Group B Strep Infection: GBS
Health and Fitness: Womens Issues • Published: October 6, 2014
Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a common bacteria found in the vagina, rectum and urinary bladder of women. This infection is usually not serious in women and readily treated with antibiotics.
SjoGren’s Syndrome
Health and Fitness: Diseases • Published: February 19, 2014
SjoGren’s syndrome is a chronic autoimmune disease. It affects glands that make moisture and often causes dry mouth and eyes. It can also lead to dryness in other areas such as nose, throat and skin.
Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome Awareness
Health and Fitness: Diseases • Published: February 3, 2014
Alcohol withdrawal syndrome refers to a wide range of symptoms that may occur when a person who has been drinking too much alcohol stops suddenly or significantly reduces their alcohol consumption. Symptoms may range from mild to severe.
Acute Pancreatitis
Health and Fitness: Diseases • Published: January 7, 2014
Acute Pancreatitis is sudden swelling and inflammation of the pancreas. It is accompanied by severe abdominal pain. Acute Pancreatitis usually resolves itself within a few days with treatment but can be life-threatening with severe complications.
PID – Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
Health and Fitness: Womens Issues • Published: December 26, 2013
PID – Pelvic Inflammatory Disease is a general term for infection and inflammation of the upper genital tract in women. This disease can affect the uterus, fallopian tube and other organs related to reproduction.
Psoriasis Awareness
Health and Fitness: Diseases • Published: December 9, 2013
Psoriasis is an inflammatory disease that causes skin redness and irritation. It manifests as thick red skin with flaky white patches called scales.
Natural Remedies for Toothache
Health and Fitness: Dental Care • Published: November 20, 2013
Toothache is pain around a tooth that may be caused by conditions such as tooth decay, infected gum, tooth fracture, blow to the tooth and so on. Toothache occurs when the most sensitive part of the tooth called the pulp becomes inflamed.
Natural Ways To Detoxify The Body
Health and Fitness: Detoxification • Published: November 19, 2013
Detoxification is a process of removing toxic substances from the body. Detoxification keeps you in good health.
Lower Your Blood Pressure Naturally Using These Tips
Health and Fitness: Hypertension • Published: November 15, 2013
High blood pressure is when your blood pressure remains abnormally high (a reading of 140/90 mm Hg or greater). It is a measure of how blood pushes against the walls of your arteries as it moves through your body.
Apple – Health Benefits
Health and Fitness: Nutrition • Published: September 23, 2013
Apple is so common that it’s medicinal benefits are over looked. Apple is good for health for a number of reasons. It contains a lot of nutrients which prevent and treat different diseases and health conditions.
Water And Its Health Benefits
Health and Fitness: Nutrition • Published: September 3, 2013
Water is very essential to our health. The body needs water to function properly. Adequate consumption of water everyday plays an important role in our health and adds no calories, fats, carbohydrates or sugar.
Lemon – The Wonder Fruit
Health and Fitness: Nutrition • Published: August 20, 2013
The lemon fruit is packed with a lot of vitamins and mineral making it a fruit of great medicinal importance. Lemon is acidic in taste but alkaline forming in the body. This makes it great for balancing the high acidic environment of the body.
MEDICINAL BENEFITS OF ONIONS
Health and Fitness: Nutrition • Published: August 13, 2013
Onions are common kitchen spice which posses so many health benefits. Onions might bring on tears but the many health benefits are worth every single teardrop. This vegetable increases the health value of many foods when added to them.
Shaken Impact Syndrome
Health and Fitness: Diseases • Published: July 25, 2013
Shaken baby syndrome is a serious brain injury that occurs as a result of forcefully shaking a baby or infant. It is also known as abusive head trauma or shaken impact syndrome. It is a type of child abuse that typically happens when an angry adult is trying to stop a baby from crying.
Strep Throat (Pharyngitis) Awareness
Health and Fitness: Diseases • Published: February 8, 2013
Strep throat is a contagious bacterial throat infection caused by the germ called Group A Streptococcus bacteria that makes your throat sore and scratchy. Symptoms generally include fever, sore throat, redness and swelling of the throat and tonsils and swollen lymph nodes in the neck.
Types Of Stroke
Health and Fitness: Diseases • Published: August 28, 2012
Proper brain cell function requires a constant delivery of oxygen and glucose from the bloodstream. A stroke occurs when the blood supply to part of your brain is interrupted or severely reduced, depriving brain tissue of oxygen and food and causing the brain cell to die.
Health Alert For Women (Ectopic Pregnancy)
Health and Fitness: Womens Issues • Published: August 28, 2012
A major health problem for women of childbearing age is Ectopic Pregnancy. An ectopic pregnancy (EP) also known as tubal pregnancy occurs in one of fifty pregnancies. EP is a condition in which a fertilized egg settles and grows in any location other than the inner lining of the uterus.
Hypertension (High Blood Pressure)
Health and Fitness: Hypertension • Published: August 27, 2012
Hypertension also known as high blood pressure is defined as a consistently elevated blood pressure exceeding 140/90 mm Hg. Blood pressure is determined by the amount of blood your heart pumps and the amount of resistance to blood flow in your arteries. Hypertension occurs when your heart pumps more blood resulting in narrowed arteries.
Gonorrhea Also Called “Clap Or Drip”
Health and Fitness: Diseases • Published: August 27, 2012
It is a very common bacterial sexually transmitted disease that affects both males and females. It is usually transmitted through sexual contact with an infected person but it may also spread by contact with infected body fluids or a mother passing it on to her baby during childbirth.
Leukemia – Cancer of the Blood
Cancer: Leukemia Lymphoma Cancer • Published: August 24, 2012
Leukemia is cancer of the blood cells. It begins in the bone marrow, which is the soft tissue inside most bones. Healthy bone marrow makes white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets. In leukemia, the bone marrow starts to make a lot of abnormal white blood cells (leukemia cells).
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