Fainting or Syncope.
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Fainting or syncope occurs when insufficient oxygen reaches the brain. A person can either suddenly lose consciousness without warning or may develop symptoms before hand such as feeling light headed, sweaty or nauseous. The person then falls unconscious and in most cases after a few moments recovers and may feel nauseous or can [...]
Your Heart: Keep it Healthy.
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Your heart is made up of two ventricles and two atria. There is a left and right side of the heart. The left side pumps oxygenated blood to the rest of the body. The right side collects deoxygenated blood from the veins and sends it to the lungs and then returns it to [...]
Angina. What You Should Know.
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Angina is a constrictive pain in the chest due to Ischaemic heart disease. It is also known as Angina pectoris.
There are two types. Stable Angina is of short duration brought on by physical exertions or mental stress. Unstable Angina is of longer duration lasting between 30 to 60 minutes and can be brought [...]
HGH Test – Test Yourself to Improve Growth
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An HGH test will help one to know about the level of the human growth hormone in their body. Any deficiency can be cured thereby with the help of the report from the test. It is a useful tool in the field which helps in taking the correct supplement for the deficiency.
The level [...]
Arthritis Treatment: Gout and Hyperuricaemia.
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Hyperuricaemia is a higher than normal blood level of uric acid. There are individuals with high blood uric acid levels and have never had an attack of gout. Are these people at risk of arthritis of the joints and kidney stones from urate crystals deposits? Yes they are.
Firstly the diagnosis of asymptomatic hyperuricaemia [...]
Arthritis Treatment:Chronic Gout.
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In the days before adequate treatment controlled the blood level of uric acid, chronic gout presented with multiple joint involvement and chronic poly-arthritis. Today this is rare and only found in patients who refuse medication, have poor compliance or unable to take suitable medication.
Here the acute gout attack will become more frequent. Then [...]
Arthritis Treatment: Gout and Podagra.
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The first explanation of podagra was in the sixteenth century by Burgamer, a German Physician. He said podagra is a pain in the feet with or without swelling which comes from dampness or drought.
Podagra is acute gout affecting the big toe and typically the first [...]
Arthritis Treatment: Types of Gout.
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Gout develops when the level of uric acid in the blood stream is higher than normal. When this happens urate crystal are deposited in and around the joints.
There are two types of gout, primary and secondary. The body eliminates uric acid from the blood naturally and most of this (66%) is done by [...]
Arthritis Treatment: Gout.
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Gout is a form of inflammatory arthritis. In gout, crystals of uric acid is deposited in and around the joints. For this deposit of urate to occur, the circulating level of uric acid in the blood must be higher than normal.
Gout has been recorded through the centuries. Hippocrates wrote about it and urate [...]
Arthritis Treatment: History of Magnets & Health.
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Magnets were discovered in China and Greece. In China it was used in fortune telling and as a guide to building. By 1200 AD they were used in ships as compasses. Ever since, sailors and navigators have used compasses and the earth’s magnetic field to guide them in their journeys, whether on land [...]
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