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An estimated 90 million Americans are at risk of developing colorectal cancer, the second-leading cancer killer in the United States. In many cases, the cancerous tumors are discovered too late, mainly because screening was not taken seriously. The fact is, screening can prevent many cases of this disease because most colorectal cancers evolve from benign adenomatous polyps that develop during a 10-year silent window. A single colonoscopy exam can remove polyps when they are still harmless and decrease the life-long risk of colon cancer death by 31 percent. And that s just one exam. Repeating the exam every 10 years does much more. Relatively few people, however, are properly screened for colon cancer. While roughly 80 percent of U.S. women are screened for breast cancer with mammography, fewer than 20 percent of Americans over age 50 have even had the least invasive colon cancer screening test-a fecal occult blood test-in the past five years. According to experts, the barriers to proper screening for colon cancer involve misperceptions, money, manpower and mind-set. The misperceptions include...

My sister-in-law reaches into her purse for a big bottle of colourful heartburn tablets. They look like candy and that s how she pops them. She s been taking these pills regularly for years. When I ask why she doesn t see someone about it, she says, It s heartburn nothing serious. For some people, heartburn is nothing serious and popping those tablets provides all the relief they need. If you re taking them occasionally, there s nothing wrong with that. However, according to naturopathic physician Megan Mackenzie, If you ve reached a pack-a-day habit, you ve got a problem that requires medical attention. Chronic heartburn is the most common symptom of gastroesophageal reflux disease GERD , known to some as acid reflux. GERD is a chronic and painful condition that can leave you vulnerable to more serious dangers, including ulcerations of the esophagus and possibly esophageal cancer. At the intersection of the esophagus and the stomach is the lower esophageal sphincter, a doorway of muscle. The sphincter, when working correctly, keeps the stomach contents including the acid in the stomach where it...

Cardiomyopathy is a rare heart muscle disease over the world, but not in Africa where it is one of the major causes of heart failure, according to experts that reviewed all available cardiomyopathy studies performed in Africa, along with all the information about the causes and types of heart muscle disease in Africa, where 10 per cent of the world s population lives. A 10 per cent to 17 per cent of cardiac problems found through autopsies in South Africa and Uganda, and 17 per cent to 48 per cent of heart failure diagnoses in many parts of Africa are due to dilated cardiomyopathy DCM , which is an enlargement of the entire heart, explain researchers. In the United States, 4 to 8 per 100,000 people are affected by DCM, but African overall incidence is unknown, because the corresponding studies have not been made yet. Researchers findings show that Peripartum cardiomyopathy has a very high incidence throughout Africa and Nigeria. This illness can cause heart failure and it develops between the last month of pregnancy and the first five months after childbirth. Peripartum cardiomyopathy incidence...