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Acne vulgaris is a disorder of the sebaceous follicles, which are special pilosebaceous units (relating to the hair follicles and sebaceous glands) located on the face, chest, and back. It is an extremely common skin disorder, which affects nearly all adolescents and adults at least once during life [1, 2].
Posted: 2008-03-13
Category: Acne
Aging is a continuous, universal, progressive, intensive, deleterious, but democratic phenomenon, which is essential to the evolutionary process and of which the skin is not an exception. The older we get, the more wrinkled our skin becomes. In the human skin, factors such as age, sun-exposure, smoking, and endocrinological changes are considered to be important risk factors for wrinkles [1-4].
Posted: 2008-03-13
Category: Health & Fitness
Asthma products
Posted: 2008-03-13
Category: Health & Fitness
Allergic asthma is a chronic inflammatory lung disease characterised by airway inflammation (resulting in airway swelling), mucus hypersecretion and airway hyperreactivity in response to inhaled allergens, such as pollens, dust mite, moulds, fungal spores, etc., causing narrowing of the airways.
Posted: 2008-03-13
Category: Humanities
Food triggered asthma is unusual and occurs in a very minute percentage of the population. Although food allergies may trigger asthma in a small number of people, not all individuals with food allergies have asthma. Substantial scientific investigation has found that certain foods and food additives can trigger asthma.
Posted: 2008-03-13
Category: Health & Fitness
Thunderstorm-related asthma simply refers to the triggering or worsening of asthma due to rainfall or thunderstorm. Thunderstorms have been linked to asthma epidemics, particularly during the pollen seasons. A few of these epidemics have been well documented, including the epidemic of 24/25 June 1994 in southern and central England.
Posted: 2008-03-13
Category: Health & Fitness
Alopecia (also known as baldness or hair loss) refers to loss or lack of hair on part of or the entire scalp and in some cases, other parts of the body. Hair loss can be temporary or permanent and can affect people of all ages.
Posted: 2008-03-13
Category: Hair Loss
Laser combs are electric hair combs, which use laser light therapy to stimulate hair growth. They can help treat alopecia and improve the appearance of thinning hair in both men and women, when used as directed. Apart from this, they provide a fairly inexpensive and convenient way to treat alopecia compared with the large laser machines, which have been exclusive to clinics only. Laser combs are easy to use and can be used wherever and whenever you chose.
Posted: 2008-03-13
Category: Hair Loss
Bedding is an important habitat for house dust mites (HDM), and indeed acts as a sink for mite allergens. Dust from the bed often has higher allergen concentrations than other parts of the house. They are also the only site where allergen levels are associated with severity of asthma.
Posted: 2008-03-13
Category: Health & Fitness
For many people, the importance of indoor air quality does not become apparent until they discover that they or someone close to them has one form of allergy or the other. The link between a wide range of allergies and the quality of the air we breathe is continually being made as reported cases of allergic diseases and asthma continues to be on the rise.
Posted: 2008-03-13
Category: Health & Fitness
Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive disease of the brain that causes dementia, gradually destroying a person’s memory and ability to learn, reason, make judgements, communicate and carry out normal daily activities.
Posted: 2008-03-13
Category: Alternative Medicine
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic illness, which causes immense physical pain and unbearable fatigue. The word ‘fibromyalgia’ actually means “pain in the fibrous tissues in the body” and as such does not involve the joints, as rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis.
Posted: 2008-03-13
Category: Disease & Illness
Light therapy is also called heliotherapy, named after Helios, the sun god of the ancient Greeks. Although beginning as sun worship, it is now an accepted scientific treatment as a result of clinical studies and advances in photophysics, photochemistry, and photobiology.
Posted: 2008-03-13
Category: Alternative Medicine
Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) is a combination of physical discomforts and emotional symptoms, which occur in the latter half of the menstrual cycle (late luteal phase), and reduce or diminish during the first few days of menstruation. Symptoms of PMS are so severe that they impair social and work-related functions, resulting in Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD).
Posted: 2008-03-13
Category: Women's Issues
Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin produced by the human skin in response to exposure to ultraviolet radiation from natural sunlight and can be found in food. It exists in several forms and each form has a different level of activity. The most active form of vitamin D is Calciferol. It exists in several other forms with each having a different biological activity.
Posted: 2008-03-13
Category: Nutrition
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