Is Coconut Oil Good for Your Hair? The One Oil That Penetrates
Coconut oil can genuinely help hair, and the reason is unusual: its main fatty acid, lauric acid, is small enough to penetrate the hair…
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Acibadem Health Blog
4,040 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.
Shoulder, Elbow, Wrist or Hand: How Upper Limb Surgery Is Planned for Each Joint
Upper limb surgery covers operations on the shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand, from nerve releases and tendon repairs to fracture fixation and joint replacement.…
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Who Benefits From the Schroth Method? Curve Size, Age and Growth Stage Considerations
The Schroth method is usually considered for people with idiopathic scoliosis and mild to moderate curves, most often growing adolescents with Cobb angles roughly…
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How a Vitrectomy Is Performed: Tiny Ports, Removing the Gel and Repairing the Retina
A vitrectomy is performed through three tiny ports in the white of the eye, usually under local anesthesia with sedation. The surgeon inserts a…
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When Does a Narrowed Heart Artery Need a Coronary Stent Rather Than Medicines Alone?
A coronary stent is usually needed when a narrowed artery is causing a heart attack or unstable, worsening chest pain, when angina keeps limiting…
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Which Blood and Genetic Tests Guide Lymphocytic Leukemia Treatment Choices?
Treatment choices in chronic lymphocytic leukemia rest on a small set of tests: a complete blood count with flow cytometry to confirm the diagnosis,…
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Norwood 5: Planning Coverage When the Bridge Is Going
Norwood 5 describes advanced male pattern hair loss in which the band of hair separating the receded hairline from the thinning crown, the so-called…
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Broca’s, Wernicke’s and Global Aphasia: How the Type Changes the Therapy Approach
Therapy for aphasia is matched to the pattern of language loss. In Broca's aphasia, understanding is relatively preserved, so therapy drills spoken output, often…
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Bronchiolitis Warning Signs: Fast Breathing, Blue Lips and Feeding Drops Needing Urgent Care
Take a child with bronchiolitis to hospital, or call emergency services, if breathing becomes fast or labored with the chest sucking in, there are…
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The Brostrom Procedure: Fixing Chronic Ankle Instability, Step by Step
The Brostrom procedure is an outpatient operation that tightens and reattaches the stretched outer ankle ligaments, usually the anterior talofibular and calcaneofibular ligaments, to…
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What Pulmonary Rehabilitation Offers People With Bronchiectasis: Realistic Expectations
Pulmonary rehabilitation for bronchiectasis is a supervised program of exercise training, airway clearance coaching, and education that usually runs for several weeks. Evidence from…
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Is Your Nephrostomy Tube Not Draining or Leaking? What Is Normal and When to Call the Team
A nephrostomy tube that stops draining is most often kinked, clamped, blocked by a clot or debris, or pulled out of position, and it…
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Estrogen Dominance: Is It Real? What Doctors Say About the Popular Diagnosis
Estrogen dominance is not a recognized medical diagnosis. The term describes a theory that estrogen is too high relative to progesterone, but no accepted…
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Chills Without Fever: What Your Body Might Be Signaling
Chills without a fever usually mean the body is losing heat or reacting to signals that mimic cold. Common causes include cold exposure, anxiety,…
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Dental Implants After Gum Disease: When They Are Possible, and What Comes First
Yes, people with periodontal disease can often get dental implants, but not while the disease is active. Infection and inflammation must be treated first,…
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Epilepsy Surgery and Neurostimulation: What Changes When Medication Alone Is Not Enough
Epilepsy surgery is usually considered when seizures continue despite two appropriately chosen and well-tolerated anti-seizure medicines, a situation neurologists call drug-resistant epilepsy. A specialist…
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Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause: The Under-Diagnosed Condition Behind Dryness, UTIs and Pain
Genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM) is the collection of vulvar, vaginal and urinary changes caused by falling estrogen after menopause, including dryness, burning, pain…
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When Is Graft-Versus-Host Disease Suspected? Fever, Rash and Diarrhea After Transplant
Graft-versus-host disease is suspected when someone who has received donor stem cells develops a new rash, persistent watery diarrhea, nausea, or rising liver tests,…
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