Illness Advice

Cancer kills more than 1,500 Americans everyday. But this will change in the next 25 years. “The advances in fighting cancer will be phenomenal,” says Edison Liu,, M.D., director of the division of clinical sciences at the National Cancer Institute. Here are six promising developments that should take the bite out of the Big “C”. […]

Definition: The alternate application of hot and cold fomentation to a local area. Effects: Relieves pain through acceleration of local circulation. Stimulates healing in local injuries with contusions. Relieves muscle stiffness and pain due to trauma and strain. Stimulates healing in wound infections. Indications: Infected wound. Local injuries due to trauma and muscular contusions. Muscle […]

The thing to remember about ocular pain is it can very often signal a major emergency,”  If you have injured an eye, consult an opthalmologist at once. Corneal abrasions are one of the most painful injuries you’ll ever have,”  “If you’ve cut or scratched your cornea, it will hurt less if you keep the eye […]

In one region of northwestern France, the rate of cancer of the esophagus is 18 times higher than in the rest of Europe. In the Netherlands, England, Wales and Denmark, women are more likely to die from breast cancer types than any other country. In Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya, where 300 out of every 100,000 […]

Many times a doctor must give bad news and warnings to patients. Today, many good things have happened in the field of medicine. Before, doctors dreaded facing worried parents with a sick child-maybe the child had tuberculous meningitis;a severe case of ebola hemorrhagic fever; tetanus (lockjaw);a congenital heart problem (secundum atrial septal defect, a serious defect […]

Something hurts – your belly, your head, your knee. A painless lump suddenly appears, or you bleed a little after sex. You’re worried. Is it okay to wait and see if the problem, will go away, or should you call your doctor? As a general rule, you should wait no more than two weeks, says […]

It begins with fatigue and aching bones. Soon the pain in the bones become severe. Extreme muscles weakness sets in. If the condition is left untreated, the patient becomes bedridden, with tiny fractures all through the body. Bones that were once strong, bracing structures like the steel girders of a skyscraper now resemble the ancient […]

What is it? Heavy or abnormal bleeding, also called dysfunctional uterine bleeding, leads to a fifth of all hysterectomies in the United States. What are the symptoms? To some women, it means very heavy periods, others have unpredictable bleeding throughout their cycles. In severe cases, it can lead to anemia. It is sometimes a sign […]