Medicine has made dramatic progress over the past few decades. Even compared to when I was a medical student, diagnostic and treatment methods for individual diseases have changed significantly. For ...

I am a Mathematics graduate from the Universidade Federal de Pelotas, and currently teach in the Insituto Federal Sul-rio-grandense (Pelotas), in a Master's Program in Education. Since 2006 I’ve been ...

Rune Johan Ulvik (born 1947) is a specialist in clinical chemistry, professor and senior consultant. The author has completed the ICMJE form and declares no conflicts of interest. Hereditary ...

Metabolic syndrome (MetSyn) is a group of metabolic conditions that occur together and promote the development of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. These include abdominal obesity, insulin ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) remains a common condition affecting World Trade Center (WTC) responders 25 years after the attack on the Twin Towers. While the condition is considered mainly ...

Type 2 diabetes is often associated with obesity and occurs as a consequence of a combined impairment in insulin secretion and insulin action. This results in loss of metabolic control, leading to ...

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aCenter for Acute Respiratory Failure and Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New ...

1 Mech-Sense, Department of Gastroenterology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark 2 Center for Sensory-Motor Interactions, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, ...

Migraine is the second largest cause of years lost to disability globally among all diseases, with a worldwide prevalence over 1 billion. Despite the global burden of migraine, few classes of ...

MSN via Barron Kerry Stewart, an exercise physiologist and professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins, says exercise capacity "definitely declines" as we age. "With regular exercise, the decline won't be ...

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) remains one of the most common gastrointestinal disorders seen by clinicians in both primary and secondary care. Since publication of the last British Society of ...