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I recently spent a couple of weeks in a nursing home. At age 60, I was by far the youngest person there. I had an injury to my foot that...

There's an old saying that if you are aware of yourself enough to wonder whether you have schizophrenia, you probably don't. The hallmark symptom of schizophrenia is delusion, which is...

Hallucinations are surprisingly common. Many people see, hear, smell, taste, and feel things that aren't objectively there. That does mean something is notably wrong with their brains, but that doesn't...

I have diabetes. For the past three months, I have been battling not just diabetes, but also cellulitis which turned into sepsis, all from a tiny cut that became a...

Every year about five percent of all diabetics develop a foot ulcer. Of those who do, about 20 percent of diabetics with a foot ulcer will have to have the...

The days of painful tooth extractions are almost completely gone from the field of dentistry nowadays. Patients are provided enough anesthesia to ensure that they are not going to feel...

Dentures can become loose due to a variety of reasons. The first and the most common reason is that the shape of the underlying bone changes with time. For some...

Cholesterol tends to be misunderstood in two different ways. One common misunderstanding is that somehow cholesterol "clogs the pipes" and accumulates inside arteries when cholesterol levels are too high. This...

The common thread of lupus, Sjogren's syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, placque psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, and Crohn's disease is inflammation. Diet makes both more and less difference in managing these diseases than...

Depo Provera is a birth control injection that contains the hormone progestin as its active ingredient. Highly effective, depo Provera may appeal to women who would like a long-term contraceptive...