http://www.healthheap.com Health related articles, news and tips at HealthHeap.com Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:34:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Asthma can occur to anyone, at any age. Approximately fourteen million adults and six million children in the U.S. alone are suffering from asthma. Sometime there is a history of asthma or allergies in other family members. Human lungs are quite similar to the branches of a tree. Air tubes get ... http://www.healthheap.com/allergy-induced-asthma-and-risk-factors.html It is a time-honored tradition to make New Year’s resolution. If your resolution is to maintain good health and lose extra weight, then you can get useful information from these helpful weight loss tips. These tips help you losing weight in a comprehensive, well balanced and healthy way. Use of water Water ... http://www.healthheap.com/weight-loss-tips-easy-than-you-imagine.html The U.S. has step forwarded to stop the dispersion of AIDS on priority basis, not only for humanity, but because the AIDS disaster has put the prosperity and development of nations on stake, around the world. Today, USAID is a part of U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the ... http://www.healthheap.com/the-us-response-to-global-pandemic-of-aids.html Death rates are quickly decreased after anti-obesity or "bariatric" surgery in Sweden, statistics show. “It has been shown that surgery, to reduce obesity, can be performed with reduced mortality level on a national level." according to lead researcher Dr. Richard Marsk from Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm. The team assessed causes of death after ... http://www.healthheap.com/death-rate-decline-after-bariatric-surgery-in-sweden.html When you are going to have a baby, it could the happiest movement of a women life. To make it more beautiful and for a healthy start of your pregnancy you have to care for both of you and the life inside you. After the start of pregnancy signs and ... http://www.healthheap.com/important-nutrition-for-pregnancy.html Since the death rate has increased all over the world, people are getting more conscious about their health and future. A wrong concept which has prevailed in the society is that, an individual health insurance is too expansive to buy. This is completely a misconception, as now insurance companies are ... http://www.healthheap.com/difference-between-individual-and-traditional-health-care.html When the medicines such as common painkillers, stimulants and sedatives are used in excess without the physician’s prescription this phenomenon is known as prescription drug abuse. Survey conducted in 2007 by the National Institute on Drug Abuse reveals that, prescription drug abuse crops up in more than 20 percent of U.S. ... http://www.healthheap.com/prevalence-of-prescription-drug-abuse.html Do anti-hypertensive drugs act on men and women in the same manner? A team of researchers from Australia report that, vast ranges of treatments for hypertension have same effects, irrespective of the sexes. Dr. Fiona from Sydney said collective data from 31 previous studies involving 103,268 men and 87,349 women who ... http://www.healthheap.com/anti-hypertensive-drugs-work-in-both-sexes-equivalently.html A large study on the high blood pressure treatment reveals that, treatment with the benazepril (ACE inhibitor) in combination with amlodipine (calcium channel blocker) provides better control on hypertension than treatment with benazepril plus hydrochlorothiazide (diuretic), in reducing the death rate due to cardiovascular diseases. In this specific randomized, double-blind study, ... http://www.healthheap.com/calcium-channel-blocker-provide-better-blood-pressure-control.html Prevalence of Heart Disease As well all know, obesity give raise to many health problem such as diabetes, arthritis and heart disease. According to the researches, cardiovascular diseases are the foremost cause of death in the U.S. In 2002, around 700,000 people died due to accumulative heart disease, nearly half of ... http://www.healthheap.com/obesity-key-risk-factor-of-heart-diseases.html