During the past 20 years, obesity has significantly risen in the United States. To be more precise, the latest data from the National Center for Health Statistics shows that 30 percent of U.S. adults 20 years of age and older (over 60 million people) are obese. The percentage of young people who are overweight has more than tripled since 1980. Among children and teens aged 6–19, 16 percent (over 9 million young people) are considered overwe ...

 Most people have already heard about sleep apnea but don’t know how to define it precisely. Well, experts say that sleep apnea is defined as the cessation of breathing during sleep. The fact is that apnea specialists agree that there are three different types of sleep apnea: obstructive, central, and mixed. Of these three, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is the most common. Not too many people know that inability to fall a sleep is also ...

Schizophrenia and Autism are two completely different neuro-psychological disorders. In popular speech term ‘schizophrenic’ is often used to describe any kind of disturbed behavior but in medicine this disorder is defined by using fairly precise diagnostic criteria. Schizophrenia rarely starts before adolescence. The onset of Autism on the other hand, in almost all cases predates age three. The time of onset of a disorder is of crucia ...

Edwards’ syndrome is caused by an extra copy of chromosome 18, which is why it is also called Trisomy 18 syndrome. The extra chromosome is lethal for most babies born with this condition and it causes major physical abnormalities and severe mental retardation. Very few children afflicted with this disease survive beyond a year. Although we do not know how many babies die we could say it is a problem we should know about. About chromosomes ...

When patients complain of blurred vision, it is first necessary to define exactly what they mean. It is also important to find the time frame and the extent to which the visual fields are affected. Patients can be very inexact in their terminology so blurred vision must be differentiated from gradual loss of vision and visual field defects. Cranial nerve lesions cause diplopia rather than blurred vision which is important what doctor must remembe ...