Coxsackievirus: A family of enteroviruses first found in the town Coxsackie south of Albany, New York. The Coxsackieviruses are separable into two groups: A and B. Type A viruses cause herpangina (sores in the throat) and hand, foot and mouth disease. Type B viruses cause epidemic pleurodynia. Both types A and B viruses can cause meningitis, myocarditis and pericarditis, and acute onset juvenile diabetes. (more…)

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Most smokers unaware they have lung illness

Dr. Goldstein said virtually all the undiagnosed patients had at least (more…)

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Congestive heart failure: Inability of the heart to
keep up with the demands on it and, specifically, failure of the
heart to pump
blood with normal
efficiency. When this occurs,
the heart is unable to provide adequate blood
flow to other organs such as the brain, liver and kidneys. Heart
failure may be due to failure of the right or left or both
ventricles. The signs and symptoms depend upon which side of the
heart is failing. They can include shortness of breath (dyspnea),
asthma due to the heart (cardiac asthma), pooling of blood (stasis) in
the general body (systemic) circulation or in the liver's (portal)
circulation, swelling (edema),
blueness or duskiness (cyanosis), and enlargement (hypertrophy) of
the heart.

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Title: New Pain Drug May Be Alternative to Oxycodone
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Exclamation point hair: Exclamation point hair is a key diagnostic finding in a disorder called alopecia areata.

Alopecia areata is patchy baldness (alopecia means baldness and areata means occurring in patches) which
typically begins with patchy hair loss on the scalp and sometimes
progresses to complete baldness and even loss of body hair. The hair
loss tends to be rather rapid and asymmetrical and is different than
male pattern baldness.

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What do doctors of naturopathic medicine do?

all i know is they dont practice any kind of allopathic/osteopathic medicine, cant write prescriptions, only practice in 16 states, and they dont have uniform educations. But I hear about them alot.

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Arthroscopic: Refers to a surgical
technique whereby a doctor inserts a tube-like instrument
into a joint to inspect, diagnose and repair tissues. It
is most commonly performed in patients with diseases of the
knees or shoulders. The word arthroscopic is often confused
with orthoscopic. Orthoscopic means having correct vision or producing it. Orthoscopic, in other words, means free
from optical distortion or designed to correct distorted
vision. This fits with the prefix “ortho-”, meaning
straight or erect, and with “-scopic” from the Greek
“skopein”, to see. Orthoscopic literally is to see
straight. Knee surgery performed with a small scope is
arthroscopic knee surgery, not orthoscopic knee surgery.

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Title: Cholesterol Study: Low HDL May Not Be So Bad
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