Want to learn more about heart failure? In this post, we are going to be discussing about heart failure. A case of a willing mind but tired body. Even at 40, Alex was still a fitness enthusiast, and healthy as a horse. During a routine medical check-up though— some 10 years ago— his Doctor had …
In this post, we are going to be talking about Mirror movement disorder (MMD) using a case study. Sometime in the recent past, I was going through my message requests, and something caught my attention: a clearly exasperated mother was laying a complaint about some bizarre movements she had noticed in her son. One hand …
Want to learn more about HEMINEGLECT AND HEMIANOPIA-Unaware Of, Or Blind To, One Side Of The Body? continue reading. Lesions of the brain are fascinating, and as complex, as the organ itself. The fact that the brain is basically two separate organs held together in the middle, and that each half controls the opposite side …
Want to find out how people recover from COVID-19 even when there is no cure or vaccine yet, then continue reading. Most respiratory viruses– including Coronaviruses such as the ones that cause the Common Cold — are self-limiting, so to say. What this means is that they have a relatively finite period in the human …
Sitting high up in the head in all of its royalty– high above every other organ, the human brain is a very greedy, jealous, entitled, and unforgiving organ. To understand how greedy it is; even though it contributes only about 2% to the body’s weight, the human brain consumes 20% of the body’s total oxygen …
Haemorrhagic Stroke If looks could kill! The look on his face was a reflection of the anger he felt in his chest: burning, a molten magma waiting to erupt. If not for the nagging headache throbbing away like a million Vuvuzelas in a South African stadium, he would have taught this idiot some lessons. Ten …
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The National Health Council recommends you to keep a personal health record and take it with you to your doctor. It’s one thing to document your medical information… It’s another to know when and how to use it. Welcome to MedicDrive, a collaborative project of medicdrive for advancing and educating about the role of Healthcare …
Medicine is an ever-changing field and this is one sector which depends heavily on information access. But, unfortunately, suffers from Information Access Syndrome. We cannot access information about the health of a patient at the same speed as we could retrieve information about weather report or travel information. Web technology has been growing rapidly in …
An Overview Of Primary Headaches There’s perhaps no medical terminology/condition— save for the “malarias,” and the “typhoids“—as abused as “migraine” by the uninitiated. Migraine has come to mean different things to different people: for some, it is any headache that is “severe” and perhaps incapacitating. To others, it is any headache that recurs habitually. With …