October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is an annual campaign to increase awareness of the disease. Each year in the United States, more than 240,000 women get breast cancer. We can use this opportunity to spread the word about steps women can take to detect breast cancer early. Breast Cancer Awareness is so important...
Cholesterol is a fatty substance that your liver produces naturally. 80% of your body’s cholesterol is made by your liver. Your liver produces all the cholesterol that you need, but fats and cholesterol are present in certain animal foods, meat, and cheese we eat nowadays. Every cell in your body needs and contains cholesterol. Your...
Have you had your cholera jabs yet? It’s probably the last thing you want to think about before an exciting trip. In our globalized, modern, and mobile world, over 1 million people travel internationally each day. Americans are keen travelers, whether for pleasure, or business. Travel gives us an opportunity to experience other cultures, to...
June is Men’s Health Month and we share education and awareness about men’s health issues. Increasing awareness of men`s health issues, of preventable health problems and encouraging early detection and treatment of disease is to get more men to go to the doctor on a regular basis. The statistics are staggering: seven million American men...
Hypertension—a major risk factor for heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States—will take center stage during Hypertension Awareness Month in May and World Hypertension Day on Thursday, May 17. Hypertension is another name for high blood pressure. One-third of Americans with high blood pressure don’t know they have it. About 80...
The Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) organized the World Asthma Day on the first Tuesday of May. This World Asthma Day encourages clinicians and others to focus on identifying allergens and irritants that can lead to asthma attacks. The aim of this event is to raise asthma awareness throughout the world and to enhance the...
What exactly is a chronic disease? By definition, it is a medical condition that lasts more than 3 months and is not preventable nor is it curable. About 133 million Americans–45% of the total U.S. population–live with a chronic condition. Diabetes, arthritis, high cholesterol, hypertension, asthma, and heart disease, and other chronic diseases can make...
As we head into spring, some diseases appear to occur with a pattern of seasonal variation. Diseases which are caused due to the effects of the seasons are called seasonal diseases. Seasonal fluctuations in disease have been recognized for millennia. The spring and autumn months have a higher frequency of almost all diseases … and...
The most important thing that anyone can do when feeling ill is to see a caring physician. Our bodies change constantly, and one of the most valuable tools that the physician uses to assess your health is the laboratory blood test. Blood tests take an internal and dynamic ‘snapshot’ of you, at the time of...
January is National Glaucoma Awareness Month. Glaucoma, with almost no signs or systems, is the leading cause of vision loss and irreversible blindness in the United States. The most important thing to remember about glaucoma is that early diagnosis and treatment is the key to preserving sight. Glaucoma often goes undetected because it is a...
