Technology has at last found a way to help migraine patients get relief from excruciating headaches. An electric device implanted into the patient’s forehead is seen to control the pain to a large extent.
It is getting close to allergy season again, and to most allergy sufferers freedom from this dread condition is literally nothing to sneeze at. This freedom, however, is a distant dream for many allergy sufferers. Allergies can be imprisoning.
Back pain is a symptom that can arise from many causes. It can range from a dull ache to shooting pain. A sedentary lifestyle makes you more vulnerable, as does obesity.
Blasts of ultrasound have successfully destroyed cancer cells in mice, without drugs, surgery or radiation during an experiment in UK.
LASIK is a surgical procedure intended to reduce a person’s dependency on glasses or contact lenses. LASIK stands for Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis and is a procedure that permanently changes the shape of the cornea, the clear covering of the front of the eye, using an excimer laser.
The leech was indispensable in 19th Century medicine for bloodletting, a practice believed to be a cure for anything from headaches to gout. Leeching was largely abandoned as medical science advanced. Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, who first condemned the method of using leeches in treating the patients.