An abbreviation for Tubercle bacillus, TB is the result of infection with a slow growing, wax-coated acid-fast bacterium that can remain viable in dried aerosol droplets for 8 months. Although few of those infected with the bacteria will actually contract the tuberculosis, it takes only one M. tuberculosis bacterium to start the disease process. Transmission ...
Pain in the groin, pelvis, stomach? The pain may not be a regular body ache or a simple pulled muscle. For many construction workers, the onset of sudden pain in the groin region is commonly thought to be a minor work injury and, therefore, treatment is generally delayed. Unfortunately, for some patients, the pain may ...
Have you ever wished you could order your own lab tests? It is a little-known fact that individuals are able to order lab tests without a prescription from their doctor. Unless you live in New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Massachusetts or Rhode Island, you can order medical lab tests from Private MD Labs or other ...
Most of you know what it feels like to have a migraine, but do you ever get the same symptoms with out the head pain? Symptoms like: Aura’s in one or both eyes, nausea, low tolerance for light, odors, or noises, circulatory problems, gastrointestinal woes like constipation, or cramps. Your stomach may even become paralyses ...
When my doctor called to tell me that, at just shy of my 9 month point, I have preeclampsia and needed to come to the hospital right away, I didn’t really have any questions. We’d discussed the possibility for weeks, and I had done everything I knew to prevent it – which is to say, ...
The following information has been gathered and compiled over a period of years, through personal experience, while traveling, teaching classes that include T’ai Chi, Qi Gong, herbal information, martial arts and other health related subjects. The article also contains feedback from students and anecdotal information from friends and readers of my columns. The following are ...
I took an online self-assessment for adult ADD because I have often wondered if I would meet the criteria, but was never tested as a child because my grades did not seem to be affected. This assessment was found at http://www.becalmd-for-adhd.com/selftest/ and seemed to be more scientifically based than most online tests I have come ...
In recent years, it has become increasingly popular to use the Internet to diagnose everything from a simple headache to congestive heart failure. People seem to think that they have an honorary medical degree just because they can search for symptoms or conditions on the Internet. The bad thing about this is that self-diagnosis can ...
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