GERD Symptoms and Treatment Cure means healing or restoring to health. Cure is applied to the eradication of disease or sickness. When a disease is cured, the symptoms don’t return once the treatment is removed. Curing a disease happens when its cause is eliminated. This of course is not the case with drugs for heartburn and GERD. As soon as the patient stops taking them, the symptoms return. And often they’re worse than they were

Both men and women above the age of 50 years are at risk for colorectal cancer, the risk increases more so with increasing age. Colorectal cancer is a leading cancer killer. There is strong scientific evidence that screening for colorectal cancer beginning at age 50 can save lives! WHAT IS COLORECTAL CANCER? Cancer is a disease in which cells in the body grow out of control. Colorectal cancer is cancer that occurs in the colon

Imagine a scenario where you could consult your doctor without having to travel, wait in the queue in the hospital/clinic or even avoid the risk of getting an infection from other patients waiting at the same place, specially in times like these where there is a viral pandemic- Welcome to the world of telemedicine. Though they say there is no substitute to the physician’s touch while treating an illness, in today’s real world scenario it

What is the new covid-19 pandemic? The coronavirus pandemic is an ongoing global outbreak of coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19)  which is caused by severe respiratory syndrome. The virus was first identified by health authorities in Wuhan, China in December 2019, the outbreak was later recognized as a major pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March 2020 and declared as a pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently declared the outbreak of a

Bariatric surgery is undoubtedly the most effective treatment for morbid obesity. It has also proven to be a boon for obesity-related co-morbidities, especially, type 2 diabetes as many patients achieve remission of diabetes after bariatric surgery. But how does bariatric surgery work? Most people understand that bariatric surgery works by reducing food intake alone, but there are many role mechanisms which play crucial roles both in weight loss as well as improvement of associated diseases