1,883 plain-language articles across 61 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.
A cardiac rehab assessment before starting usually combines a resting electrocardiogram (ECG), an exercise stress test or a walking test, blood pressure and blood…
Cardiogenic pulmonary edema is fluid that backs up into the lungs because a struggling left heart raises pressure in the lung's blood vessels. Non-cardiogenic…
Most surgical teams allow a loose, clean, breathable hat about 7 to 10 days after a sapphire FUE hair transplant, once the tiny recipient…
Tooth decay can be reversed only in its earliest stage, when acid has pulled minerals out of the enamel but no hole has formed.…
Surgeons usually favor a partial nephrectomy, which removes only the tumor and a rim of kidney, for smaller tumors confined to one part of…
Yes. A mommy makeover, most often a tummy tuck combined with breast surgery and sometimes liposuction, can usually be planned after a cesarean once…
No. Most pink eye does not need antibiotic drops. Roughly four in five cases of infectious conjunctivitis are viral, and antibiotics have no effect…
A pollybeak deformity is persistent fullness just above the nasal tip after rhinoplasty, giving the profile a downward curve like a parrot's beak. It…
Mild burning when you pass urine, needing to go more often than usual, and a faint pink tinge in the first one or two…
Most people with endometriosis can conceive, though roughly 30 to 50 percent experience some difficulty. The diagnosis mainly changes timing: it is a reason…
Febrile seizures happen when a fever, usually from a common childhood infection, temporarily lowers the seizure threshold of a young child's developing brain; inherited…
An MRI can show many cancers, often in fine detail, because tumors tend to have different water content and blood supply than the tissue…
Pediatric chronic kidney disease is tracked with four kinds of measurement used together: blood tests (creatinine, cystatin C and an estimated glomerular filtration rate,…
Most healthy adults with a salmonella infection are ill for about four to seven days, according to the CDC, with symptoms usually beginning six…
Most people with mild, uncomplicated diverticulitis start to feel better within about 2 to 3 days of starting treatment, and many feel close to…
For most healthy people who completed the full hepatitis B vaccine series, protection lasts at least 20 years and is probably lifelong, according to…
Tooth gems are not permanent. Mainstream dental sources describe them as semi-permanent, usually staying in place for several months to a few years before…
Atopic dermatitis tends to settle between flares, so the skin a clinician examines on appointment day often does not reflect your worst weeks. Dated,…
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