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Jul 31 2008

Health News For Women: Being Informed Can Help Prevent Common Diseases From Striking You Down

Published by Author under Women's Health

Since the issues involved in men’s and women’s health are different, you cannot use the same source for learning about general health matters, even though there are numerous books and magazines available that provide useful information regarding various health matters. In fact, women’s magazines are a wonderful source for obtaining health news for women and [...]

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Jul 31 2008

High Blood Pressure Medication: Beta Blockers and Thiazide Diuretics

Published by Author under High Blood Pressure

It is necessary that you make an informed decision regarding the many different types of high blood pressure medication with which to treat your high blood pressure condition. In fact, it will be to your advantage if you are able to understand at the very outset that each different medication will work in different ways.
It [...]

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Jul 31 2008

Do I Have Crohn’s Disease Or Ulcerative Colitis

Published by Author under Crohn's Disease

If you are trying to figure out whether or not you have Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis you should consult your physician and get checked out.  Below we will take a look at some of the symptoms for both diseases but this article is not meant to substitute medical advice from a licensed physician and [...]

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Jul 30 2008

What About Heart Disease In Women? A Concern, Or Not?

Published by Author under Heart Disease

For a long time, heart disease has been considered a “man’s disease.” Most of the information was targeted to men, and most of the scientific studies were performed on men. There was no discussion as to whether or not heart disease affected woman – it just wasn’t even a consideration.
Now, we know much more about [...]

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Jul 30 2008

Crohn’s Disease Definition Shows How The Disease Can Be Controlled But Not Cured Completely

Published by Author under Crohn's Disease

For those who are unfortunate enough to be affected by digestive disorders and more particularly a form of inflammatory bowel syndrome that affects many people and which goes by the name of Crohn’s disease, it would be a good idea for them to learn from studying Crohn’s disease definition just what this disease is and [...]

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Jul 30 2008

Some Very Revealing Hypertension Statistics

Published by Author under Hypertension

Hypertension statistics can certainly reveal a lot of new things regarding what hypertension is and how it affects the general population, and an example of such hypertension statistics is the fact that, it is believed, sixteen percent of new cases of end-stage renal disease in Australia were actually caused because of having hypertension, while there [...]

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Jul 29 2008

The Importance of Women and Mental Health

Published by Author under Women's Health

There are many different issues that one should be concerned with when it comes to women’s health and women and mental health is one of the most important of all. Mental illnesses affect women and men very differently, and in fact most people are not aware but they affect women much more commonly than they [...]

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Jul 28 2008

Caring for Our Children: High Blood Pressure in Children

Published by Author under High Blood Pressure

Normally children have to deal with childhood diseases.  Some of those diseases include measles, chicken pox, mumps, etc. However, today childhood diseases not only include the above, but even more serious diseases.  Those conditions could include obesity, diabetes, etc.
One additional serious medical condition or disease could be high blood pressure in children.  High blood pressure [...]

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Jul 27 2008

Finding an Institute for Women’s Health and Body and Learning to Love Yourself

Published by Author under Women's Health

Now more than ever before it is hard for a woman to love herself. After all, women are constantly shown pin-thin models on the covers of magazines, so it starts to feel as though you are simply not good enough unless you look like these women.
It is important that women in general keep a sane [...]

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Jul 27 2008

Heart Disease Fatality Rate Higher In Women

Published by Author under Heart Disease

As the late, great James Brown sadly sang, “It’s a man’s world,” and especially so in terms of heart disease fatality rates.  Studies in the mid 1990’s and early 2000’s have shown that although women contract heart disease less than men, they are more at risk of dying from it once the heart disease has [...]

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