What are the Warning Signs of Heart Attack and Stroke?
Warning Signs of Heart Attack:
Some heart attacks are sudden and intense, but most of them start slowly with mild pain or discomfort with one or more of these symptoms:
Chest discomfort
Discomfort in other areas of the upper body
Shortness of breath with or without chest discomfort
Other signs including [...]

Both heart attacks and strokes stem from coronary heart disease. Stroke is the number three killer of Americans and a leading cause of serious disability. Consequently, it is very important to reduce risk factors, know the warning signs, and know how to respond quickly and properly at the onset of symptoms.
Heart attack signs include chest [...]

Causes of Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s disease has no known single cause, but in the last 15 years scientists have learned a great deal about factors that may play a role.
Late-onset Alzheimer’s, which chiefly affects individuals over age 65, is the more common form of the illness that is most often associated with the term “Alzheimer’s disease.” [...]

If you are in the emergency room, treatment will be started while the evaluation is still going on.
You may be given oxygen through a face mask or a tube that goes in your nose.
You may be given aerosolized beta-agonist medications through a face mask or a nebulizer, with or without an anticholinergic agent.
Another method of [...]

Major depressive disorder can evolve subacutely over days to weeks, or more slowly after a prodromal period of anxiety and mild depression that lasts for weeks to months. Between 50–85% of persons with a single episode of major depressive disorder will suffer another episode during their lifetime. Individuals who have suffered three or more episodes [...]

Your most important goals are to lock on to what’s causing the allergic reaction and then avoid it like the plague.
Get your identifications straight: poison ivy—three-leaved, spiked green plant with red stem; poison oak—three-leaved with serrated edges; and poison sumac—fernlike leaves with fruit that grows between the leaf and the branch. If you don’t [...]

Anemia is a below-normal level of hemoglobin* or hematocrit*. Hemoglobin is the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen to all parts of the body. Anemia can be a temporary condition, a consequence of other health conditions, or it can be a chronic problem. People with mild anemia may not have any symptoms or [...]

Autism is one of the mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders that may appear in early childhood. Autistic children may have a serious lifelong disability. However, with appropriate treatment and training, some autistic children can develop certain aspects of independence in their lives. Parents should support their autistic children in developing those skills that use their [...]

This study assessed differences in negative symptom presentation between schizophrenia/schizoaffective, other psychotic, and depressed patients over a 10-year followup period. One hundred fifty individuals with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorders (SZ/SZAF), other psychotic disorders (OP), and depressed patients (DP) were assessed at index hospitalization, then reassessed at 4.5-year, 7.5-year, and 10-year followups. SZ/SZAF patients significantly differed [...]

About 95% of recurrent headaches are either migraine or tension headaches. Some people have both kinds. Some medical texts refer to this as “mixedheadache disorder.” For many years, these two headache types were thought to be independent disorders, but now many neurologists feel the mechanisms that cause both of them are similar and treatments for [...]

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What is an Influenza Pandemic?
How should I prepare?
How can I protect myself?
What travel precautions are being taken?
Where can I learn more?
Glossary
About Influenza
Influenza (the “flu”) is a seasonal respiratory illness caused by flu viruses. The viruses can cause mild to severe illness sometimes resulting in death. It is important to note that the flu [...]

What is Swine Influenza? Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza virus. Swine influenza viruses may circulate among swine throughout the year, but most outbreaks occur during the late fall and winter months similar to outbreaks in humans.
Can humans catch swine flu? Swine flu viruses do not [...]