Heart Disease :: Facts about women and cardiovascular diseases
Heart disease affects women of all racial and ethnic groups, as well as women with other illnesses, such as diabetes.
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Alzheimer’s disease :: Smelling test detects Alzheimer’s risk
People who have mild memory problems but who can correctly identify the source of certain smells are probably not in the first stages of Alzheimer’s disease, suggesting that smell tests could offer a new technique for early diagnosis, researchers reported.
Lifestyle :: Surroundings can encourage active Lifestyles
A new $2.8 million effort, partnering public and private funding agencies, will examine how better community design encourages people to be more physically active in their daily lives. Researchers will identify how our built environment contributes to obesity and how environmental changes can combat a growing public health problem.
Arthritis :: Treating with care – rheumatism, arthritis & joint pains
Rheumatism is confessedly a very difficult disease to cure by old school treatment. Seldom is a case of the inflammatory form completely cured by them. The great majority of their cases run from the acute into the chronic form, and last for life. They are often drawn all out of shape (their patients), or left with incurable valvular heart trouble.
Pregnancy :: Survival of the fittest – pregnancy or abortion
Reproduction is one of the basic characteristics of a living organism. By this mode it not only maintains its own harmony but also helps in propagation of its own kind. In mammals, pregnancy is the hallmark of reproduction and in humans in particular a female takes 9 months to let the fetus grow in her womb so that it becomes viable and can live or can endure the circumstances outside the womb, of course still under parents love and care.
Nutrition :: Sports Diet & Physical Fitness
The keys to physical fitness are exercise, motivation, and good nutrition. Optimal nutrition is a basic training component necessary for the development and maintenance of top physical performance. The principles of sound nutrition apply to everyone, but can give the athlete the competitive edge.
Homeopathy :: Homoeopathy and its miracles – an alternative medicine
Homoeopathy (=homeopathy) is an alternative method of treatment, based on the nature?s Law of Cure, namely ?Like Cures Like?. A german scientist Dr. Samuel Hanhnemann in 1796 has been verified experimentally and clinically for 200 yrs discovered the truth of this law. Homoeopathy is the revolutionary, natural medical science. Homoeopathy is a gentle and effective system of medicine. The remedies are prepared from natural substances to precise standards and work by stimulating the body?s own healing power.
Hair Care :: Hairfall, Baldness, Hair loss, Alopecia and Dandruff
Today, in the fast moving world of competition, it has become extremely important to be presentable so as to get noticed or one gets swayed away in the world. As we know beauty is skin deep but an appealing outer persona can give an extra boost to one?s confidence.
HIV :: HIV & AIDS – Naturopathic Physicians
In many countries throughout the world, people are going to naturopathic physicians when faced with a health issue. Unfortunately, where I live in Vancouver, (British Columbia, Canada) the government is planning to cut back the scope of naturopathic medicine by imposing controls on what a naturopathic physician can and cannot do. The B.C. government does not allow naturopathic physicians to have access to medical labs and x-rays or to prescribe medications. The proposed changes include limiting the ability of naturopathic physicians to perform physical exams, diagnose and treat food allergies and place severe restrictions on the medicines ND’s use to treat patients. We must not lose the right of choice and the right to choose!
New edition of WHO prequalification list to include four new anti-AIDS medicines
Four new AIDS medicines are this week being added to the World Health Organization (WHO) prequalification list, thus further increasing access to a choice of quality products. At the same time, product assessment reports on quality and bioequivalence of triple fixed-dose combination (FDCs) antiretrovirals already prequalified will be made public. Manufacturing site inspection findings will soon also be published, which will make the WHO prequalification the most transparent of all similar quality assurance programmes to date.