Diseases and Conditions Articles

Approximately 60% of our body is made up of water. From the minute cells to the vital organs and skeletal structure, our body’s proper functioning depends on water balance. The regulatory mechanisms of our body, such as the heart and kidneys, are responsible for keeping the amount of fluid in the body at a constant level.

The most common cause of carpal tunnel syndrome is repetitive motion of the hands and mechanical stress on the palm. However, it may also be associated with several diseases and medical conditions such as arthritis, hypothyroidism and, gout, diabetes, obesity, and even pregnancy.

A neglected heart could take a serious toll on your health. So, if you’re serious at living life to the fullest, it’s about time to get serious in taking care of your heart.

It is a common result of immobilization. Normally, from lying down to standing up our body is programmed to automatically constrict blood vessels in the lower extremities to maintain central blood pressure and ensure adequate perfusion in our major organs such as the heart and brain.

What exactly is a GUM clinic and what does “walk-in service” mean? We take a look at what you can expect, and the differences between NHS GUM clinics and private practices.

When one thinks about eating disorders, people usually think about anorexia and bulimia – as these are the two most commonly occurring one. But in fact they are more than just disorders, they are also psychological disorders.

Those who have lived with an addict know that sometimes the behavior can affect everyone else in the household. Sometimes there may be fights and bickering – and this leads to a lot of emotional turmoil.

If a person is getting treatment for drunkorexia – it’s important to get treated for both disorders that make it up. This is because both of them are intertwined, so if one side of the problem is neglected, it may resurface later and cause even more major problems.

You would be surprised to know that both mental and physical factors play a major role in a panic disorder. These can be of various types – whether it is a chemical imbalance in the body, drug addiction, obesity, poor diet, or even alcoholism – all of these affect your mind negatively.

There is a desperate need for a chlamydia vaccine as infection rates for this infection have been steadily rising, making it the most common sexually transmitted infection in the UK.

Ever wonder what one of the worlds’ most common inherited Neurological Disease is? Well I know the answer, it’s Charcot Marie Tooth. Type 1a is the most common sub type of the Disease. It is thought to affect approx 1 in 2500 people or about 2.7 million people in the world. Does not sound like a rare Disease anymore, does it?

Asthma is a chronic lung disease that causes severe conditions to the lungs letting sufferer to breathe with acute difficulty time-to-time.

Specimen validity testing refers to the tests conducted by laboratories to determine if a urine specimen is diluted, adulterated or substituted. Prior to urine drug testing, specimen validity test is conducted to know whether the specimen is tampered or not.

Amphetamine is the collective term for several substances including amphetamine sulphate, laevoamphetamine (Benzedrine), dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine), and methamphetamine (Methedrine). Amphetamines are produced from a colorless oil base which is insoluble in water.

Presence of Tricyclic Antidepressant (TCA) in more quantity provokes individuals to commit suicide. TCA has much impact on normal person than a depressed individual. TCA causes sleepiness, difficulty in concentration and thinking and unsteady gait in body.

An HIV skin rash of the human body is a contracted version of the already existing HIV virus inside the bloodstream of a human body. This particular rash occurs on the delicate surface of the human skin mainly due to the reaction process cause due to medicinal intake by the patient.

An Asthma attack is an acute chronic condition of the lung and is caused due to inflammation in the airways of the lungs or in other words it’s a disturbing and disrupting breathing process

Rheumatoid Arthritis of the human body is that arthritis of the joints and bones which is included in Osteoarthritis

Ear infection of an adult isn’t affected more frequently then in children.

An Alcohol poisoning refers to that form of poisoning that occurs due to excessive intake of alcohol

Understand Pancreatic Cancer in this Detailed Article from beginning till end from Signs and Symptoms to Treatment and Prevention.

Here are the early sings and symptoms of Kidney Cancer which you want to look for. If you have these symptoms, than ofcourse this doesn't mean you have kidney cancer, but still its worth talking to your doctor.

The most Common Causes of Kidney Cancer are Obesity, Smoking, High Blood Pressure and prolonged medication. There are some other factors too which are common for mostly all kind of Cancers.

The Major Types of Kidney Cancers are
Renal, Transitional (cancerous carcinoma cell of the kidney) or Bladder cancer, Wilms Tumor etc.

A kidney in a human body is that enlarged organ that is found under the ‘Ribcage’ of a human body. There are two kidneys inside a human body and both are responsible for absolute functioning of the body

Sometimes something as simple as small injury or Chronic headache can turn out to be severe Brain Disease. So here is a small list of How you can prevent yourself from Brain Diseases.

Here are the Main Signs and Symptoms of Brain Tumor and Cancer. Though do note that even if you have such symptoms, most likely you won't be having Brain Cancer/tumor but still if you have chronic symptoms, than its worth going to the doctor.

Here are the main causes and factors involved with Brain Tumor and Cancer. As usual, these are just indications and most likely may be false alarm but its worth checking with your doctor.

There are mainly two forms of cancers or tumors of the brain which are Primary Brain Tumor which emerges or originates into the brain directly and Secondary Brain Tumor which evolves from cancerous cells migrated from parts of the body.

I am sure you must have felt Acid Reflux while coming after heavy dinner in the weekends(I had many times). The feeling of acidity is caused because our stomach also has acid (to break down food) which gets disturbed because of acids of foods you are taking.

I had decided to cover lot of cancer articles but unfortunately I am not getting much time to write on it :) here is one article which I finished this weekend. I hope you will find it informative.

Lung cancer is defined by an uncontrollable growth in the internal living of the lung. This condition is likely to invade adjacent tissue and infiltration beyond the lungs. Lung cancer is the most common cancerous fatality in men and the second in women.

Natural treatment of Cancer instead of regular treatment is getting popular among people today to large extent because of its effectiveness, safeness, and easy availability. Many people also like it because they can not afford to go for costly allopathic treatment.

Warts is one of the most common problem among all in humans. The reason is, You can get them anywhere on your body at anytime and really you will never be able to understand why you got them. Since this article is about getting rid of warts, so here we go - Our article on How To Get Rid Of Warts

In this article we are going to talk about Herpes Blood Test. I am trying to put as much as information about it to make it a complete HowTo article on Herpes Blood Test. If you have some info than please do share with us.