A Disease A Day

The Most Popular Posts in September

Here’s a list of the 5 most popular posts we featured here on A Disease A Day last month. Besides these posts, we opened the health forums, which you can visit anytime and ask questions or talk to others about health issues. The new HIV ...

Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia – A Rare Blood Cancer That Can Lead To Strokes

A few days ago Bob asked the following question in the health forums: Hi Guys, My mother, after having a mild stroke, was said to have "Hyperviscosity" of her blood. The doctors are still ...

Top 100 Health Experts on Twitter

Amber Johnson of the LPN to RN Blog (Amber, if you’d like to shed a light about the blog’s name, we’ll be happy to hear in the comments) has created a list containing a hundred of the top health experts on Twitter. The list, much like another list ...

As Seen on Grey’s Anatomy – Tethered Spinal Cord Syndrome

Yesterday Grey’s Anatomy came back for another season, and so does this column, where we teach you about a disease featured on each episode. This time – tethered spinal cord syndrome. Danger level: High Health forums category: Children’s Diseases What is it? Tethered cord syndrome (TCS) is a condition which limits the movement of ...

Want Your Newborn To Have a Normal Weight? Exercise

Much has been said about the benefits of exercising during pregnancy. Now it turns out you have another reason – If you exercise, the odds of you delivering a too-big baby drop by almost 30 percent. Macrosomia is defined as a baby weight that’s higher than 8.8 pounds ...

From The Forums – Diabetic Foot and Allergy Medications

Exactly 3 days ago we opened the formal A Disease A Day health forums. Already two brave souls have posted questions there. While the purpose of the forums is for you, our readers, to discuss health issues amongst yourselves, from time to time we will answer questions posted there or ...

All You Need To Know About Diabetes

Diabetes affects about 21 million people in the US, and much more around the world. It raises our risk for other diseases as well. Here you will learn what it is, and how to avoid it altogether. Danger level: Medium Health forums category: Diabetes What is ...

Syncope – Why People Faint

You get up one day, or get up from a chair, or just stand there and you faint. Fainting (or by its medical name, syncope), is one of the most frightening problems for patients, but it’s also a common problem. 1-3% of visits to the ER are due to fainting each ...

The New A Disease A Day Health Forums

We are proud to announce that starting today, A Disease A Day has a forums area. You can reach the new forums by clicking the red “health forums” button above. In the forums you can post questions you have about medical conditions you or others you know have, ...

Blind Grandmother Recovers Sight With Implanted Tooth in Eye

60 years old Sharron “Kay” Thornton lost her eyesight in 2000 due to a disease that scarred her cornea. After some failed attempts to correct her condition, a procedure called modified osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis was tried on her. In this procedure, an oral surgeon removes one of the patient’s teeth ...