3,887 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.
Standard travel insurance does not cover planned surgery abroad; nearly every policy excludes treatment you traveled specifically to receive. Specialist medical-travel or complication policies…
The sacral region is the base of the spine: the sacrum, a triangular bone formed by five vertebrae (S1–S5) that fuse in early adulthood.…
Nearly all humans, women and men alike, have 24 ribs, arranged in 12 pairs. The idea that men have one fewer rib…
The sagittal plane is a vertical plane that divides the body into left and right portions. Movements within it travel forward and backward, …
The solar plexus, known medically as the celiac plexus, is a dense network of nerves in the upper abdomen behind the stomach, roughly where…
The mediastinum is the central compartment of the chest, sitting between the two lungs and stretching from the breastbone back to the spine. It…
A neuropsychologist is a doctoral-level psychologist who evaluates how brain health affects thinking, memory, attention, language, and behavior. Instead of imaging, they use standardized…
Otolaryngology is the medical and surgical specialty devoted to the ears, nose, throat, and related structures of the head and neck. Otolaryngologists, commonly…
A nephrologist is a physician who specializes in kidney function and kidney disease. Nephrologists diagnose and manage chronic kidney disease, protein or blood in…
An MRCP (magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography) test is a non-invasive MRI scan that creates detailed pictures of the bile ducts, gallbladder, and pancreatic duct without…
Parathyroid hormone (PTH) is made by four small glands in the neck and keeps blood calcium within a narrow range by drawing calcium from…
A BNP blood test measures B-type natriuretic peptide, a hormone the heart's pumping chambers release when they are stretched by pressure or fluid. In…
The most common plastic surgeries for men are gynecomastia (male breast reduction) surgery, liposuction, rhinoplasty, eyelid lifts, and neck or face lifts, with hair…
The dorsum of the foot is its top surface: the side you see when you look down, opposite the sole (the plantar side).…
The orbital bone is not a single bone but seven bones that together form the eye socket: the frontal, zygomatic, maxilla, ethmoid, sphenoid, lacrimal,…
Stenosis means abnormal narrowing of a passage in the body. In spinal stenosis, the canal housing the spinal cord and nerves narrows, most…
An elevated troponin level means heart muscle cells have released this protein into the bloodstream, but it does not always signal a heart attack.…
A high bilirubin level means the body is producing more bilirubin than the liver can process, or that processed bilirubin cannot drain through the…
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