Screening - what is it?
Screening tests are interventions carried out in 'healthy' people, without symptoms of disease, with the aim of detecting and treating disease at an early stage.
Atopic dermatitis - differential diagnosis: part 1
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is often not easy to diagnose and can be a source of diagnostic difficulties. This article provides a brief overview of the disease entities that should be considered first in...
How to distinguish between facial pain of dental and non-dental origin?
Facial pain is not necessarily due to inflammation of the tooth pulp or periapical tissues. Other diseases that manifest themselves in pain are: temporomandibular joint disorders, sinusitis,...
Depressive disorders in patients after CABG (coronary artery bypass grafting) surgery
Coronary artery bypass grafting(CABG) is a cardiac surgery procedure for the treatment of advanced ischaemic heart disease. It involves the creation of 'bypasses' that bypass a coronary vessel...
Conductive and sensorineural deafness - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Hearing loss (deafness) regardless of whether it involves the right ear, the left ear or both ears always requires consultation with an ENT specialist. In most cases, it occurs gradually. However, it...
Anaemia - causes, symptoms, treatment
Anaemia (anaemia) is a decrease in haemoglobin, haematocrit and erythrocyte count in the blood from normal values (set for age and sex). Anaemia can be a manifestation of an ongoing disease state in...
Dark circles under the eyes in children - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Dark colouring of the skin under the eyes can have various causes. It can be a genetic predisposition or a symptom of systemic or local diseases. It appears at any age, including often in children....
Boils
The causative agent of boils isStaphylococcus aureus. Boils occur frequently, especially under conditions of poor hygiene. Their formation, as well as the occurrence of boils, i.e. multiple boils, is...
What to do to avoid dry skin?
More and more people are seeing a dermatologist with the problem of dry skin. It affects not only women, but also men and children, and can include the skin of the face, décolleté, abdomen, back or...
The health-promoting properties of wine
Wine, and red varieties in particular, has been recommended as a remedy for a variety of illnesses since antiquity, but it was not until the development of science that this wonderful beverage could...
Written in the stars
Some believe in horoscopes and some believe in nothing. How much truth there is in the truth, unfortunately no one can tell us. And yet a horoscope can be written by anyone. All it took was for a...
Nail shape changes - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Each of us has a different shape and colour of the nail plate, as well as its structure. Many patients ask their doctor whether changes to the shape and colour of the nail have something to do with...
Cerebral hypoxia as a leading cause of death among patients
Cerebral hypoxia, also known as cerebral ischaemia, is a condition that occurs when the normal functioning of three closely related systems is disrupted: the nervous circulatory and respiratory...
Can formaldehyde in nail polish cause cancer?
Formaldehyde, also known as formic aldehyde, is a common ingredient in nail polish. Recently, scientists have decided to look more closely at the addition of formaldehyde to cosmetics (especially...
Herpes - a viral venereal disease - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Venereal diseases are those that are transmitted sexually. They are divided into viral, bacterial or fungal. It is worth remembering that every venereal disease requires a detailed diagnosis and...
Paget's cancer - breast cancer - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Paget's cancer is a particular type of breast cancer (i.e. one of the most common malignancies in women). It is said that the earliest symptom of breast cancer is a lump, and in this type of cancer...
Women take COVID-19 more lightly - it's because of hormones
Scientists believe that female sex hormones protect against a severe course of COVID-19. These compounds have anti-inflammatory effects, stimulate the production of antibodies and promote the repair...
Dogotherapy as an element of support for the disabled child
Disability in children is an unfavourable phenomenon mainly due to the fact that early childhood is the period of the child's fastest development. Any limitation in this area results in the...
Good old sex
The sexuality of older people is a taboo subject. There is an assumption in our culture that children and older people do not have sexuality, and consequently there is little scientific data on the...
What are the symptoms of migraine?
Migraine is one of the most common and intractable pain disorders affecting a significant proportion of the population. In this article, we will discuss what a migraine is, its symptoms, types,...
