Sometimes, when you have a headache, you’ve probably noticed that your eyes hurt as well. Eye pain frequently accompanies a headache because the nerves that enable you to move your eyes become inflamed. Not only does this create a pain in your head, the pain will probably feel even worse every time you move your [...]

Description and Possible Medical Problems Though dandruff can appear at any age, it seems to affect midlife adults more frequently. Dandruff is caused by one of two genetic skin conditions: seborrheic dermatitis, or eczema; or psoriasis. Eczema is a skin problem in which certain parts of the skin—including the scalp—turn red and flaky; they may [...]

Description and Possible Medical Problems If you get severe headaches from time to time or even a migraine, which is a severe headache coupled with sensitivity to light, nausea, and vomiting (see also “Headache with Sensitivity to Light, Nausea, and Vomiting” below), you may find that because your eyes become more sensitive to light during [...]

When an elderly relative begins to show signs of confusion and memory loss and the incidents are few and far between, both you and your relative are likely to chalk it up to the aging process and its insidious, mysterious ways. Most of the time, this is exactly what it is. However, as with what [...]

High-tech medicine has also made it possible for specialties to form within the existing specialties. Even to me, it sometimes seems as though there is a specialist for each different cell in the body. For example, the specialties in the ophthalmological field include retinal specialists, corneal specialists, and so on. Surgery has also become extremely [...]