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This is straightforward: if you can see a doctor or another health professional when you need them you will be healthier. This folder can help you to learn about different aspects of health care system, including different health conditions. Select the category of your interest or search with your own keywords.
Patients 'Free From Cancer' After Immune-Boost Treatment - telegraph.co.uk
Cancer patients have been left free of the disease after being treated with a new drug which harnesses the power of their own immune cells.
Picture: What Happens to Your Body if You Stop Smoking Right Now? - healthbolt.net
This is a diagram of how your health risks decrease after you quit smoking. Are you still unsure if it's worth it?
Video: Body Image After Breast Cancer - irt-video.stanford.edu
For women, breast cancer remains a common and dreaded experience. It is normal for a diagnosis of breast cancer to evoke grief, anger, and intense fear. It can also alter perception of self: body image. This video from Stanford University talks about the body image after breast cancer surgery. You'll need Real Player (or compatible video software) to play this video.
Video: Some Of the Stages of Social Anxiety - youtube.com
A real person tell her story of Social Axiety.
Legal Drugs, Lethal Access: Improperly Prescribed Pain Medicines - jsonline.com
There is a fine line between the legitimate treatment of pain and improperly prescribing drugs. When doctors cross it, they almost always avoid criminal charges and often keep their medical licenses. Yet for their patients, the consequences can be grave: prison, addiction and even death.
Another Reason to Get Rid of The Belly Fat: Dementia - sfgate.com
Middle-aged people with excess visceral fat - usually apparent in the thick waist or pot belly of an apple-shaped body - are nearly three times more likely to suffer from dementia in their 70s and 80s than people with little to no belly fat, according to a study of Kaiser Permanente patients.
Antidepressant Drugs Don't Work – Official Study - independent.co.uk
They are among the biggest-selling drugs of all time, the "happiness pills" that supposedly lift the moods of those who suffer depression and are taken by millions of people in the UK every year. But one of the largest studies of modern antidepressant drugs has found that they have no clinically significant effect. In other words, they don't work.
Cancer: Fear itself - boston.com
When patients are diagnosed with cancer -- or even if they're just being tested -- they're often engulfed by anxiety. Sometimes, they exaggerate the threat. Now, researchers want to help ease the worry.
What Addicts Need - newsweek.com
What does it mean to be an addict? For a long time the answer was that someone "lacked willpower," a tautology that is pretty much useless as a guide to treatment. In the current jargon of the recovery movement, addiction to alcohol, drugs or nicotine is a "bio-psycho-social-spiritual disorder," Addiction isn't a weakness; it's an illness. Now vaccines and other new drugs may change the way we treat it.
How to save a billion lives - economist.com
A war against the weed spreads and escalates, though the odds are unequal. Even more than tempting liquors like tequila, tobacco is a pleasure that the Old World wishes it had never taken from the New. When Christopher Columbus was met by tribesmen with “fruit, wooden spears and certain dried leaves which gave off a distinct fragrance”, he threw the last gift away. But his shipmates brought home the custom of sucking in the smoke. What to do about his now?
Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney 'Had Secret Heart Surgery' - telegraph.co.uk
The former Beatle, 65, had coronary angioplasty to open up arteries in his heart and increase blood flow. Sir Paul opted for the surgery after consulting a Harley Street specialist at the London Clinic.
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