Type 2 diabetes mellitus: symptoms and diet
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease characterized by high blood glucose levels and due to an alteration…
What are blood tests?
Blood tests are one of the most widely used tests and make it possible, by means of a simple venous sampling, to…
Antipsychotic drugs: what they are, how they treat psychosis
Antipsychotic drugs treat psychosis, a collection of symptoms that affect your ability to tell what is real and…
Retinal detachment: what is it?
Retinal detachment is one of the most frequent diseases in ophthalmology, and often has a traumatic origin: an…
Cardiac abnormalities: the inter-atrial defect
The inter-atrial defect indicates a congenital cardiac abnormality that allows blood to flow between the right and…
Thyroid nodules: when to worry?
Thyroid nodules are solid or fluid-filled lumps that form inside the thyroid gland, a small gland located at the…
Chalazion: definition, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
The chalazion is a rather common disorder that can affect the eyes and appear externally as a kind of furuncle on…
Senile dementia: symptoms, treatments and what to do
Senile dementia is a neurodegenerative disease of the brain. It predominantly affects the elderly and causes a…
Blood pressure medication: an overview of antihypertensive agents
Blood pressure problems, whether pathological or caused by circumstantial situations (pregnancy, for example) are…
Coal workers' pneumoconiosis and Caplan's syndrome
Coal worker's pneumoconiosis is a disease characterized by diffuse nodular deposition of dust in the lungs…