Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, is a psychiatric disorder that can occur in people after they have experienced or witnessed some life-threatening events. Such events include military combat, natural disasters, terrorist incidents, serious accidents, or violent personal assaults like rape. Not all the eyewitnesses develop this disorder. Most survivors of trauma return to normal in a short time, but some people will have stress reactions th ...

Many people have problems with anal fissures, but it seems that those that don’t have little notion of what this problem is. This appears to be something people should be embarrassed about, which is not the case. This is just a condition similar to any other, which brings pain and discomfort to the patient. Bleeding, pain, or drainage from the anus can occur with several illnesses, so a physician should always be consulted. Often the diagno ...

Sleepwalking or somnambulism is a sleep disorder characterized by walking or performing other activities while asleep. It represent a series of complex behaviors that are initiated during the slow wave sleep. Sleep disorders such as sleepwalking, insomnia and many others are very common and sometimes can be triggered by various causes such as stress, physical illnesses that cause pain or frequent urination, working in shifts and many others. Depr ...

There are many sleep disorders and the two most common among them are sleep apnea and sleep enuresis. The only similarity between them is that they happen during the night, but the pathophysiological process causing them is completely different. Sleep apnea Sleep apnea, also called childhood obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, is characterized by episodic upper airway obstruction that occurs during sleep. Apnea is a medical term for suspension o ...

Everywhere you look, there are magazines, prints, radio, TV infomercials and web pages, promoting the latest weight loss sensation. In fact, Americans are spending over 30 billion dollars per year on all these fat burners. Every day, in the quest to achieve the results claimed in the ads, people ask themselves which of these diets, supplements, and fat burners really work. However, it is better to ask yourself this: If any of these products and f ...