Health : Page 496
April 21, 2010
Heavy headache, pain in muscles, high temperature. Are those symptoms of a common flu? Yes, they could be. But they are also early symptoms of Variola, Ebola, Anthrax and Q fever. Just to be aware of.
April 14, 2010
We have vaccines for many viral diseases and we have survived big pandemics, but it's just a matter of time when a new, faster and deadlier virus will come to the daylight.
April 7, 2010
The Mediterranean anaemia is an inherited blood disorder with a consequence of less haemoglobin and smaller number of red blood cells than normal.
March 31, 2010
Viral encephalitis is a viral disease which attacks mostly children under one year and adults older than 55 years. Although relatively rare, encephalitis can cause life-threatening complications.
March 24, 2010
A normal heart beat rhythm is different for every person but it should stay between 60 and 80 beats per minutes or we have a problem. When your doctor diagnoses arrhythmia that means that you have abnormal heart rhythm.
March 17, 2010
There are group of drugs that affect peripheral and central nervous system reducing the safety management of vehicles and machinery.
March 10, 2010
Some prescribed drugs or those that can be bought without a prescription can affect the human mind and behaviour and therefore they have a certain impact on our ability to drive.
March 3, 2010
The second medical opinion is a professional unbiased second opinion given if the patient is not for some reason satisfied with his diagnosis or the way he was treated before.
February 24, 2010
Since 20 to 30 percent of adults will develop varicose veins later in life, new techniques are developed continuously and one very promising just hit the hospitals around the world.
February 17, 2010
In the mid-19th century Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, a doctor at Vienna obstetric clinic, connected high mortality of women after giving birth with microbes. The cause was simple: dirty hands.
February 10, 2010
What Orlando Bloom, Salma Hayek, Erin Brockovich and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden have in common? Two things: they are planetary popular and they all are dyslexic.
February 3, 2010
Diaper rash is very common in newborn babies, there's almost no baby who didn't get it even when the parents are the most hygienic people around. Although it raises many concerns, especially in parents with their first baby, in the most cases it will disappear after a few days.