May 6, 2014
When you have too much stomach acid, or when deposits build up in the wrong parts of your body, your own digestive system turns on you. Heartburn, acid reflux, ulcers and gastrointestinal diseases have painful symptoms that take the joy out of meals, and sometimes the relief that over-the-counter antacids provide is too short-lived and weak for...
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In 1998, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Celebrex -- its generic name is celecoxib -- a medication that's manufactured by the pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer. Since then, celecoxib has provided relief to millions of people who suffer from chronic pain and/or rheumatoid arthritis (RA).RA is a condition in which the body’s...
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Neuropathic pain is a malfunction in the somatosensory system that arises from a number of disease and idiopathic origins. It is not relieved by traditional painkillers as it is nociceptive pain produced by damage to tissues. There are several kinds of neuropathic pain, including dysethesia, allodynia, primary and secondary hyperalgesia and chronic...
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Cialis, a drug marketed to treat erectile dysfunction and benign prostatic hyperplasia in men, is also effective in treating pulmonary hypertension. A number of studies have investigated the uses for phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE5) inhibitors beyond the treatment of erectile dysfunction. Pulmonary hypertension is an ideal disease candidate for such...
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that one in three adults in the U.S. suffer from hypertension with blood pressure readings above the normal range of 120/80. That means 67 million Americans over the age of 20 suffer from some level of hypertension, but only 47 percent of this group are adequately managing their blood...
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Antiulcer therapies have made major advances in recent years with classes of drugs called histamine type 2 receptor blockers and proton pump inhibitors.[1] Both types of drug attack the causes of ulcers and gastrointestinal distress by blocking or decreasing gastric acids and promoting healing in damaged internal tissues of the digestive tract....
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Cardiovascular disease can affect anyone at any age. Many people assume that it is something that only affects the very old or the very obese. The truth of the matter is that the heart is a delicate organ and it can be affected in many ways based upon your diet, your activity and various other factors. Approximately 600,000 people die in the United...
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Advair Diskus is a prescription asthma inhaler that can provide relief during allergy season as well as the rest of the year. If you have wheezing and shortness of breath, your doctor may prescribe this inhaler for you. It may also be given to you if you have COPD or another lung disease.How Advair Diskus WorksAdvair Diskus works as an inhaler that...
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Emphysema and chronic bronchitis are two lung based diseases that make it extremely difficult for an individual to breathe. Although the primary causes behind the development of emphysema and chronic bronchitis are different, the two have very similar symptoms. Each is considered chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, also known as COPD. Both of...
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