You may have decided to quit smoking but may not know how to go about it. The phase after you stop smoking is an agonizing one because your body may crave for the requirement that cigarette used to fulfil while your mind may also demands its share of the cigarette smoking high. You will experience […]

A psychological problem that afflicts many people is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD. In case of OCD there are two ways in which people may be affected. The first type of OCD is that a person may suffer from compulsive thoughts. In such cases a person is unable to stop himself from continuously thinking about […]

The similarity between Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis makes Crohn’s disease diagnosis a very tough task. In order to correctly diagnose Crohn’s disease, it is very important that while physically examining the patient, every symptom is considered and the patient’s medical history is also kept in mind. Crohn’s disease diagnosis will require imaging in order […]

When cigarette manufacturers portrayed smoking with a cool and hep image, millions took to it. Smoking was quickly accepted as the ‘ done thing’, by the society. Today the same society is turning its back to smoking after watching millions face disease and death that was a direct fallout of this addiction. Smoking has contributed […]

Stress is an inseparable part of our lives. From the little things that concern us to the bigger career and family issues, they all add to our worries. So, stress is a natural outcome of it all. While we accept the inevitability of stress in our lives, we must also take care to counter it. […]

Crohn’s disease is a chronic condition that causes the intestines to get inflamed and ulcerated. Though the ulcers are usually found in the small intestine, it can affect any part of the digestive tract. There is not much known about the cause of the disease however, the disease is attributed to problems in the immune […]

Consider these statistics; worldwide every eight seconds a person dies of a tobacco related disease and one in every five deaths in the UK and USA is due to smoking cigarettes. There are about 4,000 chemicals in cigarette smoke out of which 69 are carcinogenic. Yet there are millions of Americans who light up frequently. […]

The baggage that accompanies modern life is stress and anxiety. There is no limit to the amount of worries that you have to face in your day-to-day life. While we have the ability to cope with a certain level of stress, anything above it sends us into a tizzy. The worst thing that we can […]

Apart from the pain that plagues a person suffering from Crohn’s disease, there are other embarrassing aspects of the disease that make life a misery for these people. Crohn’s disease complications are such that they may often render a person helpless and dependent on others to a great degree. One of the most humiliating complications […]

Slowly the awareness of stop smoking benefits is creeping into the society. Though most smokers do realize that smoking is a slow poison that is slowly but steadily taking them towards their grave, they feel helpless at the hands of their addiction. However, smokers must also understand that their smoking habit is harmful to not […]