Bladder and Bowel Incontinence
Bladder or bowel incontinence means a problem with holding in urine or stool. Here's what you should know.
Bladder or bowel incontinence means a problem with holding in urine or stool. Here's what you should know.
If you’re recovering from an illness, surgery, or injury and need outpatient rehabilitation. This means you’ll receive 1 or more types of therapy after you’ve been discharged from a hospital or clinic.
If you are in the hospital recovering from surgery, healing from an injury, or being treated for a disabling medical condition, physical rehabilitation may be an important part of your treatment.
Iron deficiency and anemia are common after a gastric bypass or other weight-loss surgery, especially in women. In fact, iron deficiency can occur in more than half of women who are past menopause when they have this surgery.
Dumping syndrome after gastric bypass surgery is when food gets "dumped" directly from your stomach pouch into your small intestine without being digested. There are two types of dumping syndrome: early and late.
Certain types of weight-loss surgery change the way your body deals with the nutrients in the foods you eat. This causes a rapid amount of weight loss, but also may lead to complications.
You will need to decide who to tell about your HIV status, and how to tell them. In some cases, you may be required to tell. In other cases it may be best to keep it to yourself.
We've come a long way in our understanding of HIV and AIDS. But there is still discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS.
Antibiotics are medicines used to kill bacteria. Over time, certain groups of these germs may adapt to these medicines. They may change in such a way that antibiotics can't kill them. This is called antibiotic resistance.
Primary ovarian insufficiency, or POI, is when the ovaries stop working normally before the age of 40. With POI, the ovary does not release an egg each month as it should. POI has been called premature ovarian failure and premature menopause.