Our Growing Fear of Bacterial Diseases
May 18, 2012
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 ...
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Green Tea for Healthy Weight Loss and Disease Prevention
May 16, 2012
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 ...
Lupus: How It Can Affect You
May 11, 2012
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 ...
Study Shows That Behavioral Therapy May Lessen Hot Flashes
April 20, 2012
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 ...
Quit Alcohol Addiction Naturally With Home Remedies
April 16, 2012
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 ...
Newborn Screening Tests Are Vital To A Child’s Welfare
April 11, 2012
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 ...
Study Shows Diabetics Should Lift Weights before Doing Cardio
April 5, 2012
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 ...
What Is An Allergy?
April 2, 2012
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 ...
