Your Online Health Information Site

Advertisement

Your Cleaning Supplies May Contain Hazardous Substances

Your Cleaning Supplies May Contain Hazardous Substances

Recently an article in CNN described that your cleaning supplies may contain hazardous substances. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has analyzed more than 2000 cleaning supplies with substances that can affect your health. Among these problems are asthma, chemical burns and cance
Read More
Rare Food Allergies in Children

Rare Food Allergies in Children

Every year there are deaths from rare food allergies in children. The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia analyzed electronic health records of more than 200,000 children. Medical News Today reported about this research from Philadelphia. They found that eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE)
Read More
How Does Wildfire Smoke Affect Our Health?

How Does Wildfire Smoke Affect Our Health?

With wildfires burning everywhere the question is: how does wildfire smoke affect our health? Wildfires seem to occur more frequently during the summer and even in fall. The smoke from the wildfires in Northern California has reached the area where I live in British Columbia, Canada.
Read More
Abnormal Breath Sounds

Abnormal Breath Sounds

The doctor who sees a patient with breathing problems will use a stethoscope to listen to abnormal breath sounds. Apart from history and general examination breath sounds reveal a lot about the lung condition that a patient has. This was a recent review in this publication. https://ww
Read More
Testosterone Treatment Helps Older Males

Testosterone Treatment Helps Older Males

At the 23rd Annual World Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine (Dec. 11-13, 2015) in Las Vegas Dr. Joel Heidelbaugh presented a talk entitled “Examining the Correlation Between Androgen Deficiency and Cardiometabolic Risk”. In the beginning he mentioned that in the last few years many physi
Read More