What are Blood Clots?
Blood Clots Blood clots are serious conditions and it happens when coagulation of blood occurs. It occurs when the protein fibrin aggregates with blood factors like platelet. image by wikipedia Fibrin is helping in the process healing the injuries. But when blood clots happen unnecessarily fibrin is...
Nanoparticles Traverse Blood-Brain Barrier to Help Improve MRI Visualization
Development of a new brain tumor imaging agent is not an easy task for researchers because such substance has to be not only a good contrast agent, it also has to cross the blood-brain barrier in order to work. Researchers at the University of Washington have now developed fluorescent nanoparticles...
Lower Blood Pressure Now!
Lower Blood Pressure Lowering your blood pressure could be doing you a world of good and there is no way why you cannot take control of your health now through natural processes.In North America and other well developed nations it is a sad state that the epidemic of blood pressure is taking its toll....
Trying Out New Health Products
New Health Products One of the easiest ways to try out the latest health and fitness freebies products is through free health samples , health supplements and such free stuff that come with other buys. This way you need not spend a fortune to get to understand which product may suit your needs.If you...
All about allergy
Posted by admin in Womens Health on 05 26th, 2009 | No Comments
An allergy is an immune reaction of the immune system to normally harmless substances. These are called antigens or allergens. You can, for example in pollen, foods, animal hair etc. exist. The immune systems of humans normally combated invaders such as bacteria and viruses and protects the body. Where...
Breastfeeding and contraception
Posted by admin in Womens Health on 05 24th, 2009 | No Comments
Prevention of breast-feeding is an important issue as soon as the partner after the birth of her child again have sex. If the woman is breastfeeding, different contraceptive methods and techniques in question. Hormonal contraceptives can affect the child, because they affect the breast milk. Mechanical...
Glycemic Index vs. Glycemic Load
Posted by admin in Exercise on 05 8th, 2009 | No Comments
Just when you started to get a handle on the glycemic index (GI) of foods, there’s another value to grasp - glycemic load (GL). The GI ranks specific carbohydrates from zero to 100, based on the rate in which they affect your blood sugar levels. A GI of 1 to 55 is low, 56 to 69 is medium, and...
Diabetes
- Achieving Healthy Pregnancy Despite DiabetesAmong diabetic pregnant women, the most common problem when it comes to their baby’s health is the condition called “macrosomia” or having a baby with large body. This is because the blood of the mother with diabetes is interchanged with that of the baby inside the womb. As a result, the baby will produce insulin to be able to glucose and t […]
- Are You Suffering From Diabetes?People who are prone to diabetes—especially those who have the disease in their family’s history—should consider that there is a great possibility that they or their kids might inherit the illness. So, the best way to go about it is become very informed about the condition. The following are some the things that people who are prone to diabetes mus […]
- An Explanation of DiabetesIf you think that you are prone to diabetes, the first thing that you need to know is to understand what is the illness all about. Experts say that diabetes is a chronic disease, which develop among people who have the inability to utilize the glucose in their food to be used as energy. The illness develops when the accumulated glucose stays in the person […]