Adults with Gaucher disease type 1 may develop subtle signs of heart dysfunction long before they experience symptoms or show abnormalities on standard heart tests, according to a small new study from Turkey. The researchers found that an advanced heart imaging scan — an ultrasound technique called speckle-tracking echocardiography,…
There was a time when getting medical information required a lot more effort. If you had a question about a symptom, a test result, or something your doctor mentioned in passing, you either waited until your next appointment or spent hours searching through websites and forums, trying to piece together…
Most people would never notice anything different about me until they saw the Band-Aid on my hand. It leaves the door open to questions I do not, and often cannot, answer. These questions can leave me feeling exposed before I even have a chance to introduce myself. This is often…
