Ringing in Your Ears: What Tinnitus Is Telling You, Explained Calmly
Ringing in the ears, tinnitus, is a sound the brain produces when hearing pathways are irritated or under-stimulated, most often from age-…
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Acibadem Health Blog
3,123 plain-language articles across 62 topics, symptoms explained, nutrition, lab results, medical technology and everyday wellbeing, written by Dr. Şule Eren, published daily by the group behind 45 hospitals and clinics in Türkiye, Bulgaria, Serbia, Netherlands and North Macedonia. For clinical guidance on a condition or procedure, see the Patient Guides.
Life With a VP Shunt: Sports, Air Travel, MRI Scans and Long-Term Neurosurgery Follow-Up
Most people living with a VP shunt can work, exercise, swim, travel by air and have medical imaging, with a few standing precautions: tell…
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How Long CT Scan Results Take: Typical Timelines, Urgent Cases and What Delays Them
Most routine outpatient CT scan results reach the ordering clinician within a few days to a couple of weeks, while emergency department scans are…
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Ultrasound vs CT vs MRI: When Doctors Choose Sound Waves and When Another Scan Is Needed
Doctors usually choose ultrasound first when the question involves soft tissue near the surface, fluid, the pelvis, the pregnant uterus or moving blood, because…
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How Long a Hysterectomy Takes: Surgery Time, Hospital Stay and Recovery Timeline
A hysterectomy usually takes about one hour in the operating room, though complex or cancer-related procedures can run two to three hours. Most people…
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Newborn Jaundice: Causes, When to Worry and How Long It Lasts
Newborn jaundice happens because a baby's body breaks down red blood cells faster than the still-immature liver can clear the yellow pigment bilirubin. It…
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CAR-T Cell Therapy Step by Step: Leukapheresis, Manufacturing, Lymphodepletion and Infusion
The CAR-T cell therapy process has five stages: evaluation, leukapheresis (collecting your own T cells from the blood), laboratory manufacturing that genetically equips those…
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Wound Healing Stages: The Four Phases Your Body Follows After Surgery
After surgery, wounds heal in four overlapping stages: hemostasis, when blood clots seal the wound within minutes; inflammation, roughly days one through six, bringing…
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Afro Hair Transplant Cost: Why Curl Changes the Graft Math
In Turkey, an all-inclusive afro-type (curly) hair transplant package typically falls in our guide range of EUR 3,000-5,850, against a local market average of…
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How to Clear Mucus from the Lungs: What Actually Works
Nothing dissolves lung mucus, but you can move it. The methods with the strongest evidence are controlled coughing and huffing (a forced exhale with…
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What Does Anesthesia Feel Like? Going Under, Waking Up and the Hours Between
For most people, general anesthesia feels like nothing at all: a warm, heavy drowsiness for a few seconds, then an instant skip forward in…
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How Many Calories Do You Burn a Day? Your Real Energy Budget
Most adults burn roughly 1,600 to 3,000 calories per day in total, depending on body size, age, sex, and how much they move. About…
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Scoliosis Surgery Cost: What Correction Surgery Costs and Why
Scoliosis correction is a multi-level spinal fusion, so it is always priced individually after imaging and clinical assessment. As a benchmark, our guide range…
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UTIs in Men: Causes, and Why They Are Taken More Seriously
Yes, men can get urinary tract infections, though much less often than women, because the male urethra is longer and prostate fluid has antibacterial…
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What Is the Best Sleeping Position? By Back, Neck and Breathing
For most adults, sleeping on your side, with a pillow that keeps your neck level and another between your knees, supports the…
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How Long Menopause Lasts, and What Signals the End
Menopause itself is a single point in time: the day marking 12 consecutive months without a period, typically around age 51. The transition around…
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How Long a Pacemaker Lasts: Battery Life and Longevity
A pacemaker's battery typically lasts somewhere between about 5 and 15 years, with many lasting around 6 to 10, depending on how often the…
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Invisalign vs Braces: Speed, Comfort, Discipline and Results Compared
Both traditional braces and clear aligners such as Invisalign straighten teeth effectively for mild to moderate problems, and neither is universally better. Fixed braces…
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