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Hiccups are involuntary in nature and are caused by contractions of the diaphragm, the muscle at the base of the lungs. These contractions are also accompanied by a sharp closure of the vocal...

A tonsillectomy, or the surgical removal of the tonsils, was performed much more commonly a few years back than it is now. In fact, a few episodes of inflammation or...

Agent Orange is one of the herbicides that was used during the Vietnam war by the American forces to clear away the thick vegetation they encountered during operations. This was...

Leukemia refers to an abnormal increase in the number of white blood cells of the body. The normal role of white blood cells in the body is to help fight...

Lupus is an autoimmune disease that is chronic in nature. A disease being autoimmune basically means that the immune system of the body fails to properly distinguish between foreign agents...

Hashimoto’s disease, also called Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is an autoimmune disease. What this means is that the body’s immune system treats one of its own organs as a foreign agent and...

While some practitioners will only perform first-trimester ultrasounds on a pregnant woman if she is experiencing bleeding or abdominal pain, ultrasounds have also in many places become so routine that...

Even though the medication wasn't FDA-approved until 2014, it almost immediately became the best selling product nasal decongestant. It is more popular than Benadryl, more popular than Mucinex (despite the ads...

Seroquel, which is also available under its generic name quetiapine, is in class of drugs known as "atypical antipsychotics." It is a very commonly prescribed, possibly over-prescribed medication for adults who...

First of all, for anyone out there who is considering a silicone injection but hasn't had it done yet, please don't. There are just too many things that can go...