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Cure your acne
Acne is a common skin condition that occurs when oil and dead skin cells clog the skin's pores. It affects areas containing the largest oil glands, including the nose, forehead, cheeks, chin, back, and trunk...read more
Cystic acne: causes , cures and myths
You should be able to find several indispensable facts about acne in the following paragraphs. If there's at least one fact you didn't know before, imagine the difference it might make.Cystic acne is one of t...read more
Depression during and after pregnancy
As many as one in four women will suffer from depression throughout their lifetime, and often will experience it during the childbearing years. Depression is one of the most common complications during and af...read more
Diabetes: treatment and research
Diabetes cannot be cured, but it can be controlled. Strict control of blood glucose, or blood sugar, as well as blood pressure and cholesterol is the best defense against the serious complications of diabetes...read more
Diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer
None of the following tests is an individually conclusive indicator of prostate cancer. Your doctor is likely to use more than one test to determine whether or not you are affected by prostate cancer.Everyman...read more
Diet and excercise are important to fight cellulite
Cellulite diet - Detoxification diet may help you to reduce cellulite by improving on cellulite related functions like lymph and blood flow in your body. Following an anti ce...read more
Drug treatments control symptoms of Parkinsons's
As there is no cure for Parkinson's at present, drugs are used to try to control symptoms of Parkinson's. There are no perfect drugs, although there are many promising developments.The main aims of drug treat...read more
Drugs that treat ms
Disease-modifying treatments change the course of MS by manipulating the immune system in a variety of ways. Researchers found clues for a new and promising therapy when they began looking at the behavior of ...read more
Ear candling in cancer therapy
Ear candling, an ancient ritual and healing art which formed an integral part of cultures such as Egyptians, Aztecs and North American Indians, has found its way into our culture and alternative medic...read more
Eisenmenger complex
Eisenmenger Complex is the term used to describe the resultant effects of prolonged pulmonary hypertension in patients with uncorrected congenital heart defects, which eventually results in a...read more
Endermologie, a non-surgical cellulite treatment
How does it work? Endermologie® is non-surgical and non-invasive. It involves the use of a motorized device with two adjustable rollers and controlled suction. The skin gently folds and ...read more
Facts about prostate cancer
How common is prostate cancer? 32,000 men in the UK are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year. It has become the most common cancer in men overtaking lung cancer. With PSA testing on the increase and an a...read more
Feature on managing your cluster headaches
Whereas migraine is most commonly reported in women, cluster headache affects a greater number of men, and has a seriously debilitating impact on an individual's quality of l...read more
Female fertility treatments
Anti-oestrogen drugs such as clomiphene are designed to stop the negative feedback effect of oestrogen on the hypothalamus and it doing so cause an increase in hormone production by the hypothalamus which in ...read more
Fertility treatments
Besides IVF and related treatments, we also offer two main treatments in cases of unexplained infertility –induction of ovulation and intrauterine insemination...read more
Gambling addiction
Like all addictions, Gambling or risk taking involves escaping from reality. It is not just the actual risk, but the whole panoply of events leading up to taking the risk and the fantasy whic...read more
Getting better from your depression
The idea of “recovery” is not a new concept, people have always got better from depression, but it is only recently that the mental health field has started paying attention to how people with con...read more
Hair loss in children: more than you imagine
Hair loss in children is a more prevalent occurrence than most people imagine. Currently children's hair loss is responsible for approximately 3% of all pediatric office visits in this country.The American Ha...read more
Hair loss non-surgical treatment options: drugs
Both of the drugs that are currently medically approved treatments for hair loss were discovered by accident rather than design. Minoxidil was first discovered in the 1970’s and taken as a tablet for hi...read more
Hay fever treatment: acupuncture
Hay fever is very common in Cheltenham (where I work) and each year I see a lot of people suffering from this complaint. People usually come because they know of someone who benefited from acupuncture...read more
Healing cancer: what does it mean ?
Frequently, the interaction between illness and treatment is described as a battle or a war. If we hold with that analogy, then cancer can best be described as a civil war. A cancerous cell operates as if it ...read more
How do you treat asthma in children?
Children usually use the same medication as adults.The amount and type of medication will depend on the severity of the asthma. The approach to treatment in children (as in adults) is to &quo...read more
How is micropigmentation used?
People who undertake micropigmentation can do so for many different reasons, ranging from those who simply want to look their best at all times, to those who require some form of corrective skin enhan...read more
How is von Willebrand Disease treated?
Most cases of von Willebrand disease are mild and often do not require treatment. Treatment may only be needed after a surgery, tooth extraction, or an accident. For those who need treatment, one or more of t...read more
How to help a gambling addict
One to One Counselling This service is provided by some GP surgeries, voluntary organisations and private sector providers. As the name suggests it is a less intensive therapy usually involving sessions of about one hour pe...read more
How to help someone with depression
Eight ways you can help someone with depression Remember that they cannot help being affected by depression. Encourage them to talk and listen to what they are saying. Let them kno...read more
How to treat allergies
Many people are afflicted with some type of allergy to all sorts of things, such as environmental allergens, odors, fumes, food, and cigarette smoke just to name a few. If symptoms become uncomfortable and ha...read more
How to treat autoimmune diseases?
The Response of Modern Medicine The immune system, which is a complex network of specialized organs, cells and cell products, is continually making antibodies to help rid the body of substan...read more
How to treat psoriasis?
The type of treatment prescribed for psoriasis depends on several factors the most important being the severity of the condition in the individual. Treating PS is a very hit and miss affair although there are...read more
How to treat warts?
Warts are simply areas of skin that grow faster than normal due to the presence of the wart virus. Warts are skin-colored and feel rough to the touch. The technical name is verruca vu...read more
Hygiene products and your acne
Acne is one of the most common skin conditions and is prevalent among both teens and adults. There are many products available to treat acne, some of which are common to personal hygiene. T...read more
Infertility treatments for men
If you are reading this page you have probably been told that you have a low sperm count. If so the first thing you must remember is that sperm count is a poor test in terms of predicting whether you will act...read more
Infertility: treatment methods
Treatment methods depend largely on the cause of infertility.A blockage of the sperm passages in both, male or female can be treated by surgery.Treating hormonal imbalance in the female usin...read more
Integration for stress and well being
To attempt to scientifically evaluate an abstract concept such as reflexology is very difficult. To evaluate the effects of that treatment of reflexology may be much easier. As in many other forms of natural ...read more
Introduction to asthma treatments
Asthma is an individual condition, it varies from person to person. Health professionals are advisers to your health, but ultimately you decide which treatment is best for you.The aim of con...read more
Is there any treatment for migraine?
The pain of a migraine headache is often described as an intense pulsing or throbbing pain in one area of the head. It is often accompanied by extreme sensitivity to light and sound, nausea, ...read more
Know your muscles
Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (TOS) is a condition affecting the shoulder, arm and hand characterized by pain, weakness and numbness in the these areas. TOSread moreLithotripsy for kidney stones
General Information Lithotripsy is a non-invasive alternative to surgery for the treatment of kidney stones. It uses carefully focused, high-energy shock waves to disintegrate the kidney stones. Once the sto...read more
Male fertility treatments
Hypothalamic hormones The anterior pituitary gland releases a range of hormones with various functions around the body.Luteinising hormone (LH) and Follicle Stimulating Hormoneread moreMale pattern hair loss
Dating as far back as history will take us, baldness has been a part of the aging process that many men fear the most. Before Rogaine, hair transplants and hair additions, men coped in variou...read more
Managing dementia
No treatment is currently available that can stop or cure Alzheimer's disease. However, new medications are available that can improve memory and delay the progression of the illness.Developing new tr...read more
Menopause: not all that fun
Technically menopause is the last menstrual flow of a woman's life and the climacteric is period of time preceding and following this event. In general usage, menopause refers to the whole pr...read more
Mesotherapie and skin rejuvenation
Mesotherapy involves the injection of a specially prepared mixture of vitamins, amino acids, and medications, placed just millimetres under the skin into the problematic area. Just a "drop" of solut...read more
Ms treatment
Although there is still no cure for multiple sclerosis (MS), today it is a highly treatable condition. MS treatment consists of 3 basic components: Halting or slowing the natural course of the disease (disease-modifyin...read more
MS: Causes, incidence and risk factors
Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord). Multiple sclerosis (MS) usually affects woman more than men. The disorder most...read more
Neurogenic stuttering: some guidelines
Neurogenic stuttering is a type of fluency disorder in which a person has difficulty in producing speech in a normal, smooth fashion. Individuals with fluency disorders may have speech that s...read more
Nutritional therapy treats the body as a whole
Allergies Allergies should be viewed as symptoms of the whole body picture. Why are you disposed to getting allergies in the first place, rather than what are you allergic to? This is a very important question, because if yo...read more
Options to treat MS
Treatment options There are now 6 disease-modifying medications approved for use in relapsing forms of MS by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). None of them is a cure for MS. None will prevent pre-ex...read more
Osteoperosis: The Curse for the Woman of the Western World
So much has been said and has been written about osteoporosis or thinning of the bones that you would imagine that by now we have got it all sorted out and under control. Sadly the opposite seems to be true; ...read more
Over the counter ideas for treating your acne
In today's world, it seems that almost any topic is open for debate. While I was gathering facts for this article, I was quite surprised to find some of the issues I thought were settled are actually still being openly discus...read more
