“Vita” meaning life, and “min” stands for mini. Thus, although required in minimal amounts, these substances are essential for life. Multivitamin benefits those individuals who are on nasogastric feeding or have a chronic diarrheal state. Vitamin D can be produced in sufficient amounts by the skin if the body is exposed to the sun for …
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How to lose body fat? Since obesity is a pandemic and losing weight is hard, everybody is interested in reading articles like “how to lose weight in three days”, “how to lose weight without dieting”. However, losing weight is not that easy. If you understand obesity, losing weight will become easy. You can also read the …
Medical inventions have changed the practice of medicine. However, some of them have revolutionized it. For centuries medical practice was based on theories. Most of the researches took place in the last one or two centuries. With the new advances, medical knowledge almost doubles every one to two days. While people are focusing on the …
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In this article, I’m not going to write about what Doctors go through during the days before med school then all the way through Post-Graduate training, etc. That has been said a 1000 times in 1000 different ways. Those of you who can understand needs not to read or hear that again. I rather decided to …
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Chikungunya is not caused by chicken bites. It has nothing to do with chickens, in fact, it is not even spelled or pronounced like “chicken”. It is pronounced as CHIK-UN-GUN-YA. Chikungunya word is derived from the Swahili language which means “bends up”, in reference to the stooped posture, developed as a result of Arthralgia (severe …
CBC (complete blood count) or Blood CP (blood complete picture), Known by other names as FBC ( Full Blood Count ), is the most common blood test performed in hospitals, clinics or any other healthcare centers. Though solely Blood CBC test would never be enough to make a diagnosis, it still is extremely helpful in …
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Malaria used to be one of the deadliest disease in the past, not so now-a-days due to modern drug interventions through which it can be completely cured very easily. However, it still is one of the leading cause of death by infections in Pakistan, other Asian countries and sub-Saharan Africa, especially when left untreated. It …
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