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As the winter season nears, whooping cough also hits harder and wider. If you’ve recently visited a clinic and saw your doctor, whom you usually see in Cherokee uniforms, you might have noticed a significantly high number of children, including infants and adults, struck by whooping cough and waiting for their turn to be checked. […]
World Health Organization (WHO) estimates about 17.1 million who die of cardiovascular diseases every year. People who have high blood pressure, high levels of cholesterol and glucose, overweight and obese, as well as those who smoke, eat less fruits and vegetables, and rarely engage in physical activities are at high risk of cardiovascular diseases such […]
Salmonella, E. coli, Campylobacter are the three most common diseases contracted due to eating or drinking food and or beverages that were contaminated with the said microbes or pathogens. The first two disease-causing pathogens often result to recall food products off the market. But these and other more food borne diseases are all preventable only […]
Nobody better understands what it feels like to suffer from mental illness than the ones responsibly caring for the sufferers, usually the family and the health care professionals working in mental institutions. They see, first hand, the debilitating effects of mental disorientation, much less untreatable mental incapacity. Both the physical and social health will not […]
In the hopes of completely eradicating rabies, the world is observing the 2010 World Rabies Day on the 28th of September. Co-sponsored by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Alliance for Rabies Control (ARC), the event highlights the impact of human and animal rabies. It promotes effective way of preventing and stopping the […]
U.S. President Barack Obama spoke of the health care reform that will take effect September 23, 2010, enumerating a part of the act that he called the “most important patient’s bill of rights ever seen in history.” Obama touts of removing rules on lifetime limits and pre-existing conditions among children. He also said affordable health […]
