Category: Health

While the novel COVID-19 is spreading its deadly virus affecting millions of people around the globe, news articles and the internet are buzzing with social media posts spreading dangerous opinions about slaying the dreaded disease. Tragically, this tenacious surge of information can make it hard to isolate fact from fiction. Rumors and disinformation add to…

Most people think that, when someone experiences a heart attack, that person suffers from a moderate to intense pain from his or her chest or any other area near the heart itself. However, what most of us don’t know is that there is also a ‘silent’ version of heart attack, the type that strikes without…

 Just last month, scientists have announced that there is now a potential cure for nearly all HIV strains. Formally called by the name of N6, this broadly neutralizing antibody (bNAb) is said to have the ability to kill or neutralize up to ninety-eight percent of HIV strains during their pre-clinical lab tests, scientists further confirmed.…

Chikungunya is a viral disease that is transmitted to human through mosquito bites. Its virus was first diagnosed during an outbreak in southern Tanzania in 1952. Just like in the case of dengue and malaria, patients suffering from chikungunya also experience mild to severe joint and muscle pains, headache, nausea and fatigue. On the other…

In medical terms, Osteoporosis is the periodic weakening and thinning of bones that naturally occurs among all people. Depending on the person’s body built and lifestyle, osteoporosis can either appear early or late. But regardless of the time, those affected by osteoporosis experience various difficulties especially when doing activities such as walking and running. And…

Using common terms, naps are shortened lengths of sleep that are done in either day or night time. Depending on the person, taking naps can either be for health purposes or a sign of sickness or laziness. And of these three, daytime or mid-day naps are usually equated to laziness in most cultures if done…

Even though parents force their little children to take afternoon naps for health benefits, it is somewhat unfair to know that most people think that this doesn’t apply to adults. Whether such thinking is influenced by work or culture, what we don’t know is that just like children, adults need afternoon naps as well. It…

In some countries in the world, napping during mid-day hours is now considered a worker’s right. Due to the fact that people are less productive at mid-day (that is, around 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.), employers in countries like Japan are now allowing their workers to take a nap during these hours. Such naps usually…

Leukemia is a kind of cancer that usually starts in the bone marrow, the place where blood along with different blood cells is produced. In leukemia’s case, however, either the bone marrow produces white blood cells in abnormal pace or the cell responsible for solely producing white blood cells commits the same mistake. Either way,…

Being one of the most common problems nowadays when it comes to health, back pain actually affects at least eighty percent of people starting from ages thirty and above. Back pains are usually obtained after carrying heavy loads and other kinds of hard physical labor. Most back pains are relieved after taking proper medication. However,…