Palpitations are caused by an increased frequency of the heartbeat. Almost always due to emotional stress, they can however be due to health-threatening arrhythmias
Microcephaly is a condition characterized by a child's head circumference being smaller than that of his or her peers and can be generated by both genetic and environmental causes
The KRAS test is used to identify the type of KRAS gene and, therefore, the state or form of the KRAS protein, whether normal (also called 'wild type') or 'non-normal' (mutated)
Signs of respiratory distress in children, among the symptoms it usually presents with are irregular or rapid breathing, stridor, coughing, nasal fin flapping and cyanosis
The concept of mental contamination, initially studied in the context of the psychological consequences of sexual abuse (Fairbrother & Rachman, 2004), was rapidly extended to obsessive-compulsive disorder, in particular to the fear of…
Staff in the NHS, the Anglo-Saxon national health system, are in the midst of a period of unrest and strikes, and tomorrow it is the turn of ambulance workers