Spotting new bumps on your body can leave you scrambling to find pictures of skin rashes to compare them against. While there’s a large range of things that can cause skin rashes, doing your best to ...

If there’s one thing you don’t want to endure, it’s the symptoms of norovirus, which also goes by the unfortunately apt moniker of “winter vomiting disease:” It triggers brutal GI upset for roughly ...

ABSTRACT: Background: Acute surgical emergencies during pregnancy are uncommon but carry high maternal-fetal risks. The physiological changes of gestation often mask symptoms, leading to diagnostic ...

Get tested: Because unhealthy cholesterol numbers often don’t cause symptoms, especially at first, it’s important to get tested. You can be slim and feel healthy and still have a cholesterol problem.

A sigmoid septum occurs when part of the heart muscle expands and blocks a pathway blood uses to leave the heart’s left side. It often does not cause symptoms and has links to aging. The heart ...

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The following is a summary of “Effect of the timing of endoscopic detorsion on clinical outcomes in patients with sigmoid volvulus,” published in the January 2025 issue of Gastroenterology by Aminov ...

THE incidence of sigmoidal volvulus in the United States is so low that few surgeons acquire great experience in dealing with it. It is reported by most authors as ranging between 1 and 4 per cent of ...

Once a virus infects your body, it can destroy healthy cells and make multiple copies of itself. The virus causing COVID mainly attacks the cells lining your airways. This makes it hard for you to ...

Endocrinologists are used to people not knowing what they do. Patients often assume that, for example, Dr. Rasa Kazlauskaite spends her days focused on the “love hormones,” like testosterone and ...

The following is a summary of “Comparative analysis of short-term outcomes after semielective and elective surgery for sigmoid volvulus,” published in the August 2024 issue of Surgery by Chu et al.