A Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) is sometimes referred to as a “mini stroke” or a “warning sign” of an impending stroke. It is caused by a disruption of blood supply to a particular area of the brain by a blood clot in your brain or neck.
Your blood carries oxygen to the brain. Therefore, if the […]
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Sharron Thornton, a 60-year-old grandmother who lost sight in both eyes 9 years ago due to a rare corneal disease, can see again after docs implanted a part of one of her eyeteeth into her left eye.
The procedure known as as modified osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis, was the first of its kind performed in the United States. The […]
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A loyal reader asked me to write a Medical Minute about Tonsiloliths, aka tonsil stones, also called tonsil calculus, pebbles, tonsil corn, etc. There is very little medical literature on tonsiloliths and your doctor may not have even heard of them. Some doctors mistakenly diagnose the yellowish tonsil calculi as a throat infection and prescribe […]
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Stomach cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancers. The disease has a poor prognosis. Life expectancy for a patient diagnosed with stomach cancer is usually 6 months. That is because the early symptoms of stomach cancer are often very vague and sometimes non-existent. By the time symptoms do appear the cancer has already […]
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According to an inside source, incarcerated rapper T.I., real name Clifford Harris Jr., is not among those inmates sickened by a gastrointestinal bug that’s going around the Arkansas prison where he’s serving a 366-day sentence.
Rumors that T.I was sick spread quickly after it was announced that visits to the federal prison were temporarily suspended until […]
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Past medical studies comparing skin cancer rates among Caucasians and blacks have shown that cases among whites were proportionately higher due to their lack of skin pigmentation.
But new studies reveal that that a deadly form of skin cancer (malignant melanoma) is now increasing among biracial people and light skinned blacks who have less pigmentation than […]
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On Monday Barack Obama made another in a series of embarrassing goofs by suggesting that the swine flu pandemic was “not a cause for concern.” Just two days later, Obama has reversed his stance, saying the outbreak of swine flu had created a “serious situation” in the United States requiring the “utmost precautions,” such as […]
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The swine flu outbreak in Mexico is caused by a deadly new strain, or variant, of a particular strain of influenza virus that is naturally occurring among pigs. This strain mutated over time and jumped from pigs to humans. It is now transferred easily from human to human through coughing, sneezing, touching and through contact […]
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