Acute catarrhal inflammation of mucous membranes, with increased secretion.
Chronic renal failure is a gradual and progressive loss of the ability of the kidneys to excrete wastes, concentrate urine, and conserve electrolytes.
Blocked sinuses, which rarely occur in kids under age five, are often caused by a cold or hay fever, according to St. Louis Children’s Hospital.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved BiDil (bye-DILL), a drug for the treatment of heart failure in self-identified black patients, representing a step toward the promise of personalized medicine.
Leucorrhoea or vaginal discharge is the most common and annoying problems of females. It is not a disease in itself but a symptom of some underlying disease.
The origin of the discharge may be from uterus, cervix, vagina or vulva.
Headache specialist Seymour Diamond, with Mary A. Franklin, offers advice and encouragement in Conquering Your Migraine: The Essential Guide to Understanding and Treating Migraines for All Sufferers and Their Families. Collaborators on Coping with Your Headaches and colleagues at the Diamond Headache Clinic, they here examine the most debilitating form.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Requip (ropinirole) to treat moderate to severe Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS). The drug was first approved for Parkinson?s disease in 1997.
Adapted to pale lean persons with lax, flabby muscles; face pale, waxy. Haemorrhage; from every mucous outlet, nose, throat, lungs, stomach, bowels, uterus; metrorrhagia; vicarious; traumatic epistaxis.
Widening waistlines may increase the chances of frequent, painful headaches, new research findings suggest. In a study involving almost 31,000 adults, researchers found that compared to normal-weight people, obese individuals doubled their risk for chronic daily headache — non-migraine attacks occurring at least 15 times per month.
Guillian Barre syndrome (GBS) is the commonest acute polyneuropathy. GBS is an acute, frequently severe, and fulminant polyradiculoneuropathy that is autoimmune in nature. It occurs year-round at a rate of about one case per million per month .It develops 1- 4 weeks after viral infection in 70% patients and more rarely follows surgery or immunisation. Pathologically there is demyelination of spinal roots or peripheral nerves which is certainly immunologically mediated.