Everyone loves to feel sorry for a victim. And you can actually “Think” yourself into being sick. That’s called “psychosomatic illness” The science of psychonero immunology, or PNI, (more…)
Wooze with the booze (and drugs, too). Long-term heavy drinking can damage all that! And if you’re tired of your same, predictable, boring self, excessive alcohol intake has (more…)
Develop stress because it’s fashionable. Everyone in Hollywood is stressed out. Cultivate stress in your life, welcome it and you’ll reap the benefits: headaches, high blood pressure, stiff neck, nagging backaches, upset stomach, cough, cold cancer, heart disease, death.
Smoke because it’s sexy and classy. Watch those old, black-and-white movies occasionally shown on TV. The best actors and actresses smoked. Smoking is good for many things: (more…)
Being a carbohydrate, sugar is technically organic, and that word denotes health, right? Instead of loading up on useless vitamins, minerals, whole-wheat bread, fruits and veggies, (more…)
Live in your bed. Who, knows someday the Central Bank may transform worry into a new millennium currency-and you’ll be rich! Of course, waiting for that day may in itself be stressful (more…)
Major manifestations
* Carditis
* Polyarthritis (more…)
Preventing streptococcal throat infection is anyone’s best defense against RHD. However, creating this vaccine is difficult because majority of the GABHS strains have not yet been (more…)
In 1939, a sore throat was first linked to a disease of the heart valve, as described by Raymond Vises in the early 18th century. The offender? Group A betahemolytic Streptococcus (more…)
Does your child have fever, painful swollen joints and firm but painless bumps in his elbows and knees? He may have rheumatic fever, a disease that can lead to rheumatic heart disease if ignored.
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