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Focal shock waves, introduced into medicine in the early 1990s to treat kidney stones (urological lithotripsy), have also been used for more than a decade to treat many musculoskeletal disorders (mainly tendons and bone)

Retrosternal burning is a disorder that manifests itself in an inflamed sensation posterior to the sternum, the bone located in the anterior chest wall between the two clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs and articulated with it

Movement disorders are neurological diseases that lead to malfunctions in voluntary muscles, procedural learning, automatisms and the cognitive and emotional spheres

A laparocele is a hernia that forms over a scar resulting from surgery.  The term comes from the Greek words laparo (abdomen) and kele (hernia) and is, in fact, a hernia that forms over the scar from abdominal surgery

Early supplemental parenteral nutrition (E-SPN) reduces the risk of infections in hospitalized patients recovering from major abdominal surgery, researchers in China have found

Smoking, alcohol, papillomavirus and poor oral hygiene are among the main causes of oral cancer

Invasive Mechanical Ventilation (IMV): this Concise Critical Appraisal highlights an article in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine that sought to determine the association between invasive mechanical ventilation—a known predictor of adverse…

How Do I Know If I Have a Bone Fracture? Doctors can usually recognize most fractures by examining the injury and taking X-rays

Let's talk about sleepwalking: have you ever gone to sleep in your bed and woken up on the sofa in the living room? Or maybe you woke up with mysterious crumbs scattered on your pyjamas with no memory of a midnight snack?

Many people treat pollen allergy symptoms with over-the-counter medications and avoid triggers. The effects of pollen allergies are often underestimated, especially in the early spring