Snoring is often dismissed as a harmless quirk, or the punchline of bedtime jokes, but it can signal deeper issues that go beyond mere acoustic annoyance. Snoring occurs when turbulent airflow causes ...

Getting a cold once or twice a few months is normal, but what about a persistently blocked nose that lingers for weeks and ...

CT and MRI scans produce detailed images of the body. Learn the details and differences between CT scans and MRIs, and benefits and risks of each.

A new hybrid soft tissue model, which is mainly based on the mass-spring model (MSM) and the 3-D finite strain nonlinear anisotropic elasticity theory, is presented for visio-haptic simulations, such ...

This X-ray image of the left ankle shows gas in the soft tissue around the heel. The patient, a man in his seventies, was admitted to the emergency department with fever and pain in the left foot. He ...

Odontogenic infections are infections that originate in the teeth and/or their supporting tissues. Such infections are common, and a large proportion of infections of the head and neck region are of ...