Healthy Medical Answers

Passing out while standing at attention, posing for a photo, participating in a wedding part, or giving a speech is an often-embarrassing but hardly unusual event. Fainting, swooning, and, in...

Cholecystitis, or inflammation of the gallbladder is notoriously difficult to diagnose. Especially in children, the elderly, and diabetics, the symptoms of gallbladder disease tend to be vague. You might have...

Tarlov's disease is a surprisingly common condition that most people have never heard about. Causing "perineural" (along the nerve) cysts in the sacral (at the base of the) spine, Tarlov...

Do you have a strange sensation when you bend your pinkie finger? Are your fourth and third fingers also sometimes involved? Do your hands get numb when you rest on...

The product France Vita Natura promises to help you take off the pounds and inches (or kilos and centimeters) with the help of a specially formulated brand of "bromeline," by...

Feeling hungry all the time, especially with gnawing stomach pain, is a distressing symptom. It's really the sort of thing that you need to have your doctor diagnose for you...

What Are Night Sweats? Night sweats can be defined as excessive, abnormal sweating during the night — typically to the point that the clothes you are wearing, and perhaps even...

What Is Metronidazole? Metronidazole is an antibiotic and antiprotozoal medication, also sold under the brand name Flagyl. It is a prescription-only medication that is available in oral tablet form (both immediate-release and extended-release...

Most people are aware that blue or gray hands often indicate poor circulation. This blueish gray tint is known as cyanosis, and peripheral cyanosis where it exclusively affects the extremities.  Many different...

From time to time nearly everyone experiences borborygmus (bor-bo-ryg-mus, plural borborygmi), also known as stomach rumbles. Borborygmi are the sometimes all too loud gurgling, growling, or rumbling noises produced by...