Our Growing Fear of Bacterial Diseases

Our Growing Fear of Bacterial Diseases

If you have been reading about Aimee Copeland in the past few weeks, you know how scary bacterial diseases can be. This college student was just playing on a zip line, fell and cut her leg. In a few days it turned out to be infected with necrotizing fasciitis. This has got to be one ...

Our Growing Fear of Bacterial Diseases

Green Tea for Healthy Weight Loss and Disease Prevention

Green Tea for Healthy Weight Loss and Disease Prevention

The consumption of green tea goes back several thousand years. Green tea was not only consumed as a beverage back in historical days, but it was also used for medicinal purposes. Mainly green tea was used in Asian countries to help just about everything from controlling bleeding and healing wounds to helping with blood sugar ...

Green Tea for Healthy Weight Loss and Disease Prevention

Lupus: How It Can Affect You

Lupus: How It Can Affect You

Systemic lupus erythematosus (also known as Lupus) is a chronic autoimmune disease. The underlying causes of this disease are not fully clear to the physicians who treat it. A person suffering from has an immune system that is producing antibodies that target healthy tissue. Lupus can affect a variety of the body’s tissue. The physicians ...

Lupus: How It Can Affect You

Study Shows That Behavioral Therapy May Lessen Hot Flashes

Study Shows That Behavioral Therapy May Lessen Hot Flashes

A new study by British researchers concluded that behavioral therapy might alleviate hot flashes associated with menopause. Even “self-help” sessions may have benefits to women suffering from these annoying, sometimes debilitating, menopausal symptoms. Medical help for menopause and peri-menopause can include: HRT (discussed below), birth control pills for some symptoms, estrogen products, and others. While HRT ...

Study Shows That Behavioral Therapy May Lessen Hot Flashes

Quit Alcohol Addiction Naturally With Home Remedies

Quit Alcohol Addiction Naturally With Home Remedies

While a diet for alcoholics does not differ much from a healthy diet for anyone, some foods and drinks do help a person flush out the toxins that alcohol has left in the body. Changes in the diet and avoiding specific types of foods will also help a recovering alcoholic get over this addiction quicker ...

Quit Alcohol Addiction Naturally With Home Remedies

Newborn Screening Tests Are Vital To A Child’s Welfare

Newborn Screening Tests Are Vital To A Childs Welfare

Soon after your child is delivered, your doctor is going to recommend that your child be given some important newborn screening tests. These are very important tests in order to make sure that everything is OK. These tests are to see if there are any genetic diseases, metabolic, endocrine or hematologic issues going on that ...

Newborn Screening Tests Are Vital To A Childs Welfare

Study Shows Diabetics Should Lift Weights before Doing Cardio

Study Shows Diabetics Should Lift Weights before Doing Cardio

A new study has shown that diabetics who exercise should lift weights before doing their cardio routine; doing so—according to the study conducted by Dr. Ronald Sigal of the University of Calgary in Canada—can help a diabetic patient have better blood sugar control during exercising than those who simply did cardio without weight-lifting. Patients with ...

Study Shows Diabetics Should Lift Weights before Doing Cardio

What Is An Allergy?

What Is An Allergy?

An allergy is your body’s reaction to a foreign substance. Your body produces anti-bodies against these substances even though they are generally not harmful. According to healthcare professionals, the substances that cause allergic reactions vary from person to person. Pollen, bee venom, wasp venom, peanuts, fish, and latex are substances by healthcare professionals as possible ...

What Is An Allergy?
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