4,096 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.
After most retinal or glaucoma laser treatments, vision is blurry or dazzled for a few hours, mainly because of dilating drops, the bright treatment…
Guidelines for stress urinary incontinence recommend starting with supervised pelvic floor muscle training for at least three months, alongside attention to weight, fluids, caffeine…
Wisdom teeth removal usually takes 20 to 60 minutes of actual surgery. A single, fully erupted tooth can come out in a few minutes,…
Glass skin is a cosmetic look of smooth, even-toned, well-hydrated skin that reflects light, and skin flooding is a method of layering water-based humectants…
Surgical vaginal rejuvenation (labiaplasty, vaginoplasty, perineoplasty) physically removes or repairs tissue and can change anatomy that non-surgical methods cannot. Non-surgical options such as lasers,…
A skin graft is tissue detached completely from one site and laid onto a wound, where it must grow a new blood supply from…
A normal menstrual cycle typically ranges from 21 to 35 days in adults, counted from the first day of one period to the first…
A cognitive disorders treatment plan is a staged, individualized program that a neurologist builds after confirming what kind of impairment is present and why.…
Candidates for vagus nerve stimulation are usually people with drug-resistant epilepsy, meaning seizures that continue despite adequate trials of at least two well-chosen, well-tolerated…
Active vitiligo means patches are still appearing, spreading, or changing, which tells the dermatologist the immune process is ongoing; stable vitiligo means the pattern…
A migraine with aura is a migraine attack that begins with temporary nervous-system symptoms, most often visual, such as shimmering zigzags, blind spots, tingling…
Maxillofacial prosthetics after radiotherapy are custom devices, such as palatal obturators, facial prostheses and implant-retained dentures, that replace parts of the mouth or face…
There is no single right order. For neck and throat cancers the multidisciplinary team weighs where the tumor sits, how far it has spread,…
Proton therapy and photon radiation both treat cancer with high-energy beams, but they behave differently inside the body. Photon (X-ray) beams deposit dose along…
Treatment for bleeding disorders and thrombotic conditions pulls in opposite directions. Bleeding tendencies such as hemophilia or von Willebrand disease are managed by replacing…
A hysterectomy does not always bring on menopause. Menopause follows immediately only when both ovaries are removed during the same operation; if the ovaries…
Ruptured appendix treatment depends on what the rupture has caused. If infection has spread through the abdomen, surgeons usually operate promptly to remove the…
A single, uncomplicated urinary tract infection is usually treated by a primary care clinician and settles within days. A urologist is typically considered when…
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