Eye care supplements are products containing vitamins and other nutrients that are useful for maintaining eye health and good vision. They improve eye health and can be used for the treatment of a number of related diseases such as cataracts, diabeti...
An intraductal papilloma is a benign, or noncancerous, breast tumour that forms in a milk duct and is made of gland and fibrous tissue as well as blood vessels. These generally appear as lumps after breast examination and may cause nipple discharge o...
Measles also referred as rubeola is a highly contagious disease caused by the rubeola virus. Measles is contracted through exposure to other individuals infected with the rubeola virus. Early symptoms of the disease are fever, red eyes, running nose,...
Viral gastroenteritis, also known as stomach flu, is inflammation of the lining of the stomach, small intestine, and large intestine. There are a number of viruses leading viral gastroenteritis such as norovirus, rotavirus, astrovirus and enteric ade...
Insulinoma is a rare form of tumour of the beta cells of pancreas resulting in an excessive secretion of insulin, leading to hypoglycaemia. Most insulinomas are benign, however a few metastasize. The symptoms of insulinoma are hypoglycaemia and assoc...
Acromegaly is a hormonal disorder that results from heavy secretion of growth hormones (GH) in the body. The pituitary gland in the brain, secretes GH. In acromegaly, the pituitary produces excessive amounts of GH. Usually the excess GH comes from be...
Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), also kown as immotile ciliary syndrome or Kartagener syndrome. Primary ciliary dyskinesia is a rare disorder and is a type of chronic respiratory tract infections, normally occurs in internal organs of human body. Th...
Oral thrush also called as oral candidiasis is an infection of the mouth caused by strains of the Candida species. Candida albicans is the most commonly implicated organism, which occurs naturally in about 50% of the world's population as a normal co...
Homeopathy is a field of alternative medicine, introduced by Samuel Hahnemann in 1976. It works on the principle of similarity of symptoms i.e. a substance causing symptoms of disease in healthy individual will show same symptoms in the sick. Homeopa...
Gingiva means gums and stomata refers to mouth. Gingivostomatitis is a combination of gingivitis and stomatitis, which is the inflammation of the oral mucosa and gingiva. Gingivostomatitis is most commonly caused by herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1...