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Your kidneys are your bodys clearinghouse for toxins. Learn what swollen feet, muscle cramps, and other warning signs may signal about your kidneys health.

We have similarities with everything else in nature; it would be astonishing if we didnt. But weve got to look at the differences. | Pulse Nigeria

Personalized medicine is an advanced method to predict risk of a human to a disease and its early treatment. It is tailor-made precision medicine with least side effects. Pharmacogenomics is the novel concept based on which personalized medicine is designed.

Alkaptonuria or black urine disease is an inherited disorder where a chemical called homogentisic acid accumulates in the tissues and body fluids staining them dark brown. The spine and large joints (hip, knee) are affected leading to pain and stiffness.

Male pattern baldness is the loss of hair on the scalp in men. This usually happens when the hormone levels change in a man's lifetime, especially in the later years.

People with myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), the most common adult-onset form of muscular dystrophy, progressively lose muscle mass and strength in their lower legs, hands, neck and face. The effects of the condition extend to the cardiac and central nervous systems and the gastrointestinal organs. Human chromosome 19. Gene DMPK is in the region q13.32. Credit: Genetics Home Reference The laboratory of Dr. Thomas A. Cooper, professor of pathology and immunology, of molecular and cellular bio...