Boutonnière deformity is a medical condition caused by an injury to the tendons that straighten your finger’s middle joint. For those who are afflicted by this condition, the middle joint of your finger bends in, and the outermost joint bends out.
The abnormality may worsen if not addressed on time, resulting in irreversible deformity and decreased functionality.
Numerous diseases are contracted from animals to humans. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a disease transmitted from cattle to humans. Many lives have succumbed to bovine spongiform encephalopathy during the past few years. This blog is a comprehensive guide on bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), its symptoms, causes and treatment options. Let’s be aware and fight it.
Bowen’s disease is an early form of skin cancer. It is also known as squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) in situ, a skin cancer, as it is formed on the top layer of the skin. It is a slow-progressing cancer. It is often confused with other skin conditions, including eczema or psoriasis.
Bow legs is a type of knee malformation that can afflict individuals at any stage of the growing process but is more common amongst toddlers and adolescents. This disease is also referred to as bandy-leg, varus deformity, genu varum, and tibia vara. The treatment of the disease depends on multiple factors such as the patient’s age, stage of the disease, severity of the bone deformation and more.
When most of us think about the word aneurysm, we think about chaotic scenes from movies where someone is being rushed into an operation theatre with a whole lot of doctors and nurses following, or the character stops mid-speech to fall dead within a second. All of these project aneurysm as a very scary and fatal condition. But let’s stop to consider what really makes an brain aneurysm, and understand when you should be concerned and when to take it easy.
A brain lesion is a damaged area in the brain tissue. It can happen due to a traumatic injury, infection, or destruction of the brain cells. The initial stages of a brain lesion may not show any symptoms. However, as the lesions progress over time, they can cause mental and physical changes. There are numerous types of brain lesions that can range from large to small, few to many, and from relatively harmless to life threatening.
If you are one of those students who paid attention in biology classes in school, you would know that there is a single-celled organism called an amoeba. But do you also know a species of amoeba known as the brain-eating amoeba? Only a few know about it. It was first identified in 1965 in Australia and is scientifically called Naegleria fowleri.
This blog is a comprehensive guide on the effect it can create on the human body, its symptoms, and treatment options.
Breast calcifications are tiny deposits of calcium in the breast tissue. These are more commonly found in women above the age of 50 years. Typically, breast calcifications are benign or noncancerous. However, some of them may indicate the early stages of breast cancer.
Breast milk jaundice is a type of jaundice that occurs in neonates due to breastfeeding. It happens within the first week of life due to the abnormal accumulation of bilirubin. Jaundice is a condition in which the skin and eyes turn yellow. It is common in newborns. Many infants get jaundice within a few days or weeks after birth.
A brief psychotic disorder (BPD) is a psychiatric condition that may occur suddenly and for a brief period of time, accompanied by symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and confusion. As the name suggests, these symptoms may last for a day or for as long as a month. The symptoms may feel realistic enough to the patient to the extent that they may trigger violent behaviour or increase their risk of committing suicide.
