Nail fungus, in medical terms onychomycosis, is an infection that can affect fingernails and toenails, turning them white or yellowish and weakening them

Parkinson's disease: in 1817, James Parkinson published a monograph entitled 'Essay on the shaking palsy'

Presbyopia is a physiological vision condition that arises due to gradual stiffening of the crystalline lens, a lens located in the posterior chamber of the eye, posterior to the iris, which normally allows images of objects placed at…

Glaucoma is a chronic, bilateral disease of the optic nerve characterised by progressive damage to its nerve fibres; the cause is an internal pressure greater than the eye can tolerate

What is the pleura? The pleura is a thin membrane that surrounds each of the two lungs. The sheets of mesothelial cells that make up the pleura have a fundamental function: to secrete a highly lubricating fluid that allows lung movement…

Whilst the pandemic has, and continues to, take its toll on our mental health, the ability to reconnect through World Mental Health Day 2022 will provide us with an opportunity to re-kindle our efforts to protect and improve mental health

Oxygen ozone therapy is useful in the treatment of pain, but as there are different types of pain, one must first understand its cause and various localisations

Williams Syndrome is a rather rare disease (it has an incidence of one case per 20,000 births) that affects children. It is not hereditary, nor is it due to medical, environmental or psychosocial factors

Macular pucker, what is it? The eye, one of the most sophisticated organisms in the human body, relies on the delicate balance of all its parts

Dry eye is a pathological condition of the ocular surface that can lead to foreign body sensation, burning and other disorders that affect quality of life; the frequency of dry eye increases with age, in the presence of other diseases,…