Preventative medical tricks
There are many things that people can do to keep themselves healthy and it does not even mean just eating healthy or getting the right amount of exercise there are many other simple day to day practices that can be done in order to get and stay healthy.
Here are few ideas:
Laugh
Get Sunshine
Drink Water
Sleep
Give Hugs
Cut back [...]
Classical music helps pregnancy
Mums to be could feel less stressed about their pregnancies if they listened to sounds of nature and classical music according to a recent study. The music must have a tempo of around sixty to eighty beats per minute, which is similar to that of the human heart.
Professor Chung-Hey Chen from the Kaohsiung Medical University [...]
What the pharmacy does not say
These days it is sometimes preferable to visit one of the pharmacists in your area instead of taking time out to visit the local GP. This is because these days they do offer their customers a fuller services, which is come cases could save the time and effort of visiting the GP then going to [...]
September 29, 2008Woman who is blind for three days
A mystery illness has struck an Australian woman, for three days of a week her eyes are completely fixed shut and then for no apparent reason are open again for another three days; this condition has got medical staff baffled.
However, this is not something that has recently occurred, Natalie Adler aged 21 has had to [...]
Man dies in drugs trial
Being diagnosed with testicular cancer is blow for any man, however the chances of surviving the disease are getting better all of the time. Nevertheless, when Gary Foster aged 27 was told that he had the disease with a sixty per cent chance of survival; he wanted to get all the help that he could.
The [...]
Laugh then collapse
There is a rare condition known as cataplexy, where if the patient experiences any sudden or strong emotions, such as laughing can quite simply collapse. This is can be very embarrassing as well a dangerous and is connected with the sleeping disease narcolepsy, where the patient can suddenly and without any warning fall asleep.
There are [...]
The human brain changes
A damaged brain can be caused by many things, but mainly an illness or accident would be the main cause for some sort of brain damage, which means that some people are finding that things they used to take for granted not being there anymore.
These functions can be anything, which is why it can be [...]
Why do Americans suffer from fattigue?
In the US there is growing as to why the waste lines of a large proportion of the public are expanding.
The reason why people put weight on is that they are consuming more calories than they are using up through activity. Whatever the reasons, this is going to have long-term effects on the health [...]
Beating depression the natural way
Depression can be one of the things that effects many people, and can strike at any time it is not like people get depressed because of their circumstances although that does not help, this is something that can happen to anyone at anytime.
But instead of taking the first thing that the doctor hands out, you [...]
The hazards of working in IT
Working within the IT industry is not the sort of place that you would expect to find work based health issues. But unfortunately for the people who do work within this industry there are plenty of health hazards to watch out for.
A slug’s life
SIT happens
So many headaches
The bobblehead syndrome
Hurting hands
Relax harder!
Noxious invaders
Eye strain
Heavy lifting
Something in [...]
Research finds clues to Alzheimer’s
For a long the affects of Alzheimer’s disease have been known, this is due to the increase amount of publicity that charities and other organisations are doing to highlight these problems. This allows many people to spot the early signs of the illness.
But the actual causes have not been so publicly known, probably because there [...]
What happens to our brains in space?
Work being carried out by neuroscientist and physician, Andy Newberg in the new science of space medicine has shown that the few people that have actually gone into space often feel a sensation which has been named the overview effect.
This effect is not an illness or even something bad, it is in fact a feeling [...]
Migraines stopped with Brain therapy
Migraine can be a very debilitating problem for many people; in fact it is the most common neurological disorder in the western world today and actually affects around fifteen per cent of the population in the UK.
A research team from the Ohio State University recently found that by hitting the brain with a specific magnetic [...]
Men like to have Botox
Men of certain age, which would be around forty to fifty, are becoming more and more interested in cosmetic surgery. This type of medical treatment used to be the domain of wealthy actresses, but these days prices and availability have brought this into virtually everyone’s reach.
However you would have thought that it was women who [...]
Teenagers visit the doctor at Second Life
This is an interesting idea stated up by the Spanish Health Authorities, they have created a virtual portal where it is believed that teenagers can go to speak to someone about health matters of which they would find too embarrassing to speak about with their regular doctor or even parents.
The system will use real doctors [...]
Acupuncture gets its point across
The use of medicines is at an all time high in the UK, which is why there is an increased interest in alternative therapies such as acupuncture, these ancient medical treatments can do a lot for many conditions, once the patient has got over the fear of needles.
In Northern Ireland there has been an initiative [...]
More Doctors taking up alternative treatments
When we talk of alternative treatments, many of us think of herbs, flowers and other things that are given to someone who does not want to take a conventional medicine that has been given to you from the pharmacy.
But this alternative treatment is to do with anti aging, and in the states there are many [...]
Keeping your teeth white
Due to the amount of products and advertising that we can see around regarding products that keep your teeth nice and white, we can assume that this is one the major requirement for people keen to look good.
But with all of these products being at the top end of the scale when it come to [...]
Death risk from vitamins
Millions of people every day take some sort of vitamin, mineral or both and without a doubt every single one of them believes that these capsules or tablets are actually doing them good and why not? After all it is what they have been told over a long period of time.
But it seems that there [...]
A good excuse for not donating blood
Giving blood is great thing, it saves lives and there no getting away with that. But despite all of the good intentions some people are unable to give blood. So if you are one of those people who is being pressured into donating, but would really like a great excuse for not giving a pint, [...]