US doctor question: do general practitioners practice real diagnosis anymore? Every doctor my wife and I have gone to in the past ten years has turned out to be incompetent or disinterested in doing more than the bare minimum. [more inside]
posted on Aug 11, 2008 - 28 answers

Cat just starting Lasix - how long before I should see effects? [more inside]
posted on Jul 9, 2008 - 5 answers

My girlfriend's parents have been told that they may develop 森林脑炎 -- a Chinese disease which seems to be similar to Lyme disease. Can you help me find out what this is called in English, so I can find out how serious a condition this is? [more inside]
posted on Jun 11, 2008 - 10 answers

Ten days ago I learned I have a celiac disorder. I have lost almost 15 pounds and my eating patterns have drastically changed. Help me fill the void... [more inside]
posted on May 12, 2008 - 30 answers

What is going on with my teeth / gums (very disgusting stuff inside)? If you, like me, do not like to hear or see sensitive parts of the body going wrong, please do not read this question. [more inside]
posted on Apr 16, 2008 - 15 answers

What is happening to this Oak tree? [more inside]
posted on Apr 13, 2008 - 5 answers

Is there any way to avoid getting sick when you have to touch lots of people in a developing nation as part of your job? [more inside]
posted on Mar 26, 2008 - 12 answers

Is it fair to say that the cells that a particular virus uses to reproduce itself are the cells where symptoms of the disease will tend to manifest? [more inside]
posted on Mar 10, 2008 - 14 answers

Are commercial genetic DNA testing companies worth the price tag? [more inside]
posted on Feb 5, 2008 - 6 answers

What is the 19th Century illness that disfigures Esther Summerson of Dicken's Bleak House? [more inside]
posted on Jan 6, 2008 - 9 answers

My girlfriend was recently diagnosed with coeliac disease. Do I have to get a new chopping board? [more inside]
posted on Jan 5, 2008 - 12 answers

My mother has become a crazy cat lady. Help me! [more inside]
posted on Dec 28, 2007 - 28 answers

I know you aren't my doctor (or even my mother's doctor), but if you *a* doctor can you please help me connect these dots regarding a gallbladder? [more inside]
posted on Dec 27, 2007 - 11 answers

Is there such a thing as an 'invisible' virus - have biologists stumbled across any 'diseases' that have no noticeable symptoms?
posted on Dec 14, 2007 - 20 answers

Does my cat have a chronic respiratory infection, or is it possible she just naturally has poor breathing passages? Ever since my partner and I adopted her and her sister in August she has had periodic coughing and hacking fits that have been relatively unaffected by three separate rounds of antibiotics. Now I wonder if maybe she just has the equivalent of a deviated septum, or whether it's time for hospitalization. [more inside]
posted on Dec 13, 2007 - 13 answers

Calling all Crohnies! I'm helping to throw a traditional New Mexican dinner party for a group of students on Thursday night. We'd planned for the vegetarian contingency, but have found out that one young woman has a bad case of Crohn's Disease. [more inside]
posted on Oct 7, 2007 - 7 answers

My lady friend has been sick for a year, and nobody can figure out what's wrong. Has anyone had any experience with this kind of sickness? [more inside]
posted on Sep 28, 2007 - 46 answers

Ultrasound and bloodwork after several excruciating bouts of pain this week show that I apparently have gallbladder disease. Help. [more inside]
posted on Sep 7, 2007 - 35 answers

Medical School Filter: Infectious Disease Department on the West Coast. Please recommend a good university for an overseas visiting professional. [more inside]
posted on Aug 21, 2007 - 9 answers

Huge numbers of people living in the Americas died from diseases when Europeans started coming over. It is always stated that this is because the immune systems of the Americans had not contacted the European diseases before. Why did the same thing not happen in reverse? Why weren't 90% of some European settlements wiped out from an unfamiliar American disease?
posted on Aug 12, 2007 - 21 answers

One of my container garden tomato plants is sick. What's wrong with it? [more inside]
posted on Jul 11, 2007 - 7 answers

Looking for information and possible causes of asymptomatic cardiac enlargement : details inside. [more inside]
posted on Jul 1, 2007 - 6 answers

Where can I find a good doctor in Philadelphia that will help me diagnose Celiac disease? [more inside]
posted on Jun 8, 2007 - 5 answers

How dangerous is Celiac disease? What can I do? [more inside]
posted on Apr 19, 2007 - 14 answers

Medical professionals: how do you intellectually and emotionally cope with disease and death? [more inside]
posted on Apr 2, 2007 - 20 answers

I've recently come across someone who disputes the Germ Theory of Disease. Has anyone ever heard of such a crazy thing before?
posted on Feb 21, 2007 - 17 answers

A tick dug its foul way into my dog's belly yesterday. We found it dug in but not yet engorged in the middle of an irritated red patch of skin. I tugged 2/3 of of it out of my dog's skin, but despite my best efforts, the head's still in there. What now? [more inside]
posted on Feb 9, 2007 - 15 answers

I’m looking for statistics from a reputable source describing the cost of both treatment and loss of wages/productivity or a combination of both (general financial burden) due to incidence of thrombosis and thrombotic disease. [more inside]
posted on Jan 30, 2007 - 4 answers

Will Lupron help my ferret's adrenal disease? [more inside]
posted on Jan 23, 2007 - 5 answers

Will squirrel spit kill me? [more inside]
posted on Jan 20, 2007 - 27 answers

What is "zipper disease?" [more inside]
posted on Jan 7, 2007 - 9 answers

What are these giant pimple things? [more inside]
posted on Nov 13, 2006 - 15 answers

Does anybody know the name of the neurological disease which breaks the connections of your passive feeling nerves but still leaves you able to control your limbs? [more inside]
posted on Sep 28, 2006 - 4 answers

PorkFilter: Is there anything medically wrong with eating large amounts of pork, sometimes irregularly prepared? [more inside]
posted on Sep 27, 2006 - 46 answers

How do I correspond with someone who I have just learned has a life-threatening illness? (He doesn't know that I know.) [more inside]
posted on Aug 28, 2006 - 15 answers

What in the process of absorbing sodium causes an increase in blood pressure [more inside]
posted on Jun 23, 2006 - 11 answers

If you believe BonJovi, love is a social disease. What other songs link love and infectious diseases, metaphorically or otherwise?
posted on Jun 17, 2006 - 28 answers

Can public library books harbor bacteria/virii/disease? [more inside]
posted on May 18, 2006 - 20 answers

The incidence of peptic ulcer disease in hyperparathyroidism is increased, presumably due to hypercalcemia leading to increased gastrin secretion. Why does calcium stimulate G-Cells to secrete calcium? I am trying to find a precide physiologic reason. Is there another reason for this link between HyperPTH and duodenal ulcers. Thanks!
posted on Apr 13, 2006 - 6 answers

Is it dangerous to let a cat outside supervised? [more inside]
posted on Apr 7, 2006 - 42 answers

What is the best way to respond to an acquaintance who reveals he has been recently diagnosed with HIV? [more inside]
posted on Apr 1, 2006 - 17 answers

Were the food laws in the old testament rational for the time or somewhat superstitious? [more inside]
posted on Mar 25, 2006 - 16 answers

Second-hand shoes: What are the odds of contracting some sort of fungus or some other nasty thing from second-hand shoes? What, if anything, can I do to disinfect them? And will it work?
posted on Mar 1, 2006 - 8 answers

Paging any dermatologists, epidemiologists, or pathology-minded scientists -- any idea what in name of the gods this is? (Probably SFW, but not safe if you want to eat today or at least not wretch). [more inside]
posted on Nov 8, 2005 - 25 answers

Who's killing our trees in Minneapolis? [more inside]
posted on Aug 21, 2005 - 3 answers

I'm not a tinfoil hat type of guy but just in case, what vaccinations or immunizations should I, as a 30 year old american, get? Let's say I budgeted $1,000 to cover the bases; I'm not planning on taking any trips to the jungle, working with blood, doing drugs or having anal sex. What could I take care of with a budget like that?
posted on Aug 16, 2005 - 28 answers

Anyone with Hodgkin's Disease out there? Have a question about the wonders and side effects of ABVD chemotherapy. [more inside]
posted on May 23, 2005 - 10 answers

Multiple Sclerosis: what tips, tricks, medications, supplements, treatments or therapies are worth trying? [more inside]
posted on Apr 20, 2005 - 20 answers

My 9-month old puppy has been diagnosed with ehrlichia. Has anyone had experience with or knowledge of this disease, treating it, and the fatality rates? :(
posted on Mar 24, 2005 - 6 answers

I just read a wire story stating that, "hundreds of thousands of people may die and one quarter of the work force could be absent if Britain were hit by a bird flu pandemic said." How seriously should we be worried?
posted on Mar 22, 2005 - 22 answers