Doctors should measure more than your weight at appointments. They should measure your waist. For years, scientists have observed that an apple-shaped figure or a big beer belly is a health risk. But now they have gained more insight into why this is so.
The anticoagulant warfarin, administered in small doses and over an extended period, appears to be very effective in reducing the risk of blood clots, US researchers have announced.
For years, doctors have reassured epilepsy patients that seizures are relatively benign. While a fall during a seizure may cause injury, the surge of electricity in the brain does no actual damage, patients were told.
Homoeopathy meets successfully ever growing new challenges of diseases of newborn, infant and child.
Men who don’t shave every day enjoy less sex and are 70 per cent more likely to suffer a stroke than daily shavers, a study shows.
Fresh evidence adds to suspicions that ibuprofen could be dangerous for most heart patients because it can block the blood-thinning benefits of aspirin.
Fundamental Concepts:
– Doctrine of complete symptom & concomittant
– Doctrine of pathological general
– Doctrine of causation and time
– Clinical rubrics
– Evaluation of remedies
– Fever totality
– Concordances
A Woman who has been taking a prescription for her high blood pressure was advised by a friend to see an herbalist, who sold her a bag full of remedies. Now, the woman admits, she knows almost nothing about those remedies. Nor has she told her doctor about them.
The American Heart Association has warned that cold weather can be dangerous for heart patients because such people are more prone to hypothermia, a condition where the body temperature falls below normal.
Baby girls who are big at birth may be more likely to develop breast cancer before they reach the menopause, but less likely to develop heart disease, research suggests.