Joint pains, hoarseness, and deafness

Prayer and physical pains

Background and Objectives: Prayer is one of the most important religious ordinances and is one of the necessities of Islam. In spite of the progression of medicine science, it is sometimes seen that the mundane subjects become hopeless in curing physical diseases and this time, the hopeless man appeals to the Lord God. This review study was conducted to examine the positive and negative views r...

Hoarseness and Voice Changes

This treatise on hoarseness is intended for primary care physicians and mid-level providers. It is produced by the Center for the Care of the Professional Voice, part of the Haben Practice for Voice & Laryngeal Laser Surgery, PLLC, specializing in voice disorders and laryngology in Rochester, NY. It provides a comprehensive listing of common voice disorders, key elements of the patient’s histor...

Pains, gains, and midbrains.

O ne of the main aims of neuroscience is to understand how the CNS deals with and adapts to external inputs and internal events. The altered molecular and cellular events form a basis for abnormal processing that underlies physiopathological events. Understanding these events can allow translation from bench science to the patient, and a key step in this process is using models of a clinical co...

An unusual case of joint pains and fever; berylliosis and pulmonary hypertension mistaken for rheumatic fever.

Hoarseness and aortic arch dissection.

A 71-year-old man presented with deteriorating renal function. Hoarseness of his voice had been noted about one year earlier. He had never experienced severe chest or back pain of a tearing nature. His medical history was significant for chronic renal failure secondary to diabetic nephropathy. Laryngoscopy showed left vocal cord palsy (Picture 1). A contrast-enhanced computed tomographic scan r...