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Flu season is upon us, and folks are doing everything they can to avoid catching a nasty flu bug, like swine flu, or H1N1. This particularly nasty flu virus is also called influenza type A and it affects pigs as well as humans with the following symptoms, including: 1. Body aches and chills When the […]
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“I wake up in the middle of the night and it feels like my eyeballs were on fire, and I think, ‘Oh, maybe I have sand in my eyes [so] I douse my eyes with water…it turns out I have sunburned my eyeballs and I go blind for 36 hours.” This was television host Anderson […]
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If you’re experiencing urinary incontinence during pregnancy and even following birth, don’t be embarrassed. You’re not alone! Urinary incontinence, especially during pregnancy (prenatal urinary incontinence), is really quite common due to the added pressure on your bladder from baby shifting around in your uterus. It can also occur as the muscles of the uterus and […]
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Greece is facing a county-wide healthcare catastrophe spurred by their economic crisis. Currently, the Greek health care system is so struggling to meet patient care with limited resources that standards of patient care and disease control are suffering greatly. “I have seen places…where the financial situation did not allow even for basic requirements,” says Marc […]
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Dying of a broken heart is possible—especially during the holidays! This fact came to light recently at a conference for primary-care physicians at Vancouver’s St. Paul’s Hospital. The conference was focused on “Takotsubo Syndrome”, a type of stress cardiomyopathy, or (literally) broken heart, which tends to attack older women suffering severe emotional turmoil. The typical […]
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