The nausea and vomiting of pregnancy (NVP) - ‘morning sickness’ - is common in early pregnancy. Thought to affect 70-85 per cent of pregnant women (Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 2003; 4: CD000145), and often accompanied by tiredness and lethargy...
A patient with arrhythmias may experience a number of symptoms, including an irregular heartbeat, an occasional forceful or rapid beat, a feeling of lightheadedness or actual fainting.
Q:I have a son who is two years old and was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis six months ago. He's been on steroids (prednisolone) for the past six months, along with mesalazine. The specialists ...
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My six-and-a-half-year-old daughter has developed a persistent dry cough over the past six weeks. She has no phlegm, no cold and no other symptoms. She is usually a very healthy and active girl. I wonder if it is a reaction to going back to school...
A study published at the beginning of the year by Federal scientists at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases echoes earlier findings where immune system abnormalities were ...
In Food Allergy and Intolerance (Bloomsbury1989), Jonathan Brostoff says that you should look to many other causes besides dust and mites. These include infections (as many as 40 per cent of case ...
* One reason for the increased incidence of ADHD may be environmental. Lead, mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) - all common pollutants - are toxic to children at levels that are insignificant to adults.
There has been a huge increase in asthma in Western countries since the early 1960s. Asthma currently kills nearly 2000 people a year in England and Wales yet in 1929, Conybeare's Textbook of Medi ...