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How To Recover From a Tongue Piercing

Whether your tongue piercing is symbolic or aesthetic, the resulting hole in the tongue is a wound. Like other wounds, you must care for it properly to avoid infection and unnecessary pain during the healing process. Wounds inside the mouth heal under different conditions from other skin wounds. Moi

How to Prevent a Secondary Cataract after Surgery

Forty-percent of people who have cataract surgery then go on to get a secondary cataract, known as an 'after-cataract', according to the National Eye Institute in America. After a cataract ha

Fighting Malaria With Advanced Ontological Engineering

An ontologically engineered software platform with an integrated Geographic Information System (GIS) is being used for disease management-related in Africa and is currently being utilized to fight malaria and other vector borne illnesses. This article explores the development of the ontology program

How Insulin Relates to Weight Gain In Type 2 Diabetics

Diabetes is typically caused by a problem in how the body uses or makes insulin. The body needs insulin to transport glucose to the cells, where it gets stored and used for energy at a later point. Th

Diabetic Tips: Eating Right Without Drilling a Hole in Pocket

Diabetes is a disease that results in high glucose (sugar levels) in the blood, which can lead to serious complications. Nearly 26 million people nationwide have the disease. For people with diabetes, making healthy food ...

How to Recognize Heart Block

Heart block is a condition that occurs when the electrical impulses that regulate the heart rate have trouble passing from the heart's upper chambers (atria) to its lower chambers (ventricles). Heart block may be caused by malfunctioning of the heart's natural pacemaker, the sinus node. Because this

Unearthing the causes of adrenal gland fatigue

Those who are constantly exposing them to stress and tension are at the greater risk of getting adrenal gland fatigue. Such persons make their adrenal glands to function continuously and this is why t

When You Need to Buy Swine Flu Treatment Will it Be Available?

When you need to buy swine flu treatment will there be any left? The world is facing a crisis and the W.H.O. (World Health Organization) as of June 11, 2009 has declared H1N1 swine flu a level 6 pandemic. Here in the United States flu season is just about to begin and the federal government is stock

Radon Gas: Another Silent Killer

Discusses radon gas, another silent killer similar to carbon monoxide, a radioactive gas resulting from the natural decay of uranium.

Spinal Health: Herniated or Ruptured Disk

Discs are positioned between each vertebra bone in your spine. A disc is made up of two parts: the outer ring is called the annulus; the inner part is called the nucleus. The annulus is ...

New Diabetic Treatment

Here is some important information I have discovered about Diabetic Health and Fitness. Free glucose meter and newly developed diabetes drug promises diabetes patients a brighter future. Continue read

Hepatitis C's "Other" Symptoms

When someone contracts the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) the effects are not immediate, nor are they always visible. Until the development of cirrhosis, many people with the virus do not demonstrate signs or symptoms of the infectious disease. Amazingly, it is possible for HCV to infect a patient for deca

Fibromyalgia

The aches and pains in her muscles just would not stop. After the car accident, it seemed like everything was going downhill. First she lost her job, then her boyfriend. Sleep hardly ever comes and if it does, the pain and tightness in her shoulders and neck wake her up. After countless visits to a

Diseases Caused by Carbohydrates

Medical world is already worried about the current generation of teenagers, and many doctors say there is already a diabetic line of demarcation between the quantity of sweets and soft drinks that people consume. Closely related to diabetes is obesity, which is closely linked with cardiovascular dis