Breast Cancer Medicines

When considering that pathological eating disorders and their related diseases now afflict more people globally than malnutrition, some experts in the medical field are presently purporting that the world?s number one health problem is no longer heart disease or cancer, but obesity. According to the World Health Organization (June, 2005), ?obesity has reached epidemic […]

In recent years we've learned a lot about how breastfeeding improves the health of babies. Formula feeding increases the risk of many types of diseases. Short term, formula fed babies are more likely to become ill with ear and respiratory infections and other illnesses. When they do get sick they are more seriously ill and […]

In the developing world, children are dying every minute of the day due to lack of breastfeeding. A recent report from the government of Uganda suggests that at 'least 4000 infants and young children die everyday in Uganda due to lack of breastfeeding'. Can this be true, and if so, why?

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The terms alternative medicine and complementary medicine are often wrongly used as synonyms. Actually, the termalternative medicine refers to medicine systems likeAyurveda or Acupuncture that are used in place ofconventional medicine, while complementary medicine refersto those therapies like massage that are used inconjunction with conventional medicine.

However, both end up performing the same role in severalwestern […]

According to the 2007 report of the World Health Organization, the next thirty years will witness a significant global rise, in the number of deaths due to non-communicable diseases, especially cancer. This prediction is mainly due to the ageing of the population of the world.

However, even without that bit of news, we are aware of […]

Exercise And Breast Cancer

Taking every opportunity to distribute my marketing material for my new book, I stopped by a children?s clothing store one Sunday afternoon. Upon leaving the parking lot, my six year old son caught a glimpse of ?those ribbons with two lines?. In my half-engaged attention, I acknowledged his observation that […]

The Categories at Risk of Developing Colorectal Cancer

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in the United States. While colorectal cancer is highly treatable in its incipient stage, when it is diagnosed late, the disease becomes life-threatening. Statistics indicate that there are more than 150.000 new annual cases of colorectal cancer […]