Medicine
- Osteoporosis - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment Methods
- Osteoporosis is a disease in which bones become fragile and more likely to break. Osteoporosis often was thought to be a condition that frail elderly women develop. Osteoporosis leads to literally abnormally porous bone that is more compressible lik...
- Osteomyelitis - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment Methods
- Osteomyelitis is an acute or chronic inflammatory process of the bone and its structures secondary to infection with pyogenic organisms. It can be usefully subclassifed on the basis of the causative organism, the route, duration and anatomic locatio...
- Osgood Schlatter Disease - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment Methods
- Osgood-Schlatter (OS) disease is one of the most common causes of knee pain in the adolescent. It occurs mostly in boys who are having a growth spurt during their pre-teen or teenage years. It is named after the two people who first described it. It...
- Osteochondritis Dissecans - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment Methods
- Osteochondritis dissecans is the most common cause of a loose body in the joint space in adolescent patients. In osteochondritis dissecans, a loose piece of bone and cartilage separates from the end of the bone because of a loss of blood supply. OCD...
- Nonallergic Rhinitis - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment Methods
- Nonallergic rhinitis is a syndrome resulting from nasal inflammation that encompasses several distinct diagnoses. Nonallergic rhinitis may be diagnosed by means of clinical evaluation or by means of allergen skin testing or radioallergosorbent testi...
- Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment Methods
- Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a rare tumor arising from the epithelium of the nasopharynx. The nasopharynx is the upper portion of the pharynx — a 5-inch tube that extends from behind the nose to the top of the windpipe and esophagus in your neck. I...
- Myocarditis - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment Methods
- Myocarditis is an inflammation of the myocardium, the thick muscular layer of the heart wall. It is an uncommon disorder that is usually caused by viral infections such as coxsackie virus, adenovirus, and echovirus. It may also occur during or after...
- Myelodysplastic Syndromes - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment Methods
- The Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) is an abnormality of the bone marrow, which gradually affects the producton of healthy blood cells. The most common sign is anemia, which means there are too few mature red blood cells to carry oxygen. The immatur...
- Molluscum Contagiosum - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment Methods
- Molluscum contagiosum consists of small, harmless growths caused by a virus that is a member of the poxvirus family. They resemble pimples with a waxy, pinkish look and a small central pit. This is a common infection in children. It is frequently se...