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

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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.