In 2013, America's Supreme Court ruled on the health care reform law. They made a decision that had significant policy impact and is now shaping the presidential campaign. Many observers waited to see if the court would overturn the...

There are many different medical conditions that can be caused by overproduction of stomach acid or that result in overproduction of stomach acid. The first conditions that come to mind are gastric ulcers, peptic ulcer disease and gastroesophageal reflux disease....

Thalassemia is a disease of blood. Thalassemia disease is hereditary, that is blood disorder is inherited. Hemoglobin is part of blood whose function is to carry oxygen in blood. In thalassemia the hemoglobin is of abnormal form. Due to this condition...

Symmetrel- what can it be used for? Symmetrel is a medication that is most commonly used in prevention of influenza and in treatment of Parkinson’s disease. During our history, different types of influenzas have caused more death than all the...

CHICAGO - Roughly 2 million U.S. children ages 12 to 19 have a pre-diabetic condition linked to obesity and inactivity that puts them at risk for full-blown diabetes and cardiovascular problems, government data suggest. Researchers from the federal Centers for...

Approximately 9.1 million or 8.9% of all women in the United States have diabetes. However, about one third of them do not know it. With its complications -blindness, kidney disease, amputations, heart attack and stroke -- diabetes is the fifth...

Much like individual wires wrapped in a single electrical cable, nerves are grouped in bundles and encased in a fatty coating called a myelin sheath. Pain, numbness, tingling and pain that don't go away can usually be traced to a...

A new Senate mental health bill (S 1945) would relax a federal law that regulates the sharing of paper and electronic health records for patients with substance misuse issues, Modern Healthcare reports. Bill Details Earlier this month, Sens. Bill Cassidy...

Insulin is everybody's potential nemesis. It's impossible to hold on to your youth if excesses of insulin are raging through your bloodstream. Luckily, however, you can keep a lid on insulin, for its misbehavior is largely another sign of needless...

The general approach for treatment of obesity is to suggest a low calorie diet and increased physical activity. There are many weight loss programmes available on the market but an Ayurvedic approach for the obesity (or to loss weight) is...