When patients begin to experience chest pain or shortness of breath while exercising, doctors may struggle to correctly diagnose whether the problem is caused by coronary artery disease. Classic symptoms of heart disease ...
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Women with mental illness, neuropsychiatric disability, or substance abuse are less likely to go for gynecological smear tests for cervical cancer and run more than twice the risk of developing the disease. The findings are ...
Mar 23, 2023
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Atopic dermatitis skin lesions and the lesions produced by infectious complications of the disease look so similar that it makes it impossible for patients to spot the difference and know when to visit their doctor for treatment. ...
Mar 14, 2023
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A patient presenting with painful, swirling skin lesions, chills, and weight loss was found to be suffering from erythema gyratum repens (EGR), a rare and striking skin condition that is associated with underlying malignancy ...
Mar 14, 2023
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Yersinia bacteria cause a variety of human and animal diseases, the most notorious being the plague, caused by Yersinia pestis. A relative, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, causes gastrointestinal illness and is less deadly, ...
Mar 13, 2023
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When Rwandan villager Lillian was diagnosed with cervical cancer, the 30-year-old feared that her life was over. But a new gadget aimed at patients in low-income countries offered her hope.
Mar 10, 2023
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Breast cancer undisputedly has the highest incidence rate in female patients. Moreover, out of the six major cancers, it is the only one that has shown an increasing trend over the past 20 years.
Mar 8, 2023
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A new app developed by scientists at Stanford Medicine and other institutions can detect skin lesions caused by mpox, previously known as monkeypox, in images with an accuracy of 90%, the researchers found in a study. To ...
Mar 3, 2023
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Vaping cannabidiol (CBD), a compound found in marijuana, leads to more severe lung damage than vaping nicotine, according to a study by researchers at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. Until now, research on the health ...
Feb 27, 2023
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Brain lesions—areas of brain tissue that show damage from injury or disease—are the biomarker most widely used to determine multiple sclerosis disease progression. But an innovative new study led by the University at ...
Feb 23, 2023
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