Learn about Roach, including young children, the elderly, pregnant women and people with chronic health conditions. Get more sleep to help your immune system fight infection. Your doctor may prescribe antiviral medications that help reduce symptoms and the length of the flu. How to Identify and Treat the Hour Flu. Page last reviewed: 6 August… Read More »
A stye, which a doctor might call a hordeolum, is a bump that develops on the eyelid or at the base of the eyelashes. A bacterial infection is the cause of most styes. The majority of styes will disappear on their own, with or without treatment, within 1 or 2 weeks. However, there are a… Read More »
By Alice Klein Certain brain circuits may underlie the symptoms of anorexia nervosaALFRED PASIEKA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Some women with severe anorexia have returned to a healthy weight and feel less anxious and depressed after having electrical devices implanted into their brains, according to a small study. But more research is needed before the treatment can… Read More »
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have identified a so-called “executioner cell” that may hold the key to eventually finding a treatment to slow retinal degeneration that causes blindness in millions of people each year. A multi-disciplinary team involving experts from TCD believe they have pinpointed a potential new therapeutic target for treating retinal degeneration. It… Read More »