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Knee Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic disease of the immune system. It affects multiple joints in the upper and well as the lower limbs. Knees are one of the common joints affected by RA. RA can occur at any age and can affect both knees.

11 Mar 2013

Promoting Sounder Sleep in Older Adults

Sleep is vital for overall health. Poor sleep can cause daytime sleepiness, fatigue, and mood deterioration and has implications for poor health outcomes. Getting six or fewer hours each night may also provoke increased appetite leading to risk of weight gain and, in the longer term, the risk of developing diabetes and cardiovascular conditions.

5 Mar 2013

Types of Sleep Disorders

Sleep plays an essential part in maintaining health. There are several disorders and disturbances that affect the duration and depth of sleep. In adequate sleep or over sleep can cause numerous behavioral and cognitive problems.

5 Mar 2013

What is Sleep?

Sleep is a physiological behavior that is common in all animal species. It forms around one third of a human life. It is not known clearly the exact functions of sleep but it seems to be essential for survival as prolonged sleep deprivation leads to severe physical impairment followed by cognitive loss and eventually death.

5 Mar 2013

Diarrhea Prevention

Diarrhea when caused by infections can be prevented. Some of the steps to prevent the spread of the infections that may cause diarrhea include

28 Feb 2013

Diarrhea Symptoms

Diarrhea means passing loose and watery stools. The severity of the condition may vary between slightly watery faeces along with an upset stomach that stays for a day or two or extremely watery faeces along with severe abdominal pains.

28 Feb 2013

Diarrhea Causes

Diarrhea is usually caused when the fluids within the intestines are not reabsorbed by the gut walls. This leads to loose, watery stools. Watery stools may also result from excessive water secretion from the intestines into the lumen or bowel.

28 Feb 2013

Hepatitis C treatment: no benefits and possible harm

Patients with hepatitis C have two concerns. The first concern relates to how likely it is that he or she will develop end-stage liver disease, namely either symptoms of cirrhosis that will incapacitate them, lead to the need for a liver transplantation, or even death, or primary liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma).

13 Feb 2013

Rheumatoid Factor Test

Rheumatoid factor (RF) is an antibody present in blood. The rheumatoid factor test checks for the presence of this antibody.

12 Feb 2013

Rheumatoid Arthritis Symptoms

Symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis may be characteristic of the disease or may be generalized mimicking other types of arthritis like osteoarthritis, gout etc. The onset and development of symptoms is usually in a slow and progressive manner.

12 Feb 2013

Rheumatoid Arthritis Support

Support groups have been formed for people living with chronic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. There is sufficient evidence that arthritis support groups can provide multiple benefits...

12 Feb 2013

Rheumatoid Arthritis Management

As rheumatoid arthritis affects not only physically but also emotionally and socially, therapy should be aimed at management of every aspect of the disease and not merely pain and deformity. It is to be remembered that rheumatoid arthritis has no absolute cure.

12 Feb 2013

Rheumatoid Arthritis Diet and Nutrition

Diet is an important measure in the management of rheumatoid arthritis patients. Some of the diet and nutrition related concerns and factors affecting patients with this condition include:-

12 Feb 2013

Rheumatoid Arthritis Complications

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a crippling disease associated with several complications and comorbidities or associated diseases.

12 Feb 2013

What is hyperemesis gravidarum (severe morning sickness)?

Hyperemesis gravidarum is a severe form of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy. (1) In fact, the words ‘hyperemesis’ (pronounced ‘hye-pur-em-ee-sis’) and ‘gravidarum’ (pronounced ‘gra-vid-ah-room’) literally translate to ‘excessive vomiting’ ‘during pregnancy’. (10)

20 Dec 2012

Heart attack and cardiac arrest difference

People often think that a heart attack is the same thing as a cardiac arrest. This, however, is not true. In order to understand the difference between a heart attack and a cardiac arrest, it is first necessary to understand what happens in both of these processes.

27 Nov 2012

Treatment of male breast cancer

Male breast cancer in most cases is diagnosed in advanced stages or beyond stages 2 and 3. Treatment is based on the stage of the cancer and the grade of the tumor. High grade tumors are more aggressive and spread more rapidly than low grade tumors that grow more slowly.

8 Nov 2012

Diagnosis of male breast cancer

Patients with symptoms of male breast cancer need to be thoroughly evaluated for presence of breast cancer especially if they are over 60 and have the known risk factors.

8 Nov 2012

Symptoms of male breast cancer

The male breast is structurally and functionally different from female breast due to the hormones that guide its growth and maturity.

8 Nov 2012

Causes of male breast cancer

Normal cells have a tightly regulated system that guides when they would grow, reproduce and eventually die. Cancer occurs in normal cells when this regulation fails and cells grow uncontrollably. There are defects in the coding information in cells, which is present in the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) that is found in the nucleus of cells in all human cells.

8 Nov 2012