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Asthma

Is it OK to exercise outside when the air is bad?

21 Mar 2016

For people in most of the country, spring offers a cruel dilemma. The weather is gorgeous and you want to get outside to walk, run or ride your bike. But the air is bursting with pollen, which can...

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Arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatoid Arthritis Linked To Serotonin Deficiency

17 Mar 2016 • 1 comment

For the first time, researchers have directly implicated serotonin in the paraphysiology of rheumatoid arthritis. Serotonin is mostly known as a neurotransmitter, but this shows that it has other...

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Want a younger brain? Stay in school -- and take the stairs

14 Mar 2016 • 2 comments

Taking the stairs is normally associated with keeping your body strong and healthy. But new research shows that it improves your brain's health too -- and that education also has a positive effect....

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Multiple sclerosis

What Are the 4 Types of Multiple Sclerosis?

10 Mar 2016

Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease where the body destroys the myelin sheath surrounding the nerves of the spine and brain. Myelin is a fatty covering that protects nerves and permits proper...

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Multiple sclerosis

Video Games May Improve Brain Function In Multiple Sclerosis Patients: Study

8 Mar 2016

Playing "brain-training" video games may help improve some cognitive abilities of people with multiple sclerosis by strengthening neural connections in an important part of their brains, a new study...

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Multiple sclerosis

Coffee may help combat Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

7 Mar 2016

Excessive intake of coffee is likely to reduce the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) — an autoimmune condition affecting the nerve cells — finds a study. The findings — which add to the growing...

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Arthritis

Psoriasis Treatment: Natural Therapies Work The Best And Worst

7 Mar 2016

One of the bad things associated with psoriasis treatment available today is that they are time and money intensive. It is hard for people living with this lifelong condition to manage the symptoms...

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Arthritis

Natural Psoriasis Treatments: Which Alternative Therapies Do And Don't Work

1 Mar 2016 • 2 comments

Psoriasis is a lifelong condition characterized by the rapid buildup of cells on the skin’s surface, which appear as thick, silvery scales, and painful, itchy red patches. The condition affects...

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Ankylosing spondylitis

New Ankylosing Spondylitis Treatment Guidelines

1 Mar 2016

Experts at the National Institutes of Health conducted systematic reviews of the literature to address 57 clinical questions related to the treatment of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) or...

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Brugada syndrome
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Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome
Pulmonary arterial hypertension
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Raynaud Syndrome
Rendu-Osler-Weber disease
Romano-Ward syndrome
Scimitar syndrome
Supra ventricular tachycardia
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Takayasu arteritis
Tetralogy of Fallot
Transient ischemic attack
Transposition of the great arteries
Tricuspid atresia
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Ventricular tachycardia
Wegener granulomatosis