What is mastalgia?
Breast pain is also known as mastalgia (in medical terminology) may affect close to 70% of women in their lifetime. It is normal for women to have pain for 2-3 days before their menstrual period or may last for more than 5 days. It can be so bad it is not comfortable to wear a dress or to be hugged. Pain can be in one breast or both or maybe not related to periods at all. In about 8% of these women, the pain will be severe and interfere with their normal activities.
Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease that manifests as a movement disorder. The main features of Parkinson’s disease are a progressive loss of muscle control leading to trembling of the head and limbs at rest, slowness, stiffness, and impaired balance. As symptoms worsen, it becomes difficult to talk, walk and complete simple tasks.
AES (Acute Encephalitis Syndrome) is a critical public health concern in India. Also known as ‘Chamki Fever’ or Litchi Virus, AES is a health condition that mainly affects young adults and children and causes inflammation, irritation, or swelling of the brain. Most importantly, it can lead to a significant number of deaths.
Regular heartbeats occur because of internal electrical signals that cause the heart to contract and relax. This internal electrical system controls the rhythm and rate of our heartbeats. When that electrical system goes awry, your heart may either beat too fast, too slowly or irregularly.
This heart rhythm irregularity is called an Arrhythmia, which can range from few skipped heartbeats that could mostly be a mere annoyance to a racing heart that may cause long-term damage to the heart or may even turn out to be life-threatening.
In India, out of every one million population, 150 children are diagnosed with cancer every year. Cancers affecting children are of a unique kind. Leukemia, cancer of bone marrow and blood, is the most common cancer that accounts for approximately 30 percent of all cancers in children. Common symptoms include fatigue, bone, and joint pain, weakness, bleeding or bruising, pale skin, weight loss, fever amongst others.
Types of Cancers in Children
Heart failure is a progressive disorder in which damage to the heart results in the weakening of the patient’s cardiovascular efficiency. It is generally a chronic, long-term condition though it can sometimes develop suddenly. While the most common cause of heart failure is coronary artery disease, this condition can also occur when an infection weakens the heart muscle or due to certain diseases like diabetes or thyroid problems, due to uncontrolled hypertension, renal failure, persistent fast heart rhythms, and also due to certain drugs used in cancer treatment.
What are birth defects in the heart?
Birth defects in the heart or Congenital Heart Diseases are a group of gross structural abnormality in the heart that is present at birth and manifest at any stage immediately after birth or during childhood.
How common are Congenital Heart Diseases?
Women have menstrual cycles from the age of 11-12 years to about 50 years. In these 40 years’ time span women is likely to have a few episodes of bleeding which is not her usual cycle. If this abnormality persists then one needs to become concerned and consult a gynecologist. There may be an increase in the number of days of bleeding, there could be heavy bleeding with clots there could be associated pain or the bleeding could be irregular. It is normal for menstrual bleeding of a woman to last up to 7 days.
Bile duct cancer, also known as cholangiocarcinoma, is a rare but serious type of cancer. It develops in the tubes that carry bile (a fluid helping digest fats) from the liver and gallbladder to the small intestine. Because it often causes no symptoms early, it is usually detected late.
