What Happens to Your Brain When Blood Sugar is High?
This is Dr. S.Om Goel, MD Medicine and DM from India and also from the U.S. I’m practicing in U.S. these days. I’m trying to, maybe in a more simplified English, trying to give important day-to-day life medical facts to the community. And today I’m talking about the effect of high blood sugar on the […]
Smoking : A shot of Cancer
This is Dr. S.Om MD, Medicine (USA). I’m making this trying to educate public, you know, everybody about cancer risk factors in our community. In this I’m talking about smoking. Smoking, smoking by itself causes 20% of all cancers. And almost is responsible for almost all 30% of the death due to the cancer, just […]
Silent Signs of Prostate Cancer, Must-Watch for Men! Protect Yourself
So, prostate gland happens only in the males and, you know, it just sits below bladder and it helps us, you know, make semen in the males. So, prostate cancer actually is one of the most common type of cancer and especially after age 50, the risk definitely increases. If you are somewhat obese also, […]
Can Leprosy कुष्ठ रोग Be Cured?Surprising Facts Revealed
Leprosy in Hindi is called Kusth Rog, Kusth Rog used to be there in India long time ago and it is caused by, you know, first bug name is same as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but it’s very different from, I mean, but this bug is not, not, but it’s Mycobacterium leprosy and in distinction from tuberculosis, […]
Nipah Virus Disease: How It Spreads and How to Stay Safe
This is, this is for India and this is, you know, in use in India. There has been outbreak in Kolkata, West Bengal. So one thing you have to understand that the Nipah virus is dangerous, there is no cure for it. So what happened is two of the nurses actually who saw an infected […]
Tuberculosis (TB): Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
There was a time when there used to be epidemics of tuberculosis. It was a major health issue all over the world. But recently now, awareness of the tuberculosis and active management and education, and most important, you know, now there’s a dramatic sanitation improvement and now there is a vaccination also for tuberculosis. And […]
Feeling Anxious All the Time? Here’s What You Need to Know
All of us have anxiety occasionally or once in a while, especially when we’re worried about something or stress out about something. So, but anxiety becomes an issue when it’s persistent. So, if there is too much anxiety, you know, we have a difficult, the way we can figure out, we have a difficult time […]
HIV Virus: What It Is and How It Affects the Body
All of you probably know very well what is HIV or Human Deficiency Virus is. We call it Immunodeficiency Virus. This virus destroys our immunity and we really die from other infections. So, you know, there is at present no vaccine for HIV virus and medical profession is working hard on getting a medicine which […]