Conditions & Diseases

Kid­neys, although small and often over­looked com­pared to some of our oth­er vital organs, play a crit­i­cal role in fight­ing off infec­tions and main­tain­ing a healthy bal­ance in your body every day. One of their pri­ma­ry func­tions is to act as a fil­tra­tion sys­tem for your blood. Each kid­ney con­tains tiny blood ves­sels called glomeruli that sep­a­rate waste and remove excess water and oth­er con­t­a­m­i­nants from your blood. After pass­ing through your kid­neys, the fil­tered, ​“clean” blood re-enters your blood­stream and the waste is removed from your body through urine.

To the aver­age indi­vid­ual, a rash is just a rash. But to the trained eye, you may be deal­ing with an inflam­ma­to­ry skin con­di­tion called pso­ri­a­sis. This com­mon prob­lem affects up to three per­cent of Amer­i­cans. All races and both gen­ders can be affect­ed, with more adults car­ry­ing this diag­no­sis than chil­dren. So how do you know if you might be one of those peo­ple? The fol­low­ing signs may be help­ful to know:

Not all acne presents that same through­out a per­sons life. Here we cov­er the symp­toms, pre­sen­ta­tions, con­tribut­ing fac­tors and treat­ment options for the most com­mon types of pedi­atric and ado­les­cent acne. 

Postin­flam­ma­to­ry hyper­pig­men­ta­tion and melas­ma may have sim­i­lar appear­ances on your skin but the diag­noses are dif­fer­ent. Our Der­ma­tol­o­gists explain each skin con­di­tion and dif­fer­ent treat­ment options.

Each year, more than half a mil­lion chil­dren in the Unit­ed States under­go surgery to remove their ton­sils and ade­noids due to recur­ring sore throats, enlarged ton­sils or ade­noids or fre­quent infec­tions, espe­cial­ly those that cause oth­er symp­toms like obstruc­tive sleep apnea or dif­fi­cul­ty breathing.

Accord­ing to the Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety, skin can­cer accounts for near­ly half of all can­cers in the Unit­ed States and is the most com­mon of all can­cers. The most aggres­sive and dan­ger­ous type of skin can­cer is Melanoma.

These days, the pres­sure is on for young ath­letes to stay at the top of their game and play more fre­quent­ly at an ear­li­er age. We under­stand it can tough for par­ents to know when rest and relief is necessary.

Frac­tures of the toe and metatarsal bones are com­mon and require eval­u­a­tion by a spe­cial­ist. A podi­atric foot and ankle sur­geon should be seen for prop­er diag­no­sis and treat­ment, even if ini­tial treat­ment has been received in an emer­gency room.

The eye is the organ of sight and is best com­pared to a cam­era. Like a cam­era, the eye has many intri­cate parts which must work togeth­er to pro­duce clear vision. The reti­na, a lay­er of neur­al tis­sue that lines the back sur­face of the eye, func­tions like the film in a cam­era. To pro­duce a clear pic­ture, the film must be defect-free. Sim­i­lar­ly, for you to see clear­ly, your reti­na must be free of any prob­lems. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, many of us do not know we have reti­nal prob­lems until they impair our vision. The good news is that a dilat­ed eye exam per­formed by a reti­nal spe­cial­ist can iden­ti­fy these prob­lems ear­ly, treat if nec­es­sary and pre­vent irre­versible blindness.

Feel like you’re spin­ning when you’re stand­ing? Or do you hear ring­ing or a roar­ing sound when it’s qui­et? You have have an inner ear issue called Ménière’s dis­ease. Learn more below!