Most popular Articles

Tonsillectomy

is a surgical procedure done to remove tonsils
Read Full Article»
2752 Views

Drug Allergies

A drug allergy occurs when your immune system overreacts to something in a medicine. This causes an allergic reaction. Although drug allergies can be life-threatening, most of them are mild, and symptoms go away within a few days after you stop using the medicine. Anaphylaxis, which is the most serious reaction. It is life-threatening, and you will need emergency treatment. Symptoms usually appear within 1 hour after you take the medicine and include hives, difficulty breathing, and shock.
Read Full Article»
2750 Views

Cholesterol Management

The triad in the management of high cholesterol is dietary life styles, exercise, and medications. Several diseases and drugs can cause high cholesterol, but for most people, a high-fat diet, obesity, a sedentary lifestyle, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, or inherited risk factors are the main causes.
Read Full Article»
2743 Views

Annual check up for menopausal women

There are various tests which has to be done every year to detect many diseases and identifying them at earlier stage to give treatment and for better prognosis
Read Full Article»
2743 Views

C1 Esterase Inhibitor deficiency

C1INH is also known as C1 esterase inhibitor that normally prevents activation of a cascade of proteins. It is a plasma protein an enzyme. C1INH is a member of the serpin family of proteases like alpha-antitrypsin, antithrombin III, and angiotensinogen. This serpin protease inhibitor inhibits the association of C1r and C1s with C1q to prevent the formation of the C1-complex which leads to activation of other proteins of the complement system.
Read Full Article»
2731 Views

Alcohol Abuse

Social drinking is common, but difference between social drinking and alcohol abuse is when alcohol becomes your focus. Increased dependence on alcohol leads to alcoholism, where the person is physically dependent on alcohol and have lost control of the amount you drink.
Read Full Article»
2727 Views

First aid for motion sickness

Motion sickness also called kinetosis is a condition with characteristic features of dizziness, fatigue and vomiting which occurs due to perceiving of different signals by eye and vestibular system in the ears seen commonly while travelling in vehicles, airplanes and space ships
Read Full Article»
2716 Views

Dog bite in children

Dog bite can cause rabies infection caused by rabies virus. The most common victims of dog bite are children. There is no cure for rabies hence immunization is very important after a dog bite.
Read Full Article»
2715 Views

Osteochondroplasia

Osteochondroplasia?s or osteodyschondroplasia are a group of diseases heterogeneous in nature. In these disorders there is abnormality in the skeletal and cartilages across the body. The abnormality may be in any part of the body and accordingly they are classified into various types. These disorders form a group of more than 200 conditions.
Read Full Article»
2705 Views

What Can Schools do to Prevent the Spread of Swine Flu ?

Swine flu is a viral disease caused by a new type of influenza virus (Novel H1N1) that has symptoms similar to seasonal flu. The severity of illness ranges from very mild symptoms to severe illnesses that can result in death. Schools and teachers can help prevent the spread of swine flu among students, teachers, and other staff by taking some simple preventive health measures.
Read Full Article»
2694 Views

 

« Previous 1 2 .... 55 56 57 .... 130 Next » Go to:
Browse Articles by category