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Anyone who's watched ER or the other fast-paced medical dramas on TV has seen the actors expertly manipulate all sorts of medical equipment, from intubation tubes to IVs to complex diagnostic equipment.Medicine has seen a massive transformation, largely because of technological advances.One little bit of medical equipment creating a big effect on diagnosis may be the endoscope.A slender, flexible little bit of tubing is fitted having an digital camera assembly with superb optics and inserted in to the patient's body, supplying doctors with images of a number of organs and enabling very accurate diagnoses...

Many natural changes in fingers and toenails come with age.Fine ridges, for example, may start developing from the cuticle of the nail tip.This and other similar changes are common, but they are not signs of poor health.But,there are some nail conditions to watch out for such as small separations of the nail from the nail bed, yellow/brown shade, or hardening,crumbling or thickenings of the nail at the top edge...