Posted on September 29th, 2007 by editor
Heartburn. The word evokes a frightening picture. Your heart on fire, sizzling and smoking, without a fire fighter in sight. Fortunately, the word is a misnomer. It’s not your heart that’s on fire, it’s your esophagus. But heartburn is easier to say than “esophagus burn. ”
The “burn” part, however, they got right. Your esophagus, […]
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Posted on September 26th, 2007 by editor
In the language of romance, a racing, thumping heart is a sure sign that you’re in love. In the language of medicine, those same symptoms indicate that your heart’s rhythm is out of whack. One common-and altogether normal-alteration is a speeding up of the heart rate during exercise or during an intense emotional experience. […]
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Posted on September 23rd, 2007 by editor
Ah, the morning after. There’s nothing in the world quite like it, except, perhaps, being flattened by a steamroller and living through it.
Although they are the most revered of self inflicted ailments, hangovers are not well understood. Many physicians believe that they arise from two phenomena-a slight swelling of brain and dehydration.
The mechanism causing […]
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Posted on September 19th, 2007 by editor
If removing your footwear at the end of the day calls to mind the scent of a postgame locker room, you may be suffering from what is scientifically known as bromhidrosis-sweaty, smelly feet.
While neither painful nor contagious, foot odor causes unmitigated social suffering to those who are burdened with it. Under normal conditions, each […]
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Posted on September 16th, 2007 by editor
Nearly everyone has experienced some form of fluid retention at one point or another-whether as swelling from a bumped shin or ankle sprain or as a bloated feeling following a very salty meal or preceding the monthly menstrual period. Anyone who has had to stand or sit for hours on end knows that inactivity […]
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Posted on September 13th, 2007 by editor
Following a spicy dinner at your favorite restaurant, you realize that your back and chest are damp. At the end of a very important interview, you reach out to shake hands and notice that your palm is wet. After narrowly missing a collision with a car that has run a red light, you wipe […]
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Posted on September 10th, 2007 by editor
It never fails. Every time you have a big meeting ig up or an important presentation to give, you develop an unsightly cold sore on your lip. You wake up with a small cluster of tiny, harmless looking blisters, which quickly explode a pain full sore the size of Rhode Island (ok, so may […]
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Posted on September 6th, 2007 by editor
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has become one of medicine’s most recent mysteries. First dubbed the Yuppie flu in the 1980s by the media because it seemed to strike the young and the bitious, especially women, the condition continues to perplex and frustrate patients, physicians, and researchers.
CFS sufferers are plagued with a debilitating fatigue that […]
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Posted on September 3rd, 2007 by admin
There are a number of sufferers of mesothelioma in the United States of America. This problem that is categorized under the category of cancer is related to problem of lungs that is caused by the exposure of asbestos fibers that is used in the roofs of certain houses. If you are […]
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