Remember the movie Mozart and the Whale, where a New York taxi driver Donald Morton, an autism patient, fell in love with Isabelle Sorenson? It was unfortunate to see how the difficulties in managing situations threatened their shaky relationship.
Sub-Saharan Africa, over the last couple of years, has seen a steady increase in the spread of communicable diseases. Tuberculosis or TB is one of the communicable diseases that can take a toll on your health. However, you should not fear. You should be positive and take precaution as in this blog we will talk about TB, its root causes, symptoms, and treatment. World TB Day is observed on 24th March in 2019 to spread awareness about the disease that has claimed many lives.
Not all diseases are manifested in the most apparent and obvious ways. There are ones which creep into our minds and our bodies very slowly and completely turn our worlds upside down one day at a time. While it is easy to see the diseases that cause us physical discomfort in the most obvious ways, it is not so easy to spot all the problems that lack of sleep can cause.
Do you know kidney diseases kill more than 800 million people every year? Yes, according to The 2018 United Nations High-Level Meetings on Non-Communicable Diseases, Chronic kidney disease is the 6th fastest growing cause of death in the world.
Woman. This seems to be a single word that practically encompasses a universe. A woman is an amalgamation of everything strong, positive and productive that this world has to offer us. But, do we really treasure the wealth that a woman offers us? Women are the first to ignore their health. So caring and loving towards everyone else around them, that they hardly find the time to look after themselves.
Here Is the ‘Rare’ Story of Ali
Tanzanian couples Sharifa Mbarek and Mohammed Kimara were blessed with their first child after 2 years of marriage. They welcomed a son named Ali on 9th April 2011. Despite having a troublesome pregnancy, Sharifa thought that her son was normal since the doctor successfully managed to stabilise the situation. However, Ali was diagnosed with severe pneumonia and was admitted to a hospital for a week.
The CT scan was invented in 1972 by British engineer Godfrey Hounsfield of EMI Laboratories, England and South Africa-born physicist Allan Cormack of Tufts University, Massachusetts. Hounsfield and Cormack were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their contributions to medical science.
“I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It’s no problem, it’s under control and I’m very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.”
– Ian McKellen, 79 years old award-winning English actor
World Cancer Day brings with it a surge of questions about the dreaded C word that doctors and patients, the world over, are most afraid of hearing. Breast cancer has rapidly become one of the most dreaded diseases in the world. There are millions of new cases of breast cancer being reported every year.
The work done at the intensive care unit is only getting more complicated by the day. The steady evolution of medicine and the increasing lifespans of people around the world have made the work of intensivists more trying them ever.
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