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Osteoporosis is one of the most widely suffered degenerative diseases in the world. Essentially the condition weakens the strength of your bones until even the slightest bump or collision can leave them fractured. Beyond this it's…

How many men have had the unfortunate honour of suffering from kidney stones in the past? If you have you'll know the agony which these tiny things can cause, especially when it comes to passing them. The urethra simply wasn't built to pass…

Asthma is one of the most suffered chronic conditions in the world and without the proper treatment and therapies it can be deadly. In a lot of parts of the world the medicine used to treat asthma simply isn't available and many die every…

When it comes to treating and managing any chronic condition it's important to know what you're doing and understand why you're doing it. If you've got diabetes then you'll need to understand why losing weight will help you, if it's…

I've said it before and I'll say it again, you can't treat a chronic condition with medicine alone. When something is going to be with you for the rest of your life then you need to use your life to treat the condition. It's no good…

An important thing to remember when thinking about medicine and the medical world is that it's not perfect. It's easy to look at the massive pharmaceutical corporations and the doctors in their white coats and assume that they know all…

One of the wonderful things about medicine is that it never gives up on anything. If something ever shows even a glimmer of curative potential then scientists and researchers from all over the world will jump on it and keep poking and…

Type two diabetes is closely linked to obesity. It's a condition which has risen to prominence in the last decade or two as the obesity epidemic has reached critical mass. Diabetes in general isn't curable and tends to be a condition which…

I'm sure you all remember your first time, either with a sense of mild embarrassment or with starry eyes. The truth is that whether it went well or terribly, it was so long ago now that it probably doesn't matter anymore. In a recent study…

When you think of the causes of diabetes you might get a little stumped. Type one's cause is a bit of a mystery, scientists understand the process which is going on but they're unsure as the reason behind it. Type two is better understood…

Diabetes is a condition which you need to keep under control. It has the potential to damage more or less every part of your body and only keeping to the proper regiment and taking whatever medications the doctors have prescribed to you…

There's a massive correlation between obesity and type two diabetes. Though it's more than possible for those who aren't obese to contract the condition it's not common, ¾ type two diabetics are obese. In the past few decades the levels of…

There are few conditions as linked as obesity and diabetes. One tends to proceed the other and it's been said that around ¾ of type two diabetics are obese or severely overweight. Recent studies have also shown that taking insulin regularly…

There are a lot of type two diabetics in the world today. More than there ever have been in the past with their numbers constantly on the rise. It's an epidemic of planetary proportions and it has been said that around 79 million people in…

In the past type one and type two diabetes went by very different names. They were once known as early-onset and adult-onset diabetes because type one is most commonly diagnosed early in life and type two is much more common in adults than…

Type two diabetes is so common today that you could very easily consider it a full-blown epidemic. It's not contagious as you'd expect an epidemic to be but rather is brought about by a sedentary lifestyle and a steady and unchecked gain in…

Asthma is an immeasurably common respiratory condition which generally affects children at a higher rate than adults. Adults suffer from the condition too but they're statistically less likely to than children are. Asthma causes…

Diabetes is a condition which has potentially far reaching consequences. It's not like arthritis or asthma which only affects one part of the body, diabetes damages your metabolism and affects the contents of your blood stream and as such…

Asthma is common. It's known to be one of the leading chronic diseases worldwide and it's responsible for a large proportion of annual hospitalizations. In the USA alone 20 million people are said to suffer from asthma and 2 million visits…

Asthma is a chronic condition and as such the most effective way to treat it is by pairing the medicinal treatments prescribed by your doctors with more holistic lifestyle changes you can do yourself. Chronic conditions are with you for…

In the USA and other countries where healthcare isn't free, it's common for employers to offer health insurance to employees and their families. In times past, this was a great perk of the job and the companies with the better health…

Social media has a lot of positive impact on our lives and in recent years it has become an important method of marketing for companies and products. It's easier than ever before to keep in contact with old friends and there's never a day…

Time management has never been as imperative as it is today in the workplace. What with new technologies and how flexible they allow us to be it takes a lot less people to do the number of jobs which once took so many. This means that…

There's a credo which you should start to live by: 'All exercise is good exercise'. Too many people think that if they're not jogging miles a week or going to the gym or doing any sort of structured exercise, they may as well not be…

Asthma isn't a condition you can ignore. It's chronic which means it's not just going to go away and it has the potential to be deadly. Of course, even if it doesn't kill you, ignoring your condition can cause severe and permanent damage to…

Asthma is a condition which we'll all have seen at some point in our lives. It's said that in each classroom in the developed world there are around two asthmatic children and the condition is certainly more prevalent in the young. However…