Questions tagged [treatment]
Questions pertaining to medical care given to a patient for an illness or injury.
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How to calculate my "approximate" mortality rate while in ICU?
To make a long story as short as possible for context, I was rushed to the ER while in cardiac arrest back in 2014. Heart stopped beating momentarily and lost oxygen to the part of my brain. None of ...
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Has any treatment based on applying exogenous BMP-2 to the wound site been shown to be useful to treat tendinopathies?
The 2011 study {1} showed that:
Our findings indicate that it is possible to significantly improve tendon healing by applying exogenous BMP-2 to the wound site, inferring that this protein could be ...
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Do all Eye drops for dry eyes contain steriods?
Do all eye drops for the dry eyes contain steroid?
How can you check if the eye drops include steroids in it?
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Can Telomers be tampered with using Nano technology? [closed]
Can Telomers be tampered with using Nano particles or nano robots that can be artificially used to CAUSE cancer?
I happen to run into this website
Talking about nano technology based cancer research.
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Is being "healthy" an actual, overall provable term? Or is "healthy" just a loose assumption?
Say you go to a doctor and they say -- more or less -- that you are "healthy."
What does this mean? Under what circumstances does one fall within these supposed confines?
And what would falling ...
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Which hormonal treatments have been shown to be useful to prevent or treat tendinopathies?
Which hormonal treatments have been shown to be useful to prevent or treat tendinopathies?
{1} surveyed the links between hormones and tendinopathies but their main conclusion is:
The influence of ...
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What is the most modern strategy for treating middle ear infections in children?
I am trying to wrap my head around the treatment of middle ear infections in children, since my toddler is having a lot of these, and there doesn't seem to be a clear cut solution.
So far I have ...
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Is cupping therapy of any use to treat a tendinopathy?
I have read some unsupported claims that cupping therapy helps treat a tendinopathy, e.g. http://www.tridoshawellness.com/quadriceps-tendonitis-treatment-with-cupping (mirror):
Quadriceps ...
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How are surgical patients kept still while awake?
Certain surgeries require the patient to be awake and lucid to be performed safely. If the patient has clonus, epileptic seizures, tremors, or any of a number of other symptoms, staying still during ...
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How does cooling physically on the forehead help ease fever?
As I remember, when I caught a fever in my childhood, my dad and mom often put a frozen towel in front of my forehead when I was sleeping, in addition to regular treats like hot water and proper ...
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Can tuberculosis be treated with obesity?
When I was a kid I was told something that keeps bothering me until now, mainly because how weird it seems.
Namely, I was told that before antibiotics were discovered, people with tuberculosis were ...
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What are the benefits or drawbacks of my primary care physician having hospital admitting privileges?
In the United States, what are the reasons for and against choosing a primary care physician who has hospital admitting privileges?
For example, if my primary care physician does not have hospital ...
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News by ICD 10 code?
Is there service online that provides the latest news based on a given ICD 10?
For example if a doctor is treating a patient with E10.9 he could view/search for the latest news on diabetes (drug ...
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Is Tourrettes considered a condition requiring medication?
Many mental disorders major depressive disorder, bipolar and/or schizophrenia borderline require and or recommend the use of medications.
Is tourettes considered less severe such that you may go ...
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What are these perfectly circular red shapes on the back of that person?
I am now living in Korea and have seen regularly these circular red shapes on the back of Korean people. Here is a picture. Sorry for the low quality, it is difficult for me to take a picture of ...
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a cure for gray hair is on the way? [closed]
I saw this news article (here is the article about it in a medical journal) and began to wonder if the cure for gray hair is on the way. Those immunotherapy drugs can restore hair color only in people ...
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What is the current status of cancer-related research? [closed]
Cancer might be the most studied medical condition of all (I don't know if it's actually true, but it sure sounds like it), as it is such a complex and diverse disease. Scientists all over the world ...
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How promising is the engineered bs-bnAb as an HIV-1 therapeutic intervention?
I found that a lot of sites talk about this news: a research team from Hong Kong university invented a universal antibody drug for HIV-1 and they tested that in mice news source.
Basically, they ...
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Why are some viruses harder to make vaccines for?
A number of common viral disease agents have vaccines produced for them: Hepatitis B, Diphtheria, Influenza (flu), Varicella (chicken pox), Poliovirus (polio), and many more.
But many very serious or ...
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How does MEAT compare with RICE treatment to treat a tendinopathy (in terms of treatment efficiency)?
First, some acronym definitions:
RICE: Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation.
MEAT: movement, exercise, analgesia, treatment
How does MEAT compare with RICE treatment to treat a tendinopathy (...
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How does one manage sarcopenia as one ages?
Sarcopenia is an almost inevitable accompaniment of aging, and we know that reduced physical strength leads to increased morbidity. For example failing the sitting rising test can predict increased ...
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What are the health benefits and risks of "radon therapy"?
As far as I know, a possible therapy for rheumatism and arthritis can be "radon therapy". My understanding is that this means bathing in a tub with water that contains radon.
My question is, if this ...
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Can nasal irrigation help for chronic sinusitis?
CT revealed chronic inflammation of the paranasal sinuses. In addition to regular treatment (septoplasty, etc.), multiple ENT specialists recommend daily nasal irrigation e.g., with Irigasin (NaCl ...
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Restoring vocal chords after tracheostomy?
Is there a way to "fix" destroyed vocal chords a person has after undergoing tracheostomy? Many have tracheostomy and this is an issue for them.
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Is Ayurveda treatment effective for modern diseases? [closed]
Ayurveda is an ancient treatment from India which is 3000 years old, based on experience and observation.
Is Ayurveda good against modern diseases like tuberculosis, cancer etc?
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What are effective treatments for venous leak?
Venous leak is one cause of erectile dysfunction in which the trapped blood leaks back. It is difficult to understand, and I have these questions:
How does venous leak develop?
What is done to ...
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Is it indeed forbidden to clean a rabies wound with alcohol?
I've listen to a lecture of a Russian doctor who said that "it is forbidden to clean a rabies wound with alcholol" ("spirt") as a first treatment, he added that it is possible to disinfect the wound ...
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Root canal therapy for diabetes patient?
If someone has the symptoms of the damaged nerve and should undergo a root canal therapy: Is there any risk for a diabetes patient to undergo this procedure?
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Why are healthcare costs so inflated in the USA? [closed]
I have seen much more inexpensive non-socialized medicine in places such as Puerto Rico, with equal or greater standards of care and outcomes. I would like to understand why the USA is not like that.
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Why do we need a rabies vaccine after exposure?
So I understand the need for rabies vaccination "before" exposure since the vaccine basically prepares the immune system, so that in the future should the same intruder enter the body again, the ...
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Can urinary tract infection be treated by inducing urination?
Urinary tract infection causes dysconfort by giving the urge to urinate even with empty bladder. The one time I had the symptoms (blood in urine, urge to urinate again), I forced myself into drinking ...
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How is the workflow of physical examination's documentation in the USA exactly?
e.g. do you use paperforms, EHR masks? Do you type directly into a physician letter?
In Germany we use mostly a paper form in the first place and afterwards we document the results into a report. You ...
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How do doctors decide on the duration of an antibiotic regimen?
Many upper respiratory infections, otitis media in children, sinusitis and other infections, are treated with antibiotics (if these are bacterial infections, of course). Doctors usually prescribe a ...
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How do I safely treat subungual hematoma? Tamarind seeds paste helps?
Some say that grinding 'Tamarind seeds' soaked in water and applying it all over the toe and letting it dry for more than 8 hours, effectively - if not completely - removes the blackened blood under ...
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Check Lithium Related Side Effects Without Blood Test
Situation:
A middle aged patient with no health insurance and a well documented
history of moderate to severe bipolar disorder visits a low cost clinic.
The patient has a just lapsed lithium ...
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Which infectious diseases only require a one-off intervention for treatment, cure or prevention?
I am writing an article about vertical vs. horizontal health programmes. I read that vertical programmes (health care programmes that aim to combat specific diseases) are more suited for diseases that ...
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How to get to sleep half-an-hour / an hour earlier than the day before?
Please only state ideas that have personally helped you, in your
daily experience, not a hypothetical answer from a website,
that might be helpful.
I have had major problems with sleep at least since ...
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Is my ENT specialist ripping me off?
I have been to an ENT specialist regarding my tinnitus problem several times, but each time she just insists on doing a hearing test, which appears to be the standard one where you put on headphones ...
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Law and Ethics - Refusing to treat intoxicated patients
I am a third year nursing student, currently writing an assignment on Law and Ethics, particularly refusing to treat intoxicated patients.
I am looking for case studies relating to health ...
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Can an infection with toxoplasma gondii be cured with the current medical state of the art?
According to the CDC, toxoplasma gondii is purported to be present in approximately 22.5% of those in the US above the age of 12, and is present in some populations worldwide at an incidence rate of ...
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How to treat blood-shot eyes if I don't have eye-drops? Water good or bad idea?
How to treat blood-shot eyes if I don't have Visine eye-drops? Water good or bad idea?
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I've suddenly lost my voice (aphonia) due to illness (laryngitis?) -- how to get it back fast?! Speaking to a 1,000 ppl in 2 days. Eeek
I'm presenting at the most important academic conference of my entire career thus far in 2 days (presenting research to literally 900-1000 people), and as luck would have it my voice has suddenly ...
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Treatment for catarrh?
I've been having catarrh for 3 days now and it's really becoming hard to bare, till today I've not slept for 3 days because it has totally blocked my nostrils. Is there any home remedy for catarrh.
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How to cure a dry eye
My friend's sister has a dry eye, she has tried using eye drop but to no avail, pls what else can she do to cure the dry eye and what caused the dry eye
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Treatment for severe Pain [closed]
I've been having severe internal pain around my eye, why? And how can it be taken care of
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How to correct Pectus Excavatum without surgery?
What are the alternative treatments for Pectus Excavatum that aren't surgery. I'm thinking stretching, weight training exercises etc?
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Should a chiropractor be called if my neck is (moderately) out of alignment? [closed]
Let's not beat around the bush:
~3 days ago, I was jumping on a trampoline. Being that I was jumping on a very good trampoline with a gymnast and a cousin or two of hers, I started endeavoring to do ...
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Does sleep hypnosis actually work for insomniacs?
Has sleep hypnosis been researched and studied to be effective for helping one to fall asleep?
How does it work exactly?
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Listening music relieves joint pain
I have heard someone saying to me that to reduce the painful of articles, listening to music can heal the pain. Is it right or wrong?
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