Make an Appointment Hiccups cause when the diaphragm, the muscle that separates your chest from your abdomen and is crucial to breathing, contracts uncontrollably. Your voice chords abruptly close with each contraction, creating the distinctive “hic” sound. A heavy meal, alcoholic or carbonated beverages, as well as abrupt excitement can be a hiccup’s reason. Hiccups […]

Make an Appointment The norovirus infection can cause severe vomiting and diarrhoea that appears out of nowhere. Noroviruses are extremely infectious. They are transferred most usually through contaminated food or water, as well as polluted surfaces. Noroviruses can also be disseminated by intimate contact with someone infected with the virus. Vomiting, diarrhoea, and stomach pain […]

Make an Appointment Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neuromuscular disease that is inherited and causes muscles to weaken and waste away. SMA patients have a type of nerve cell in the spinal cord called a motor neuron that controls muscle movement. Unless these motor neurons are present, muscles do not receive nerve signals that […]

Make an Appointment Triple X syndrome , also called trisomy X or 47, XXX, is a genetic disorder that affects about 1 in 1,000 females. Females normally have two X chromosomes in all cells — one X chromosome from each parent. In triple X syndrome, a female has three X chromosomes. Many girls and women […]