Alcohol or drug abuse affects 25 million Americans; only four million get treatment The need in this country for increased insurance coverage for alcohol and drug addiction treatment is indisputable. Drug rehab and drug detox have little or no recognition among health insurers, yet drug addiction is a major cause of ruined lives, family violence,…
DetailsThere are times when we feel extremely tired. Our cold does not seem to go away. The medication we are taking for our common cold is not working. Our sense of taste and smell has gone awry. The whole world seems to go wrong. These are some the chronic sinus infection symptoms. Every year, people…
DetailsIt’s important to start healthy eating early. If you leave the mission of getting your kids to eat healthy food too late, it will be more difficult to change the habits they’ve learned. On the other hand, if you’ve always insisted that you have healthy eating kids in your household, then you’ll find the task…
DetailsThere has been a lot of fuss on weight loss and other health issues, mostly concerning many factors that can help people achieve their desired weight the healthiest way. Ever since people have wanted to lose weight without the added side effects, many alternatives popped out over the Internet, on TV, the magazines, and all…
DetailsA crisis can occur at any given time and it can involve anyone and there is always need to respond as fast as possible to the emergency at hand. Situations requiring first aid can be anything from choking, drowning, heart attacks and even electrocutions all of which are life threatening. You may also be faced…
DetailsTinnitus is a common ear problem. It is stated that when the hearing nerve inside the ear is damaged it can cause tinnitus. This is considered to be one of the most common causes of tinnitus. But this occurs only at the time of aging and not all people are affected with this. Therefore, those…
DetailsAnabolic steroids – the kind used by athletes all over the world to help build lean muscle mass – are so easily available and their side effects so deadly that they have become a widespread threat to health. Their proven addictive properties only add to the argument that legal controls should be more stringent. And…
DetailsAs human beings, we have learned to think of everything in terms of extremes. Every beginning has an end, and every good deed can be opposed with a bad one. Likewise, many of us will equate details of our lives to determine our mood. We develop patterns and if a few things in our lives…
DetailsHuman Flu or Influenza sounds too common to alarm anyone, but if it is BIRD FLU, the situation becomes appalling from virtue of the fact that the virus is highly fatal for humans and it mutates over time into various forms thereby, making vaccination and treatment difficult. Hence only hope lies in preparation for it…
DetailsAlthough the world is turning digital all around us there are some things that cannot really be replaced by a digital counterpart and the trophy retail business is an example of one such business. Trophies for sporting, academic and business excellence are a traditional constant in western society and they continue to be used just…
DetailsHigh blood pressure is real and very damaging. Doctors refer to it as the silent killer. I will tell you in this article what are the effects does hypertension have on your body. Having blood pressure is like connecting a normal garden hose to a fire hydrant. There is extreme pressure placed on the walls…
DetailsHigh cholesterol level or hypercholesterolemia is a condition where levels of cholesterol in the bloodstream are higher that normal. Individuals are strongly advised to maintain less than 200 mg of cholesterol for every deciliter of blood. Anything higher than 240 mg/dL of blood is considered hypercholesterolemia and this increases the risk of developing plaques that…
DetailsHypertension is the medical term used to describe high blood pressure. Blood pressure is a measurement of the force against the walls of your arteries as the heart pumps blood through the body. Blood pressure readings are given as two numbers, 120 over 80 (written as 120/80). The top number is your systolic pressure. It…
DetailsErythema Nodosum is a type of skin inflammation that is located in a certain part of fatty layer of skin. It results in reddish, painful, tender lumps most commonly located in the front of the legs below the knees. This condition is usually self-limiting and resolves on its own in 3 to 6 weeks. However,…
DetailsIf someone is brain-washed into believing in something that opposes human-rights or turns them into a clone of bad thinking is this a mental illness? It seems that some Americans are behaving in this manner with the cry from trump’s campaign of ‘make America Great again’. The riots in Charlottesville today certainly gave that impression…
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