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Eating Disorders
Q. What are eating disorders? A. Eating disorders are very unhealthy ways of eating that can lead to serious illness and death. Each year, millions of people in the United States suffer from eating disorders. Three of...
Influenza
Influenza, commonly called “the flu,” is caused by the influenza virus, which infects the respiratory tract. The virus generally spreads from person-to-person when an infected person coughs or sneezes...
Back Pain
Overview Postural muscles become short when stressed (overused, misused or abused) and require gentle, safe stretching methods as a rule (yoga type) to normalise them plus reeducation as to elimination of causes...
Meditation Helping Arthritis Patients
By ALEX DOMINGUEZ Associated Press Writer (AP) BALTIMORE Dalia Isicoff knows pain. A lifelong sufferer of rheumatoid arthritis, she has had seven hip replacement surgeries. Since leaving the hospital in February...
Simple Ways to Protect Your Kids from Poisons
Post the number. Get the phone number for your poison control center, and post it in a place where family members can find it in an emergency. Tape it to the telephone, post it on the refrigerator, or tack it to the...
Condoms and Sexually Transmitted Diseases – Especially AIDS
A condom could save your life! This information is to help you understand why it’s important to use condoms (rubbers, prophylactics) to help reduce the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. These diseases...
Uterine Fibroids
Q. What are uterine fibroids? A. Uterine fibroids are lumps of body cells and tissues that grow in the wall of the uterus (womb). The fibroids can grow alone or in groups. They may grow within the wall of the uterus...
Breast Cancer Overview
General Information Note: Separate PDQ summaries on Screening for Breast Cancer; Prevention of Breast Cancer; and Male Breast Cancer Treatment are also available. What is breast cancer? Breast cancer, a common cancer in...
Protection Against Microbes
The body has an arsenal of defenses that it uses to ward off foreign invaders. Healthy immune systems recognize as foreign many things that are not self. Most of the foreign invaders that confront the human immune...
