Born and raised in Vancouver, Won is the youngest of three children. As a child, he’d rush to the window of his family’s ...

Rapidly spreading, harrowing and potentially lethal, a necrotizing soft tissue infection — so-called flesh-eating disease — “scares the living daylights” out of doctors, as several shared on a ...

The gold standard for diagnosing necrotizing fasciitis is surgical evaluation, opening the area and looking for dead tissue. Fernando and colleagues have warned that traditional assessment tools like ...

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - Dr. James Fullwood, a podiatric surgeon with Northern Light Podiatry in Pittsfield at Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hospital, is here to discuss plantar fasciitis.

Q: Why is plantar fasciitis such a nagging injury? A: Plantar fasciitis is one of the most common causes of heel pain. It's a condition that often plagues athletes, people who spend long hours on ...

“Plantar fasciitis is inflammation at the insertion of the plantar fascia as well as pain along the arch of the foot.” Spector told HuffPost via email. “The plantar fascia, [which] is a ligament that ...

It's 2025 and after almost 20 years, Sony has announced it is ending Blu-ray media production, along with MiniDiscs, MiniDiscs data and miniDV tape, just months after it got rid of its 5.5TB ...

Fans of physical media—myself included—tend to be a morbid bunch, dwelling on the rise of streaming while bemoaning the steady decline of Blu-ray, the home-media format of choice for cinephiles.

Kwee’s study indicated that MRI, exhibiting T2-weighted hyperintensity of the deep fascia, demonstrates high sensitivity and moderate specificity for diagnosing necrotizing fasciitis (15). Sartelli’s ...

After entry, the offending organism secretes pyrogenic exotoxin A, beginning a cascade of events leading to eventual tissue destruction. Exotoxin A stimulates the production of cytokines, damaging ...