Surprised? Well, the bone can be infected in a condition called Osteomyelitis. In fact, it’s a pretty common condition. How does osteomyelitis come about? Infections can reach a bone by when it travels through the bloodstream or it spreads from nearby tissues. Also, infections can also begin in the bone itself if an injury exposes…
DetailsToday, we’d be learning about one of the chronic diseases that can be passed on from mother to baby during pregnancy. Let’s look at Congenital Syphilis. What is congenital syphilis (CS)? This is a disease that occurs when a mother already infected with syphilis passes the infection on to her baby during pregnancy. How does…
DetailsMost parents wouldn’t feel good about a child’s mild cough but imagine how terrible it’d be when the baby has a whoop? Whooping cough, which is also called pertussis, is a serious respiratory infection caused by bacteria. This infection causes violent, uncontrollable coughing that can make it difficult for one to breathe. Before the advent…
DetailsMost likely, the first thing that comes to mind is how? The penis has no bone, so how does it get fractured? On a lighter note, it doesn’t matter that an erection is playfully referred to as a boner. It really has no bone. Read on to learn about the rare phenomenon, penile fracture. What…
DetailsChances are many of us know scenarios in which a woman’s vagina is surgically cut during childbirth. The cut is known as an Episiotomy, which is a surgical cut made in the perineum during childbirth, with the perineum being the muscular area between the vagina and the anus. In this article, we’ll discuss the important…
DetailsHolla! Hope you’re having a good day. Let’s talk about some sports gist today. If you’re an ardent follower of sports, or even not, you must have come across this statement several times “Hamstrings Injury” In a world where football is the king of sports, it is very common. What exactly are the hamstrings? The…
DetailsPools are usually all fun until someone appears to be losing the fight against the water current and is slowly going under. In situations like these, the chances that somebody around possesses life-saving skills are usually invaluable to a drowning person’s survival. In this article, we hope that you gain some knowledge on how you…
DetailsDid you wake up feeling exhausted this morning? Well, that makes two of us. And boy, can’t it get annoying when the very thing that’s supposed to make you feel refreshed leaves you groggy! More often than not, all one really needs to do is re-evaluate the level of their sleep hygiene. Our piece on…
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