Jay N. Yepuri, MD, MS, FACG, is a board-certified gastroenterologist and member of the Digestive Health Associates of Texas Board of Directors and Executive Committee. A liver function test checks how ...

How we communicate via today's modern technologies may be more important than ever, but do old theories of mass communication still apply? The four functions of mass communications are: surveillance, ...

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What Are Pulmonary Function Tests? To diagnose asthma, your doctor will review your symptoms, your medical and family history, and may do lung function tests (also called pulmonary function tests).

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a challenging neuropsychiatric condition with a subset of patients remaining refractory to conventional treatments. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the bed ...

What Are Pulmonary Function Tests (PFTs)? Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) are lung tests. They show how well your lungs work. They’re noninvasive, which means that the doctor doesn’t cut you or put ...

As a person with a chronic illness, I'm no stranger to bloodwork. I used to pore over my lab results, googling the various meanings, and trying not to panic when a test fell out of range. Function ...

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I hold my planner like a life book. It's dazzled with color-coded words, stickers, notes, symbols, and doodles. One might think it's all for fun. In truth, it's all quite necessary. It's my executive ...

Abstract: A practical and efficient method to quickly model and evaluate the nonlinearities of an amplifier is presented. The proposed approach is based on “polyfit” function, provided by Matlab. As a ...