Healthy articles

Hemophilia is well-known as a genetic, inherited, disorder — but one study revealed that most severe hemophilia cases now strike babies without a family history of the bleeding disorder. What is going on?

Von Willebrand disease is the most common inherited blood disorder, but few people not directly affected by it have even heard of it. With timely diagnosis and treatment, many of the complications von Willebrand disease causes can be prevented.

Food allergies can get triggered when a sensitive person eats, inhales, or comes into contact with even tiny amounts of foods or food additives. The reactions can be very mild or may be life-threatening.

Most people think that lactose intolerance is the same as an allergy to milk or dairy products. It is important to distinguish between the two because they are not the same; in fact they are not even related.

Milk allergy is one of the commonest food allergies in infants and young children, with 2-3% of children under three years of age allergic to cow’s milk proteins, though most of them surpass this allergy.

Dr. Brendan Stack is a dentist with a remarkable claim. In a video he posted to the Internet, Stack shows the treatment of a woman with Parkinson's disease whom doctors at the revered Johns Hopkins clinics had not been able to treat.

Although it represents a frequently mentioned term, not too many people know exactly what electroconvulsive therapy really is!

Slow and steady cardio is a thing of the past. It is a dinosaur. Interval training is the way to go if you want to burn bodyfat quickly and efficiently.

A varicocele is an enlargement of the veins within the scrotum, the bag of skin that holds the testicles. It isn't a rare condition because latest researches show that up to 1 in 5 men have a varicocele.

A healthy pregnancy requires a healthy placenta. What can go wrong with the placenta during pregnancy, birth and postpartum — and how are placental problems diagnosed and managed?