4,077 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.
A Brazilian tummy tuck is a marketing name, not a distinct medical operation. It usually describes a standard abdominoplasty (removing loose lower-abdominal skin and…
Most food takes about 24 to 72 hours to travel from mouth to toilet. A typical meal spends two to five hours in the…
Vaser-style ultrasound-assisted liposuction suits adults who are close to a stable, healthy weight, have firm skin that snaps back, and want to reshape specific…
Targeted therapy for myelofibrosis usually means a JAK inhibitor, a medicine that blocks an overactive signaling enzyme inside blood-forming cells. Quieting that signal lowers…
PRK surgery is done in three steps. After numbing drops, the surgeon removes the cornea's thin outer skin, the epithelium, using a soft brush,…
Hypospadias repair is usually done in infancy, commonly between about 6 and 18 months of age, and in some cases up to around age…
Preparing for hiatal hernia surgery usually means a pre-op visit with blood tests and an anesthesia review, a medicine check in which your surgical…
Swaddling itself has not been shown to lower SIDS risk; what reduces risk is the sleep setup around it. Place a swaddled baby on…
Preparing for hemodialysis usually means having a vascular access created weeks to months before treatment begins. The preferred access, an arteriovenous fistula, is made…
A dental prosthetics treatment plan sets out which teeth are being replaced, the type of prosthesis proposed (crown, bridge, denture or an implant-supported restoration),…
Bile reflux after a mini gastric bypass (also called one anastomosis gastric bypass) happens when bile from the bypassed bowel loop flows back into…
A lutetium-177 PSMA treatment session is an outpatient visit of several hours in which a radioactive medicine is given through an intravenous line, usually…
After an Epley maneuver, most current guidance no longer requires strict head restrictions, and the major ENT guideline says postural limits do not clearly…
Pinworms are tiny white intestinal worms, about the length of a staple, that spread when microscopic eggs pass from hands to mouth. The classic…
PRP for diffuse hair thinning can be a reasonable option when the thinning is early pattern hair loss with living, miniaturized follicles still present.…
Testosterone responds modestly to lifestyle. The strongest evidence supports losing excess body fat, sleeping seven to nine hours, resistance training several times a week,…
Chronic pain treatment usually proceeds in steps: first, rehabilitation and self-management (graded exercise, physical therapy, sleep and stress work, pain-focused psychological therapy); next, non-opioid…
A brain injury rehabilitation program is a coordinated course of therapy that helps a person relearn movement, thinking, communication and everyday skills after a…
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