• Risk Factors of a Disease

    Risk Factors of a Disease

    A risk factor is any situation, habit, social or environmental condition, physiological or psychological condition, developmental or intellectual condition, or spiritual or other variable that increases the vulnerability of an individual or group to an illness or accident. The presence of risk factors does not mean that a disease will develop, but risk factors increase the chances that the individual will experience a particular dysfunction. [...]

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  • ILLNESS AND DISEASE

    ILLNESS AND DISEASE

    ILLNESS. Illness is a personal state in which the person feels unhealthy. It is a state in which a person’s physical. Emotional, intellectual, social, developmental, or spiritual functioning is diminished or impaired compared with previous experience. Illness is not synonymous with disease; although nurses must be familiar with different kinds of disease and their treatments, they are concerned more with their illness, which may include disease but also the effects on functioning and well-being in all dimensions. [...]

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  • List of Diet Foods that Even Make You Hungrier

    List of Diet Foods that Even Make You Hungrier

    Most of you are probably cramming when looking and surfing at the web for the best way on how you will pick the right foods for your diet because it seems not effective as times goes by. Do you have the same problem just like everyone else? Is choosing the right food for the best diet your problem? Then you could probably seek some advice from the experts. [...]

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  • Health and Illness

    Health and Illness

    Health is a fundamental right of every human being. It is a state of integration of the body and mind. It is a much sought after state; a highly desirable state for most people and yet at times, it remains elusive for some people. [...]

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  • Air Pollution: Another Factor Tied to Lung Cancer Next to Smoking

    Air Pollution: Another Factor Tied to Lung Cancer Next to Smoking

    We often regard smoking as the main factor which causes Lung Cancer. But even if you are not a smoker and even if you are not exposed to secondhand smoking, you are still most likely to suffer from Lung Cancer due to unbearable air pollution. [...]

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  • Dec
  • 08
  • 2011

New Study: Combined Drugs Increases Breast Cancer Survival

New Study: Combined Drugs Increases Breast Cancer Survival

Breast Cancer is the most common type of cancer which attacks women in the late adulthood stage and as the years go by, the number of victims of breast cancer also continues to grow bigger. But there is already hope presented when another study came out last Wednesday. According to the latest study about how to survive from breast cancer, it was revealed that postmenopausal women with a common type of breast cancer that thrives on estrogen has survived longer when treated with a combination of two drugs rather than just one. [...]

  • Nov
  • 16
  • 2011

Is it Possible to Decode the Aging Process?

Is it Possible to Decode the Aging Process?

A recent study conducted states that medical researchers are trying to decode the aging process. Scientists are said to be starting to decode the most complicated biology of the aging process and they are really positive that the recent advances in research may lead to treatments that can slow or even reverse degeneration and disease. [...]

  • Nov
  • 07
  • 2011

List of Diet Foods that Even Make You Hungrier

List of Diet Foods that Even Make You Hungrier

Most of you are probably cramming when looking and surfing at the web for the best way on how you will pick the right foods for your diet because it seems not effective as times goes by. Do you have the same problem just like everyone else? Is choosing the right food for the best diet your problem? Then you could probably seek some advice from the experts. [...]

  • Oct
  • 31
  • 2011

Air Pollution: Another Factor Tied to Lung Cancer Next to Smoking

Air Pollution: Another Factor Tied to Lung Cancer Next to Smoking

We often regard smoking as the main factor which causes Lung Cancer. But even if you are not a smoker and even if you are not exposed to secondhand smoking, you are still most likely to suffer from Lung Cancer due to unbearable air pollution. [...]

  • Oct
  • 13
  • 2011

How Contact Lenses can Cause Harm to People Wearing It

How Contact Lenses can Cause Harm to People Wearing It

A contact lens, which often comes in pairs, is worn in the eyes as a form of corrective, cosmetic, or therapeutic lens are already being used by many people these days. Usually, they use contact lens not to correct a problem in their eyes but oftentimes as form of getting fashionable by having lovely and fancy good-looking eyes. The lenses are usually placed on the cornea of the eye and you need to know the right technique of placing the contact lenses in your eyes. [...]

  • Sep
  • 12
  • 2011

9/11 Memories Cause Depression Among Other Americans

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9/11 Memories Cause Depression Among Other Americans

About 10 years ago, some of you can possibly still recall how two American passenger planes were hijacked and was used in a terrorist attack last September 11, 2001. Although I was still young during that time, and even though I am not living in the United States, the memories were still fresh. I got worried on my grandaunt and her family during that time because I wondered if they were not affected of the attack. Luckily, they said that they were at home the moment the two planes crashed on the Twin Tower Buildings. [...]

  • Sep
  • 08
  • 2011

Surgical Interventions: The Solution to Weight Loss Problems?

Surgical Interventions: The Solution to Weight Loss Problems?

Tired of all those dieting and exercising but still you end up having the same weight at the end of the day. Then some suggest that you undergo rare surgical interventions for you to trim down your body fats and eventually loss some weight. But is it really advisable? [...]

  • Aug
  • 18
  • 2011

Amoeba in Water Kills its Third Victim

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Amoeba in Water Kills its Third Victim

The health officials say that two children and a young man have already died this summer because of a rare brain infection which is caused by a brain-eating amoeba that lives in water. [...]

  • Aug
  • 16
  • 2011

High-Fiber Diet Decreases Risk for Colon Polyps

High-Fiber Diet Decreases Risk for Colon Polyps

A High-Fiber Diet is usually composed of fruits and vegetables because these are rich in fiber which helps us prevent constipation and helps us in having regular bowel movement. Aside from this fact, it is also important for us to know that eating regular servings of brown rice, legumes, cooked green vegetables and dried fruit could reduce the risk of having colon polyps, a precursor to colon cancer. [...]

  • Aug
  • 12
  • 2011

New Study: Red Meat Increases Risk of Diabetes

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New Study: Red Meat Increases Risk of Diabetes

Diabetes is becoming an increasing disease which affects about more than 350 million people worldwide and about more than 11 percent of adults over age 20 in the United States have the disease. Not just in US, it also affects many people worldwide and if we could just some it up, we could reach billions of people. [...]