The Four Stages of Cirrhosis, and Whether It Can Be Reversed
Clinicians commonly describe cirrhosis in four stages. Stages 1 and 2 are 'compensated': the scarred liver still performs its jobs, first without and then…
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Acibadem Health Blog
4,153 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.
OMAD and Time-Restricted Eating: What Trials Show About Eating Windows
OMAD (one meal a day) is the most extreme form of time-restricted eating. The only randomized trial of OMAD, eight weeks in 21 healthy…
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Who Can Have a Water Birth? The Eligibility Checks Maternity Teams Make Before Labor
A water birth is usually offered to people with a low-risk, single, head-down pregnancy at term (about 37 to 42 weeks), whose labor is…
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Before Your Thyroid Appointment: Previous Tests, Ultrasound Reports and Medicine Lists to Bring
For a thyroid appointment, bring every previous thyroid blood test you can find (with dates and the lab's reference ranges), the written report from…
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Preparing for a Developmental Delay Visit: Reports, School Notes and Observations to Bring
Preparing for developmental evaluation mostly means gathering evidence: your child's medical and birth history, any prior screening results, hearing and vision reports, school or…
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Weighted Blankets: What Trials Show for Sleep and Anxiety-Related Restlessness
A weighted blanket applies gentle, evenly spread pressure across the body, and the best available evidence suggests it can modestly ease insomnia symptoms and…
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Can an Ultrasound Detect Cancer? What It Can Show, Its Limits and the Next Steps
An ultrasound can detect abnormal lumps, masses and changes in organs that may be cancer, and it is especially good at telling a fluid-filled…
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Saturated Fat: Where the Evidence Actually Stands in 2026
Saturated fat raises LDL cholesterol, and randomized trials show that replacing it with unsaturated fat lowers the risk of cardiovascular events by roughly 17…
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How Herniated Disc Surgery Is Done: Finding the Disc Level and Freeing the Nerve
Herniated disc surgery, usually a lumbar microdiscectomy, is done under general anesthesia through a small incision in the back. The surgeon confirms the exact…
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Ocular Surface Disease Explained: How Tear Film, Eyelids and Cornea Fail Together
Ocular surface disease is an umbrella term for conditions in which the tear film, eyelids and cornea stop working as a unit, most often…
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Surgical Oncology Explained: How a Cancer Operation Is Planned Within a Multidisciplinary Team
Cancer surgery is planned by a multidisciplinary team rather than a single surgeon. Pathologists confirm the diagnosis from a biopsy, radiologists stage the cancer…
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Robotic Heart Surgery Recovery: Light Activity in Weeks and Full Exertion Over Two Months
Robotic heart surgery recovery time is usually shorter than recovery after open-chest surgery because the breastbone is left intact. Most people leave the hospital…
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What Does Asbestosis Follow-Up Involve? Lung Tests, Imaging and Complication Checks
Asbestosis follow-up monitoring usually combines a clinical review, breathing tests such as spirometry and gas transfer, a check of resting and exertional oxygen levels,…
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After Urethritis Treatment: Follow-Up Testing and When Symptoms Are Expected to Settle
After urethritis treatment, guidelines recommend a repeat chlamydia or gonorrhea test about three months later to check for reinfection, rather than an immediate test…
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Speech and Swallowing Therapy After Head Cancer Treatment: How Rehabilitation Works
Swallowing therapy after head and neck cancer is a rehabilitation program led by a speech-language pathologist. It combines a formal swallow assessment, targeted exercises…
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Microneedling at Home vs in Clinic: The Depth Difference and the Infection Risk
Microneedling at home typically uses needles 0.25–0.5 mm long that reach only the outer skin layers, while clinic devices reach 1–2.5 mm into the…
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What Happens During Band Ligation for Esophageal Varices: The Procedure Explained
Band ligation for esophageal varices is an endoscopic procedure in which a doctor passes a thin flexible camera down the throat, suctions a swollen…
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What Epilepsy Surgery Results Usually Look Like and Why Medicines Continue Afterward
Epilepsy surgery outcomes are usually described in stages rather than as one verdict: an early period when the brain settles, a first-year review, and…
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