Medical error is a preventable adverse effect of medical care, whether or not harmful to the patient. Usually it is related to an inaccurate or incomplete diagnosis or treatment of a disease, injury or other medical problems. Recent studies have shown that medical errors may account to around 251,000 deaths annually in USA. A Second...
Category: General Health
Immunotherapy, A Promising Future in Cancer Treatments!
Immunotherapy refers to Biologic treatments of cancer that allows your immune system to defend the body and attack the cancer cells. These drugs make your immune system work harder or makes it easier for it to locate and destroy the cancer cells. Hence, it has Less side effects than other treatments. It also potentiates the effects...
Guess What Happens when You Stop Smoking?
Stop Smoking and a series of healthy changes will start taking place in your body immediately. Our US Expert Medical Opinion Specialists wanted to share the following facts with you. In the first day after you stop smoking, your heart rate drops and your Bloodstream Carbon monoxide levels drop to normal. Within 1-3 months, your risk...
Lung Cancer
Lung Cancer, The Leading Killer! Lung cancer is newly diagnosed in around 234,000 people/ year in USA! It leads to 154,000 deaths/ year, hence accounting for 27% of All cancer deaths in USA, hence making it the leading cause of cancer deaths among men AND women. Each year, lung cancer claims more lives than caused...
Sleep Deprivation
Sleep Deprivation, A Global Health Problem in our Modern Societies! Sleep Deprivation is a Global Major Health Problem! Did you know that the US $411 Billions a year in losses due to sleep deprivation and its Health related problems? Countries are realizing the prevalence of Sleep deprivation in our modern societies, and its enormous negative...
Mitral Valve Disease
Mitral Valve Disease refers to diseases of the mitral valve that separates the chambers of the left heart, ventricle and atrium. It is mostly mitral stenosis (blockage), mitral insufficiency (leakage), or mitral valve endocarditis (infection). Treatment could be conservative, minimally invasive intervention or surgical. If you have mitral disease, our Specialist at USA Doctors would be...
Aortic Valve Disease
The Aortic Valve separates the left ventricle of the heart from the aorta. Hence, it is the valve that affects the flow of blood from the heart to the rest of the body. Multiple disease processes affect this valve mostly leading to Aortic Stenosis with obstruction to the flow of blood out of the heart,...
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