Incontinence is the inability to control excretions, to hold urine in the bladder, or to keep faeces in the rectum. Simply stated, it is losing control of your bladder or bowel. Ask about Quality of Life to a person living with incontinence, and you are sure to find it as an embarrassing reality for the[...]
Medical school years are the most eventful, if not the most memorable years in a Doctor’s life. Most of us will agree! You will be exposed to many different personalities during your M3 year, and your success depends upon being able to interact productively with all personality types. No, I’m not speaking of patients now.[...]
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but these days beauty stems from having enough money to tweak and change yourself to create the perfect image. You can get all sorts of treatments from botox, cheek implants, nose jobs and implant dentures. We’re here to look at all varieties of treatments, how much they[...]
Cryolipolysis, more commonly known as ‘CoolSculpting’, is the latest buzz in non-surgical fat removal. Using the latest patented technology, CoolSculpting targets areas of fat that diet and exercise can’t budge. We look in more detail at what CoolSculpting is, how it works and how you might benefit from it. What is CoolSculpting? Designed to get[...]
There are many types of sleeping disorders such as sleep apnea, which itself has further sub-types, and there are multiple factors which can contribute both to trouble sleeping in general, and to not getting a deep sleep even if you sleep for a full eight hours. Knowing the signs that you may have a sleep[...]
The relationship between the human mind and illicit drugs is a complicated one, to say the least. We have been taught for all of our lives that drugs harm the brain. The neurological tissues are important and drugs damage this vital tissue. Ergo, drugs are terrible for our brains. Yet, it isn’t the spleen that[...]
Young people should worry about stroke because it’s starting to kill more of them. Recent studies showed that there is an increase in the rate of strokes in younger people—those aged 55 and below. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that more people in their 30s and 40s suffer from stroke. The Journal[...]
Bottom line, healthcare is expensive. To stay healthy, the average individual needs to spend at least $7,000 on healthcare bills–and that’s in 2009. But spending a lot of money in health care doesn’t necessarily make the average American healthy and disease-free. The bad news is health care is expected to get more expensive as time goes on.[...]
Although most states have age limitations when it comes to selling alcohol, many crafty teenagers and under-aged people still manage to get their hands on booze. This can create some potentially devastating effects, especially to the health and well-being of the young drinker. To prevent under-aged drinking, one must first understand the dangers associated with[...]
Throughout the last ten years the healthcare industry has been revolutionized as new technologies, innovations and best practices continue to be developed and refined. With the prevalence of cloud-based computing and the shift towards patient records being housed electronically, independent practices are facing increased pressure to switch over to these methods in order to compete[...]
[box]The following account is the exact words of an opioid addict’s experience with drug addiction and recovery sent anonymously to Medical Island. The individual’s experience is a real eye opener for other addicts battling their way in and out of drug addiction[/box] At the end of ten years of opioid use (including Hydrocodone, Morphine and[...]
Alcoholism is the chronic, compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages. Many alcoholics persist in drinking copious amounts of alcoholic beverages in spite of tangible downgrades to personal health and interpersonal relationships. According to recent research from the World Health Organization, over 100 million people worldwide have full-blown alcoholism, and many more people are still[...]