The Scar After Surgical Tattoo Removal: Sun Protection, Scar Care and How It Fades
A scar after surgical tattoo removal is permanent, but it usually changes a great deal over its first one to two years, typically shifting…
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Acibadem Health Blog
4,058 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.
Bodyweight Exercises: The No-Equipment Program That Covers Everything
Bodyweight exercises can build strength, muscle, and endurance without any equipment, provided you train each major movement pattern, squat, hinge, lunge, push, pull, and…
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Late-Night Snacks and Skipped Breakfasts: What Meal Timing Does to Metabolism
Late night snacks and skipped breakfasts do not switch metabolism off, but timing matters more than once assumed. Small controlled trials show the same…
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Sleep Score: What the Number Means and How Seriously to Take It
A sleep score is a proprietary estimate, usually on a 0-to-100 scale, that blends how long you slept, how restless you were, and sleep…
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Shockwave Therapy for Plantar Fasciitis: What the Trials Show
Shockwave therapy shows moderate evidence of benefit for chronic plantar fasciitis. Randomized trials and meta-analyses find it relieves heel pain better than sham treatment…
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Vitamin A: Vision, Skin, Immunity, and the Overdose Line
Vitamin A helps cells in the retina, skin, and mucous membranes develop and work normally, which is why it matters for night vision, skin…
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The Portfolio Diet: The Cholesterol-Lowering Eating Pattern With Trial Evidence
The portfolio diet is a plant-forward eating pattern that combines four cholesterol-lowering food groups, viscous fiber from oats, barley and psyllium, plant sterols, soy…
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How Long Before Preventive Migraine Treatment Shows Results? What Follow-Up Visits Assess
Preventive migraine treatment usually needs a fair trial before anyone can judge it. Most oral preventives are assessed after roughly two to three months…
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Hemorrhoidectomy Step by Step: Anesthesia, Removing the Hemorrhoid and the Dressing After
A hemorrhoidectomy is a same-day operation in which a surgeon removes swollen hemorrhoid tissue through the anus, usually under general or spinal anesthesia. The…
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Apple Cider Vinegar Gummies and ACV Before Meals: What Blood Sugar Studies Show
Small, short randomized trials suggest that vinegar taken with a carbohydrate-rich meal can modestly blunt the after-meal rise in blood sugar, mainly in people…
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Why Thigh Lift Incisions Heal Slowly Near the Groin and Which Signs Need a Call
Thigh lift incisions near the groin heal slowly because the skin there is thin, constantly moving, warm, moist and under tension every time you…
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Hair Loss in Women: The Patterns, the Hormones and the Tests Worth Asking For
Hair loss in women most often comes from one of two causes: a temporary shedding phase called telogen effluvium, triggered by illness, childbirth, rapid…
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Is Ethnic Rhinoplasty Right for You? Skin Thickness, Cartilage Strength and Goals Weighed
You may be a reasonable ethnic rhinoplasty candidate if you are in good general health, your nose has finished growing, you have a specific…
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What Happens During Coronary CT Angiography, From Contrast Injection to the Scan Itself
During coronary CT angiography, you lie on a narrow table while a small cannula in an arm vein delivers iodine-based contrast that briefly feels…
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Inside a Pediatric Dialysis Session: Access Checks, Monitoring and Comfort for Your Child
In a pediatric dialysis session, a nurse first checks the child's access site, records weight, blood pressure and pulse, then connects the child to…
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Anesthesia for Arthroscopy: General, Regional or Spinal and Why Same-Day Discharge Is Usual
Arthroscopy is usually done under general anesthesia (fully asleep), spinal anesthesia (numb from the waist down, often with sedation), or a regional nerve block…
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Seeing a Doctor With Suspected Chickenpox: Call Ahead, Exposure History and What Is Examined
Before a chickenpox doctor visit, phone the office first so staff can keep a contagious patient away from pregnant people, newborns and others at…
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Survodutide: The Glucagon-GLP-1 Dual Agonist Being Studied for Obesity and Liver Disease
Survodutide is an investigational injectable peptide that activates both the glucagon receptor and the GLP-1 receptor. In phase 2 trials it produced average weight…
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