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Natto: Japanese Food Miracle? Blood Thinners, Calcification and the Double Cure

By: Sarah Tomley

Understanding Symptoms of Osteoporosis & Risks: What Causes Vitamin D & Calcium Deficiency Effecting Bone Loss

By: Bernard P. Nelson

Scoliosis Basics: Causes, Types, Diagnosis, and Treatment for This Complex Disorder

By: Zoe Langley

Farm Pesticides & Crop Pollution Concerns: Concern About Food Chain Health Dangers Includes Cancer & Asthma

By: Bernard P. Nelson

Treatment of Long Term TBI-Related Spasticity: Inability to Relax Muscles a Symptom of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

By: Sara E. Lewis

Teens and Depression: Recognizing and Treating Teen Mental Health Issues

By: Jennifer Graham

Gluten Free Online Social Communities: The Who, Where and Why of Celiac Socializing

By: Marissa Carter

Psychiatric Symptoms and Lyme Disease: Wrong Diagnoses Lead to Less Effective Treatment

By: James Cooper

Negativity and Your Health: Moods and Attitudes Play an Important Role in Being Healthy

By: Denise Reynolds

Anxiety Disorders and Catastrophic Thinking: Chronic Thoughts of Irrational Worry

By: Jim Lowrance

What Causes Fibromyalgia? Current Threories Behind the Cause of Chronic Pain

By: Elyse Levesque

Lifestyle Factors Prevent Chronic Illness: Reduce Risk of Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Attack by Eighty Percent

By: Jeanne Grunert

Living Well with Fibromyalgia: Eight Steps Towards Decreasing Fibromyalgia Pain

By: Lavinia Rodriguez

Heart Disease & Lung Cancer From the Air: Health Effects of NO2 Air Pollultion - University Medical Study

By: Bernard P. Nelson

Break Out of the Smoking and Obesity Quagmires: How to Get Healthy and Fit

By: Arlene Lengyel

Smoking and Obesity: The Two Worst Conditions that Put Your Body at Extreme Risk

By: Arlene Lengyel

An Introduction to High Blood Pressure: Defining the Problem and Explaining the Consequences of Hypertension

By: A.C. Leach

What is a Phobia? An Introduction to This Particular Psychiatric Illness

By: Naheed Ali

Why is Tele-Health Good for Patients? The benefits to patients who use a tele-health program.

By: Kristie Jernigan

Discovering Borderline Personality Disorder: What Having this Disorder can Mean

By: Naheed Ali

Foot Pain: Discovering the Causes

By: Naheed Ali

Addison's Disease: What the Medical Aspects Mean

By: Naheed Ali

Heavy Metal Toxicity: Minerals that can Poison the Body and Cause Chronic Illness

By: Melissa Peterson

What Is Chronic Illness? A Definition and Explanation of Chronic Disease

By: Carly Finseth

Overview of Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments for IBS

By: Feature Writer Denise Oliveri

Irritable Bowel Syndrome Diet: How to Avoid Food Triggers for IBS

By: Feature Writer Denise Oliveri

How to Live with Hemochromatosis: Iron Overload Can Affect Multiple Organs, But Injury Can be Limited

By: Stephen Allen Christensen

Fibromyalgia - Myth or Reality: A Chronic Pain Syndrome Often Misunderstood

By: Dennis R. King

Dangers of Fluoroquinolones: Cipro and Some Other Antibiotics Can Cause Severe Adverse Reactions

By: Maija Haavisto

The Nature of Chronic Pain: Why Pain Sometimes Doesn't Go Away

By: John Richard Roberts

Treating Cystic Fibrosis (CF): Overview of Cystic Fibrosis Treatments

By: Melinda Thompson

Signs of Cystic Fibrosis: What Are the Symptoms of Cystic Fibrosis?

By: Melinda Thompson

Preventing Flare-Ups with CF: How to Stay Healthier With Cystic Fibrosis

By: Melinda Thompson

Cystic Fibrosis Overview: Learn the Cause, Symptoms and Treatment Options for CF

By: Melinda Thompson

Cystic Fibrosis Postural Drainage: Introduction to Chest Physical Therapy

By: Melinda Thompson

Exercise and Cystic Fibrosis (CF): Is it Safe to Exercise With Cystic Fibrosis?

By: Melinda Thompson

Living With Cystic Fibrosis: Daily Life for People With Cystic Fibrosis

By: Melinda Thompson

How to Stay Healthier with CF: Tips on Preventing Flare-Ups with Cystic Fibrosis

By: Melinda Thompson

How is CF Diagnosed? Sweat Chloride Test for Cystic Fibrosis (CF)

By: Melinda Thompson

What Causes Cystic Fibrosis: Understanding the Cause of CF

By: Melinda Thompson

Understanding AIDS: Symptoms and Diagnosis of the Disease

By: Kris Lee Wai Loon

The Fibromyalgia Diet: Control What You Eat to Help With Common Symptoms

By: Feature Writer Denise Oliveri

Common Fibromyalgia Treatments: Getting the Relief You Need Effectively

By: Feature Writer Denise Oliveri

Overview of Fibromyalgia: A Muscle and Joint Disease That is Gaining Attention

By: Feature Writer Denise Oliveri

Health Suffering from Acidic Diet? An Over-Acidic Body May Prompt Weight Gain, Fatigue and Osteoporosis

By: Steve Vogel

The Mind-Body Connection: Unresolved Emotional Issues Can Cause Disease

By: Rosanna C. Rogacion

Can You Heal GERD Without Drugs? Gastroesophageal Reflux Disorder: a No-cost Solution to Acid Reflux?

By: Ronald K. Frazer

Parents of the Chronically Ill: Moms with Sick Kids Suffer Worse Health Affects than Dads

By: Mona Harb

HIV/AIDS Canada: Native People: The status of HIV/AIDS in Canada's Native Population

By: Lyndsie Bourgon

Melanoma: The Causes and Risks of Melanoma

By: Sylvia McGrath

Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia part-2: When a child is diaganosed with Leukemia

By: Sylvia McGrath

Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL): ALL is a type of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow.

By: Sylvia McGrath

Tuberculosis: What Is It And How Do We Treat It?

By: Feature Writer Felicia A. Williams

Dialysis: The Treatment for Late and End-Stage Kidney Failure

By: Anthony Lee

Kidney Failure: Consequences in the Early Stages

By: Anthony Lee

Legionnaires’ disease: Sporadic outbreaks of the disease have occurred

By: Sylvia McGrath

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS): The most common disorders being diagnosed by doctors these days

By: Sylvia McGrath

Chronic Insomnia: Insomnia may be temporary or chronic and is quite a common problem.

By: Sylvia McGrath

Huntington’s disease: A disease also known as Huntington’s chorea.

By: Sylvia McGrath

Stroke: Stroke one of the main causes of adult disability

By: Sylvia McGrath

The heart (continued): Looking at other heart problems.

By: Sylvia McGrath

Caring for the human heart: The human heart is about the size of a fist.

By: Sylvia McGrath

Glaucoma: Glaucoma is one of the most common causes of blindness.

By: Sylvia McGrath

The Gall Bladder: Its main job is to store bile, a yellow-green bitter fluid.

By: Sylvia McGrath

Fibromyalgia: You have been to the doctors and have had numerous tests

By: Sylvia McGrath

Emphysema: Emphysema is a chronic lung disease that gets worse over time.

By: Sylvia McGrath

Diabetes facts and figures: Diabetes is an insulin disorder that impairs the body’s sugar metabo

By: Sylvia McGrath

Living with Diabetes: It is very important to change your lifestyle.

By: Sylvia McGrath

Crohn’s disease & colitis: Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis are two forms of IBD “inflammatory bowel disease”.

By: Sylvia McGrath

Eating to prevent Cancer: Doctors and dietitians strongly recommend that two-thirds of our plates be filled with vegetables, fruit, beans and grains.

By: Sylvia McGrath

Live a full healthy life in 2007: Learn to listen to your body, remember your resolutions, and you, may be “Living a full healthy life in 2007.”

By: Sylvia McGrath

Eating Disorders: 8% of the population suffers from an eating disorder.

By: Sylvia McGrath

Breast Cancer: Breast Cancer - Prevent becoming a statistic

By: Sylvia McGrath

Asthma: Living with Asthma

By: Sylvia McGrath

Medications and Treatments: Living with Arthritis

By: Sylvia McGrath

Living with Alzheimer's: What it means to be the prime caregiver.

By: Sylvia McGrath

Arthritis: Living with Arthritis

By: Sylvia McGrath

Living with Arthritis: By learning more about these illnesses; you can help yourself or someone you know manage thier illness.

By: Sylvia McGrath

Living with AIDS and HIV: The 10th World Conference on Aids was held in Canada

By: Sylvia McGrath

Therapy and medications: For depression and anxiety

By: Sylvia McGrath

Living a full life with depression: Living a full life in spite of depression

By: Sylvia McGrath

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