Though they’re often confused with each other, and sometimes even mistaken for the other, uterine fibroids and ovarian cysts are actually two different things. Here’s how, why, and what you need to know. Uterine Fibroids. Uterine fibroids, on the other hand, are actually tumors — which are typically benign — that arise in the uterus’s… Continue reading
Day: February 2, 2015
Back Pain What You Should Know and How You Can Treat It
An underappreciated medical condition in the U.S., chronic pain affects more Americans that you would think. Chronic pain (back pain especially) affects millions of Americans, regardless of gender, age, race, or creed. For example, 20% of American adults claim that physical discomfort causes them to lose sleep a few times a week, if not more.… Continue reading
Three Terrifying Things You Didn’t Know About Hazardous Waste
Medical hazardous wastes are general and hospital wastes that threaten the public’s health, and the environment. Every year, more than 400 million tons — 800 billion pounds — of these chemical wastes and biohazard wastes are produced, and that’s not even the worst of it. Here are three facts about medical checmical wastes that will… Continue reading