How fast is your gut? The answer to this question is important to your health
Gut transit time varies from one person to the next. Recent estimates suggest it can take somewhere between 12 and 73 hours ...
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Vaginal Ultrasound: Purpose and What To Expect
Medically reviewed by Kiarra King, MD A vaginal ultrasound, also called a transvaginal ultrasound, is a type of medical ...
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The Man I’m Seeing Has a Bizarre Postsex Habit. When Pressed About It, He Claims That It’s “Just How I Am.” ...
Bladder stone 'the same size as baseball' found in ultrasound after woman's horrific pain
Doctors discovered a huge bladder stone, as big as a baseball, when performing an ultrasound on a 72-year-old woman who was ...
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Scientists Suggest New Way to Help Measure Obesity Instead of Just Using Traditional BMI Metric
The report’s findings suggest that BMI — the measurement traditionally used by medical professionals to determine healthy weight ranges — does not provide a nuanced enough assessment of ...
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New recommendations to measure obesity go beyond controversial BMI. A doctor explains.
Body mass index, or BMI, has long been criticized as a flawed method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts is sharing new recommendations. BMI is a formula that uses a person's ...
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Causes of Chronic Abdominal Pain and How to Manage
Abdominal pain is considered chronic if it lasts for more than three months. The pain may be constant or it can come and go over the three-month period or longer. There are many health conditions, ...
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Say Bye to Just BMI: Experts Call for a Major Shift in How We Measure Obesity
Though BMI is an easily obtained and trackable measurement, however ... like family history, abdominal disposition of fat, other conditions, an extreme weight, and especially the combination ...
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Angle-Independent Blood Flow Velocity Measurement with Ultrasound Speckle Decorrelation Analysis
Abstract: Precise measurement of the blood flow velocity in major arteries is important for the assessment of circulation dysfunction but challenging when using a one-dimensional (1D) ultrasound ...
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Naomi Osaka suffers abdominal injury in run-up to Australian Open
However, in a statement, the WTA said she retired “due to an abdominal injury”. “I just want to thank everyone for welcoming me to such a beautiful city and I had a lot of fun playing here ...
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UK set for 874-mile wall of snow with exact hour flurries begin announced
The UK faces a snow bomb measuring an astonishing 874 miles. A wall of snow looks set to smash into the country from 12noon on January 2, with flurries set to measure an eye-watering 24cm at the ...
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Clinical and ultrasound features of fibrous pseudotumor of tunica vaginalis of the testis: eight cases and literature review
Methods: The clinical and ultrasound features of ... a large mass originating from the scrotal wall, with reduced echogenicity, absence of posterior attenuation, no calcification, and potential ...