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Structure and function of blood and bone marrow

Your blood circulates throughout your whole body. It supplies food, oxygen, hormones and other chemicals to all the body's cells. It also helps to remove waste products and is important in fighting infection and in controlling bleeding. Blood consists of ... Read >
Author: Hakan B.

Foods that combat ageing – easy and effective anti ageing strategy!

Food is the basic need of our life and for healthy living nutritional food is the first requirement. There is large variety of food that combat ageing and keeps you looking young and active. Diet is the most crucial part of anti-ageing. It provides vitali... Read >
Author: Jim Andrews

How To Cure Acid Reflux Disease

According to the studies on acid reflux disease and GERD, more than 80 per cent of sufferers smoke, many of them heavily. That in itself makes a point - as fewer than 30 per cent of those in most developed countries now smoke, there must be a strong link ... Read >
Author: MichelleS

Information on Anemia

Anemia has a complicated technical definition, but in simple terms it means that a person's blood contains a lower than normal amount of red blood cells or other elements that help transport oxygen throughout the body. Often caused by a lack of iron, anem... Read >
Author: peterhutch

What Is The Importance Of Water Soluble Vitamin B6?

Many of the body's metabolic processes depend on the action of the water soluble vitamin B6; this is actually the chemical that plays such a vital role in the release of glucose and the metabolic processing of sugar. With a seven-type variety, vitamin B6 ... Read >
Author: Peter Gitundu

Blood Type Diet: Fact or Fiction…?

As per the author of book ‘Eat Right for Your Type' Dr. Peter DÁdamo, there is a relationship between the blood and the foods one eats. According to him, there occurs a chemical reaction between food and blood which is caused by a factor called lectins... Read >
Author: Brenda Stokes

Kidney Cancer - Symptoms and Treatment for Kidney Cancer

Kidney cancer is a disease of the kidneys, the reddish-brown curving organs about the size of a small fist, located above the waist to either side of the spine.Kidney cancer starts in the cells of the kidney. They are closer to the back of the body than... Read >
Author: Peter sams

Leg Swelling

The general cause of a leg swell is the additional fluid that gathers in the lower extremity tissues. If this swelling remains and is indented by a finger it is termed as Edema Pitting. There can also be other less usual causes for this problem that inclu... Read >
Author: irenadcosta

Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura Information

Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a blood disorder that causes blood clots to form in blood vessels around the body. TTP can lead to low platelets, low red blood cell count , abnormal kidney function, and problems with the nervous system. TTP c... Read >
Author: Juliet Cohen

Anaemia Causes Symptoms Information with Treatment

Anaemia can be caused by iron or vitamin deficiency, blood loss, a chronic illness, or a genetic or acquired defect or disease. Anaemia is among the most common ailments affecting human beings. Approximately one trillion or 100 million new blood cells are... Read >
Author: Juliet Cohen

Symptoms of the most common leukemia type

Leukemia is a disease that affects mostly adults. Children can have leukemia as well, but the number is lower than ten percent of all leukemia patients. There are many different types of leukemia, but the most common of them is acute myelogenous. This leu... Read >
Author: groshan fabiola

Foods to Slow Down Aging

One can fight the natural and irreversible flow of growing older by anti-ageing, the process of delaying the consequences of ageing by using exercise, various preventive methods, and avoiding the health hazards. A crucial component of any anti-ageing prog... Read >
Author: Adam G

Leukemia symptoms

Leukemia is not a very common disease and unfortunately the exact cause of leukemia is not yet known. People that suffer from this disease can get infections very easily. Leukemia patients, besides having a large number of leukemia cells also have a r... Read >
Author: groshan fabiola

How to prevent peptic ulcer

A proper lifestyle may reduce the symptoms of a peptic ulcer, so we should keep ourselves away from spicy foods, coffee and alcohol, smoking, taking NSAIDs and paracetamol, lose excess weight if overweight.A certain medication will be prescribe by your do... Read >
Author: groshan fabiola

Jaundice in the newborn baby

Jaundice is a symptom, not a disease and there are many reasons for it happening. It is recognized primarily by the yellow discoloration of the skin. In the womb, baby does not breathe but rely on a high level of red blood cells to receive enough oxyge... Read >
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