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Treatment of Psoriasis

Treatment of Psoriasis

Psoriasis is a common chronic skin condition that is manifested by red, brittle patches of the skin covered with silvery scales. Psoriasis is not curable, but manageable with treatment. Your doctor may direct you to an immunologist, rheumatologist, and dermatologist to help in treating your type of psoriasis. There are two ways through which psoriasis can be managed:
Breast Cancer Symptoms

Breast Cancer Symptoms

Breast cancer is an uncontrolled growth of cells that starts in the breast tissue.It is the second most common cancer found in women, after skin cancer, and in 2013 more than 232,000 U.S. women were found to be diagnosed with the condition. It is the most common invasive cancer in females worldwide.
5 Signs of Depression

5 Signs of Depression

Everyone feels miserable once in awhile. But when it happens too often, when you start feeling desperate, when desolation takes hold of you and just won’t go away, you could be suffering from depression. Recommended Read: Introduction and Types of Depression Depression can make it hard to work and enjoy life as you did before.
Introduction and Causes of Asthma

Introduction and Causes of Asthma

Asthma is a condition in which the airways of the lungs – the trachea, bronchial tree, and bronchi; become inflamed and narrowed due to increased sensitivity to various stimuli. As a result, there is an overproduction of mucous and a decrease in the ability of air to flow through the narrowed passages of the lungs.
Diagnosis of Diabetes

Diagnosis of Diabetes

While patients may be tested for diabetes due to a variety of reasons, the guidelines suggest the following groups be tested People who are overweight and have one or more risk factors Overweight adults include people with a BMI >25 kg/m Risk factors (link to risk factors tab) People who have signs of high blood sugar (link to HBS tab) People with several risk factors Women who are pregnant Confirming a Diabetes diagnosis will be based on one of the following lab values:
5 Types of Immunotherapy to Fight Cancer

5 Types of Immunotherapy to Fight Cancer

Immunotherapy, or biologic therapy, utilizes substances, either made in a lab or naturally made by the body, to boost the body’s natural defences and fight cancer. Immunotherapy is meant to optimize immune system function so that the body is strong enough to do the following: Strengthen the immune system enough to eradicate existing cancer cells.
Prevalence of kidney dysfunction in diabetes

Prevalence of kidney dysfunction in diabetes

Background The prevalence of diabetes mellitus is increasing in Indonesia due to population growth, urbanization, and lifestyle. Diabetes mellitus (DM) is the leading cause of chronic kidney disease that escalates mortality rate, but not all DM develop into chronic kidney disease. Aims To estimate the prevalence of kidney dysfunction (KD) in DM and the associated dominant risk factors among productive age Indonesian based on the National Health Survey ( Riskesdas ) 2013.
Maternal breast cancer risk

Maternal breast cancer risk

Background Parity and age at first pregnancy are well-established risk factors for breast cancer, but the effects of other characteristics of pregnancies are uncertain and the literature is inconsistent. Methods In a cohort of 83,451 parous women from the general population of the UK, which collected detailed information on each pregnancy and a wide range of potential confounders, we investigated the associations of length of gestation and birthweight of offspring in a woman’s pregnancies with her breast cancer risk, adjusting for a full range of non-reproductive as well as reproductive risk factors unlike in previous large studies.