The national treatment service envisaged in the bill would provide ‘timely and effective’ inpatient and outpatient treatment ...

Early detection is important, as severe cases can cause back pain, impact heart and lung function and affect self-esteem.

Scoliosis, a spinal condition affecting an estimated 7 million people in the U.S., can lead to significant health issues if ...

Georgia public schools require that all students in sixth through eighth grade undergo scoliosis screenings, but what should you know beforehand? Dr. Michael Schmitz, Children's Healthcare of ...

Singing lifts the spirits and is also good for lung health, which prompted a German medic to start a choir specially for people with lung diseases. The singers gather to improve their lung capacity ...

But an infection can also lead to other issues, including lung and heart damage and microbiome changes in the gut, that may not always be recognized as long Covid but can still have a lasting ...

Severe cases could even cause breathing issues due to compression of the lungs and chest. People living with scoliosis may experience back pain and fatigue. If suffering from pain caused by ...

The most devastating are those that have fusions of multiple ribs in young patients as the chest wall restriction inhibits growth and development of the lungs. Idiopathic scoliosis has not been ...

The COVID-19 pandemic engulfed the U.S. five years ago this month, leaving not only lingering mental health effects but also long-term physical symptoms. One of those included a condition known as ...

Lung biopsy is a relatively frequently performed procedure with considerable benefit for patient management but it may, on rare occasions, result in the death of the patient. It is a multidisciplinary ...

For both research and clinical purposes, measures of lung involvement should ideally be (1) sensitive enough to detect abnormalities early and directly reflect changes in disease severity, either ...

Metastatic cancer to the lungs means that cancer from another region of the body has spread to the lungs. Another term for metastatic cancer to the lungs is secondary cancer in the lungs, as the ...