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Who Has Down Syndrome Babies?
Most people associate having a child with Down syndrome with older women. While it is true that women over 35 do have an increased risk of having a child with Down syndrome, 80% of these children are born to those women under age thirty-five.
In the United States, approximately 5,000 babies with Down syndrome are born every year. A woman?s… Continue reading
Best Ten Ways To Avoid Migraines
The problem with migraine prevention is that there isn?t just one cause for the headaches. There are very many triggers for migraines, in fact, and trying to avoid them all would be an exercise in hermitry. Who wants to spend the rest of their life living in a cave just to avoid headaches? That being said, there are a few… Continue reading
Sleep Disorders: Sleep Apnea
Sleep disorders is a broad category encompassing of variety of conditions that affect sleep. Often, sleep disorders have environmental or behavioral causes: the result of stress or poor sleep hygiene. But this is not always the case: Restless Leg Syndrome is a neurological disorder, without links to any specific environmental or behavioral cause.
It?s 3am. You?ve been lying awake for… Continue reading
The Stages of Sleep
It’s 11:45 pm. It’s time for a journey. Perhaps you’ve begun this journey several hours earlier. Perhaps you won?t begin for several more hours. No matter. You?ve undertaken this journey an uncountable number of times in your life, and know the path well. But it?s time to take with fresh eyes. To take it stage by stage, and to understand… Continue reading
Begin a Cardiac Rehabilitation Program For a Heart Healthy Lifestyle
Two months after my open-heart surgery, through my cardiologist?s referral, I was cleared to begin a physician-sponsored cardiac rehabilitation program ? a program of exercise and risk-factor education for individuals recovering from serious heart procedures and heart disease.
Some patients are healed enough to begin sooner, some later. The gym facility where I live in Santa Fe, NM, called the… Continue reading
The Must Know Info On Allergy
Peanuts could lead you breathless, a bowl of pulses may cause swelling of the tongue and throat, or a fish preparation may lead to redness of skin and an incessant rash. The list is endless, and these are just a handful of the common allergies that people suffer from. While their occurrence may be common, what really makes the task… Continue reading
What Happens During Pacemaker Surgery?
Individuals who require an internal artificial pacemaker to regulate their heartbeat will need to undergo pacemaker surgery to have the device implanted in the body. The procedure is performed under local anesthetic, though patients are generally hospitalized overnight for careful monitoring. Patients are given a mild sedative to keep them calm and relaxed but are otherwise awake and alert throughout… Continue reading
How Is Leukemia Treated?
Leukemia is a type of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow. There are two types of leukemia, chronic and acute, which are treated differently and have different symptoms. Acute leukemia rapidly progresses and needs immediate, aggressive treatment. Chronic leukemia can take months or years to show symptoms and may not need immediate treatment but will require ongoing monitoring.… Continue reading
What Is Ear Surgery?
Ear surgery, also called otoplasty, is a surgical procedure designed to improve the appearance of prominent or protruding ears. It is one of the few cosmetic surgeries that can be performed on children, since an individual?s ears typically stop growing by age five. Children and adults with severely protruding ears are often the subject of persistent teasing by their peers,… Continue reading
