@ridaz-0 This may allow clinicians to accurately match MDD patients with the best treatment option and dispense with the current trial-and-error system that is both time consuming and costly.

@manideepa The device applies a unique, patented pulsed radiofrequency (PRF) waveform to the affected area transcutaneously. This waveform creates electromagnetic effects similar to invasive PRF treatments. Several case studies have shown instant and dramatic relief of chronic intractable pain

Following a vegan diet for at least 3 months helped people with overweight or type 2 diabetes shed the pounds, but only had a marginal effect on HbA1c levels, on average, new research indicates. No effect was seen on blood pressure, triglycerides, or the "good" high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. HbA1c was reduced by a mean of –0.18 percentage points (P = .002), and there was a small reduction in total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, on average, across all the studies examined in this meta-analysis.

Licking a pacifier to clean it before giving it to your child might help prevent allergies, according to research presented here at the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting. Parental sucking of the pacifier might transfer health-promoting microbes from parent to child, said Eliane Abou-Jaoude, MD, from the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit. She and her colleagues interviewed 128 mothers enrolled in the Microbes, Allergy, Asthma, and Pets (MAAP) birth cohort in the Detroit area. The mothers were recruited to the cohort from January 2014 to August 2016, while they were pregnant. At recruitment, other than some indoor dogs, the allergy risk in participating families matched that of the general population.

Cryptococcus neoformans is an encapsulated yeast. In 1894, Busse, a pathologist, first described the yeast in a paper he presented to the Greifswald Medical Society. Busse isolated the yeast from the tibia of a 31-year-old woman, noted its resistance to sodium hydroxide, and published the case report that same year. The following year, a surgeon named Buschke reported the same isolate from the same patient, thus establishing the early eponym of Busse-Buschke disease. This single case served to identify a new yeast and to prove its pathogenic potential.

Hello, I am 23 years old. I am suffering from anosmia as post covid effect. I got covid. Now I am fully recovered. How to manage anosmia? It is quite a concern for me. I can not get any flavor of any kind of food. Please help.

Hello, I am 32 years old. Feeling nausea in the morning, what should I do? I have no other medical history of illness. Please provide me some useful suggestions so that I can get rid of this.

@manami The management of patients with attacks of AIP can be challenging because the disease manifestations are diverse and potentially life-threatening. Timely intervention can resolve and prevent attacks; any other condition (eg, infection, medication exposure) that may have triggered the acute attack must also be addressed. Close long-term monitoring for complications is also needed.

Hello, 25 y/o female patient presenting to clinic with joint pain in her knees. She also complains of muscle pain in her lower extremities. She stated that pain started two days after she returned from the United States. She did not have any pain previous and does not remember doing anything that would hurt it. She also complained of a headache and feeling under the weather. She has been diagnosed with zika infection. I went to that clinic for blood donation. I am worried. Can I get zika through blood donation?

Hello, our 47 year old house help suffering from constant itching on the both upper arms lasting for two weeks and claimed that due to close contact with a dog he was getting tick infestation. His physical examination revealed typical clinical findings-blue to grey macules on both arms with very small lice. Further investigation revealed that there was severe irritation or itching on the pubic area. During investigation he admitted that he had used his friend’s bed and it could be the source of infestation. Symptomatically he also indicated pruritus, itching, anorexia, lethargy, weakness. He has got pubic lice. What are all the treatment option for this?