Archive for: July 2008

Underdeveloped as they may be, men too have breast tissues. This means men are prone to developing breast cancer too, just like females, even though their risk is about a hundred times lesser than females. About 1% of breast cancer …

Located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States Maryland is categorized by the Census Bureau as one of the southern states. It used to be a division of the Chesapeake Bay Colony where tobacco like cash crops, were …

Twenty per cent of our atmosphere is oxygen. When this gas is united chemically with hydrogen gas, the result is water, our body’s most important nutrient.

Although the existence of ovarian cyst symptoms alone cannot and will not confirm an ovarian cyst, there are certain symptoms that can help point to this diagnosis. Although individually, each symptom may not be a cause for concern, two or …

Breast cancer is something that can happen when you are so busy with many different things that you don’t realize it until it’s sometimes too late. Some people will feel no pain at all, which is sad because most breast …

As the name implies, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is a type of arthritis that primarily affects the young. Children as young as six months can be diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. In the United States, approximately 75,000 young people have this …

During pregnancy it is not uncommon for women to experience anxiety and panic attacks for the first time. This is not without reason

Long curly hair has always been the envious of most women who don’t have it. Though long curly hair naturally looks attractive, it is not an easy job maintaining it especially when the curls become frizzy.

Once viewed as a simple lack of control over one’s excesses, alcoholism is now recognized as one of the more debilitating diseases of modern society which affects millions of people all over the world. And yet this disease continues …

Rapid skin expansion results to stretch marks. However, the real culprit for causing stretch marks is the hormones called glucocorticoids. These are secreted by the adrenal glands, which lies on top of the kidneys and the production of this hormone …