Archives for 2010
Screening for cancer is just one type of screening tool doctors use to help prevent cancer deaths by finding the cancer early or determining who ...
A total of seventeen children were brought to their local hospital recently following bouts of vomiting and diarrhea. What makes this situation so unusual is ...
The American Heart Association has identified seven simple guidelines for keeping your life healthy and staving off heart disease. Are they that simple and can ...
Screening for health concerns in women can be confusing. Tests you take when you’re forty are different from the tests you take when you’re twenty. ...
When we think of healthcare screening, we think of pap tests and mammograms—both uniquely female screening tests. Men, on the other hand, are not frequent ...
Breast cancer screening for women has been the number one reason why fewer and fewer women are dying of breast cancer over the past several ...
Many health screening recommendations by large health agencies recommend having healthcare screening by age forty, sooner if you have a family history of a disease. ...
Because millions of people are dying in Sub-Saharan Africa from diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, there is little or no attention paid to the ...
A lot of emphasis is placed on health checks for women—on mammograms, Pap tests and the like. But men also need health screening and have ...
Many up and coming businesses and companies have excellent health screening programs, some of which have incentives to employees who participate in the annual health ...
You go for health screening because you are concerned about colon cancer. Should you go for the conventional colonoscopy or the virtual colonoscopy? As ...
CA-19-9 is a tumour marker, or chemical produced by the body because of cancer. Although CA19-9 was first developed for colon cancer it has been ...
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most dreaded and deadliest cancers with a very low 5 year survival rate of less than 5 percent. Pancreatic ...
Scientific research has conclusively confirmed a very strong relationship between cigarette smoke and certain cancers (e.g. lung cancer). Smoking also increases the risk of cardiovascular ...
Read about the National Breast Screening Programme
Diabetes is a very common chronic medical problem that affects many people in modern society. The prevalence of Diabetes mellitus is a major concern among ...
Regular exercise helps to keep you fit and agile. It is benefits your cardiovascular system and helps to prevent stroke and heart attacks. There ...
This funny Thai commercial video advocates the value of exercise.
Obese people face many problems and are also at risk of contracting many diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart attack and stroke. I just read in ...
Our body is designed to move and not to lead a sedentary lifestyle. Physical activity is good for your health. Yet for most people the ...
There has been some controversy over whether mammograms should be done at 40 or 50 for woman following the guideline issued by United States Preventive ...
As you enter into the New Year 2010, you should aim to keep your body and mind healthy! A major catastrophic sickness like cancer, ...
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