How to Get the Best Cancer Care
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Category: Cancer
You’ve always been calm and rational, a pillar of strength in times of adversity. Everyone has always said so. Of course, you’ve had some hard knocks in life. But they never got the better of you. You always picked yourself up and went on—to bigger and better things. But that fateful afternoon, when your doctor […]
READ COMPLETE ARTICLE »Lyme Disease Diagnosis
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Category: Lyme Disease
Lyme disease is diagnosed based on symptoms, objective physical findings (such as erythema migrans, facial palsy, or arthritis), and a history of possible exposure to infected ticks. Validated laboratory tests can be very helpful but are not generally recommended when a patient has erythema migrans.
READ COMPLETE ARTICLE »Available Cancer Treatments: Overview
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Category: Cancer
As if having cancer isn’t traumatic enough, getting it treated is fundamentally different from the way people other illnesses. With most other diseases, you rely on your family doctor, and perhaps a specialist or two. But cancer often involves a dizzying array of practitioners: your family doctor, one or more pathologists (who determine what kind […]
READ COMPLETE ARTICLE »Preventing Flu: Stay Healthy this Winter
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Category: Flu
Flu spreads through the air and you inhale the virus. Colds can also spread through the air, but flu spreads much more easily. “If you put a cold sufferer in a room full of people who are susceptible, several will catch the cold,” the CDC’s Nancy Arden says. “But if you put a person with […]
READ COMPLETE ARTICLE »MRSA and Staph Infection Overview
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Category: MRSA
MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is a type of bacteria that is resistant to certain antibiotics. MRSA infections that occur in otherwise healthy people who have not been hospitalized or had a medical procedure (such as dialysis, surgery, catheters) within the past 12 months are known as community-associated (CA)-MRSA infections. These infections are usually skin infections, […]
READ COMPLETE ARTICLE »Insomnia Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
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Category: Insomnia
You brush your teeth, turn out the lights, snuggle with your honey for a sweet moment, then kiss good night. Your spouse falls asleep immediately. Meanwhile, you lie awake, tossing and turning as the minutes, the hours tick by. It’s the nightly battle to slip into what Shakespeare called “innocent sleep…the balm of hurt minds…chief […]
READ COMPLETE ARTICLE »Acne Treatments
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Category: Acne
“Most people can manage acne on their own,” says family practitioner Anne Simons, M.D., an assistant clinical professor of family and community medicine at the University of California’s San Francisco Medical Center. “But if you have severe (cystic) acne—red, hot skin with cysts and nodules—see a professional.” There are many things you can do at […]
READ COMPLETE ARTICLE »What Causes Acne?
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Category: Acne
Contrary to popular belief, chocolate does not cause acne. Still, this myth persists almost 50 years after it was debunked. Back when TV was a novelty, Albert Kligman, M.D., a professor of dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania, gave some teens real chocolate bars, and others chocolate-tasting candy bars that contained no chocolate. None of […]
READ COMPLETE ARTICLE »Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) Overview
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Category: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Q: I use a computer five or six hours a day, five days a week. At the end of the day, my fingers and hands ache. Is this carpal tunnel syndrome? If not, how can I tell if I’m getting it? Will I? And what can I do about it?
READ COMPLETE ARTICLE »Bad Breath (Halitosis) Overview
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Category: Bad Breath
You wonder about it. Everybody does. Do I have bad breath? You fear your spouse and best friends won’t tell you. So you cup your hands, exhale into them by mouth, and then inhale through your nose in an effort to smell your own breath. It seems okay…but still, you wonder. Do I have bad […]
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