Health : Page 499
August 5, 2009
"God's gift" and "Golden balsam", that's how people call honey since the ancient times. It is a food supplement, a medicine and it is used in cosmetics.
July 29, 2009
Since the ancient times people are aware that blood is the most precious fluid that our body contains.
July 22, 2009
Genital herpes is considered as the most common sexually transmitted disease which affects both sexes.
July 15, 2009
Itching, burning sensation, skin tension around lips, blisters... That is herpes, the infection caused by Herpes simplex virus 1 or shorter HSV-1, one of the two species from the herpes virus family.
July 8, 2009
Rare diseases are characterised by a diversity of symptoms and disorders which vary not only from a one disease to another, but also inside the same disease. The patients who suffer from the same disease can have different clinical pictures.
July 1, 2009
Legionnaires' disease is a severe form of pneumonia caused by a bacterium legionella pneumophila which lives in humid environment, in the cooling towers and big air conditioning systems like those in hospitals, hotels and malls.
June 24, 2009
Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease which occurs when body\'s immune system attacks its own tissues and organs.
June 17, 2009
When you last time looked at your watch to see what the time is? A minute ago, an hour ago? And what the time told you? Did it tell you that it is the time when you think faster and calculate more efficiently?
June 10, 2009
Many people are afraid to see a doctor. Some of them feel too embarrassed, some are afraid of a bad diagnosis, some are aware of their condition, but they choose to live in their own world of denial. Most of them are men.
June 3, 2009
Overdosing with iron is the most frequent cause of accidental poisoning which sometimes may be fatal, especially in young children.
May 27, 2009
Most of the people who have epilepsy can predict the epileptic seizure by specific signs or they just have the precognition that the seizure is coming.
May 20, 2009
Just as headache is a symptom and brain tumour and encephalitis are diseases, that's how the seizure is just a symptom and epilepsy is a disorder.