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Pneumococcal (pronounced new-mo-KOK-al) disease is an infection caused by bacteria. These bacteria can attack different parts of the body. When they invade the lungs, they cause the most common kind of bacterial pneumonia. When the same bacteria enter the blood, they cause an infection called bacteremia (bak-ter-E-me-ah). In the brain, they cause meningitis. Pneumococcal pneumonia [...]
The home dust mites are available in every nook and corner of our house from sofa to carpet and other dark and dingy areas of the room where there are sufficient spaces and moisture to hibernate and produce tiny eggs for multiplying there numbers drastically to affect the entire region of the house and causing [...]
Lupus is medically explained as an autoimmune disease in which the immune system of the body will become hyperactive and attacks normal and healthy body tissue. It is usually resulted to symptoms such as inflammation, damages in joints, kidney failures, and heart and lung diseases. But what really causes this one of the most feared [...]
Cancer- a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society says that white women have higher tendency to breast cancer compared to Hispanic women. The studies indicate that the research is needed to evaluate how this kind of cancer risk factors differs among ethnic and racial populations. Breast cancers occur more frequently in certain ethnic groups [...]