A Better Way to Determine Obesity
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It's the most widely used diagnostic indicator to identify a person's optimal weight depending on his height.
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Combat Yeast Infections Naturally
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Boric acid is probably the most famous natural treatment for a yeast infection. It's the one to which your grandmother turned, and for good reason.
Read MoreStaging the disease of prostate cancer
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Staging of prostate cancer gives the doctor the information he needs to know on how big the tumor is, whether it has spread or not and if it has spread, where has the cancer gone to.
Read MoreThe fastest growing cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. is liver cancer
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Liver cancer is now the fifth-leading cause of cancer death in men and the eighth-leading cause of cancer death in women. Only one in five patients survives five years after a diagnosis.
Read MoreHack Your Wrinkles
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Grow an aloe vera plant in your home and take advantage of one of Nature's best skin healers. The gel found inside the plant's leaves has been used to soothe sunburn and repair damaged and dry skin for centuries.
Read MoreBMI, type 2 diabetes associated with an increased risk of kidney stones
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Correlation between the higher a person’s BMI is, the higher the amount of the excretion of urinary oxalate.
Read MoreUse of androgen deprivation therapy not associated with Alzheimer’s disease
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A study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology is negating previous studies that suggested a possible link between use of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). This study included almost 31,000 men whose prostate cancer had not spread but were using (ADT).
Read MorePeyronie’s disease – when a man’s penis curves
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There is probably no other part of the male anatomy that men scrutinize the most than their penis. If it is not perfectly straight when erect, a man may wonder is this normal or not. To set the record, uh, straight, a slight curve or tendency to lean to the left or right when erect is considered normal. But, if the penis has a significant bend that is more noticeable, then it could be a condition called Peyronie’s disease.
Read MoreBlocking the Spread of Ovarian Cancer
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Ovarian cancer is the fifth most lethal cancer among American women, and it accounts for more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive system. Fortunately, scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago are hard at work evening those odds, and they have just made a breakthrough.
Read MoreUnderstanding Endometriosis
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More than just a painful woman's disease – and it certainly is that! – endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women of reproductive age and raises the level of depression of the chronically afflicted by 15 to 20 percent.
Read MoreChlamydia and Blindness
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About 6 to 9 million people worldwide are currently blind and many more have suffered partial loss of vision from the disease.
Read MoreMycoplasma Genitalium- The Old/New STD
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A bacterium that can live in the urinary and genital tracts of humans and cause inflammation of the urinary tract in men and women.
Read MoreAmerican Heart Month: Coronary Artery Disease
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The decreased blood flow eventually causes signs and symptoms such as chest pain or shortness of breath.
Read MoreWhat you need to know about chronic pancreatitis
/Pancreatic pain is pain in the upper left abdomen which radiates into your back. This pain may get worse when you are eating, especially when eating foods with high amounts of fat.
Read MoreDiabetes can cause certain urologic problems
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Diabetes can cause certain urologic problems involving the bladder and urinary tract infections.
Read MoreLearning about Schizophrenia
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Schizophrenia is a group of severe brain disorders in which people interpret reality abnormally. Schizophrenia can cause a combination of hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking and behavior.
Read MoreMost common causes of why your blood sugar levels change
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Most common causes of why your blood sugar levels change
Read MoreHas Gonorrhea Developed Resistance to Antibiotics?
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We’ve all been treated by antibiotics for one thing or another, but what antibiotics no longer worked as an effective cure? This is currently the future we face with one of the most prominent sexually transmitted diseases, gonorrhea.
Read MoreWhat is Raynaud's Disease
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Raynaud’s disease is a condition that causes some areas of your body to feel numb and cool in response to cold temperatures or stress. This is caused by narrowing of the small arteries that supply blood to your skin, limiting blood circulation. When exposed to cold temperature the blood supply is markedly reduced and the skin turns pale or white and becomes cold and numb. When the oxygen supply is depleted, the skin color turns blue, something that is known as cyanosis.
Read MoreWill HIV Treatment end the AIDS pandemic?
/According to the World Health Organization, all those diagnosed as HIV positive need access to antiretroviral AIDS drugs, to keep the HIV virus from progressing and becoming AIDS. The antiretroviral drugs halt the virus and allow those diagnosed with HIV to continue to lead relatively healthy lives. UNAIDS hopes to end the threat of AIDS pandemic by 2030, and has put a five-year, fast-track plan together making HIV treatment more available to those diagnosed, quicker. Thus far, their fast track plan has shown results, and we are hopeful it will mean less death by AIDS globally.
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