develops when the brain does not receive enough oxygen to sustain its normal metabolism. Out of all the organs, a lack of oxygen is most dangerous to the brain. Neurons begin to die after they have been without oxygen for approximately five minutes (Ref 1).
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When hair follicles become red, itchy and infected, folliculitis is the probable cause. Folliculitis can result from shaving, friction between the skin and clothing, excessive sweating or infected cuts or wounds.
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A brain aneurysm is a bulge or dilation in an artery in the brain. Aneurysms occur in areas where the walls of the artery are thin or weak. Aneurysms develop in approximately one in 20 people, according to the Merck Manual.
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Medications are a common cause of kidney damage, also known as nephrotoxicity or, when severe, renal failure. According to an article in the January/February 2013 "Aging Well," 20 percent of all episodes of acute kidney damage are due to medications.
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The area at the back of the knee is referred to by the anatomical term “popliteal fossa,” due to the presence of the flat triangular muscle at the back of the knee called the popliteus. "Fossa" is an anatomical term used to describe a concave depression, such as at the back of the knee, or the inside of the elbow.
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