Health & Fitness

Funny thing pain, if you’ve never had a severe pain then the suggestion of taking simple analgesia and resting the affected area all seems quite reasonable. I was reminded of this when I read recently of a doctor’s advice to someone who was suffering from sciatica. Having personally experienced sciatica, it’s a condition I would [...]

I was born and raised in the heart of the Deep South. From as far back as I can remember I remember long summer afternoons spent drinking iced tea and shelling peas and butterbeans on my grandmother’s porch. I have moved on from my roots and have made my way into other regions of the [...]

Owing to multiple blizzards in Washington, Congress started its President’s Day recess a full week early and conducted no official business last week. However, there was some legislative drama as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pulled the rug out from under Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus by scrapping the Baucus jobs bill (without warning), which [...]

This article will explain what you need to know about Diabetes before you or someone you know are unpleasantly surprised. Diabetes affects around 16 million Americans and about 800,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. A diagnosis of diabetes is made if your blood glucose reading is 126 mg/dl or higher. People with Type I [...]

Dental implant is a procedure in dentistry whereby an artificial tooth root is used in order to support reconstruction that resembles a group of teeth or a single tooth. Today there are a number of implants available and each one is designed to perform a particular function. Titanium, an inactive metal or metal that is [...]

Breaf History of Hyperthermia The healing effect of heat treatment was already mentioned in the advanced cultures of the old Egypt (2400 B.C.), but only the medical professionals of the Greek Antique used this therapeutic approach consistently, acknowledged it and called it over-warming (in Greek: Hyperthermia). “Give me the power to produce fever and I [...]

you think men are more vulnerable to coronary disease than women, think again. Don’t wait for a warning sign – start looking after your heart today. Statistics show one in three Australian women is at risk of heart attack, angina, stroke and peripheral vascular disease (PVD). Worse still, two thirds of women who die from [...]