Monday, June 8th, 2009
If you are an asthma patient of any kind, then you should learn how to stop an severe asthma attack. This is very important because many people die every year from this terrible condition. The numbers are very high in asthma related death and they should be much lower. In today’s world of asthma treatments, [...]
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Heartburn, named for the burning feeling felt near the heart, actually has nothing to do with the heart. Its cause is stomach acid that has come up into the esophagus. This occurs when the valve situated between the stomach and the esophagus relaxes at the wrong time, thereby creating the burning sensation in the chest or [...]
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Chronic illness is not a name for any specific disease but rather a general term describing the duration of a disease’s symptoms. A chronic illness is basically any disease that has a long term effect on the body. The name Chronic comes from the Latin word ‘Chronos,’ meaning time. Some chronic diseases, or the tendency [...]
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