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Health » Medicine | By Gregory Smyth @ Saturday, 22nd November 2008 @ 6:34 AM

There is an incredible number of people that die worldwide from ischemic heart disease and other cardiovascular diseases. The fact that most people in the world have plenty to eat is actually contributing to our mortality, not reducing it. It is well known that to prevent the need for cardiac surgery, stay out of hospital heart centers and avoid cardiac treatment, a healthy lifestyle with fresh food and plenty of exercise is needed. However, a leading Bangkok heart center providing cardi... more...

Health » Medicine | By Gregory Smyth @ Thursday, 20th November 2008 @ 11:35 AM

Cancer treatment methods have been forging ahead in recent years, with billions of dollars now devoted to searching for a cure for cancer worldwide. One in three women, and one in two men in some countries will develop cancer over the course of their life, with heart cancer, breast cancer and prostate cancer the most common. Child cancer is on the increase also, and all would agree that it is infinitely preferable to learn how to prevent cancer, than to constantly be treating it. One pos... more...

Health » Medicine | By Ann Knapp @ Tuesday, 18th November 2008 @ 1:57 AM

Many of the malpractice suites against doctors and nurses have to do with medication errors. Prescribing is the first point in the drug administration process at which drug error can arise. Hospitals invest millions of dollars in training nurses and doctors to help prevent sentinel events from occurring. In looking at how medication errors arise, it is first necessary to look at the steps that are followed to prescribe a medication. If these steps are not followed, then an error in p... more...

Health » Medicine | By Gregory Smyth @ Monday, 17th November 2008 @ 4:11 PM

If you have never felt confused while talking to a doctor, you are probably in the small minority of the population with medical training yourself! Doctors and surgeons at cosmetic hospitals, performing facial cosmetic surgery, cosmetic laser surgery and other corrective procedures have usually had over a decade of training. In this time they can sometimes forget that not all of the terms they know are common knowledge to everybody. If you are considering having cosmetic surgery,... more...

Health » Medicine | By Dane Fletcher @ Monday, 17th November 2008 @ 3:07 AM

Bodybuilding steroids are class III scheduled drugs. These steroids cannot be accessed from your regular registered medical practitioners as they are bound by law to the effect that it is illegal for them to prescribe them. The only way to access bodybuilding steroids is from the streets or via the Internet. There are two types of bodybuilding steroids; veterinary steroids and human steroids. A number of steroid enthusiasts use both types. The effect of both types of steroids on muscle developme... more...

Health » Medicine | By Ann Knapp @ Sunday, 2nd November 2008 @ 10:02 AM

Patients are often prescribed medications for different diagnoses that they may have. Having multiple diagnoses and or aliments is not uncommon. However, in this day and age of specialization, patients are required to see a different doctor for each diagnosis. This is not only time consuming for the patient, it is also very expensive. Most specialists charge more than general practitioners. Each doctor will prescribe medication for the patient based on that one diagnosis. If there... more...

Health » Medicine | By Bart Icles @ Sunday, 2nd November 2008 @ 7:09 AM

Many women question the use of home remedies or antibiotics as treatment options for bacterial vaginosis. This article will discuss the use of antibiotics in more detail. Most often antibiotics will be prescribed by a doctor for treatment of BV. The most common antibiotic is known as Metronidazole. This antibiotic can be taken either orally by a pill or it can be applied as a vaginal gel. Both are proven to be effective treatments. There is also a vaginal cream available that uses the ant... more...

Health » Medicine | By Todd Lange @ Friday, 31st October 2008 @ 9:08 AM

There are various kinds of specialized programs for drug addiction treatment in Pennsylvania and one of them is the senior drug rehabilitation program. As the name suggests, this program is targeted solely to people who are above 65 years of age. These people, who are classified as seniors, definitely have many more problems than younger people who are looking for options on treatment. The following is a list of problems that are usually found among the seniors in Pennsylvania who are into an ad... more...

Health » Medicine | By Jeff Martin @ Thursday, 30th October 2008 @ 10:16 PM

Surgery for acid reflux is a process of medical intervention designed to calm acid reflux symptoms and is also suggested by doctors as an extreme solution in the case of severe acid reflux. Under usual circumstances, acid reflux surgery is rarely done. It is recommended for the most part to those acid reflux patients whose condition no longer responds to medication or changes in lifestyle. Conventional wisdom is a strong supporter of the surgical approach because acid reflux is perceived ... more...

Health » Medicine | By Todd Lange @ Wednesday, 29th October 2008 @ 5:57 PM

If you have been looking for options on addiction treatment in South Dakota, you will certainly have found out that there is a very great measure of holistic addiction treatment program there. You will also find that these methods are becoming quite popular because an increasing number of people are joining into such programs with each passing year. If this has increased your curiosity about such programs, you might want to read this article to know more. What are the Methods of Holistic ... more...

Health » Medicine | By Todd Lange @ Wednesday, 29th October 2008 @ 7:27 AM

Looking for an option for heroin addiction treatment in Illinois is quite unlike looking for general drug addiction treatment. Heroin is one of the most addictive drugs known to us and it acts in ways that are quite different from other substances too. As soon as the drug is introduced into the body, it will trigger at particular areas of the brain and will create a craving for itself. It will make the brain release certain pleasure producing hormones. Once the brain begins producing these hormo... more...

Health » Medicine | By Todd Lange @ Wednesday, 29th October 2008 @ 6:56 AM

Planning a treatment program for a patient who is with an addiction is one thing; getting the person into the addiction treatment program is quite another. Almost every patient who is with an addiction passes through a phase known as the denial. This is the phase where the person does not wish to accept that there is a problem with them. Even though they feel miserable about being in an addiction, they don't see their habit itself as a problem. They might perceive a factor that causes them ... more...

Health » Medicine | By Todd Lange @ Wednesday, 29th October 2008 @ 5:54 AM

Heroin addiction treatment in Oklahoma is one of the strongest forms of dependency treatments in the state and not without reason. Heroin is an opioid and all opioids are known for their very strong withdrawal during their treatment programs. The treatment center will need to do all it can in order to mitigate these withdrawal effects which will not only be very painful to the patient but will also mean an absolutely harrowing time for the treatment providers and the families of the patients. more...

Health » Medicine | By Sarah Pauer @ Tuesday, 28th October 2008 @ 10:43 AM

You thought you could get away with just choosing a plastic surgeon that seems competent enough, did you? Well that's not all what's going to happen before you're actually under the knife! One of the more important steps is your first consultation with the surgeon you have chosen. This is where you will agree on exactly what procedure is to be performed and to what extent. Your physical and mental status will also be evaluated, so be sure to prepare yourself and think it through. ... more...

Health » Medicine | By Abigail Aaronson @ Sunday, 26th October 2008 @ 11:38 PM

Have you been wishing you could get rid of your drooping eyelids? Or have you always wanted to eradicate those large bags under your eyes? Amazing advances in medical technology over the past few decades have made it possible for you to fulfill these cosmetic dreams. With the aid of an eyelid lift, technically known as blepharoplasty, you can have younger, more alert looking eyes. This surgery can correct several problem issues around the eyes. In addition to lifting droopy eyelids and re... more...

Health » Medicine | By Sarah Pauer @ Sunday, 26th October 2008 @ 11:55 AM

Options. There are several surgical methods out there to perform phalloplasty and penile enhancement. There's even a recent breakthrough involving laser tools to improve male cosmetic surgery results. But what are the risks? And what result can you expect? Here's the story - dig in! So how much length could really be gained from penile length enhancement through phalloplasty? Well this depends on the anatomy of the patient, but most procedures yield changes of about one to two i... more...

Health » Medicine | By Sarah Pauer @ Saturday, 25th October 2008 @ 4:35 PM

Normal. This is almost a paradox when talking about the male reproduction organ. It shows such a tremendous variation in size as well as length. Apart for these measures most penises aren't alike anyway; we talk about different curvature, upwards pointing, color and much more. But if you want figures, most men measure in at between 3.5 to 8 inches. For most size really does not matter that much, but if you are at the lower end of the scale there are male cosmetic procedures available, often... more...

Health » Medicine | By Jeremy Ranson @ Monday, 20th October 2008 @ 12:26 PM

As medical technology is progressing, the procedures are safer and more precise. But there are still some factors that can't be controlled and are creating a risk in plastic surgery procedures. Some of them can be caused by surgeons mistake or some unpredictable reactions of body. We should not forget that human body is very complicated and not without flaws, and because of that there will always be a chance for bad plastic surgery to happen. So what can you to the be prepared to dan... more...

Health » Medicine | By Dane Fletcher @ Monday, 20th October 2008 @ 10:06 AM

Both muscular metabolism and growth are regulated by the hormone-steroid binding chemical mechanism. Steroids are basically derivatives of the natural hormone testosterone. As such they (both the catabolic and anabolic steroids) will also adhere to this chemical mechanism. This involves attaching themselves to a cell membrane receptor. Upon their attachment to the cell membrane a receptor complex is activated which triggers the allowed entry of the hormone into the nucleus. The hormone can then ... more...

Health » Medicine | By Sayid Aksa @ Friday, 17th October 2008 @ 9:43 AM

Family medicine is a medical specialty concerned with providing continuing and comprehensive primary health care for parents and their child. It involves a very large field of medicine that is still relatively a new specialty under medicine in general. As enshrined in the goals of WHO making it a major field of medicine, "essential health care made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community by means acceptable to them, through their full participation and at a cost t... more...