27th October 2009
Gestational diabetes is a type of diabetes that occurs during pregnancy. Gestational diabetes is also known as gestational diabetes mellitus or GDM. Pregnant women who never had diabetes before but who have high blood sugar levels during pregnancy are sai...
20th October 2009
Diabetes is a disease that affects the body's ability to convert glucose (sugar) into energy, resulting in high blood sugar levels.
When the body is working normally, food is digested and converted into fuel which supplies energy to the body cells. In ...
20th October 2009
Colon cancer is a silent disease that only shows its symptoms at the advanced stages. As colon cancer has a long latent period, it can be detected in the precancerous stage.
Symptoms
Colon cancer early symptoms include blood in the stool or unable to ...
25th September 2009
Cervical cancer is a malignancy that develops in the lining of the cervix. It can take many years for it to develop, but during this development stage, the cell structure of the lining wall will display abnormal changes. These abnormal changes occur inter...
22nd September 2009
The prostate is a gland that is part of the male reproductive system and is located in front of the rectum just below the bladder. The primary role of the prostate gland is to squeeze fluid into the urethra when sperm spurts out through the penis during s...
17th September 2009
Going for annual health checkups is important but relying solely on these results does not exclude you from having cancer. Before cancer becomes easily apparent, there are early symptoms in your body that you can detect. These tell-tale signs may be the e...
