Health and medical information

If you receive a note from the kindergarten teacher telling you some of the children have head lice, don’t shudder and think you have chosen a kindergarten in the wrong neighborhood.

I suppose we have grown up with the idea that anyone who has become a home for little bugs must be unclean.

Unfortunately, this is not [...]

If cancer involves the brain, the first signs may just be symptoms of raised pressure within the skull—headache, vomiting and maybe blurred vision. Of course, there are many other possible reasons for these symptoms. Contrary to what many people imagine, cancer in the brain very rarely causes the complete alteration in personality which some people [...]