Managing Major Depressive Disorder
Major depressive disorder is a severe and pervasive case of low mood that is best known to put an individual into an abnormal disinterest to normally pleasurable day to day activities. It can be best defined by the inability of a person to see life in a positive and hopeful way, robbing him of happiness, […]
Explaining the Effects of Hypogonadism on Your Body
Are you experiencing reduced menstruation? Do you go through months with no menstrual period? Are you having problems conceiving? Do you go through periods of hot flushes, anxiety and excessive sweating even though you are not yet in the menopausal stage? Then perhaps you are suffering from hypogonadism, a condition wherein your ovaries are not […]
Paget’s Disease: A Chronic Problem Among Seniors
Do you know another bone disease aside from osteoporosis? Perhaps you have not heard of Paget’s disease, which is considered as the second most common disease of the bone next only to osteoporosis. It occurs mostly in older people, affecting 4 percent of adults aged 50 years and above. Although it is not fatal, Paget’s […]
How Juvenile Arthritis Spoils Childhood
We often associate arthritis with old people. While it is true that seniors are the most common patients of this painful joint disorder, the fact is even children can be afflicted with this disease. In the United States alone, some 300,000 children under 16 years of age are suffering from juvenile arthritis. Although most patients bear with the pain and […]
How Frightening is Heart Failure?
Just the mention of “heart failure” and you’ll surely grimace at the mere thought of it. Curiously, a common misconception is that heart failure literally means that the heart has stopped working. This is not the case, as the condition actually is characterized by the weak pumping power of the heart. When this happens, the […]