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You’ve probably heard of yellow fever. It’s one of those conditions that has a famous name that almost everyone can recall having heard at some point. But how much do you really know about it? If you’re like most people, you probably don’t…

Have you ever eaten a meal and then felt a burning sensation in your throat later in the evening? You may have been suffering with acid reflux - this is when the acid from the stomach rises up into your gullet and leads to heartburn. This…

There can be no doubt that child abuse and neglect are truly terrible things. It is difficult to think of things that are more appalling to us than the abuse of a child – after all, children have no power do to anything about the abuse that…

Sometimes it is easy to forget about vitamins. After all, a lot of us take for granted that we are getting the right levels of vitamins into our bodies from the foods that we eat. It can be easy to focus on the obvious stuff like avoiding…

Cancer is a big problem for society. It’s one of those words that has been engrained in our subconscious – it puts us on edge just hearing it. That’s probably because it is responsible for the death of so many people every year. Just think…

Medicine is a very interesting subject that many people are interesting. While most people tend to rely on the opinion of their doctor or even just the basic truths of rational science, there is a growing section of society that are…

When we think about cancer and the ways to treat it, perhaps our first thought centres around chemotherapy and what it can do to help you fight off the disease. But in trying to resist cancer there are a number of different treatments that…

When we think about illnesses that children suffer from there is actually a huge number of them that instantly come to mind. Of course there is the chicken pox which blights the young lives of many children (although is actually more a…

The scourge of the teenager – acne has cause problems for almost every single person as they have grown up, seemingly flaring up on the eve of a big party or on any occasion where a photo will be taken. So what do you when life throws you…

Giving up smoking is one of the hardest things for many people to attempt to do in their lives. It might seem like such a big deal, but try to imagine going without something that you literally crave every couple of hours or so – then…

There are many different diets that fade in and out of popularity. This is no doubt due to the current obsession with weight loss and trying to emulate the appearance of celebrities and models. This makes people want to do anything they can…

There are a number of foods that are championed as ‘negative calorie’ foodstuffs – but many people often think of these as ‘no calorie’ foods. But the reality is that there is no such thing as a food that doesn’t have calories in it – all…

Many of us want to lose weight. Dieting is big business and it seems that so many people are willing to do virtually anything if it mean that we drop a few pounds. So, many of us turn to dieting systems in the hope that they will see us…

Celebrities are well known for their perfect bodies. It seems to be a part of the celebrity culture, or indeed perhaps just as a more general point of what it takes to become a star these days, that if you want the media spotlight, you need…

It is interesting how if you’re from one part of the world – the USA – you would treat the question ‘who is Jillian Michaels?’ with a strange look, because she is a very well-known and familiar face. However, for other parts of the world…

Sometimes we are all guilty of taking our health from granted. It is common to find that people have an ‘it will never happen to me’ attitude about illnesses and that means that those unlucky people who do suffer from the illness go into…

Miscarriages are incredibly painful experiences. Trying to cope with the loss of your unborn child is a difficult time, with emotions ranging from resentment and guilt to shame, anger and sadness. Women often feel responsible and worthless…

If you’re planning on going on a low cholesterol diet it can be a bit of a worry that you are going to be cutting out so many of the foods that you love. That’s the trouble with many diets – the stuff that is bad for you tends to be the…

When we think about ways to live a healthy lifestyle with a great diet there are some obvious things that we can put our finger on as things to avoid. Clearly any medical professional, and probably anyone with common sense, will know that…

Obstructive sleep apnea is the most common form of the condition in children and could be potentially life threatening if the condition becomes too severe. However, if the right methods are used in the early stages, it could be possible to…

If someone said to you “chocolate can be great for your health” you might look at them in a strange way and laugh. It’s a fact that we think many things about chocolate – but probably never that it is a health food. There are a number of…

Diabetes is a well-known health concern. It’s growing too – type 2 diabetes is one of the fastest growing conditions in the western world, and that’s thought to be due to increasingly bad diets that people have. The increased levels of fat…

Trying to lose weight is hard. No-one would deny that fact, and yet so many people want to lose weight, so why is it that so many simply find it impossible to do? Are the difficulties simply too much of a challenge for most people?…