2016

Analyzing the Heart diseases

In the list of the health hazards which claim most of the American lives each year, the heart diseases of different kinds come out on the infamous first spot. And while leading the US list, it also is a very global threat too. Speaking of the sexes, men are a little more likely to suffer from this, especially from the Coronary heart disease. That type of a cardiological problem is the most common one and yearly curing it costs the US government and public more than $108.9 billion…

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Studying the Causes of the Cancer (malignant neoplasms)

Luckily, when it comes to the top-10 of healthcare hazards that plague our society, cancer comes up not at the first, but rather at the distant second position, immediately following the heart diseases. While it may be a well-known and documented fact that any type of cancer can affect people of all genders, ages, races and ethnicities, the reputable National Institutes of Health (NIH) estimates the total costs for US-wide cancer research & treatments in 2009 at $226.6 billion: $85.6 billion for…

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What kinds of injuries can be dangerous or even fatal?

Accidents, also known among the doctors as unintentional injuries, are at present the 4th leading cause of death in America and have proven to be the leading cause of death for those between the ages 1 to 44. The federal and state-level road safety & transportation authorities state that highway crashes alone have an annual damage and repairs cost that totals to more than $800 billion in economic loss and social harm. While the danger of the speeding also…

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Understanding what is a Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases)

In order to get a better understanding of what is a stroke and how it should be prevented, it’s important to know a few things about it. It is far more often happening to females rather than males (on a ratio of 60 to 40), which means that women should be especially careful to avoid that… If described, in short, the cerebrovascular diseases are conditions that come up as a result of issues and blockages with the blood vessels that supply the brain. Four of the most…

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Alzheimer’s disease

Everyone knows that the Alzheimer disease is one of the most dangerous and catastrophic diseases that people in the US ever face. While this is true and among the leading causes of death it stands at an infamous spot number 6, there were a lot of researches and tests performed during the last decade, which made treating and even curing it far more efficient than ever before in the history of mankind. Once more, this one strikes females much more often than males (on a ratio of 25 to 75)…

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