Health

Emergency: Preparing Your Family
by Health Canada
If a disaster happens in your community, it may take some time for emergency workers to get to you as they help others in desperate need. You should be prepared to take care of yourself and your family for a minimum of 72 hours.

Types of Cookware and Health Safety
by Health Canada
Pots, pans and other cookware are made from a variety of materials. These materials can enter the food that we cook in them. Most of the time, this is harmless. However, care should be taken with some materials.

How to Choose a Doctor
by National Institute on Aging
Choosing a doctor is one of the most important decisions anyone can make. The best time to make that decision is while you are still healthy and have time to really think about all your choices.

Pain Medicine for Dogs
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Today, a new generation of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) is bringing relief to millions of dogs with joint problems or with pain after surgery. But like any drugs, NSAIDs carry a risk of side effects, or adverse reactions.

Medical Tips That Can Save Your Life
Your Body's Red Light Warning Signals
by Neil Shulman, M.D.
Most people do not know when to see a doctor. Aches and pains, lumps and bumps - when are these potentially life-threatening? When is it crucial that you get to a doctor within the next few days, hours, or even minutes?

The PC - From Painful to Pain Free
Pain Free at Your PC
by Pete Egoscue
Using a computer should challenge your mind, not your body. As computers become a larger part of our daily lives both at work and at home, complaints of painful wrists, sore shoulders, stiff necks, and blurry vision associated with computer use continue

Working Through Images
The Language of Cells: A Doctor and His Patients
by Spencer Nadler, M.D.
As a surgical pathologist for more than twenty-five years, Spencer Nadler was not content with the distance between his lab and the patient. Meeting with those whose diseased cells he has diagnosed, he offers them a rare understanding.

Nanotechnology
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Researchers work at scales 1/1,000th the width of a human hair to develop new medical treatments. Nanomedicine is an area of biomedical research that seeks to use tools from the field of nanotechnology to improve health.

Genetic and Genomic Diagnostic Tests
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Genetic tests such as the Tag-It Cystic Fibrosis Kit involve DNA taken from a person's blood, saliva, or other body fluid that is examined for an abnormality and that flags a disease or disorder.

Genomics and Medical Devices
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
New scientific tools will help to broaden the impact of genomics on public health. Imagine that a swipe of the inside cheek or a stick of the little finger could be used to predict whether or not certain types of cancer may be in your future.

Proteomics: The Human Genome
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The genes in your body are the building blocks for an estimated 1 million to 5 million proteins. Find out how these 'mini-machines' might help treat diseases. While the genes that compose the human genome provide the building blocks for who we are

Antiperspirants Don't Cause Cancer
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Offensive body odor is against the law in libraries in San Luis Obispo County, Calif. A code of conduct, officials say, is necessary to ensure that one person's right to use a public library doesn't infringe on the rights of another and law enforcement

Computer-Assisted Surgery
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Use of the da Vinci Surgical System has expanded into several surgical disciplines. Experts say the key benefit of computer-assisted surgery is being able to perform surgery through smaller incisions.

Gender Health Risks : Continuing Efforts, Men, Women, and Heart Disease
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
So far, a small number of differences have been found in the way men and women respond to drugs, says Temple. An FDA study reviewed gender-related labeling for 171 new drugs that were approved for both males and females from 1995 through 1999.

Medical Devices and Gender Differences, Studies of Both Sexe
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Men and women may also respond differently to certain medical devices and the procedures in which they are used. Several FDA studies have focused on identifying some of these differences.

Drugs and Gender Differences
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
In 1998, the allergy drug Seldane (terfenadine) was removed from the market, when a safer alternative was approved. It had been discovered that Seldane could cause a life-threatening heart rhythm irregularity when used with certain other drugs.

Gender Health Risks
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Health risks are different for men and women, and treatments may be, too. When it comes to health risks, sex does matter. Women are twice as likely as men to get multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and migraines.

Laser Pointers Safety Facts
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Laser pointers are misused when they are directed at people or treated as toys. The light energy from a laser pointer aimed into the eye can be more damaging than staring directly into the sun.

Preventing Blood Clots in the Legs
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Clotting the blood is 'nature's way of trying to prevent bleeding,' says Wolf Sapirstein, M.D., a cardiologist at the Food and Drug Administration. But when nature's protective mechanism overcompensates and precautions aren't taken, there is a danger

Leeches as a Medical Device
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
For thousands of years, leeches have been worming their way in and out of medicine as a questionable cure for anything from headaches to gangrene, reaching their height of medicinal use in the mid-1800s.