Archive for June, 2011
These two consequences of inadequate pumping function lead to all of the symptoms associated with heart failure: shortness of breath (dyspnea) and fatigue with exertion; shortness of breath at rest and especially when lying down (orthopnea) because of fluid accumulation in the lungs; swelling or accumulation of fluid in the feet, legs, and trunk; and [...]
ALLERGY TO DIFFERENT foods and chemicals is a well recognized phenomenon. Hippocrates, the famous Greek physician who lived in fifth century BC, and is generally regarded as the ‘father of medicine’, was, perhaps, the first to record a case of stomach upset and skin urticaria in a person who had taken milk. Another Greek physician [...]
Mumps Until 1968, mumps was a common viral disorder among children. That year a vaccine became available and the disease seemed to be largely under control, with reported cases declining from 80 per 100,000 people in 1968 to less than 2 per 100,000 people in 1984. But between 1985 and 1987, mumps rates again surged [...]