Category: Health
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Why Do We Need to Make Distinctions Between Smoker’s and Non-smoker’s Lung Cancer?
We all know that people who smoke tend to have lung cancer. However, there’s also a case that people who doesn’t even smoke tend to have lung cancer, too. This is due to what we call sidestream or second-hand smoke in which people inhale the smoke from a cigarette of a smoker. This is the…
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Is Annual Check-up or Preventive Care Really that Necessary?
Even though it’s just an old time saying, doctors still believe the fact that when it comes to health, prevention of illnesses is still a lot better than getting it cured. Preventive care is also the same with health screening, which literally means that preventive measures are being done in order to make sure that…
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Lung Cancer Survival Improvement Tips
We all know that Lung Cancer, just like other cancer types, is a killer. In order for the patient to survive longer, undergoing chemotherapy is a basic necessity. However, due to the fact that radiation also damages healthy cells, there’s a chance that the person who undergoes the said treatment will suffer more than he…
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How to Prevent Yourself from Losing Your Mind Due to Aging
We all know that as we age, we also tend to lose our minds. It’s not that we’re getting crazy of some sort but, we’re experiencing memory loss. Alzheimer’s disease is a form of dementia, as doctors pointed out. Due to the fact that we just can’t stop aging, most people think that having dementia…
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How Eating Reduces Your Risk of Having Dementia
To those who don’t know, dementia is the deterioration of brain activity, therefore resulting to problems such as memory loss. This usually affects people of old age, though it is also known that people ages 40 up also experience this. If you experience bouts of depression along with dementia, one of the most important…
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Quadriceps – Strengthening Exercises: Avoid Knee Pain by Doing These
To those who didn’t know, quadriceps or quads for short are the four muscles that are located in front of our thighs. These muscles contract together to flex and straighten our knees, therefore ensuring our overall leg flexibility. However, injuries can somehow affect this due to the fact that the muscles are weakened once damaged.…
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Infections We Can Get from Improper Use of Contact Lenses
Contact lenses are now becoming very popular nowadays due to the fact that unlike eyeglasses, these things can now become a part of its user’s fashion statement without receiving harsh criticisms. Not only contact lenses are available in various colors; it can also feature various designs such as cat’s eyes, zombie eyes or even eyes…
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Psoriatic Arthritis: Definition, Signs and Symptoms
Psoriatic Arthritis is a form of chronic arthritis that is usually associated or linked with Psoriasis, a kind of skin disease. Unlike rheumatoid arthritis which occurs due to uric acid crystalline formation in the joints, this one is because of inflammation in the joints itself, therefore limiting the patient’s overall mobility and movement, depending on…
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Psoriatic Arthritis: Diagnosis and Testing
Due to the fact that it is mostly misdiagnosed in the past such as osteoarthritis, gout or rheumatoid arthritis, the right treatment for Psoriatic Arthritis is still unknown. However, since medical science is now more advanced than before, the awareness for this kind of arthritis is now being increased. To those who don’t know,…
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Important Things you should Know about Psoriatic Arthritis
Psoriatic Arthritis is classified as one of the conditions that are currently linked to spine arthritis. Psoriatic arthritis must be carefully examined and diagnosed in an early basis in order to apply the right treatment. These are some things that you should definitely know about Psoriatic Arthritis, though: It is also linked with the…