If you want a simple definition of what heart disease is: it can be one of several abnormal conditions that affect the heart and/or the blood vessels in the heart. These conditions can be classified into three major types.
Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) – One Form Of Heart Disease
Coronary Artery Disease is the most common example [...]

Before heading to your next yearly physical, answer this question: do you know what is high blood pressure?  If you do not, you should ask your doctor about it when you have an appointment as high blood pressure can cause a number of illnesses that you are likely not aware of. Because high blood pressure [...]

The avian influenza virus is the kind of flu infection that you get from infected birds. Domestic birds like chicken and wild birds such as ducks can be the carriers of this killer disease. Specifically, fifteen strains of influenza A virus are known to afflict the bird population. Hence, we can conclude that birds (domestic [...]

The medical definition of hypertension says that this is the condition where the systolic pressure (the pressure recorded when the heart is beating) is recorded to be 140 or more and the diastolic pressure (the pressure recorded when the heart is relaxed, i.e. in-between heart beats) is 90.
There are three types of hypertension, i.e. (1) [...]

Some women go through issues and healthcare related problems that only other women would understand. And with healthcare being as expensive as it is today, it would help if you had someone there to talk to whenever you had a question that wouldn’t cost you money to see them constantly. That’s why many women are [...]

Gestational diabetes is very rare but does happen. It is one of the three types of diabetes, and the biggest problem with gestational diabetes is that often there are no symptoms experienced and so many times the person is not even aware that they have developed the disease at all.
Gestational diabetes affects pregnant women, [...]

Approximately 80% of all adults will have lower left back pain at some point in their life. The pain can range from little twinges to intense, crippling pain that impacts a few days of a person’s life.
What You Thought…And What’s The Truth
All back pain is the same. – Not exactly. There are really two kinds [...]

Influenza has caused mass devastation and death throughout history.  Just in the past century, our history has been marked by flu epidemics.  Until the flu vaccine was created in the 1970s, there was little hope for victims of the virus—almost all people who were affected by it died shortly after infection.
The history of influenza is [...]

Women often neglect their own health, because they are so wrapped up in their household chores and family life.  They are busy looking after everyone else’s health, but forgetting their own. The National Women’s Health Organization is a special organization for women to provide them with specialized medical services.  It takes care of both emotional [...]

With a name like “congenital”, you could be forgiven wondering if strange genitalia is what causes congenital heart disease.  You might even think that bad luck in the genetic lottery is what causes congenital heart disease.  Actually, we really don’t have a definite answer as to why some people get this disease and some don’t.  [...]