Medical Loans Vs Credit Cards: Which Should You Use?

When health troubles strike, the first thing that looms over like a big black cloud of over everyone’s head is the financing. It gets even worse when your surgery is not covered within your medical insurance. So, how do you go about financing your surgery bills? While many opt for going with the spending through a personal loan or a … Read more


Foods to eat and avoid during IVF

IVF, in vitro fertilization, is a procedure which requires precautions and preparations. Prepare your body, both physically and mentally for the procedure. However, there is no proven fertility diet but you can prepare your body to take the treatment properly and increase the chance of success. Remember, you are preparing to conceive, your health will affect the embryo too. During … Read more


Cervical Pain: Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis, Treatments, Risk factors, and Precautions

Cervical pain occurs due to damage in the bones, ligaments or muscles; damage in the spinal cord or nerves can also lead to such a pain. Old age people are mostly affected by cervical pain as with age our body’s ability to repair decreases with the increase of age. But in this fact lies a common misconception that can be … Read more


Depression: Symptoms, Causes, Risk-factors, Types, Treatment, and Prevention

Have you heard people saying, “Depression is all in your head”, well next time you hear someone saying that do note that it’s a myth? Someone who is suffering from depression can’t just let go the feeling or shut it off; people might also go to an extent and assume that the affected person is acting out as people only … Read more


Lasik Eye Surgery: Its Overview, Indication & Complications

LASIK (Laser-Assisted In-situ Keratomileusis) is a surgical method to correct certain vision disorders. This surgery is used to reduce or eliminate the need for eyeglasses or corrective lenses. The LASIK eye surgery is advised to a person in case when other treatments like eye drops, eye exercises, etc. do not prove to be effective on fixing eye problems. In this surgery, … Read more


Oral cancer: Causes, Symptoms, Risk, Stages, Treatments, etc.

If you are thinking that “There is absolutely nothing that can protect me from oral cancer”, you need to keep that feeling away as there are different ways to prevent it. Starting from getting rid of habits of tobacco chewing, alcohol, and smoking; it has been found out that tobacco and nicotine use consists of one of the major risks … Read more


What is Mental illness and its Types, Symptoms, Causes, Treatment, etc.

One of the common myths about mental illness is that people think that the people who suffer from any kind of mental illness suffer from it because of personality weakness or character flaws. It is also believed that mental illness causes people to snap out very easily. Studies and researchers from different parts of the world have proved that the … Read more


Bladder Cancer: Symptoms, Causes, Types, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention

Bladder cancer is common among men more than in women. One of the primary symptoms of bladder cancer the presence of blood in the urine but no pain is felt while urinating. It is regarded as the fourth most commonly diagnosed cancer among veterans affairs (VA) Health system patients. It was found out that more than 1 in 10 military … Read more


Skin Graft: Types, Procedure, Preparation and After care

The first skin auto-transplantation was performed in the year 1869; gradually many pioneers tried and removed the technique of grafting. Brown et al. in 1929 established their techniques of skin grafting which included split-thickness skin grafting, differentiation between full-thickness, intermediate thickness and epidermal drafts. They also pointed out the advantages and disadvantages of each draft which proves to be very … Read more


Swelling: Symptoms, Causes, Types, Risk-factors, Complications, Treatments, and Precautions

Standing for too long or sitting for a long duration in a particular place, both can affect the entire body system giving rise to back pain and swelling in parts of the legs, arms and feet. Swelling which is termed as edema can occur due to several factors which are mainly affected by an unhealthy lifestyle. “I noticed my left … Read more