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Options for Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury Victims

Victims of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) have many different treatment options available. A traumatic brain injury is a brain injury where any type of blunt or piercing trauma to an individual's head c

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Palliative Care - Comfort at End of Life

Palliative care is somewhat a new term to many when it comes to end of life care. It is an approach to healthcare that specializes in the relief of suffering and achieving the best quality of life for

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Boost Your Energy Levels

If you woke up last Tuesday feeling tired and are still feeling run down, do not think that this is the end of the world and that your energy levels have been exhausted completely or that your age is

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Chronic Yeast Infections

The recurrence of chronic yeast infections can be a difficult obstacle to overcome for many people. Although there are preventative methods, cures, and over the counter medications available in the fi

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4 Risks To Avoid When Buying Medications From Online Pharmacies

With the increasing price of prescription medications, many consumers are finding it more difficult to afford the price of prescriptions. Due to this, many such consumers are looking for alternate way

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Treatment Protocol for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

Since IBS symptoms are cyclic in nature, it is necessary to use multiple hypnotherapy sessions spaced over a period of three to four months. Six to ten sessions spaced two weeks apart has proven to be

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Your Deodorant - Is There Danger Lurking Within?

You just got out of the shower and reached for your favorite deodorant. You like it because it smells nice and it keeps your underarms dry and odor free. You've used it for a long time. But did you ev

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Beat Osteoporosis With These Bone Building Secrets

Osteoporosis is caused when bones become less dense, lose strength and break more easily due to calcium loss. It can occur at any age but is most common after 60 when one in two women and one in three

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Music For Healing, Relaxation, and Wellness

From a powerful national anthem to church hymns and classical masterpieces, music has always been able to evoke emotion, affect your mood, and influence the brain and body. Scientific studies througho

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Diagnosing Seasonal Affective Disorder

Diagnosing Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) can be rather difficult because it is hard to distinguish it from other forms of depression. Before doctors can do diagnoses on a patient, typically they w

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Catarrh - What You Need To Know

What is catarrh? Catarrh is mucus blockage or discharge often caused by swelling of mucous membranes and by excess mucus. The symptom is frequently associated with a cold but is also found with other

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3 Old Home Remedies That Can Kill You

In our modern world, expensive prescription and over-the-counter medicines from large pharmaceutical companies are what most people turn to treat various ailments. In the not-too-distant past, many fo

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Cold Sores - Causes and Treatments

Millions of people in the US and in other parts of the world are affected by the herpes simplex virus that causes cold sores and other diseases as well. In fact, experts are of the opinion that the di

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Burning Issues for Antacid Drugs

Heartburn, indigestion, and acid reflux are popular ways of describing the pain caused by stomach acid. The burning sensation it produces ranges from discomfort to a searing pain that seems to be burn

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Excessive Underarm Sweating - Is There An Easy Cure?

Nobody wants to talk about excessive sweating or sweaty underarms, although it's a common problem for a lot of people. It's a visual embarrassment and also a smelly concern! A lot more people suffer f

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Fight Cystic Fibrosis With Vitamins And Over The Counter Products

Cystic fibrosis is a hereditary disease that affects the entire body, causing progressive disability and early death. Cystic fibrosis affects the entire body and impacts growth, breathing, digestion,

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A Shopping List For Your IBS Symptoms

If you have IBS symptoms, then this calls for careful planning of your grocery shopping every week. Just in case you are wondering if this means that there is hardly anything you can buy as you now ha

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Home Remedies For Wart Removal

There are many different home remedies for wart removable and here are some of the more imaginative ones that I have been able to find. Good old apple cider vinegar, which is used for a host of remedi

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Chronic Conditions And My Life

Living with a condition is undeniably stressful and depressing. You soon find out just how much courage you really do have when you are left to deal with a lengthy illness. There are 'chronic' illness

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Keeping Healthy Without Medicines

Are you struggling with failing health/ are you overweight or suffering from chronic fatigue. Is your health was steadily going down the drain. Are you a junkie addicted to prescription and over the c

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Genital Herpes Diagnosis and Treatment

Diagnosis of genital herpes starts when the physician asks for a medical examination to be carried out. It is the clinical test through which it can be definitely confirmed whether the person is suffe

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What You Need to Know About Neck Surgery

If you have recently begun to feel intense amounts of neck or back pain, you may have a condition that needs treatment from a medical professional. Often such conditions are easily curable with a simp

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Is Candida Destroying Your Health?

It is apparent that a growing number of Americans as well as people around the world are feeling less and less healthy. Simply stated most people just do not feel good. They are not sick in the tradit

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Lack of Energy-Causes and Treatments

What would you do with more energy? Perhaps get more work done, do something fun, work out, play with the kids more. Ever had lots of stuff to do, but you were just didn't have the energy to do anythi

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A Spoon Full of Sugar - How to Save on Prescription Drugs in Texas

With the cost of prescription drugs continuing to skyrocket, you need to stay savvy regarding the use of money-saving strategies. According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, prescription dru

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Dealing With Disease

One of the most frustrating things that can happen to you as you get older is dealing with sickness and other disease. If it is something that is not life threatening, it can still be damaging to your

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BetterCommunications Between Patients and Doctors

The relationship between patients and doctors is changing for the better as more patients become assertive and take responsibility for their treatment and care. Doctors determine treatment plans based

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Spider Veins - Ten Things You Really Ought To Know

You may have spider veins or you may just think you have but do you know anything about them? One thing that's for sure is that if you've got spider veins you probably wish you hadn't. Dealing with an

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Dealing with "itis" (Inflammation)

You may know someone who has been of victim of it. You may have had it yourself. In fact many athletes at sometime during their careers suffer from this dreaded problem. What we are talking about is t

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Dysphagia, A Swallowing Disorder

Dysphagia is a swallowing disorder that causes difficulty in swallowing from the mouth to the esophagus that leads towards the stomach. It is caused due to strictures and narrowing of the esophagus wh

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Treating Tennis Elbow Condition

Tennis elbow is also known as 'lateral epicondylitis'. Contrary to popular belief, playing tennis is not the only cause for tennis elbow. In fact, people who suffer from this problem have hardly playe

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Hip Surgery

If you have had a hip replacement in the past two years, are about to have one or are considering one, please read on. We will discuss here what the reasons are behind having a hip replacement, what t

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Tramadol Best Pain Relief

Tramadol is a prescription medication approved by the Food drugs Administration (FDA). Tramodal is used to relive moderate to moderately sever pain. Worldwide 55 million patients prescribe to have tra

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Visiting Someone in the Hospital - 14 Helpful Tips

Most of us have had the opportunity to go and visit a friend with an illness or injury in the hospital. It can be a pleasant experience as they welcome you with a smile, or they may cry as you offer p

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Constant Muscle Twitching and Benign Fasciculation

BFS also known as 'muscle fasciculation syndrome', 'benign fasciculation' and 'fasciculation syndrome' is a disorder of the nervous system characterized by the uncontrolled twitching (fasciculation) o

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Mesothelioma - How Do You Predict?

Let's start first with what is Mesothelioma? A usually malignant tumor of mesothelial tissue, especially that of the pleura or peritoneum. This is the fundamental definition of the deadly disease Meso

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A Guide to Understanding Coeliac Disease

Coeliac Disease is something which affects many people but which is not widely understood or discussed. It is a medical condition which affects the gut and digestive system of the sufferer and which p

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When Should You Consider Kidney Surgery?

Kidney surgery is perhaps one of the most drastic surgeries that you can undergo, as it always involves the removal of one of your most vital organs. While you do have a second kidney to replace the f

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Air Travel Tips for Travelers with Health Issues or Disabilities

Travel by air for people with health issues, handicaps, disabilities or special needs, can be challenging. The following air travel tips will help make your flight and trip, whether domestic or intern

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RIP Mrs. Superman

I found it intriguing that when Ms. Reeves, the surviving spouse of Christopher Reeves, passed away at the young age of 44 of lung cancer, little if any mention was made of her being a non-smoker. Is

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Lactose Intolerance

To understand what lactose intolerance are you must first know what lactose is. Lactose is a type of natural sugar that is found in cow's milk and milk products, it is also added to some processed foo

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How to Empower People with a Serious Illness

Serious illness is more than a crisis of the body; it is a crisis of the soul. Many patients react to a serious disease by becoming paralyzed by fear. Resistance quickly crumbles, and is followed by d

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New Study Finds Doctors Overprescribing Antibiotics For Sinus Infections

Doctors are unnecessarily prescribing antibiotics for sinus infections. According to the study published in the March issue of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, US, antibiotics were pres

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A Yeast Infection By Any Other Name Is Still A Yeast Infection

Since a rose by any other name is still a rose, it stands to reason that a yeast infection by any other name is still a yeast infection, or rather, a yeast allergy. You could take this to mean that yo

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More Interesting Facts About Bipolar

More and more often these days, people are hearing the term 'bipolar' when addressing behavior problems or issues in friends, acquaintances and family members. The term evokes images of evil behavior

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Diagnosing and Curing an Iron Deficiency

The best way to diagnose an iron deficiency is to see a doctor, however, there are lots of early signs and symptoms that you can be on the lookout for - just in case. An iron deficiency is more than j

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How To Reverse Kidney Disease Naturally

If you've read anything about diets lately, you've probably read warnings that excessive amounts of proteins or minerals may damage your kidneys. What you probably haven't read is that excessive amoun

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Do You Recognize The 7 Early Warning Signs Of Catarrh?

Catarrh is a mucus discharge or blockage caused by the swelling of the mucous membranes in the nasal and sinus passages. Catarrh is usually associated with the common cold. However, it can be a sympto

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Precautions While Using Home Remedies

Home Remedies are generally convenient and safe for a wide variety of conditions. They combat inflammation and are excellent for reducing fevers, combating coughs and colds, stomachaches, indigestion,

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Fight Cirrhosis Of The Liver With Vitamins And Over The Counter Products

Cirrhosis of the Liver is the chronic inflammation of the liver, which results in scar tissue replacing the normal liver tissue. The scar tissue of the liver blocks the flow of blood through the organ

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