Conditions & Diseases

A cataract is a cloud­ing of the lens in the eye that affects vision. Most cataracts are relat­ed to aging. Cataracts are very com­mon in old­er peo­ple. By age 80, more than half of all Amer­i­cans either have a cataract or have had cataract surgery.

It is impor­tant to be aware that var­i­ous activ­i­ties can impact your blood sug­ar lev­els dif­fer­ent­ly and require addi­tion­al recov­ery time. Blood glu­cose lev­els should be mon­i­tored con­tin­u­ous­ly while engag­ing in phys­i­cal activ­i­ty, includ­ing before and after you exer­cise, to ensure that your blood sug­ar stays with­in a healthy range.

The nose is a pri­ma­ry focal point of the face, and it plays a major role in defin­ing bal­ance and proportion.

Con­junc­tivi­tis, the med­ical term for pink eye, is inflam­ma­tion or infec­tion of the trans­par­ent pro­tec­tive mem­brane that lines the eye­lids and the white part of the eye. When the blood ves­sels in the white part of the eye are inflamed it caus­es the eye to have a pink or red­dish appearance.

When it comes to prostate can­cer treat­ment there are many dif­fer­ent options for care. Did you know that rough­ly 25 per­cent of men who receive radi­a­tion treat­ment have a recur­rence? A treat­ment called sal­vage prostate cryother­a­py has become avail­able to help treat prostate can­cer reoc­cur­rence. Sal­vage prostate cryother­a­py can offer men a sec­ond chance as long as the can­cer has­n’t spread beyond the prostate.

All or a por­tion of the nail plate can be dam­aged when the feet are injured or abused. Nail prob­lems are com­mon­ly caused by improp­er trim­ming, minor injuries or repeat­ed trau­ma. Some nail dis­or­ders can also be con­gen­i­tal. Prop­er trim­ming (along the con­tour) on a reg­u­lar basis can help keep the toe­nails in the pink, as can wear­ing well-fit­ted, low to mod­er­ate­ly heeled shoes.

Dia­betes is the lead­ing cause of pre­ventable blind­ness in the Unit­ed States.

Kid­neys, although small and often over­looked com­pared to some of our oth­er vital organs, play a crit­i­cal role in fight­ing off infec­tions and main­tain­ing a healthy bal­ance in your body every day. One of their pri­ma­ry func­tions is to act as a fil­tra­tion sys­tem for your blood. Each kid­ney con­tains tiny blood ves­sels called glomeruli that sep­a­rate waste and remove excess water and oth­er con­t­a­m­i­nants from your blood. After pass­ing through your kid­neys, the fil­tered, ​“clean” blood re-enters your blood­stream and the waste is removed from your body through urine.

To the aver­age indi­vid­ual, a rash is just a rash. But to the trained eye, you may be deal­ing with an inflam­ma­to­ry skin con­di­tion called pso­ri­a­sis. This com­mon prob­lem affects up to three per­cent of Amer­i­cans. All races and both gen­ders can be affect­ed, with more adults car­ry­ing this diag­no­sis than chil­dren. So how do you know if you might be one of those peo­ple? The fol­low­ing signs may be help­ful to know:

Not all acne presents that same through­out a per­sons life. Here we cov­er the symp­toms, pre­sen­ta­tions, con­tribut­ing fac­tors and treat­ment options for the most com­mon types of pedi­atric and ado­les­cent acne.