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  • A Delectable Way To A Healthy Heart
    In Maslow's theory of the hierarchy of human needs, food comes as the most basic component in man's survival. Nourishment from foods is unmistakably vital as source of stamina and energy for our day-to-day activities. However, the excessive eating of food can result to more serious cases such as heart ailments.
  • Whooping Cough is Deadly Cough
    Many of us think that cough is but a minute disturbance in our respiratory system. Others think of it as a natural reaction to a virus-infested stimulus. Most of us are guilty in regarding cough as just a minor infraction that does not need any medical treatment at all.
  • Meet Hodgkin's Disease
    Hodgkin's Disease is named after Thomas Hodgkin, who described the disease in 1832. Hodgkin's disease is characterized by the abnormal growth of cancer cells in the lymphatic system. Specifically, the Reed-Sternberg cells are the ones involved in Hodgkin's disease.
  • Colon Concern
    Are you in your 60s or 70s? Are you experiencing some abnormalities in your bowel movements? Is your stool narrow and blood-stained? If your answer to all these questions is yes, you better have yourself checked immediately for there is a very high chance of you developing a colon cancer.
  • A Clearer View Of Things
    How do you expect to go around the city if you can't see properly? What if one day, you find yourself riding the wrong train, arriving in a different location, because you did not have the ability to read the schedule accurately?
  • Men's Breasts Are At Risk Too
    Cancer is a disease caused by an abnormal growth of cells. If the growth is greatly uncontrollable, damages in the health system occur and can even lead to death, if not attended immediately and properly. The process of developing cancer cells can happen in the different parts of the body-- men's breasts included.
  • Dangers of Dengue
    Even the Asia's cleanest city cannot escape deadly mosquito bites. Singapore reached a record high of dengue incidence in 2005, reaching 12,700 and nine deaths. But the cleanliness-obsessed Singaporean government is not taking the matter with no serious efforts. The government has taken the fight against dengue in a higher level by going down the ranks. The battle to curb mosquito bites has been waged on a house-to-house basis with the search-and-destroy campaign.
  • The Tale of TB
    Consumption, wasting disease, white plague, phthisis, scrofula, King's Evil, Pott's disease, Kochs' disease. The names and labels may vary but the referent is but one deadly infectious disease-- tuberculosis.
  • Possible Treatment for Blindness
    Advanced digital technology has made this then dream to become a reality at this point in time. The synthetic vision system from the Dobelle Foundation is now commercially available for $96,000, which is a cheap price for regaining vision and mobility.
  • Care to Know about the Cervix?
    Cancer of the cervix happens when a tumor grows in it. Tumor is a mass of tissues. It is the amalgamation of the unnecessary cells produced in the cervix.
  • Leukemia Lessons
    Leukemia is among the many deadly cancer types. Leukemia is a cancer that affects the blood or the marrow of the bone. This cancer type is characterized by the overproduction of certain blood cells, most common of which is the white blood cells or leukocytes.
  • What's With Hepatitis B?
    Hepatitis B, originally "serum hepatitis," is the infection of Hepatitis B virus (HBV). A member of the Hepadnavirus family, HBV is but one of the very few known non-retroviral viruses. Non-retroviral viruses are the kind that replicates through reverse transcription.
  • Inborn Heart Disease
    There exists no single, universal treatment for inborn heart defects. The kind of treatment needed depends on the particulars of each specific case.
  • Puff it Away
    To decrease deaths and lessen costs and damages from smoking, various measures have been taken by many governments to prevent people from smoking.
  • Brain Matters
    Ever wondered why wearing helmet is a legal requirement for motorcycle riders? Why is it when the rain starts pouring, the first thing we cover is our head and not our feet? Why are head gears necessary for boxing, baseball, taekwondo, American Football, and all extreme sports? Why is it in times of accidents and great dangers, the first thing we would protect is our heads?
  • Never Underestimate Measles
    By late 20s or later, most of us may have already forgotten that time in our childhood when we were forced to absent from school because of measles. I particularly remember missing a stage performance in the drama club's major presentation because of measles infection.
  • There Is Still Hope For Memories
    It's sad when someone you love can't recognize your voice over the phone. Sadder still if they tell you they can't remember you. But if you're talking to someone you love and he turns and looks at you blankly, it's not sad anymore but tragic.
  • Men Too Have A Fear
    Prostate cancer really poses a big threat for all men. The sexual, emotional, and social repercussions of having one is something every man is so wary about.
  • Knowing the Heart's Pace
    Having a pacemaker implant will not make a patient disabled. Normal life can be quickly regained soon after the operation.
  • What You Need to Know About HIV and AIDS
    The ways through which humans can have an HIV infection are the same as the way they can get AIDS. Among the most common modes of transmission are unprotected sexual contact (vaginal, oral, and anal contacts) with an HIV-infected person, blood or blood product route, and pregnant women instances or mother-to-child transmission.
  • A Boxful of Second Chance
    Defibrillation helps revive the heart by sending rapid jolts of energy to shock the heart back into its rhythm. A cardiac arrest victim's chances of survival goes up by 10% with after every minute of its use.
  • Suckers of Life
    Malaria is known to have killed Alexander the Great and his greater plans of expanding his rule that could have united the east and the west.
  • Saving the World's Breasts
    Various sectors of the society recognize the scale and magnitude of deaths and damages caused by breast cancer.
  • In Memory of Memory
    Memories amount more than any inheritance or accumulated wealth through time. A lost memory is like a life that was lived, then was gone meaninglessly.
  • Anti-Cancer: Spice and Everything Nice
    The latest trend in cancer prevention mentions the health benefits of flavonoids.
  • Straight From The Heart
    There are a number of things that you can do to lower your risk from heart disease.
  • Stemming of the Stem Cell
    Scientists and researchers say that by focusing on the yet unspecialized nature of stem cells, specifying mechanisms can be done to turn these stem cells into a particular kind of cell to be used to replace damaged tissues of an organ.
  • The Avian Plight
    Avian influenza or more commonly called as bird flu is an infection caused by avian (bird) influenza (flu) viruses. All birds naturally have these influenza viruses in their bodies. Wild birds have these viruses in their intestines but their bodies do not get infected or damaged by them.
  • A Pressure-Free Heart
    Known as the "silent killer", high blood pressure is the leading cause of heart attacks and heart failures.

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