• 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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New Study: Combined Drugs Increases Breast Cancer Survival

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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. [...]

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