Category: Awareness
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Health Insurance 101: How to extend health coverage for your family with top-up insurance
The outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic has made the importance of medical insurance evident to all. Over 77 million people have contracted the virus so far across the world with over 1.7 million deaths. To make matters worse, a new mutation of the deadly virus has already been detected in the UK, which is…
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Top 10 Hottest Peppers In The World
The world’s hottest pepper is constantly changing, evolving almost. Every year, a new pepper is either created or discovered, so check back often to see new record-breaking peppers! PepperHead® has the most up-to-date list of the World’s Hottest Peppers. Here at PepperHead® we have been growing these “super hots” for over 20 years and have…
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Bypass Surgery: Purpose & Procedure
Just the mention of a “bypass surgery” is enough to generate gasps of shock and surprise. With the advancement in the field of medical science and the sophisticated surgical instruments being used nowadays, bypass surgery has a success rate of 99.5%. Which implies that though it involves operating the most vital organ of the body,…
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Rarest Blood Group – All About Bombay Blood Group
What is Rarest Blood Group Bombay Blood Group? It is the Rarest Blood Group first discovered in Mumbai (then Bombay) in the year 1952 by Dr. Y.M Bhide and that’s how it got its name. How was it discovered? This incident happened when a patient was admitted to the KEM hospital and required blood transfusion. During the regular…
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Bulimia Nervosa : Understanding Eating Disorders
Bulimia nervosa is a psychological eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of overeating and an obsession with the control of body weight. It is based on the patient’s dissatisfaction with their body image. While they fear food, they consume it in huge quantities. Binge eating is in response to depression, stress and other feelings related…
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Leprosy Disease: History, Symptoms and Treatment
Leprosy disease is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, and transmission is thought to be either via the respiratory route or through direct contact with an infected organism. Infection by the bacteria doesn’t immediately mean you have the disease. There are 2 possible presentations: tuberculoid or Lepromatous. In the tuberculoid form the patient is capable…
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Cancer: Redefining the “cure” for cancer
Is there a cure for cancer? This is a very complex question. Cancer is not a single unit. It is comprised of numerous individual diseases that are formed together because of the abnormal proliferation or growth of certain cells. Also, specific types of cancers, such as breast cancer, are made up of numerous different diseases…
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Digital Health: Improving Lives
The industrial revolution changed everything a few centuries ago. Now everything is affected by the digital healthcare revolution. The opportunities for interdisciplinary digital healthcare research bringing together computer science to radically improve global health, public health, and well being of individuals and populations globally are astonishing. Digital health is about connecting up the points of…
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Internet Self-Diagnosis: Good or Bad?
Over a thousands and millions times every year many of us turn to a new type of online software called Symptom Checkers to try to self-diagnose medical symptoms. It can be either to get counsel on whether one should rest at home until feeling better or should we seek further medical care. But how accurate is the information…
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Addiction, Types and Treatment
Misuse of prescription drugs means taking a medicine or dose in a manner other than approved by the doctor or physician; taking someone else’s medicine, even if it is for a genuine medical complaint such as pain; or taking a medication to feel ecstasy or get high. From where it all started The abuse of…