Depression can be triggered by various life events, leading to mental struggle and suicidal thinking. Awareness of these triggers helps you and others be mindful of words and actions and know when it is necessary to get help

Intubation is the process of inserting a tube into the mouth or nose and then into the airway to help move air in and out of the lungs

Cheyne-Stokes breathing (or periodic breathing) refers to a form of pathological breathing common in the elderly in which even long apnoea phases (up to 20 seconds) alternate with phases in which there is a gradual transition from deep…

A thrombus is a solid mass made up of fibrin containing platelets, red and white blood cells, which is formed by blood clotting within an unruptured cardiovascular system: this distinguishes it from a clot, which forms outside the…

Mitral insufficiency is a heart disease affecting the mitral valve, one of the 4 valves of the heart

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Meconium-stained amniotic fluid is often caused by fetal hypoxia or other physiologic stress

Proper sleep is essential, and a widely used scoring system for heart and brain health is being redefined to reflect that

Brazzaville – With three African countries with no previous history of human monkeypox transmission reporting cases, World Health Organization (WHO) is working with national health authorities in the region to bolster surveillance and…

NIV (an acronym for "non-invasive ventilation") refers to a bloodless (non-invasive) mode of assisting lung alveolar ventilation of a patient who is insufficient for this function, without having to resort to tracheostomy, an intervention…