Yeast infection –definition:
Yeast infection could be defined by over growth of yeast or fungi which may affect both external and internal parts of the body and it could affect the skin-called yeast rash, nails, digestive tract, diaper, mouth (thrush), esophagus, vagina (vaginitis) and other parts of the body. Yeast infection is a common infection that occurs in women.
Generally yeast affects the warm and moist surfaces of the body. Most common type of yeast is candida albicans that most frequently affect human being and other yeasts are also involved in …

The word angiogram has been derived from the Greek words angeion denoting ‘vessel’ and graphein denoting ‘to record and write’. The angiogram or the angiography is the film or the digital picture obtained by the procedure of looking into the inside of the blood vessel.
An angiogram could be defined as a medical imaging technique used to see the nature of the inside of the blood vessel and organs of the body. The angiogram is otherwise called as arteriography. The angiogram could also further defined as a X-ray that is taken …

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something—Lord Chesterfield.
The greatest wealth is health — Virgil
There is lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they have not the time to enjoy it—Josh Billings.
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity – World Health Organisation, 1948
Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. – Author unknown.
They claim red meat is bad …

The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it are
Sunshine, water, rest, air, exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they’ll ease
Your will they’ll mend
And charge you not a shilling.
–Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, what the River knows, 1990

Alzheimer’s disease progression could be easily identified by the new tool radioactive tracer AV 45.
A new tool has been developed during June of 2010 which could be able to track the progression of Alzheimer’s and could help in developing new therapeutics.
The new tool, radioactive tracer AV 45 is able to readily and safely distinguish the brain of healthy people and people with Alzheimer’s disease. The radioactive tracer AV 45 pave way to easily distinguish the Alzheimer’s disease with other types of dementia. This tracer is also going to help in …

If there is a fault in us bred of familiarity it is, I believe, the old fault of omitting to probe sufficiently deeply into causes; the fault of accepting the fact of common symptoms without trying to explain them.
John A.Ryle (1948)
The natural history of disease. Oxford University Press, London.

Discard in the first instance all attempts to identify or to name, and try instead to read the malady, tracing the symptoms to the seat of their cause, and discerning the nature of the morbid process by their character and cause.
Gowers, 1892.

Rabies could be controlled only by vaccination so far and the prevention and control of rabies could be achieved only by administration of rabies vaccine. This is applicable both for animals and humans.
The evolution of rabies vaccine:
The history of rabies tells that every human infected by rabies died before the invention of the rabies vaccine. But, the two French scientists namely Louis Pasteur and Emile Roux jointly worked and developed the rabies vaccine in the year 1885. After the development of this vaccine, practically it was used in a small …

One person dies from rabies every 10 minutes.
Rabies is a well known and popular disease that is caused by virus. For example, the United States have eradicated the spread of the disease and there is only a few cases are reported every year and the information available for the reported cases in U.S for the year 2006 is only 3. But, the statistics collected in U.S says that about 50,000 people are exposed every year and they are still treated by post exposure vaccination and antibody injections. However, the …

Rabies is an infectious disease that is caused usually by a bite of a dog. Rabies affects the human by formation of inflammation in the brain. The disease is commonly transmitted by animals. In most cases the rabies is spread to human by a bite of the animal and it is rarely transmitted to humans through an open wound. The rabies mostly spread quickly in many cases where the bite occurs in face and head due to easier transmission of the virus through rich supplied nerves to brain.
Rabies …