May 14, 2014
What is Hypertension?Hypertension is a condition that is known as high blood pressure. This occurs when there is an elevated pressure in the arteries. When the heart beats, blood is pumped through the body via the arteries. The blood pressure is the force of the blood as it flows through the arteries. As the pressure increases, it makes it harder...
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Also known as high blood pressure, hypertension is a medical condition where the body’s arteries have consistent elevated blood pressure. Blood is pumped to the body through the arteries every time the heart beats. Blood pressure is actually the force of blood that is pushed up against the walls of blood vessels. In hypertension, the heart...
Read MoreMay 9, 2014
Anyone who suffers from emphysema would want to find the best treatment possible, especially as this is a long-term lung disease. Emphysema is the chief form of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD in which a patient finds it difficult to breathe. This is a permanent condition and the leading reason why people suffer from it is because of...
Read MoreMay 9, 2014
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic and progressive lung disease that includes bronchitis and emphysema. There is less air flow and breathing is difficult. The loss of elasticity in the lungs, damaged air sac walls, thick airway walls and mucus all block air flow. Early symptoms include a nagging cough, wheezing, chest...
Read MoreMay 6, 2014
Neuropathic pain is a malfunction in the somatosensory system that arises from a number of disease and idiopathic origins. It is not relieved by traditional painkillers as it is nociceptive pain produced by damage to tissues. There are several kinds of neuropathic pain, including dysethesia, allodynia, primary and secondary hyperalgesia and chronic...
Read MoreMay 6, 2014
In 1998, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Celebrex -- its generic name is celecoxib -- a medication that's manufactured by the pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer. Since then, celecoxib has provided relief to millions of people who suffer from chronic pain and/or rheumatoid arthritis (RA).RA is a condition in which the body’s...
Read MoreMay 6, 2014
When you have too much stomach acid, or when deposits build up in the wrong parts of your body, your own digestive system turns on you. Heartburn, acid reflux, ulcers and gastrointestinal diseases have painful symptoms that take the joy out of meals, and sometimes the relief that over-the-counter antacids provide is too short-lived and weak for...
Read MoreMay 4, 2014
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that one in three adults in the U.S. suffer from hypertension with blood pressure readings above the normal range of 120/80. That means 67 million Americans over the age of 20 suffer from some level of hypertension, but only 47 percent of this group are adequately managing their blood...
Read MoreMay 4, 2014
Antiulcer therapies have made major advances in recent years with classes of drugs called histamine type 2 receptor blockers and proton pump inhibitors.[1] Both types of drug attack the causes of ulcers and gastrointestinal distress by blocking or decreasing gastric acids and promoting healing in damaged internal tissues of the digestive tract....
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