The closing decades of the twentieth century have seen the glorification and worship of Youth Culture. The ubiquitous Yuppies have overtaken the world by storm. They are knowledgeable, incredibly dynamic, prodigiously intelligent, powerful and ambitious. This together with the sexual revolution, the obsession with male and female beauty, various shades of Feminism, and the instant [...]

The cardiovascular system essentially consists of the heart, a network of hollow blood vessels (called arteries, veins and capillaries) and the blood that fills them. In simplistic terms, the cardiovascular system conveys food and oxygen to every one of the 500 million million or so cells in the body, and dispatches waste products from the [...]

Many Americans live with high blood pressure everyday, yet they continue to practice unhealthy lifestyles. Because the signs and symptoms of the cardiovascular disease go undetected for so long, other cardiovascular complications develop unexpectedly. Once detected by medical professionals, they are obligated to treat the condition with medications to control its progression and lower the [...]

ICD-9 is a medical coding of diseases and infections. It is an important acronym which is used in medical field and stands for ninth revision of International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. People who want to get information about medical field can be aware with this term but most of us have [...]

A baby born in the U.S. in 2004 will live an average of 77.9 years. That life expectancy ranks 42d in the world, down from 11th twenty years earlier. – Source: Census Bureau and National Center for Health Statistics BLAME-STORMING THE HEALTH CRISIS Who is responsible for the health crisis in America? Is it the [...]