Healthy Medical Answers

Burning mouth syndrome is a condition of searing pain in the mouth that seems to come on for no reason at all. It can affect just the tongue, usually the...

Marijuana fans know better, but they often speak of marijuana as if all pot was the same. Even 50 years ago, that wasn't true, but with modern breeding programs different strains...

Muscle strains (an injury to the muscle itself or to the ligament connected to the muscle) and sprains (an injury to the connective tissues attached to a muscle) can occur...

Hemorrhoids can be treated with different procedures at different stages. Smaller hemorrhoids might be treated with banding, a procedure that involves minimal pain. Larger hemorrhoids might be treated with Stapled...

People who still have their tonsils often get swollen tonsils when they have strep throat. There might not be any other redness and "oozing" except from the tonsils when there...

Every year hundreds of thousands of people have surgical spinal fusion (arthrodesis) to correct spinal stenosis, the effects of rheumatoid arthritis, herniated disks, or spondylitis, or to keep the bones in...

There are three main types of shoulder replacement surgery: total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA), reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (RTSA), and hemiarthroplasty (HA). The different kinds of should replacement resolve in different ways. The single most...

Scabies is a condition that results in an itchy skin and is caused by a mite that is attracted to humans, called Sarcoptes scabiei. This mite burrows under the skin and causes...

Laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) is a condition that develops in individuals who are diagnosed with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD). What happens is that stomach acid flows back up the oesophagus and when it reaches...

Abdominal masses that are pulsatile or bounding can cause concerns in the affected individual. Pulsatile abdominal masses can be experienced in relatively thin people who may just be feeling their abdominal...