All of us know that prevention is better than cure and its importance cannot be overemphasized. However, not every disease is preventable and screening provides us with the second best option of catching them early. Although there are various definitions for screening it can simply be summed up as detecting disease early in asymptomatic (those without any symptoms) individuals.
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Medical care of a child is different from that
Medical care of a child is different from that of an adult, and no one knows this as well as a Paediatrician (Child specialist). Similarly, the Orthopaedic care of a child is different from that of an adult.
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The current era of sedentary lifestyle is coupled with an exponential growth of lifestyle diseases like Diabetes Mellitus and high Blood Pressure, but very few people have heard of Chronic kidney disease as a public health menace. The numbers are simply frightening in 2005.
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People, who say they sleep like a baby, usually are not babies and neither do they have one! Any parent worth their grit and salt remember the luxuriousness of uninterrupted sleep like a distant forlorn memory. It miraculously gets taken over by the kids' cries, fights, dilly-dallying for having to go to bed. Kids and bedtime! Little hands rub their eyes, lids droop, intermingled with yawns and protests that they are not ready to get to sleep. Ah!
"No lilies or roses, just cold-catching noses, And when they all blowses, it's really a mess. They runs and they glowses, these sneezity noses, They drips and they flowses".
Few lines of a poem that underline the predicament of all that who suffer from a minor cold to a more chronic nasal ailment and makes them want to reach for the first available over the counter nasal drop or spray.
A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures in a doctor's book. - Irish Proverb.
Every wakeful person, worth his sleeplessness, knows that the one way to guarantee wakefulness is to try really hard to fall asleep - no food/ alcohol 3-4 hours before bed? Check!; No caffeine? Check; Warm milk?
