Quenching Heartburns – Understanding GERD and Gastric Ulcer GERD (GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE) – WHAT IS GERD? Gastroesophageal reflux is a normal physiologic phenomenon experienced intermittently by most people, particularly after a meal. Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) occurs when the amount of gastric juice that refluxes into the esophagus exceeds the normal limit, causing symptoms with
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Pregnancy Symptoms and Testing I’m Not Pregnant Am I? ‘Pregnancy is a wonder belly of emotions, both joyous and stressful.’ For most women, making a decision to have a child is momentous. Yet for many others, life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside; believe it or not, by far the
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Types, Symptoms of Heart Failure – Management Of Heart Failure using Diuretics The Problem of Heart Failure 82 % of people with heart failure will die within six years of diagnosis. That’s why it’s what one could gravely call ‘living on the edge’! Defining Heart Failure Heart Failure is a terminal condition where the cardiac
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Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia BPH – Causes, Symptoms And Treatments Everything in life has its zeniths and nadirs. That’s what we call the rise and fall. The male urinary stream is no exception, as it falls prey to the might of the enlarging ‘prostate’ that engulfs the ‘prostatic urethra’ with advancing age. A LITTLE MORE ABOUT
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The Problem Of High cholesterol Levels And Coronary Heart Disease The human being is a biological factory that produces myriad products for its survival. From hormones to energy based metabolic pathways, all need lipids. Cholesterol is the omnipotent mother lipid from which derive subsidiary lipids or ‘Lipoproteins’ as they are called viz LDL , VLDL
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Treatment of Gastrointestinal Infestations using Mebendazole Tablets How is a Threadworm Infection Caused? Threadworm is an intestinal infestation caused by Enterobius vermicularis which is acquired by swallowing the eggs. Threadworms look like tiny white threads and live in the bowel, attached to the lining. Usually the female worm starts producing the eggs two weeks after
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Types Of Herpes , Causes, Symptoms and Treatment To person who has suffered from any manifestation of the Herpes virus, no experience could be any worse and no memory more remarkable! From Shingles to Simplex, excruciating pain is the hallmark of Herpes. Classification Of Herpes Group Of Viruses Herpes virus is a double stranded DNA
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Hyperprolactinemia Causes, Symptoms And Treatment – Hyperprolactinemia Management Using Dopamine Agonist Drugs This is a disorder that could very well be summed up with the phrase ‘its raining milk’! The Endocrine System The human body has various forms of control. Nerves are physical tissues that control connected structures via electric charge flowing through them. Another
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Role Of Hormone Replacement Therapy Advantages and Side Effects of HRT The menopause or the climacteric is a milestone in every woman’s life. Precious to any lady is her womb that bore her children and gave her periods which defined her womanhood. The value of light is only precious when it is dark. Loss of
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Hypertension And High Blood Pressure Treatment Hypertension or high blood pressure (BP) is an iceberg disease. Only half of those who have it are actually aware of it. Of those that are aware, only half seek or obtain treatment. Of those that obtain treatment, only half are appropriately or adequately treated. What Is Hypertension? There
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