A lack of sweating is a symptom common to a number of health conditions, including psoriasis, lupus, diabetes, or even lung cancer. Medications also can cause a reduction in sweating (hypohidrosis) or ...

Social media interventions significantly improved follow-up adherence and parental knowledge in congenital ectopia lentis cases. Congenital ectopia lentis, often linked to fibrillinopathies, requires ...

If your eyes are droopy, it can be a sign of ptosis, or droopy eyelids. This can be caused by nerve damage, underlying medical conditions, or more serious factors like a stroke or neurological ...

However, for the majority, going braless at night is perfectly fine. Breast ptosis, or sagging, is a natural part of aging. It’s caused by gravity, changes in skin elasticity, and the general ...

Figure 2: Single injections of GHRH myogenic expression vectors in vivo increases porcine GHRH, GH, and IGF-I serum levels over two months. Very young animals have high levels of GH, which ...

Prevent Blindness offers free resources for Women’s Eye Health and Safety Month, focusing on education for the public and professionals. Maria Sampalis, OD, highlights gender-specific eye care needs ...

The main research focus of the group is the development of molecular imaging markers for the study of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson´s and Huntington´s disease, using positron emission ...

MG can cause ocular symptoms of diplopia and ptosis, and generalised weakness of limb, bulbar or respiratory muscles. In patients with MG limited to ocular signs and symptoms only, i.e. Ocular ...

Blepharophimosis-ptosis-epicanthus inversus syndrome (BPES, OMIM #110100) is a rare autosomal dominant genetic disorder with an estimated prevalence of 1/50,000 (1). It is characterized by narrow ...

Skeletal muscle cells (myofibers) are large, syncytial cells which can span the entire length of a limb segment: in humans, the sartorius muscle can be ~60 cm long, with individual muscle fibers ...