Conditions & Diseases

Most peo­ple think of Botox as a treat­ment to fight the appear­ance of facial wrin­kles. How­ev­er, you may be sur­prised to know that Botox actu­al­ly has med­ical uses for oth­er health con­di­tions, includ­ing migraines.

An esti­mat­ed 15 mil­lion Amer­i­cans have undi­ag­nosed thy­roid prob­lems. To help with ear­ly detec­tion and in some cas­es help you find lumps or enlarge­ments in the neck that may point to a thy­roid con­di­tion, you can per­form a sim­ple Neck Check self-exam. Here is a step-by-step guide from thy​roidaware​ness​.com

Age-relat­ed mac­u­lar degen­er­a­tion (AMD) is a prob­lem with your reti­na. It hap­pens when a part of the reti­na called the mac­u­la is dam­aged. With AMD you lose your cen­tral vision. You can­not see fine details, whether you are look­ing at some­thing close or far, but your periph­er­al (side) vision will still be nor­mal. For instance, imag­ine you are look­ing at a clock with hands. With AMD, you might see the clock’s num­bers but not the hands.

QMG Car­di­ol­o­gy Nurse Prac­ti­tion­er Hope Owens lists heart dis­ease risk fac­tors, shares pre­ven­tion tips, and explains the all-impor­tant lipid pan­el — or cho­les­terol test — an easy test admin­is­tered in rou­tine care by your pri­ma­ry care provider to deter­mine if your cho­les­terol is nor­mal or falls into a bor­der­line, inter­me­di­ate, or high-risk category.

AAC stands for aug­men­ta­tive alter­na­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion. AAC is any form of com­mu­ni­ca­tion that’s not ver­bal, including:

• Signs
• Pic­tures
• Facial ges­tures
• Point­ing
• Speech gen­er­at­ing devices

Endometrio­sis impacts about 10 per­cent of women glob­al­ly. March is Endometrio­sis Aware­ness Month and a time to bring atten­tion to this often painful condition.

Novem­ber is Nation­al Dia­betes Month. Did you know there are actu­al­ly dif­fer­ent kinds of dia­betes, and each type is treat­ed differently?

Tor­ti­col­lis is when a child will have a pref­er­ence to tip their head one way and rotate it the oth­er way. It is a con­di­tion that is caused by a tight­en­ing of the neck mus­cle and is usu­al­ly relat­ed to the child’s posi­tion in utero.

What is a fat­ty liv­er dis­ease? First off, let’s talk about the liv­er. Your liv­er is the largest organ inside your body. It acts as a fil­ter for med­ica­tions and alco­hol, it stores ener­gy and vit­a­mins and also aids in diges­tion. Our liv­er does so much for us, but there is an epi­dem­ic that is not talked about.

For most, gluten con­tain­ing foods like rye, wheat, and bar­ley can be a deli­cious and nutri­tious addi­tion to one’s diet. These whole grains can pro­vide B vit­a­mins, iron, zinc, and fiber. For a small seg­ment of the pop­u­la­tion though, gluten can be dan­ger­ous. Accord­ing to the Celi­ac Dis­ease Foun­da­tion, rough­ly 1.4% of the glob­al pop­u­la­tion has Celi­ac disease.