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A fracture is any sudden break in a bone. The symptoms of a fracture vary depending upon the area and bone involved, but most fractures are associated with pain, deformity, abnormal movements of a particular part, crackling due to grating of the bone fragments against each other, muscle spasm, swelling, and the development of purple [...]
More than a billion people travel by air every year from all parts of the world. Whenever you fly, you expose yourself to high altitudes that can affect your health adversely. There is an increased risk of contracting contagious diseases since you remain in a closed environment with many fellow passengers for hours together. Also, [...]
Sciatica is basically pain along the distribution of the sciatic nerve. Although the commonest cause of such a pain is a prolapsed intervertebral disc causing compression of the nerve at its roots, other lesions at the level of the buttocks or upper thighs can also give rise to the problem. Some of these other [...]
It has been scientifically proved that the human brain learns better and faster when it receives information through a combination of stimuli rather than a single stimulus. Thus, if a medical student was to only read volumes and volumes of information about a particular illness, it would still take much greater effort to memorize [...]
Oops! That’s one difficult word to pronounce. Besides, it is the longest word in the English language according to the Oxford Dictionary. This tongue twister that is 45 alphabets long has been coined using many smaller words. Thus, while ‘pneumono’ refers to the lungs, ‘ultramicroscopic’ means extremely minute. The ‘silico’ part indicates that silica [...]
The existence of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) as a disease was established in the year 1981. At the time, a number of homosexual males were found to be having deficient cell-mediated immunity and were suffering from conditions like Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and Kaposi’s sarcoma, both opportunistic infections, i.e., conditions that mostly affect only people [...]
Although chest pain may be due to various reasons, it should logically be a cause for worry because it is difficult to differentiate one cause from the other. While everyone fears a heart attack, there are definitely conditions that could threaten life in spite of not being related to the heart. One therefore needs [...]
“STOP TB: DO NOT SPIT” – this warning sounds familiar to you, doesn’t it? Yes, it is a very frequently seen sticker on the seats of the auto rickshaw drivers, which you usually notice when the rickshaw in which you are traveling is stuck in traffic. You read this, and glance outside in anxiety wondering [...]
Turn Your Back On TB You must have heard of tuberculosis. You must have seen people suffering from tuberculosis. You must have been vaccinated against tuberculosis. But still you must have feared acquiring tuberculosis or you might have suffered from tuberculosis. Tuberculosis (TB) is still an epidemic disease and a reason for many deaths especially [...]
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