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Every woman who is in perimenopause or menopause itself will be able to identify the symptoms of a hot flash, such as the sweating, the rush of intense heat over the upper body and face, and ...

Every woman, ready or not, gets to experience menopause. If you're currently one of those women you at least have the comfort of knowing that roughly 50% of the population either understands your situation or soon will. Another upside is that with so many people experiencing those annoying hot flash ...

Uterine Fibroids have not had a huge awareness campaign around the world so it remains a relatively little known condition even though many women suffer from it to greater or lesser degrees; perhaps it is because the tumors that are the fibroids are always non-cancerous and therefore not life threatening. ...

Fibroids or Uterine Fibroids are growths that occur in a woman's uterus (the womb) that can grow quite large and cause problems for the woman who suffers from this malady. Natural cures for fibroids are often treated with very little respect by traditional medical doctors who will often recommend dangerous ...

Virtually every man over the age of 60 will have one of the numerous conditions that affect the prostate gland. Unfortunately many of the conditions exhibit only mild symptoms until they are well developed and so you may not even realise you have a problem. One of the ...

There are two broad categories of prostate problems that all men need to be aware of; Benign prostate hyperplasia, which is an enlargement of the prostate that occurs with age or because of the effects of prostatitis, and prostate cancer. Although younger men can be affected by such problems, prostate ...

  It’s nearly 40 years since war was declared on cancer and billions of dollars have been spent trying to find a cure for the disease, so why hasn’t progress been made in solving the problem? The treatments today are almost the same as they were back in 1971 when ...

SKIN CANCERThere are three major forms of skin cancer.BASAL CELL CARCINOMA is the most common form of skin cancer. It occurs most frequently in men who spend a great deal of time outdoors and primarily produces lesions on the head and neck. Basal cell carcinoma rarely ...

Radiotherapy Radiotherapy uses small doses of radiation projected by machines aimed at the sick organ(s) or radioactive implants. The unit of measurement is the electron volt. For deep organs, this can reach 25 million electron volts. Radiotherapy appears to increase life expectancy for some cancers but is plagued ...

War was declared on cancer in 1971 and since then billions of dollars have been spent looking for a cure for the disease. Research has concentrated on finding a drug or a better way to treat cancer but so far anything they have come up with has only been marginally ...