2010-09-20T16:49:46+0000">September 20, 2010 – 4:49 pm
Sound nutrition is important for the proper functioning of all organs of the human body, including the organ of sight, the eye. A lack of certain vitamins can cause the eyes to work at less than their best, just as a lack of iron causes our blood to become less efficient. The most important vitamin [...]
2010-09-20T16:48:48+0000">September 20, 2010 – 4:48 pm
A great deal of evidence supports the hypothesis that people who exercise regularly benefit across a wide range of health related variables. They have a better sleep pattern. They catch fewer colds, take less sick and even live longer than people who don’t exercise. There is also a window of healthy exercise. People that pass [...]
2009-05-21T07:07:19+0000">May 21, 2009 – 7:07 am
This is a very uncommon form of tic disorder found in 1 in 10,000 children, especially males. The disorder usually begins in the school age period, and initially the child develops motor tics, affecting any muscle group in the body. Very often the tics then become more prominent, affecting multiple parts of the body, and [...]
2009-05-19T06:22:50+0000">May 19, 2009 – 6:22 am
SPUTUM CULTURE Sputum, or phlegm, is usually present if your child has a chest infection. Most young children cough up the sputum and then immediately swallow it, so it is very difficult to obtain a specimen. Older children are better able to co-operate. The specimen is sent to the laboratory as soon as possible, checked [...]
2009-05-18T12:53:59+0000">May 18, 2009 – 12:53 pm
It is always tennis. Morning, noon, and night, it’s tennis. He has tennis cuff links and he doesn’t even have French cuffs on his shirts. I hate tennis and I couldn’t play it anyway because of my knee. I mean it. To him, love is just a tennis score. WIFE Balancing our needs for recreation [...]
2009-05-15T09:17:19+0000">May 15, 2009 – 9:17 am
Hodgkin’s disease usually begins as a painless, progressive enlargement of the lymph glands. Those glands in the neck are most commonly affected, but the condition may occur elsewhere, particularly in glands along the great blood vessels which are inside the chest or abdomen. Sometimes the disease appears to be localised and very slowly progressive. In [...]
2009-05-15T07:32:27+0000">May 15, 2009 – 7:32 am
This is most noticeable in the legs due to the effect of gravity. Pre-eclampsia is commoner in younger mothers in first pregnancies. The first sign is a rise in the blood pressure. High blood pressure or hypertension can be present before pregnancy and then she will need close watching throughout because high blood pressure itself [...]
2009-04-29T09:59:44+0000">April 29, 2009 – 9:59 am
The skin is a complex part of our bodies. Throughout our lives it needs constant attention. Babies get nappy rash, birthmarks and eczema, children suffer measles, chicken-pox, warts and impetigo, teenagers endure acne, pimples, cold sores, blisters and athlete’s foot, dermatitis, allergies and psoriasis occur in adulthood. As we age the skin dries, varicose veins [...]
2009-04-28T09:30:57+0000">April 28, 2009 – 9:30 am
A fracture, a broken bone, and a fractured bone are all terms for the same condition. Since children’s bones are still growing, their fractures are different in some ways from adult fractures -especially in very young children. For example, broken bones heal more quickly in children than in adults. Also, any fracture that heals in [...]
2009-04-23T06:15:56+0000">April 23, 2009 – 6:15 am
Nearly half a million guys die from cardiovascular disease each year-more than the next eight leading causes of death combined. Scary stuff, right? It doesn’t have to be. Quite simply, your cardiovascular system is an amazingly powerful and resilient engineering marvel. Consider the statistics: About the size of two clenched fists, your heart pumps roughly [...]