Many look to redo lasik eye treatment to correct vision problems left from the first refractive error surgery. The idea that laser eye surgeries are one hundred percent risk free is a false idea that is planted into the minds of those who have refractive error sight problems and must wear glasses or contact [...]

Women typically get heart disease much later than men, but not if they smoke, researchers said Tuesday.In fact, women who smoke have heart attacks more than a dozen years earlier than women who don’t smoke, Norwegian doctors reported in a study presented to the European Society of Cardiology.For men, the gap is not so dramatic.
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Fear of driving, do you suffer from it? Do you know a victim of fear of driving? When you get into a vehicle are you nervous? If so you may have a fear of driving and just FYI the experts call this condition Hodophobia. Great now that you have the two dollar word for you [...]

Few insurance companies pick up the tab, so patients themselves decide where to spend their considerable money, and they do this largely based on a clinic
’s success rate. As a result, many doctors try to game the system, producing high “live birth” success rates by cherry-picking patients. Lesbians, the disabled, and older women are often [...]

When I had my heart attack at 43, all my doctors were really surprised. I was young, I’m not overweight, and I don’t eat a lot of fatty foods. In fact, I never eat junk food….
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With jam-packed schedules and a video feed to Earth, astronauts enjoy precious little privacy as it is. Soon, doctors might peek into an astronaut’s last bastion of solitude, thanks to a portable brain scanner that could one day go into orbit.Mission control could use the device to remotely monitor astronauts for signs of brain injury, [...]

With jam-packed schedules and a video feed to Earth, astronauts enjoy precious little privacy as it is. Soon, doctors might peek into an astronaut’s last bastion of solitude, thanks to a portable brain scanner that could one day go into orbit.Mission control could use the device to remotely monitor astronauts for signs of brain injury, [...]