Double Cleansing and Oil Cleansing: Who Benefits and Who Is Over-Washing
Double cleansing means washing the face twice in a row: first with an oil or balm that dissolves sunscreen, makeup and sebum, then with…
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Acibadem Health Blog
4,132 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.
Who Is a Candidate for Robotic Hair Surgery? Why Hair Color, Curl and Contrast Matter
A typical robotic hair surgery candidate has stable, pattern-type hair loss, a dense donor area at the back and sides of the scalp, and…
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Urinary Infections in Women and Men: Why the Causes Differ and How Care Is Adjusted
Urinary infections differ between women and men mainly because of anatomy. A woman's short urethra opens close to the bowel, so gut bacteria reach…
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How Angina Is Treated: Medication, Lifestyle Changes and Procedures to Restore Blood Flow
Angina is treated in three layers: medicines that ease an attack (short-acting nitrates) and prevent attacks (such as beta blockers or calcium channel blockers),…
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Preparing for Neck Cancer Treatment: Dental Review, Nutrition Planning and Fitness Tests
Preparing for neck cancer treatment usually means three things done in the weeks before therapy starts: a dental review to treat or remove teeth…
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Imaging in Implantology: How Panoramic X-Rays and 3D Scans Guide Implant Position and Depth
Implantology imaging combines two-dimensional dental X-rays, most often a panoramic film, with a three-dimensional cone beam CT (CBCT) scan when the clinician needs to…
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Dead Bug and Bird Dog: The Two Core Exercises Physiotherapists Prescribe Most
The dead bug exercise is a floor-based core drill: you lie on your back, arms and knees raised, and slowly lower the opposite arm…
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Rooibos Tea: The Caffeine-Free Red Cup, Reviewed
Rooibos is a naturally caffeine-free herbal tea from South Africa that supplies polyphenol antioxidants, including a rare one called aspalathin. Small human studies suggest…
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Is 7 Hours of Sleep Enough? What the Research Says About the Minimum That Protects Health
For most healthy adults, yes: seven hours of actual sleep a night is the minimum that major sleep medicine and public health bodies recommend,…
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How Arthritis Wears a Joint Down: When Damage Reaches the Point Where Replacement Is Discussed
Arthritis wears a joint down by thinning the cartilage that cushions the bone ends, roughening the bone beneath, and inflaming the joint lining, until…
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How Eye Alignment Is Measured: The Tests Behind a Strabismus Disorder Diagnosis
Eye alignment is measured with a short set of clinic tests. The cover test, in which one eye is covered while the examiner watches…
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What PRK Results Usually Look Like Once Healing Finishes and How Long They Hold
PRK reshapes the cornea after its surface layer is removed, so vision is blurry for the first several days and sharpens gradually rather than…
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What Does Image Guidance Change in Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (ESS)? Navigation Explained
Image guided sinus surgery adds a real-time navigation system to standard endoscopic sinus surgery. A pre-operative CT scan is matched to the patient's head…
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Root Canal Recovery: What the First Days Feel Like and When to Check In
Most people recover from a root canal within a few days. Mild soreness or tenderness when biting typically peaks in the first 24 to…
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How X-Rays and CT Scans Guide Trauma Surgery Decisions After a Serious Injury
After a serious injury, X-rays and CT scans give trauma surgeons a map of what is broken, bleeding or displaced before anyone decides to…
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Preparing for Hand Surgery: Nerve Tests, Imaging and the Medicines Your Team Reviews
To prepare for hand surgery, most people complete nerve tests such as a nerve conduction study or EMG, imaging such as X-ray, ultrasound or…
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Food Noise: Why GLP-1 Medicines Quiet It, and What Helps When You Are Not on Them
Food noise is the persistent, intrusive stream of thoughts about food that continues when the body does not need fuel. GLP-1 medicines such as…
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Bowel Prep Before Robotic Colorectal Surgery: Colonoscopy, Blood Thinners and the Day Before
Bowel prep before colorectal surgery usually means a colonoscopy to confirm and mark the site, a clear-liquid day with an osmotic laxative and often…
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