Navigating Granuloma Annulare: Insights into Diagnosis, Management, and Prognosis

Granuloma annulare (GA) is a moderately normal, harmless skin condition described by raised, rosy or tissue shaded knocks organised in a ring or curve shape. However it commonly presents without side effects, its particular appearance can cause worry for those impacted. While granuloma annulare frequently settle all alone, grasping its determination, the executives, and anticipation can give consolation and direction to the two patients and medical care suppliers.

Understanding Granuloma Annulare

Granuloma annulare appears as firm, smooth knocks or injuries on the skin, most regularly showing up on the hands, feet, wrists, or lower legs. These sores frequently structure a ring or round design, despite the fact that…

Health: A Quick Guide to Swallowing Disorders

The act of swallowing is a bodily function that is often taken for granted. However, it is a complex function that requires the coordinated use of muscles in the mouth, gullet (esophagus), and throat (pharynx). Although the ability to swallow comes naturally for many people, swallowing disorders can occur at different stages in a person’s life for a number of reasons. Here is a quick guide to swallowing disorders and how to treat them.

Different Types of Swallowing Disorders

In the United States, 1 in 25 people are affected by a swallowing issue at some point in their life, with only a minority seeking healthcare to address their problem. When it comes to swallowing disorders, people usually experience odynophagia and dysphagia.

Odynophagia

. A person with dyspha…

SOUTH PACIFIC: Poverty Breeds Child Labour and Sex Tourism

Shailendra Singh

SUVA, Jun 18 2008 (IPS) – Beyond the fabulous palm-fringed beaches and cascading waterfalls of the islands of the Pacific is a sordid reality child labour and commercial sexual exploitation of children.
Lack of reliable data makes it difficult to assess the magnitude of the problem, but rough estimates by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) suggest that with growing poverty child workers make up an estimated 19 percent of the labour force in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and 14 percent in the Solomon Islands.

A recent Asian Development Bank (ADB) report has predicted that an additional 5 percent of people in the Pacific or some 50,000 people would slip into poverty because of high oil and food prices.

According to economist and former Fiji go…

SYRIA: Iraqi Kids Struggle on Dangerous Edges

Rebecca Murray

DAMASCUS, Nov 7 2010 (IPS) – Leila, 17, presses her hijab-clad head against the front door and strains to hear outside. There s nothing, she says cautiously, turning towards her mother Rawda, the head of the household, in their quiet basement apartment. Along the brocade couch sit her two sisters, Mona, 19, Nadja, 15, and 10-year-old brother Khaled.*
Growing up is hard for Iraqi children in Syria. Credit: Rebecca Murray

Growing up is hard for Iraqi children in Syria. Credit: Rebecca Murray

This close knit family is paranoid, and for good reason. They fled Iraq s sectarian violence to…

Pakistan’s Paraplegics Learning to Stand on their Own Feet

Over 2,000 paraplegic women have received treatment and training at the Paraplegic Centre of Peshawar, in northern Pakistan, enabling them to earn a living despite being confined to a wheelchair. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS

PESHAWAR, Pakistan , Nov 24 2014 (IPS) – When a stray bullet fired by Taliban militants became lodged in her spine last August, 22-year-old Shakira Bibi gave up all hopes of ever leading a normal life.

Though her family rushed her to the Hayatabad Medical Complex in Peshawar, capital city of Pakistan’s northern-most Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, doctors told the young girl that she would be forever bed-ridden.

Bibi fell into a…