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Type 2 Diabetes: Causes, Complications and Treatment
Type 2 diabetes is a common condition in which blood glucose remains too high. This guide covers insulin resistance, how chronic hyperglycaemia damages blood vessels and nerves, HbA1c monitoring, lifestyle intervention, oral medications, GLP-1 receptor agonists, insulin therapy, and preventing serious complications.
Diabetic Retinopathy: Causes, Screening and Treatment
Understand diabetes-related retinal damage, screening, macular oedema and treatment options including injections, laser and surgery. Monitoring and treatment depend on vision, retinal findings and individual risks.
Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD): Causes and Treatment
Understand dry and wet AMD, retinal assessment, monitoring and treatment questions. Suitability, injection schedules and local availability require specialist confirmation.
Glaucoma: The Silent Thief of Sight
Glaucoma damages the optic nerve and can occur with high or normal eye pressure. Learn about open-angle and angle-closure disease, assessment, medicines, laser and surgery, and symptoms needing emergency care.
Cataract: Causes, Symptoms and Surgery
A cataract is a clouding of the eye's natural lens, causing progressive blurring of vision and the leading cause of reversible blindness worldwide. This guide covers how cataracts form, symptoms and grading, when surgery is needed, and how phacoemulsification cataract surgery can improve vision and what recovery involves.
Epilepsy: Causes, Types and Treatment
Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder characterised by a continuing predisposition to seizures, affecting 50 million people worldwide. This guide covers how seizures arise from abnormal brain electrical activity, the main seizure types, EEG and MRI in diagnosis, antiseizure medications, and when epilepsy surgery can offer a cure.
Alzheimer's Disease: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Learn about Alzheimer’s symptoms, clinical assessment, biomarkers and treatment discussions, including the limits and risks of disease-modifying therapies.
Parkinson's Disease: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment
Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, caused by the progressive loss of dopamine-producing neurons in the brain's substantia nigra. This guide covers the four cardinal motor features, non-motor symptoms, diagnosis, levodopa and dopamine agonist therapy, deep brain stimulation surgery, and the outlook for Parkinson's patients.
Stroke: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide and the most common cause of adult disability — caused by sudden blockage or rupture of a brain artery, killing brain cells within minutes. This guide covers ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke, TIA as a warning sign, time-critical treatment with thrombolysis and thrombectomy, and stroke rehabilitation.
Sciatica: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Sciatica is shooting pain radiating from the lower back down the leg along the path of the sciatic nerve, usually caused by a lumbar disc herniation compressing a nerve root. This guide covers causes, how to tell sciatica from other leg pain, diagnostic MRI, and treatment from nerve root injections to microdiscectomy.
Neck Pain and Cervical Spondylosis: Causes and Treatment
A guide to mechanical neck pain, cervical spondylosis, radiculopathy and myelopathy. Learn when specialist assessment and imaging may be needed and how conservative care and surgery are considered.
Low Back Pain: Causes, Diagnosis and Treatment
Low back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide, affecting 80% of adults at some point in their lives. This guide covers the common causes — from muscle strain to disc herniation, spinal stenosis and sciatica — how MRI helps with diagnosis, and the full treatment pathway from physiotherapy to spinal surgery.
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How is my appointment date confirmed?
PriumCare coordinates the request; the hospital confirms the available date.
What is included in a health screening package?
Check the hospital’s itemized package and ask a clinician which tests suit your circumstances.
When will I get my results?
The hospital confirms report timing for each test and package.
What is China’s 30-day unilateral visa-free policy?
Eligible ordinary-passport holders may visit for up to 30 days for permitted purposes; check the current official rules.
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