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Intense ear pain is usually something entirely different from, say, an itchy ear canal. You can have a pain in the ear that feels like your head is about to...

Anyone who lives in the United States can file a complaint about a defective medication or product with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It's important to understand that the...

The most common source of pain in just one nostril is one or more nasal polyps. A polyp is an abnormal growth that is the end result of a long...

Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is one of the weirdest syndromes reported by some persons. Though it was noticed a long time ago, scientists were not particularly interested in it...

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by a bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and if it affects the lungs, then it is called pulmonary tuberculosis. By many criteria, this bacteria behaves...

Epidural injections of steroid medications to relieve inflammation and pain are helpful more often than they are not, but they can be inflammatory and painful in themselves.   No pain...

The spleen is protected by the rib cage, but it is still the organ most likely to be injured by a blunt force blow to the abdomen. About 25 percent...

Knee-replacement surgery aims to provide patients with a “new knee” that will be able to last them at least several decades, and research confirms that the vast majority of knee...

During an Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion (ACDF) surgery, a cervical herniated or degenerative disc is removed through an incision in the front of the neck, after which the adjacent...

Capsaicin, the chemical that makes various chile peppers (chile refers to the pepper, chili refers to the sauce) "hot,' is a common cause of burns to both the fingers and the...