Hemorrhoids, or piles, are a common problem for men and women. The rectal lining in your anus consists of an orange-ish tissue full of mucus glands that are very similar to the rest of the rectal lining and easily become infected or strained. The very fact of this portion of the digestive tract being exposed [...]
The vast majority of adult men will experience some discomfort, pain, or clinical diagnoses having to do with the prostate. Conditions and diseases of this gland are very often physically painful and discomfiting as well as deeply psychologically taxing. Prostate issues affect men of any age and consequences like infertility and even death have been [...]
Although the disease is typically thought to occur in the feet or toes, gout can occur in any joint in the body. The condition is the result of a buildup of uric acid in the blood stream which crystallizes and accumulates in painful bunches in the joints, tendons, or cartilage. Since it affects the bone [...]
The pre-1960s-style measles outbreak in Wales has been hot in the news media since the beginning of April. The numbers of sick, including some adults, is rising still. Thousands of children have been diagnosed with the generally mild and easily preventable disorder throughout the region, spreading outward from Swansea in south Wales. UK immunization specialist [...]
Kyprolis, generic carfilzomib, is a new treatment specifically approved for multiple myeloma (MM) cancer, but with potential applications to other cancers. It works as a proteasome inhibitor and is the latest medication of that class approved for MM. The Disease MM is a serious cancer that, according to the American Cancer Society, is diagnosed in [...]
Latest research shows how cancer drugs can halt HIV virus. HIV, which leads to AIDS, is one of the most nasty viruses the human race has encountered. Once it establishes an infection, barring a few reported cases, HIV is impossible to eliminate from the body. That said, in the 30 or so years [...]
The placebo effect - one of the more baffling aspects of health and medicine. It is, in essence, when you take a fake treatment and get real benefits. Why getting a pill, for instance, with nothing in it but sugar can often make you feel significantly better, versus getting nothing at all, is a real [...]
It would seem that by now the force of the evidence behind the link between meat consumption and increased risks of colon cancer and early death is great enough to make a vegetarian out of us all. The research goes back decades and decades, and by now involves vastly different populations in huge numbers, including [...]
Nesina, generic alogplitin, is a new medication for Type II diabetes. It is generally meant to be used when the diabetes is not properly controlled, generally by metformin, but has been tested with a variety of medications and by itself alone. It is part of a new generation of diabetes medications that works in a [...]
Health benefits of black coffee Coffee has become a huge part of our early morning ritual that we hardly stop to think what coffee does exactly for the body aside from keeping us up all day. Recent studies show that coffee does more than just keep us perky throughout the day. The anti-oxidants [...]
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