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Causes of movement disorders

Movement disorders are neurological syndromes where there may be excess of movement or a paucity of movement that is not connected to weakness, paralysis of spasticity of the muscles. Movement disorders commonly affect the speed, fluency or smoothness, quality, and ease of movement.

25 Jul 2012

What are Movement Disorders?

Movement, although seemingly simple like picking up a bit of paper, is actually a complex process that requires activities of several different parts of the brain working in tandem with muscles and nerves.

25 Jul 2012

Treatment of hand, foot and mouth disease

Hand foot and mouth disease is a viral infection commonly affecting children below 10 years. It rarely affects teenagers and adults who usually show milder symptoms.

24 Jul 2012

Diagnosis of hand foot and mouth disease

Hand foot and mouth disease is a viral illness commonly affecting children below 10 years of age. The infection caused commonly by coxsackie A16 virus of the enterovirus family often is very contagious and spreads rapidly to form outbreaks and even epidemics affecting a large number of children.

24 Jul 2012

Symptoms of hand, foot and mouth disease

Hand foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is a viral illness commonly affecting children below 10 years. Although it can affect teenagers and adults as well, this age group often has milder symptoms.

24 Jul 2012

Causes of hand foot and mouth disease

Hand, foot and mouth disease is a viral illness that characteristically leads to fever, sore throat and blisters over the mouth, hands, feet, buttocks and genitalia.

24 Jul 2012

Hand, foot and mouth disease – What is HFMD?

Hand-foot-mouth disease is an infectious disease caused by a virus and it often affects the throat first.

24 Jul 2012

What is Hirsutism?

Hirsutism is a condition where a woman has excess thick, dark hair which grows in a male-type pattern.

24 Jul 2012

Treatment of fungal nail infections

Fungal nail infections, or onychochomysis, are common disorders of the nails. They are treatable.

22 Jul 2012

Fungal nail infection and other health conditions

Fungal nail infections, or onychomycosis, are commonly seen among the elderly and those with certain chronic health conditions. This includes those with Diabetes, psoriasis, peripheral vascular disease and those with suppressed immunity like with AIDS and cancers. (1-4)

22 Jul 2012

Symptoms and diagnosis of fungal nail infections

Fungal nail infections, also called onychomycosis, are among the most common nail disorders. With rising prevalence of conditions like diabetes and increasing number of the aged population the numbers of individuals with these infections are also on the rise.

22 Jul 2012

Causes of fungal nail infections

Fungal nail infections are one of the most common dermatological conditions in the United Kingdom. Nearly 3 in 100 in the UK suffer from fungal nail infections at some point in their lives.

22 Jul 2012

What is fungal nail infection?

Fungal infections can affect skin, hair as well as nails. Nail infections are common especially in susceptible individuals. It leads to discoloured, ugly and misshapen nails that may even become painful.

22 Jul 2012

Prevention of cleft lip and palate

In most cases cleft lip and palate is an inherited condition. There is really nothing parents can do in such cases to prevent cleft lip and palate from forming in their babies.

18 Jul 2012

Treatment of cleft lip and palate

Cleft lip or palate refers to the separation due to non-fusion of the tissues of the upper lip and palate or roof of the mouth. Surgery is necessary to correct cleft lip and cleft palate.

18 Jul 2012

Symptoms and diagnosis of cleft lip and palate

Cleft lip and cleft palate is cause due to improper fusion of the facial tissues in the middle. It affects one in 700 babies.

18 Jul 2012

Causes of cleft lip and palate

Cleft lip or palate affects one in 700 babies in the United States and the United Kingdom. The reason for this defect lies in defects normal development of the face within the mother’s womb.

18 Jul 2012

What is cleft lip and palate?

Normally as the baby develops in the womb, the tissues that eventually form the upper lip and palate grow from both sides and fuse or join in the middle to give the final continuity and shape to the upper lip and the palate (roof of the mouth). This fusion takes place within the fourth and the eleventh weeks of pregnancy.

18 Jul 2012

Treatment of Polio

Polio is caused by a virus. In most cases it does not manifest clinically (subclinical infection) usually resolves by itself. This type of infection occurs in 95% cases.

17 Jul 2012