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Rosacea and Stress

Rosacea is a chronic skin condition that is typically characterized by flushing and redness of the central part of the face, along with a burning or tingling sensation.

18 Aug 2013

There are several skin conditions that affect women during their lifetime. These include acne during adolescence, striae or stretch marks due to drastic weight gain or loss, sun damage, skin cancer and rosacea. All of these conditions require appropriate diagnosis, management and treatment.

18 Aug 2013

Rosacea and Genetics

Rosacea is typically characterized by a flushing and reddish discoloration of facial skin, followed by increased prominence of blood vessels, swelling and scaling of skin, and the formation of subcutaneous bumps and pustules. Some patients also develop deformities of the nose, a condition called rhinophyma.

18 Aug 2013

Fibromyalgia and Narcolepsy Drug Sodium Oxybate

There are several studies that show that a drug approved for use in a condition called Narcolepsy may help patients with sleep and fatigue problems in fibromyalgia.

18 Aug 2013

What is the Placenta?

The placenta is a disc shaped organ that has a very rich blood supply that provides nutrition to the unborn baby within the mother’s womb. It weighs around 600 grams when fully formed and is around 2 to 4 cm thick.

8 Aug 2013

Fibromyalgia and Diabetes

There have been studies that have evaluated concomitant conditions occurring with fibromyalgia. One aspect is to look for the association of fibromyalgia with diabetes mellitus. One such study looked at the prevalence of diabetes type 1 and type 2 among patients with fibromyalgia.

7 Aug 2013

Fibromyalgia and Sjögren's Syndrome

Sjӧgren's disease or Sjögren's syndrome is an inflammatory autoimmune disease. The immune system normally protects the body from microbes and foreign invasions by germs. In autoimmune diseases the immune system fails to recognize self from non-self and attacks the body's own cells.

7 Aug 2013

Fibromyalgia and Lupus

Fibromyalgia has been commonly misdiagnosed in patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) since the symptoms of both conditions may significantly overlap making diagnosis difficult.

7 Aug 2013

Fibromyalgia and Vibration Therapy

Whole body vibration therapy has been studied in several chronic pain conditions including fibromyalgia.

5 Aug 2013

Fibromyalgia and Weather/Seasonal Changes

Fibromyalgia syndrome is an incurable chronic and long term condition with symptoms including widespread pain and pain in the tender points, fatigue, headaches, irritable bowel syndrome, inability to get refreshing sleep, waking up tired and stiff and developing cognitive disturbances including lack of concentration and clumsiness, dizziness etc.

4 Aug 2013

Fibromyalgia 'Flare-Ups'

Based on fulfilling 11 out of the 18 tender points, fibromyalgia affects around 2% of adult Americans. However, in 2010 the 1990 American College of Rheumatology’s tender points were taken out of the diagnosis procedure. When this is considered, fibromyalgia symptoms are seen in about 10% of American adults.

4 Aug 2013

Fibromyalgia and Parenting

Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain condition with widespread pain, impairment of daily living functions, sleep disturbance and lack of sleep, presence of typical tender points over the body etc. There are other symptoms such as non-restorative sleep and fatigue.

31 Jul 2013

Fibromyalgia and Obesity

Several associated symptoms of this condition include fatigue, mood disorders, cognitive function loss, sleep problems, headaches, migraine, irritable bowel syndrome, functional disability etc.

31 Jul 2013

What is Vaginal Atrophy?

The vagina is the outer portion of the birthing canal that encloses the mouth of the uterus or the cervix. It is lined with mucous membranes and normally the female hormone estrogen helps to keep these inner walls moist and lubricated.

29 Jul 2013

What is Gynecology?

Gynecology and obstetrics are twin subjects that deal with the female reproductive system. While obstetrics deals with pregnancy and its associated procedures and complications, gynaecology involves treating women who are not pregnant.

29 Jul 2013

What is Obstetrics?

29 Jul 2013

Rosacea Diagnosis

Rosacea is a skin condition that is often chronic and mainly causes redness and flushing of the face. In addition to redness there may be burning or stinging over the affected area, reddish spots that persist and visible tiny blood vessels under the skin. Over time the skin may become thick and enlarge usually over the nose causing significant deformity.

29 Jul 2013

What is Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease?

Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease or CJD, (Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, 1885 - 1964, German psychiatrist and Alfons Maria Jakob, 1884 - 1931, German psychiatrist) (also called subacute spongiform encephalopathy), is a rare, well characterized clinicopathological entity defined by a rapidly progressing dementia associated with pathognomonic vacuolation in the cortex giving a microscopic appearance of spongiform change. Both humans and animals may be affected.

5 Jul 2013

Fibromyalgia in Men

There are differences between men and women when it comes to the manifestation of fibromyalgia. These include the level of autonomic dysfunction and interaction between the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems in postural change along with heart rate variability.

3 Jul 2013

New hope for adults with amblyopia (lazy eye)

Amblyopia is a visual developmental disorder in which the vision through one eye fails to develop properly in early childhood. The deficit is not in the eye itself but in the visual areas of the brain.

1 Jul 2013