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[24 Mar 2012 | No Comment | ]
French maritime pine bark- A natural antioxidant

Introduction:
The nutrients including vitamins, minerals and antioxidants from diverse array of dietary components essential for sustaining health. The physiologic and biochemical roles of these nutrients are as varied as their composition. They play major role in enhancing immunity, increasing stamina, improving body fluid circulation, promoting growth, suppressing symptoms of aging etc., though, the functions of many of these components remain undefined, they remain an inevitable part of biological pathways. French maritime pine bark extract of Pinus pinaster displays greater biological effects. It is utilized throughout the world as a nutritional …

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[23 Mar 2012 | No Comment | ]
Anorexia (loss of appetite) and natural & herbal appetite stimulant

Definition of anorexia:
Anorexia is characterized by a loss of appetite or anorexia could be defined as lack of desire to eat. Anorexia takes place when an individual lacks interest in food which gradually leads to weight loss, weakness and fatigue, affecting your ability to perform normal activities. In anorexia, particularly children stay away from food when they too tired or too sick. Side effects of certain medicines may also contribute to anorexia. Proper nutrition helps your body to prevent and fight against infection. But sometimes it is more difficult …

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[2 Mar 2012 | No Comment | ]
Aphonia – causes, symptoms, types and treatment

Aphonia: The meaning for the word aphonia in medical dictionary- Aphonia ia an noun used in the branch of pathology of medical science. aphonic and aphonuous are ajectives of the noun aphonia.
1. Definition:
Loss of voice, especially due to an organic or functional disturbance of the vocal organ.
2. Definition:
A condition characterized by loss of the ability to produce normal speech sounds that results overuse of the vocal cords, organic disease, or psychologic causes, such as anxiety. Kinds of aphonia include aphonia clericorum, aphonia paralytica, aphonia paranoica and spastic aphonia. …

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[4 Jul 2011 | No Comment | ]
Yeast infection—causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, complications and prevention

Yeast infection –definition:
Yeast infection could be defined by over growth of yeast or fungi which may affect both external and internal parts of the body and it could affect the skin-called yeast rash, nails, digestive tract, diaper, mouth (thrush), esophagus, vagina (vaginitis) and other parts of the body. Yeast infection is a common infection that occurs in women.
Generally yeast affects the warm and moist surfaces of the body. Most common type of yeast is candida albicans that most frequently affect human being and other yeasts are also involved in …

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[3 Jun 2011 | No Comment | ]
Angiogram-procedure, recovery and risks.

The word angiogram has been derived from the Greek words angeion denoting ‘vessel’ and graphein denoting ‘to record and write’. The angiogram or the angiography is the film or the digital picture obtained by the procedure of looking into the inside of the blood vessel.
An angiogram could be defined as a medical imaging technique used to see the nature of the inside of the blood vessel and organs of the body. The angiogram is otherwise called as arteriography. The angiogram could also further defined as a X-ray that is taken …

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[15 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]
Medical  Quotes—on HEALTH

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something—Lord Chesterfield.
The greatest wealth is health — Virgil
There is lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they have not the time to enjoy it—Josh Billings.
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity – World Health Organisation, 1948
Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. – Author unknown.
They claim red meat is bad …

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[15 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]
Medical quotes – The best six doctors

The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it are
Sunshine, water, rest, air, exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they’ll ease
Your will they’ll mend
And charge you not a shilling.
–Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, what the River knows, 1990

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[11 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]
Radioactive tracer AV 45 (florbetapir F18)- A new diagnostic tool in Alzheimer’s

Alzheimer’s disease progression could be easily identified by the new tool radioactive tracer AV 45.
A new tool has been developed during June of 2010 which could be able to track the progression of Alzheimer’s and could help in developing new therapeutics.
The new tool, radioactive tracer AV 45 is able to readily and safely distinguish the brain of healthy people and people with Alzheimer’s disease. The radioactive tracer AV 45 pave way to easily distinguish the Alzheimer’s disease with other types of dementia. This tracer is also going to help in …

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[5 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]
Medical quotes – the analysis of symptoms and signs

If there is a fault in us bred of familiarity it is, I believe, the old fault of omitting to probe sufficiently deeply into causes; the fault of accepting the fact of common symptoms without trying to explain them.
John A.Ryle (1948)
The natural history of disease. Oxford University Press, London.

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[4 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]
Medical terminology – Nervous system

Discard in the first instance all attempts to identify or to name, and try instead to read the malady, tracing the symptoms to the seat of their cause, and discerning the nature of the morbid process by their character and cause.
Gowers, 1892.