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A Step Ahead – Early Breast Cancer Detection

Do you feel the need to be active and remain fit? Well, it is also equally important to know your body in an intimate way. Similarly, knowing the shape and feel of your breasts can help you detect abnormal changes in your mammaries. Such close breast awareness is useful for initiating early breast cancer diagnosis.

Breast cancer is a medical condition wherein the breast cells grow out of control. The cancer cells can spread in the body, outside the breast, via lymph vessels or blood vessels. When breast cancer starts to spread to other body parts, it is medically said to have 'metastasized'.

Know More About Pap Smear Testing

A Pap smear is a check-up procedure to test or probe for cervical cancer in adult females. The test involves collecting cells from the cervix region (outer opening of the uterus). Pap smear test helps in the early detection of cervical cancer by finding out the abnormal changes in the cervical cells. Pap smear can arrest the progressive development of cervical cancer.

Play & Sweat – Enjoy An Active Childhood

Healthy kids are naturally active and most of them also love playing outdoors. Children of all ages need to take care of their health in order to grow, develop, and learn. Optimum brain development happens only when they receive proper medical care, dental care, well-balanced diet, regular physical exercises, and plenty of blissful sleep

Causes and Management of Urinary Tract Infections

Urinary tract infection or UTI is a health problem that affects the urinary system in the human body. It includes your ureters, bladder, kidneys, and the lower urinary tract urethra. In most cases, women are said to be more susceptible to UTI than men. Such a medical condition can be irritating and painful. It is advisable to consult a urologist before the UTI advances towards the kidneys or causes other complications.  

All You Need to Know About Prostate Cancer

It is quite perplexing yet true that a cancerous growth can start developing anywhere in the human body, which is primarily made up of trillions of cells. When you get cancer, the orderly process of the cells in your body gets disrupted. Cancer cells are abnormal cells, and these cells live on even when they become old or damaged. New cells are formed even when they are not needed by the body and they keep dividing without stopping. The extra cells form tumours. Cancerous tumours may be malignant or benign.

Migraine – Painful Headache with Sensory Disturbances

Do you experience pain on just one side of your head? Do you feel nauseous whenever you have a headache? Do not rule it out as just another headache. It could be symptoms of migraine. Migraine headache is caused due to some complex changes within the brain. The chemical changes lead to a throbbing pain sensation on one or both sides of the head followed by other symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, light, sound and touch sensitivity.

Your Guide to a Smart Diet Chart This Ramadan

Muslims worldwide eagerly await to fulfil their religious obligations during the holiest Islamic month of Ramadan. This year Ramadan was observed on Monday 6th May, 2019, with millions of Muslims across the globe keeping austere fasts for the next 30 days, according to the Islamic lunar calendar. The fasting ritual begins everyday at pre-dawn hours and the meal taken at that time is called Suhour. After the meal, from dawn to dusk hours the fasting is observed, only to be broken at dusk with Iftar.

Become Pain-Free – Visit a Neuro-Pain Specialist Today!

Do you experience a piercing pain in your hands or legs at night? Do you sense a prickling or tingling feeling all throughout the day? Do not ignore it, as it may be the symptoms of nerve pain. An ache, throb or discomfort caused by a disease or a grave injury to your nervous system is known as nerve pain.

In medical terms, nerve pain is also called neuropathic pain. Nerve pain often hints at problems with the nerves. Nerve pain causes include trigeminal neuralgia, diabetic neuropathy, cancer, HIV AIDS, chemotherapy sessions, alcoholism, leg/hand amputation, shingles neuralgia, and multiple sclerosis to name a few.

Epilepsy Seizures – Symptoms, Causes & Treatment

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that affects the central nervous system resulting in abnormal brain activity. Irrespective of cultural background, age or racial differences; anyone in the world can develop epilepsy.

Is your Infant Baby Safe During Sleep Hours?

As first-time parents, you may be ready to do everything to keep your newborn baby fit and healthy. Yet, sometimes, an unforeseen tragedy can occur and a seemingly healthy baby with no previous medical condition may die suddenly. When a robust baby under the age of one passes away unexpectedly, usually during sleep, it is known as sudden infant death syndrome or SIDS.