Articles tagged: diseases prevention
<< previous page 1 next page>> written by peter hutch The risk of coronary heart disease can be reduced by taking a number of steps to prevent and to control the adverse factors that put specific people at greater risk for heart disease and heart attack written by Robert Baird Baird In diverticulosis, bulging pouches (called diverticula) in the stomach or intestinal wall push through the surrounding muscle. written by Robert Baird Baird Paget's disease is a slow-paced metabolic bone disease characterized by replacement of sound bone with excessive amounts of abnormal bone. The altered bone is fragile and weak, causing painful deformities of both outside shape and internal structure. written by Robert Baird Baird Also called crib death, sudden infant death syndrome is a medical mystery of early infancy. It kills apparently healthy infants, usually between ages 4 weeks and 7 months, for reasons that remain unexplained, even after an autopsy. written by Juliet Cohen Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States and is a major cause of disability. Almost 700,000 people die of heart disease in the U.S. each year. It is also a major cause of disability. << previous page 1 next page>> |