Healthy Medical Answers

Sometimes a doctor's choice of terminology conforms to professional practices but scares people. That's the case with the term "erythema." It just means "redness." If you have a laparoscopic exam...

What Are Orthokeratology Lenses And Who Is A Candidate? Ortho what? Unless you are already using ortho-k lenses, there's a good chance you have never heard of them, so let's take a...

Here's a not-atypical case that might find its way to a doctor's office and then a dermatology clinic: A middle-aged individual started noticing redness and itching at the tips of...

There's a lot of confusion about human growth hormone (HGH, all capital letters), hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin, the "h" in human in small letters), and homeopathic hCG, which would be a...

At least one of the Hydroxycut products is safe and significantly effective, despite a troubled history for the company. Hydroxycut is a Canadian-made weight loss supplement that had to be...

The Fat Pulverizer Weight Loss pill was a product made from cactus paddles, those large, oval leaves covered with spines on the prickly pear cactus. It was a product that...

It's not possible even for doctors to give a definitive diagnosis to a skin rash without actually seeing the patient. It's certainly not possible for non-doctors to give useful medical...

Retinitis pigmentosa is a genetic condition in which the rods in the retina die. The rods are the cells in your eye that distinguish outlines and depth; the cones distinguish...

What Is Scheuermann's Kyphosis? The thoracic spine — the middle and upper back — typically has a curvature of 20 to 40 degrees. People who have more severely curved middle and upper...

Gastroesophageal reflux disease, also known as GERD, is a condition in which the base of esophagus allows an unusually large amount of stomach acid to move up into the throat. Nearly...