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An insulin pump, also known as continuous insulin infusion therapy, can be exactly what insulin-dependent, type 1 diabetics need to keep blood sugar levels under good control. And even some non-insulin dependent, type 2 diabetics also benefit from insulin

If you think there's something fishy about eating right to grow healthy and shiny hair, you are absolutely right. One of the best foods for healthy and shiny hair is tuna fish, an inexpensive source of the omega-3 essential fatty acids.

Many people turn to home remedies to ease their fibromyalgia symptoms. They may choose to use supplements and herbs in conjunction with traditional medical therapy, or they may choose to use supplements and herbs as their sole therapy.

Following the lead of France and Germany, Austria recently became the third country to ban the use popular tanning sun beds by children under the age of 18. The legislation, passed in Austria's Parliament last November, comes into effect September 1.

ERCP is basically used to identify gallstones, narrowing of bile ducts due to any disease, any leak from the bile ducts as a result of any injury or operation and the presence of any tumor in them.

The US National Institutes of Health tell us that over one million people suffer aphasia, the inability to understand or use language. About 1 in 5 people who suffer a stroke loses language skills, and the ability to understand spoken and written words.

The focus of many alternative forms of cancer therapies is to work upon the body’s natural ability to take on the disease and destroy cancer cells. Many doctors and researchers are turning back to nature in search of other means to fight cancer.

For a number of very good reasons, psychological research examining women's rape fantasies is very seldom publicized. Responsible writers usually do not report on these studies for fear of creating a rationale for a horrific, criminal act.

One word for feelings of sadness, irritability, hopelessness, helplessness, anger and discouragement is depression.

Hydrocephalus is very literally a condition of water on the brain. Broadly defined, hydrocephalus is a disturbance of the formation, flow, or absorption of cerebrospinal fluid that causes an unusual accumulation of fluid in and around the brain.