If you have severe back pain, whether acute, recurring, or chronic (long-term), it may lead to muscle spasms, which are sudden, involuntary contractions of a muscle that can be very uncomfortable.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said he would seek a meeting with President Donald Trump to tackle what he called a “national crisis” over US tariffs that caused a Friday slump in ...

If left untreated, the fungus may spread to the esophagus and even spread throughout the body. Home remedies for oral thrush (oral candidiasis) include probiotics, vitamin C, or mouth rinses made with ...

The nickname replaces its more technical moniker, distal hyperextinsibility, which is a fancy way of saying super flexible ligaments. It may be a cool party trick, but could it also be a health ...

Those spasms are controlled by a neural reflex arc involving the brain stem, phrenic nerve, and vagus nerve—the same vagus nerve that travels down into the chest and wraps around the esophagus.

Heads continue to turn northwestwards, here in South Africa. Eyes and ears are carefully tuned not only to the latest X.com and TruthSocial dispatches from Donald Trump’s White House, Mario Rubio’s ...

The cancer typically begins in the inner layer of the esophagus wall and grows outward, but it can start anywhere. Esophageal cancer is a rare cancer, accounting for just 1 percent of cancer cases ...

Acid regurgitation can lead to distal peptic strictures of the esophagus, with a low eosinophilic infiltration on biopsy (<10 eosinophils/HPF). Eosinophilic esophagitis can produce thick rings or ...

A 56-year-old female underwent endoscopic pneumodilation for achalasia. After dilation, a transmural perforation of 1 cm was observed in the distal esophagus and a VACStent was placed during the same ...

Backgrounds: Trimodal therapy (neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy followed by esophagectomy) for locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is associated with a significant survival benefit ...