Background: When the risk factors for different diseases co-occur in the same person, they work mutually to injure the body organs and systems even more than their individual additive effects. The injury can go multiplicatively rather than additively. That means their effects can be amplified. Having multiple risk factors is …
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Living Longer in a Healthy Way
Researchers are trying to answer the question: can we live longer in a healthy way? Investments in life-extending drugs and clinical trials are on the rise regarding the subject. Remarkable innovations in medical care and the wide use of vaccines have been key to increasing life expectancy worldwide. The over-65-year-old …
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The U.S. Arthritis Foundation states that while cold weather doesn’t cause arthritis, it does make pain feel more intense. Low temperatures can increase pain sensitivity, slow blood circulation, and cause muscle spasms. Hyaline cartilage covers our joints in general, providing a smooth surface for joint motion and acting as a …
Read More »Euthanasia The Right to Die
Euthanasia is the act of intentionally ending a life to relieve suffering. Assisted suicide is intentionally helping another person to kill themselves. There are four main types of euthanasia—1. active (the direct administration of a lethal substance to the patient by another party with merciful intent), 2. passive (withholding or …
Read More »Understanding Drug Abuse
Drug abuse refers to use of drugs by self medication in a manner and amount that deviates from the approved medical and social patterns in a given culture at a given time. As the above line states, there are many things related to drug abuse, it involves self medication, that …
Read More »Can tablets be broken before you take them?
Tablets are the most common form of medicines taken by mankind. I believe none of us reading this article can claim not to have ever taken a tablet. Though tablets are very commonly used by us all, how well do we know about tablets, I believe at least the part …
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Risk factors for death from COVID-19
Coauthor Zhibo Liu of a research on risk factors for death from COVID-19 identified in Wuhan patients, has stated that, “Older age, showing signs of sepsis on admission, underlying diseases like high blood pressure and diabetes, and the prolonged use of noninvasive ventilation were important factors in the deaths of …
Read More »Preparing for a Pandemic
Defined as ‘the worldwide spread of a new disease’, many deadly pandemics have occurred down the ages across many continents, killing millions upon millions. Among them, smallpox, cholera, bubonic plague, and influenza have been the deadliest. Smallpox, which has existed for 12,000 years, is estimated to have resulted in 300-500 …
Read More »Nepali Heroes
On the morning of February 16, 2020, a team led by consultant microbiologist and infectious disease specialist Dr. Ranjit Sah visited the quarantine facility in Kharipati, Bhaktapur, prepared for the 175 Nepalis who were evacuated from China in the aftermath of the coronavirus epidemic. After being stranded in Hubei, the …
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