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Drop Your Positive Attitude?
5th June 2008
A group of medical researchers in Melbourne, Australia, presented findings at a major medical conference in Chicago recently debunking the idea that a positive mental attitude helps fight...
Injuries to the Spinal Chord
2nd June 2008
Spinal chord injuries (SCI's) are any injuries that damage the spinal chord in such a way as to cause loss of control or feeling in a part of the body. Made from neurons (nerve cells that control...
Traumatic Brain Damage
1st June 2008
Brain damage, however it happens, is essentially the destruction and/or degeneration of brain cells. The brain can be damaged through all sorts of reasons, ranging from illnesses, alcohol abuse and...
Liver Failure
31st May 2008
Acute liver failure is the loss of function of 80-90% liver cells due to severe degeneration of the organ after the first symptoms of liver disease manifest (usually jaundice). The medical term for...
Chronic Kidney Disease
31st May 2008
Chronic kidney disease, or kidney failure as it is sometimes referred to, is a persistent and irreversible condition, and it can, if left untreated, lead to irreparable harm to body as the toxins that...
Stable Blood Sugar Levels Help Critical Illness Survival
30th May 2008
Critically ill patients are less likely to survive their condition if they have drastically fluctuating blood sugar levels. High blood sugar is long known to be a factor in diabetic complications, but...
Type 2 Diabetics Risk Developing Critical Illnesses
30th May 2008
Diabetes UK, has revealed that nearly 700,000 thousand people with Type 2 diabetes (linked to obesity) risk severe strokes and blindness because they do not take their medications regularly. Type 2...
Bacterial Meningitis
23rd May 2008
Unlike viral meningitis (which tends to be less severe) bacterial meningitis occurs most commonly in people who live in close quarters to each other, making university students, barracked soldiers and...
Motor Neuron Disease (MND)
22nd May 2008
Motor Neuron Disease (MND) is a disease that is both progressive and neuro-degenerative. This means that it attacks the upper and lower motor neurones within the Central Nervous System. This...
Aphonia - The Complete Loss of Speech
22nd May 2008
Aphonia is when the vocal chords cannot meet together to vibrate when air from the lungs passes between them, meaning that no sounds can be produced and thus no words. Complete speech loss is a...
