THE country’s leading medical institution, the Makati Medical Center (MakatiMed, has reached another milestone with the successful performance of its first facial reanimation surgery, a ...

Muscle is a soft tissue composed of elongated cells (muscle fibres) that produce force and motion through contraction. Involuntary cardiac and smooth muscles are responsible for contraction of the ...

The procedure utilized the Labbe Flap technique, which involves harvesting the temporalis muscle and mobilizing it to ...

According to a 2020 study, three weeks of detraining did not affect muscle thickness, strength, or sports performance in adolescent athletes. According to Jesse Shaw, D.O., associate professor of ...

If your health goals include building muscle while losing fat and excess weight, you may wonder if you can build muscle while in a calorie deficit (when you eat fewer calories than your body uses).

Here’s how it works. While some organs, like the brain, work continuously, other body tissues, like muscle and fat, can enter an inactive state. Muscles are typically inactive except during ...

Labour and Employment Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Saturday said the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation has streamlined and fast-tracked the process for transfer of provident fund dues from one ...

The DIEP — or deep inferior epigastric perforator — flap is named for the blood vessel that runs through the abdominal muscle. According to breastcancer.org, this surgery requires surgeons ...

(In DIEP flap surgery reconstruction, skin, fat and blood vessels from the patient's abdominal area are used to rebuild breasts.) During one of the DIEP cases, while the patient was asleep on the ...