Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Treatment Hope For Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN)
Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN), also called tic douloureux , is a chronic pain condition that affects the trigeminal nerve. The trigeminal n...
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Cancer Awareness: Spotlight on Prostate Cancer
The month of September represents a few different cancer awareness campaigns: childhood cancer, gynecological cancers, leukemia/lympho...
Chikungunya Virus: What You Should Know
What is it? Chikungunya (think “chicken-goo-nya”) is a virus transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes. Once inside the body, the ...
Essential Tremors: What You Should Know
If you’ve turned on a radio or heard music at any sort of event in the past few months, chances are you’ve heard Taylor Swift’s infectio...
Cholesterol and Health
Cholesterol like oil is insoluble in blood therefore it needs to be carried from one place to another in the body. These carriers are ca...
Thrombosis – What You Need To Know
When a blood vessel is injured, the body uses platelets (also called as thrombo cytes) and fibrin to form a blood clot to prevent blood ...
Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis (Osteo: Bone, porosis: porous) is reduction in bone strength and durability. This condition leads to brittle bones with de...
Legionnaire’s Disease – What You Should Know
Outbreaks of Legionnaire’s disease have surged in New York, Illinois, and in California in the summer of 2015 in the US. The cases in Ne...
Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths. It’s one of the only cancers with a 5-year survival rate in the ...
Diving into Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s is one of the more widely known diseases, thanks in part to active fundraising campaigns, but also because of how common it ...
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