4,119 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.
The DUTCH test is a dried-urine panel that measures sex hormones, cortisol and their breakdown products, plus a cortisol pattern across one day. Its…
The Ponseti method treats clubfoot in four stages: a clinician gently stretches the foot and holds the correction in a toe-to-thigh plaster cast that…
Positive thyroid antibodies, most often against thyroid peroxidase (TPO) or thyroglobulin, mean the immune system is reacting to thyroid tissue. That raises the likelihood…
A neurodegenerative disease second opinion is a fresh review of your history, examination and test results by another neurologist, often one who focuses on…
A dental assessment before head and neck radiotherapy is a specialist check of the teeth, gums and jaw carried out before treatment starts. Radiation…
Scalp micropigmentation for scars usually suits adults whose scar is fully healed and flat, whose skin does not tend to form raised keloids, and…
Body contouring after major weight loss can sometimes be completed in a single operation, but surgeons often split it into two or more stages…
Skin grafts fail most often because something separates the graft from the wound bed before new blood vessels can grow into it: a pocket…
Grey hair appears when pigment-making cells in the hair follicle, called melanocytes, run down and their stem cell reserve is depleted, mostly because of…
A uroflowmetry curve plots how fast urine leaves the body, second by second. Readers look at three things together: the peak flow rate (Qmax),…
After cryotherapy, keep the treated spot clean, let any blister flatten on its own, and leave the crust in place until it separates by…
After TURBT, the removed tissue goes to a pathologist, whose report on stage, grade and the presence of bladder muscle in the sample decides…
During an electrophysiology (EP) study, a cardiologist threads thin, flexible catheters through a vein, usually in the groin, into the heart. Electrodes on the…
Reconstructed nipples almost always lose some height in the first year because the small skin flap or graft has no ducts, muscle or firm…
A "cortisol detox" is a social-media label, not a medical treatment. Cortisol is a hormone your body makes and clears on its own every…
A meningitis encephalitis treatment plan starts within minutes of suspicion, usually before tests confirm the cause. Doctors give intravenous antibiotics, and often an antiviral,…
Rice water for hair has no randomized trial evidence that it makes hair grow faster or thicker. Small laboratory work suggests its starch and…
Dental robotics most often helps when the margin for error is thin: a single narrow gap between healthy teeth, a full-arch case where several…
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