Disease Articles

The Diabetic Fat Spiral
When Faith and Belief are allowed to lead to Certainty the mind is in danger of closing to new ideas -- and may stop asking necessary questions
By: Kristyne McDaniel

Living And Coping With Arthritis - How To Stay Active And Independent
Arthritis pain can be frustrating. Nagging and crippling arthritis pain can continue day after day. How much happier would you be if you could stop your arthritis pain right now and feel great all day? Knowing the nature of the disease can really bring you the right answers
By: Richard Clement

Seeing Straight
The type and amount of surgery to perform for a particular squint demands an accurate preoperative decision and necessitates meticulous surgical planning and accurate prediction of surgical outcome. "The surgical aims are realignment of the eye muscles where necessary to achieve satisfactory function and appearance".
By: Bronwen Roberts

A Window of Light Into the Heart of Darkness
The Eye Camp programmes team up with a host ophthalmologist, to provide some training if it is required, and to help provide equipment, such as microscopes and autoclaves (used for sterilising surgical instruments). Repeat visits are made to the same country to maintain the projects' momentum.
By: Bronwen Roberts

Managing Your Cholesterol - The Best Way To Prevent Hearth Attacks
Cholesterol is one of the most familiar medical words today. Everyone knows “something” about it , but mostly cholesterol is associated in our mind with something “bad” and “unwanted” that happens to old and overweight people.The facts show that about 20 percent of the U.S. population has high blood cholesterol levels.
By: Richard Clement

The Walk to Freedom
Walk to Freedom - When Jan Wilks was diagnosed with MS in 2000, her condition had no treatment or cure and doctors said it would eventually cripple and then kill her. A revolutionary stem cell treatment gave Jan her life back...
By: Sarah Manners

Multiple Sclerosis Sufferers Sigh With Relief - Part Two
Recently MS patient Jan Wilks began walking days after treatment with umbilical cord stem cells after years in a wheelchair. Jan Wilks is only one of stem cell therapy's success stories.
By: Sarah Manners

Multiple Sclerosis Sufferers Sigh With Relief - Part One
Multiple Sclerosis - Recently MS patient Jan Wilks began walking days after treatment with umbilical cord stem cells after years in a wheelchair. Jan Wilks is only one of stem cell therapy's success stories
By: Sarah Manners