A chronic disease, diabetes is a fast-growing health problem throughout Africa, with prevention and treatment needs such as those associated with diabetic foot conditions being left largely unmet. This study reviewed the literature on diabetic foot ulcer patients in Africa, focusing on the clinical characteristics of the disease, limb amputation rates and mortality rates associated [...]
Gynecomastia is the abnormal enlargement of the male breast that makes a man’s chest appear more feminine. The condition has numerous causes, with 10-25% of cases resulting from medications such as anabolic steroids, anti-androgens, antidepressants and the antiretroviral therapy (ART) drugs used to treat HIV. How gynecomastia is treated depends on the type and seriousness [...]
A parasitic (or asymmetrical conjoined) twin is an embryonic anomaly that primarily affects males. It involves a rare twin malformation where tissue matter that should make up a second fetus grows within the body of the more normally-developed host twin. The solution to such cases is to surgically excise the components of the “parasitic twin” [...]