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Medical emergency in heart attacks
Women symptoms vary considerably from men symptoms in heart attacks. If you feel an intense and suffocating pain in the chest for more than 15 minutes and doesn’t stop at nitroglycerin it means that you are having a heart attack. American Heart As...
How was the treatment of tuberculosis discovered?
Tuberculosis is known to exist even before the year 2000BC, and writings from Egypt and Babylon mention it. Even the in the Greek literature there can be found information about phthisis and local doctors considered this disease to be very dangerous...
How to recognize sinus infection?
Sinus infection is generally produced by bacteria. The sinuses are cavities which along with the nose allow the air to pass through and go to the lungs. If these cavities get stuck with mucus which is failed to be taken out of the organism bacteria...
Home pregnancy tests
The every day common home pregnancy test works by recognizing a certain hormone that is only present in the urine of woman; this hormone is called human chorionic gonadotropin and it first appears in the human blood stream when the fertilized egg im...
Hepatitis C symptoms
Hepatitis is the inflammation of your liver, due to different causes. The main reason why you get hepatitis C is because of the infection with the hepatitis virus. Other cases would be medication, alcohol and even some diseases. Hepatitis C is the w...
Gestational diabetes-causes and symptoms
There are known three types of diabetes: type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes. In this affection the glucose can not be used properly by the body and so, energy can not be produced in enough quantities. All this is due to a lack of insulin or a m...
Diagnosing lymphoma
To diagnose a lymphoma case if very difficult because many of the lymphoma symptoms are similar to those of other medical conditions. However, based on the symptoms, you might suspect a lymphoma case and go see a doctor, where you will have a physic...
Chicken pox treatment
There are many thing to deal with when suffering from chicken pox, but the most important and hard is the itching. Chicken pox, also known as in medical terms, varicella consists of a rash all over your body. This rash then soon turns into blisters...
Vaccine against bird flu seems to loose its efficiency on killing the virus
Until now doctors have been using the Tamiflu vaccine for treating the cases of human bird flu. The vaccine proved its efficiency but now it seems that the virus is getting resistant to it. This was the conclusion of researchers of Oxford University...