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OCD. Dermatophagia (from Ancient Greek δέρμα — lit.skin and φαγείαlit.eating) or dermatodaxia (from δήξις, lit.biting) [3] is a compulsion disorder of gnawing or biting one's own skin, most commonly at the fingers. This action can either be conscious or unconscious [4] and it is considered to be a type of pica.
Akhmedevi Yalagi (mother) Savita Halappanavar [3] [4] ( née Savita Andanappa Yalagi; 9 September 1981 – 28 October 2012) was a dentist [1] of Indian origin, living in Ireland, who died from sepsis after her request for an abortion was denied on legal grounds. [5] In the wake of a nationwide outcry over her death, voters passed in a landslide ...
Lactation suppression. Lactation suppression refers to the act of suppressing lactation by medication or other non pharmaceutical means. The breasts may become painful when engorged with milk if breastfeeding is ceased abruptly, or if never started. This may occur if a woman never initiates breastfeeding, or if she is weaning from breastfeeding ...
2. Laser Devices: Most of these at-home devices rely on red light and there is some data indicating that they can help with female pattern hair loss. Again, we don’t understand exactly why, but ...
An Alabama woman was forced to endure nearly 12 hours of excruciating labor alone in a jail cell as staff refused to take her to a hospital, according to a new federal civil rights lawsuit. While ...
Specialty. Dermatology. Psychiatry. Excoriation disorder, more commonly known as dermatillomania, is a mental disorder on the obsessive–compulsive spectrum that is characterized by the repeated urge or impulse to pick at one's own skin, to the extent that either psychological or physical damage is caused. [4] [5]
Hormone therapy (HT) has been a controversial topic with women and even some doctors after a damning and controversial early 2000s study linked the treatment for menopause symptoms to an increased ...
A fictional genetic disorder characterized by a person being born without buttocks, forcing them to sit on their tailbone and cause pain in their back. The disease has no cure or treatment, although fake saline buttocks are able to relieve pain caused by sitting on the spine. Double prison plague, shackelitis Hogan's Heroes