Calcium is one of the most essential minerals in the body. Its function extends across all part of the body from the bones to heart to hormones and more. Deficiency in calcium level results in a condition known as Hypocalcemia – likewise an excess calcium level...
Thrombosis is a serious condition where one or more clots form inside of your blood vessels. When this happens, the clot can block blood flow where it formed, or it can break loose and move to somewhere else in your body. If a moving clot gets stuck in a critical...
Diet and exercise are key components of a successful strategy to avoid or manage diabetes. Studies show that diet and exercise can sharply lower the likelihood of diabetes, even in people at high risk of developing it. Food and blood sugar. Eating healthy is the...
Merck & Co.’s Januvia and Janumet, which are popular diabetes drugs, could be contaminated with a substance that could cause cancer, the FDA said in an announcement on Tuesday. An impurity called nitrosamine was found in some samples of the drugs, which are known...
A heart attack does not feel like two elephants fighting in your chest. Patients go through different experiences and some are more subtle that you may think. What Patients Go Through: Heartburn-like chest pain. It’s quite common for heart attacks to feel like acid...
You may not know it, but there’s about a 25% chance that you’re walking around with a hole in your heart. Everyone is actually born with one — before birth, this opening connects the right and left atria of the heart and allows blood to flow through. That’s how the...
