Quenching Heartburns – Understanding GERD and Gastric Ulcer GERD (GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE) – WHAT IS GERD? Gastroesophageal reflux is a normal physiologic phenomenon experienced intermittently by most people, particularly after a meal. Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) occurs when the amount of gastric juice that refluxes into the esophagus exceeds the normal limit, causing symptoms with […]
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Pregnancy Symptoms and Testing I’m Not Pregnant Am I? ‘Pregnancy is a wonder belly of emotions, both joyous and stressful.’ For most women, making a decision to have a child is momentous. Yet for many others, life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside; believe it or not, by far the
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Types, Symptoms of Heart Failure – Management Of Heart Failure using Diuretics The Problem of Heart Failure 82 % of people with heart failure will die within six years of diagnosis. That’s why it’s what one could gravely call ‘living on the edge’! Defining Heart Failure Heart Failure is a terminal condition where the cardiac
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Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia BPH – Causes, Symptoms And Treatments Everything in life has its zeniths and nadirs. That’s what we call the rise and fall. The male urinary stream is no exception, as it falls prey to the might of the enlarging ‘prostate’ that engulfs the ‘prostatic urethra’ with advancing age. A LITTLE MORE ABOUT
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The Problem Of High cholesterol Levels And Coronary Heart Disease The human being is a biological factory that produces myriad products for its survival. From hormones to energy based metabolic pathways, all need lipids. Cholesterol is the omnipotent mother lipid from which derive subsidiary lipids or ‘Lipoproteins’ as they are called viz LDL , VLDL
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Treatment of Gastrointestinal Infestations using Mebendazole Tablets How is a Threadworm Infection Caused? Threadworm is an intestinal infestation caused by Enterobius vermicularis which is acquired by swallowing the eggs. Threadworms look like tiny white threads and live in the bowel, attached to the lining. Usually the female worm starts producing the eggs two weeks after
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Types Of Herpes , Causes, Symptoms and Treatment To person who has suffered from any manifestation of the Herpes virus, no experience could be any worse and no memory more remarkable! From Shingles to Simplex, excruciating pain is the hallmark of Herpes. Classification Of Herpes Group Of Viruses Herpes virus is a double stranded DNA
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Hyperprolactinemia Causes, Symptoms And Treatment – Hyperprolactinemia Management Using Dopamine Agonist Drugs This is a disorder that could very well be summed up with the phrase ‘its raining milk’! The Endocrine System The human body has various forms of control. Nerves are physical tissues that control connected structures via electric charge flowing through them. Another
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Role Of Hormone Replacement Therapy Advantages and Side Effects of HRT The menopause or the climacteric is a milestone in every woman’s life. Precious to any lady is her womb that bore her children and gave her periods which defined her womanhood. The value of light is only precious when it is dark. Loss of
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Hypertension And High Blood Pressure Treatment Hypertension or high blood pressure (BP) is an iceberg disease. Only half of those who have it are actually aware of it. Of those that are aware, only half seek or obtain treatment. Of those that obtain treatment, only half are appropriately or adequately treated. What Is Hypertension? There
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Treatment Of Endometrial Hyperplasia – Endometrial Cancer And Progesterone Protection in Endometrial Hyperplasia In the United States, endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic malignancy. Worldwide each year, 142,000 women are diagnosed and 42,000 women die from this disease. The endometrium is the inner lining of the uterus that is cyclically shed and regenerated on
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Respiratory Tract Infections – Uncommon Facts About Common Cold and Common Cold Treatment World over the most common infection is that of the upper respiratory passages . Numerous man-hours are lost to common cold and its related infections. Besides being notorious for its spread, the debility associated with coryza (Common Cold) is akin to dying!
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Causes And Types Of Epilepsy Seizures – Diagnosis And Treatment Of Epilepsy “Writhing away helplessly in jerks of stuprous agony, she bashed her limbs, bit her tongue and expectorated a white froth from the angle of her mouth”. This describes not too uncommon a scene. That dear friends is a fit; medically labeled as a
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Revisiting Remedies for Rheumatoid Arthritis More than 70 million Americans live with arthritis and chronic joint pain.(SEPTIC ARTHRITIS) and crystal arthropathy (GOUT). Among these, Rheumatoid arthritis claims an understanding of its nature. This is not only because of its widely prevalent status but also because of its chronic course that poses grave mobility restrictions and
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Obesity – Causes , Risks and Weight Loss Solutions We are fat not because we suffer from some exotic genetic illness, but because, we choose to be so! Surprised, in the real sense obesity is a state of mind. The faster we accept this fact the thinner we get. The thinner we get – the
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Clinical Depression – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis And Treatment Let’s face it, almost everyone has heard of clinical depression happening to someone we know or love, be they relatives, friends or pop stars we idolize. To many, it would appear as though life’s Boeing jet plane has catastrophically crashed into the psychic landscape. Depression creeps upon
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Allergic Eczema , Dermatitis Symptoms, Causes And Treatment The imbalance between the itch and the scratch leads us into the world of Eczema. Ever heard of people who can’t use a particular wrist watch (WRISTWATCH ALLERGY) because they are allergic to the leather strap or to the chrome/nickel/stainless steel plated ones? Sometimes, we come across
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Male Pattern Hair Loss – Causes and Treatment The tenderest spot of a man can sometimes be his bald head. This hard fact notwithstanding, there is more felicity on the far side of baldness than hairy young men can ever imagine. Why, because women love a self-confident bald man, whose baldness is often likened to
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Causes and Treatment for Erectile Dysfunction (Impotence) Man is full of potential as he is of impotence. The corollary to this hard fact holds true nowadays. For man is no longer limp by his impotence, he’s done something to alleviate it. Defining Impotence It is the male erectile disorder characterized by an inability to either
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Conquering Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) COPD does not imply “Coughing and Puffing Disorder”! It refers to a chronic lung condition whose hallmark is obstructed airways. COPD or Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a disorder in which subsets of patients may have dominant features of chronic bronchitis, emphysema, or asthma. The result is irreversible airflow
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