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• What Are the Medications that Can Treat Pleurisy?

  Pleurisy is the inflammation of the pleural membranes that line your lungs and the inside of the chest wall. It is a very painful condition that is often exacerbated by deep inspiration. Most patients with pleurisy present a sharp, stabbing-like pain over one side of the chest that aggravates while...

• Why Ovarian Cancer is Difficult to Detect Early

  All too often we hear the term “the silent killer” when describing ovarian cancer. This term has come from the false belief that ovarian cancer is a disease without any warning signs and without much research. However, there is quite a lot of research, in fact, that confirms that most women who...

• What Does a Foot Doctor Do?

  What is a foot doctor?A foot doctor, also called a podiatrist, is a medical specialist who helps treat people with foot and ankle disorders. Podiatrists treat patients of all ages and people with other chronic medical conditions like diabetes. Podiatrists go to a podiatric medical school and...

• Sleep Positioners May Increase a Baby's Risk of Death

  A warning has been issued by the FDA and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) against the use of sleep-positioning devices for babies. About 12 deaths have been reported with the use of these devices in the last 13 years.FDA principal deputy commissioner, Joshua Sharfstein, reported that...

• What Are the Risks to Chemotherapy?

  What Is Chemotherapy and How Does It Work? Chemotherapy is one of the most widely used treatment methods for curing cancer.  It can be used as the only treatment or is sometimes combined with other treatment methods, such as radiotherapy or surgery with the aim of improving the quality of the...

• What Will a Doctor Ask if you Have Blood in Your Urine?

  In the normal course, blood has no reason to appear in the urine, but if that happens, one should not hesitate to seek specialist medical opinion. Blood may appear in urine owing to simple infections in the urinary and genital systems, or it could be a result of some serious ailment that is...