Health : Page 495
July 14, 2010
Broken bones are among the most common orthopaedic problems, tens of millions of patients come to the doctor each year. If you live in a developed country you can expect two fractures in your lifetime.
July 7, 2010
Trench mouth is a painful type of gum swelling. It occurs when there are too many mouth bacteria in which case they cause gum infection.
June 30, 2010
For many people the first few weeks after cancer diagnosis are very difficult. They feel denial, anger, fear, depression and loneliness, and all those feelings are normal. Here are some advices how to overcome the diagnosis that isn\'t death sentence, but at first it certainly sounds devastating.
June 23, 2010
Pneumonia is a lung inflammation usually caused by infection when the air sacs in the lungs fill with liquid or pus which interferes with the lungs' ability to transfer oxygen to the blood.
June 16, 2010
Knowing whether meningitis is caused by a virus or bacteria is important because the severity of the disease and the treatment differs depending on the cause.
June 9, 2010
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare but unfortunately deadly brain disorder which usually appears after 60 years of age and progresses rapidly.
June 2, 2010
There are conditions that start like a common cold and there are many conditions that have cold-like symptoms. So, when to see the doctor?
May 26, 2010
If you want to lose weight or you are extremely overweight, the intra-gastric balloon may be the answer.
May 19, 2010
So, you decided to move that heavy old table all by yourself and you suddenly experienced a pain in the abdomen? Maybe you got hernia and it's time to see the doctor immediately.
May 12, 2010
Tetanus is a very dangerous disease which occurs when microbe Clostridium tetani enters the body through damaged skin where it produces a poison tetanus toxin.
May 5, 2010
We all get chromosomes and genes from our parents and in most cases, due to complexity of genetic procedures in our body, an error may occur.
April 28, 2010
Vocal cord paralysis, the inability to move the muscles that control the vocal cords, may be a sign of a serious disease and it can be life-threatening.