Parkinson’s disease is chronic and progressive. The question now here is what causes this disease. The symptoms and not actually the disease itself are cause by a loss of nerve cells (dopaminergic cells) in the substantia nigra, a part of the brain. Dopamine as produced by the dopaminergic cells, is a neurotransmitter that helps transmit [...]
Asthma is one of the widespread diseases and it affects our airways that carry air to and from our lungs. Asthmatic is what we call those people who experience long-lasting or recurrent sufferings of this disease. An asthmatic person has swollen or inflamed inside walls which makes the airways extremely sensitive to irritations and increases [...]
The word “diabetes” is a Greek which means a siphon. It comes from the term diabainein as named by this Greek physician Aretus the Cappadocian during the second century AD. According to him, patients who suffered from this were passing too much water (polyuria) – like a siphon. It now became “diabetes” from the Medieval [...]
Atrial fibrillation is a form of abnormal health rhythm that can lead to dementia and even Alzheimer’s disease as new study finds. Dementia patients who suffer from the presence of atrial fibrillation are predicted to have higher death rates especially among younger than 70 patients. They have also a higher risk of all types dementia, [...]
Dr Tamar S. Polonsky, of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, and colleagues found that a score based on the calcium amount present in coronary arteries with the traditional factors are taken into account when assessing heart disease risk. It improved the prediction of risk and put more individuals in the most extreme [...]
Hemophilia is a group of inherited blood disorders in which the blood does not clot properly. It is the standard spelling but also known as haemophilia in the United Kingdom. Hemophilie, hemofilie, hemofili are other spellings but we have to use the standard spelling in this article. Defects in the blood vessels, the coagulation mechanism [...]
Atherosclerotic plaques always contain large amounts of immune cells in addition to crystallized cholesterol but, amazingly, no bacteria or viruses. It was previously not clear just how the body’s own defense forces are called into action. Animals are also kept in an absolutely sterile environment and can suffer from “clogging” or “furring” of the arteries [...]
