Body & Health Conditions Articles

The flu and the common cold are both respiratory illnesses. Common cold is acute viral infection of the upper respiratory tract.

Chronic Kidney Disease affects up to 1 in 10 of the population, but up to 90% of people don't know they have it. Here, we explore our baker's dozen of signs that you might have kidney disease.

Pulsating magnet therapy, which has been used for 30 years for controlling intractable pain, may also relieve symptoms of mild Alzheimer’s disease.

A vaginal fistula is a hole in the vagina that can either connect the vagina with the bladder (vesico-vaginal fistula) or with the rectum (recto-vaginal fistula).

When I was a toddler nearly 60 years ago, I survived a brush with whooping cough. Vaccination programs seemed to have made the once-deadly disease a thing of the past, but an unexpected failure of vaccination is allowing whooping cough to make a comeback.

A persistent cough is often the lingering reminder of colds or flu. Here are five practical ways to deal with repeated coughing spells without prescription medication.

Weight loss is an intervention that helps prevent urinary incontinence in almost any woman at almost any stage of life, not just after pregnancy. Men may need an exercise program.

Taking a sauna every day may be more than just refreshing and invigorating. It likely also reduces the risk for Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.

Laboratory experiments show that simply being exposed to a flickering light reorganizes the brain so it produces fewer of the tangled proteins associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

Diabetes is on the rise in America due to lack of proper health, but it's time to take action against this preventable disease. Being proactive about type 2 diabetes could spare you from many other illnesses and complications that accompany it.