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Background A 56-year-old male with a history of excess alcohol consumption for over 10 years and type 2 diabetes mellitus (diagnosed 14 years previously) presented to the accident and emergency ...

You jump when your phone buzzes with a morning text about a school performance, because you remember the week he missed with pneumonia and the nights he coughed until he finally slept. You watch him ...

A chest X-ray is often the first test as part of the diagnostic process for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). It can sometimes show a mass, plus its size and location. A chest X-ray cannot diagnose ...

Many people use the two terms interchangeably, but heartburn and acid reflux are not the same thing. In fact, heartburn is a symptom of acid reflux, a condition in which stomach acid sneaks back up ...