Your thyroid gland is an endocrine gland located in your neck. This gland plays a crucial role in the body by producing the hormones T4 (thyroxine) and T3 (triiodothyronine). These hormones in turn are responsible for helping to regulate the metabolism, thereby allowing us to get more energy from food and to burn fat at […]
Conditions
14 Early Signs of Autism
Autism is a developmental disability that results in impaired social skills, communication and abstract reasoning. This condition causes profound changes in the way that patients view the world around them and relate to others but can also range greatly in terms of severity and the impact that it has on an individual’s life. The term […]
20 Causes of Eye Twitching
If you were animating a character in a cartoon and you wanted to make them look stressed, there are a few different ways you might go about achieving that. One way would be to give them a big throbbing vein on their forehead. Another way might be to make their eye twitch incessantly. Yes, eye […]
13 Most Common Symptoms of a Heart Attack
Many of us are afraid of heart attacks and rightly so: as one of the leading causes of death in the US, heart attacks are something that we should be afraid of. Heart attacks and heart disease are together responsible for over 600,000 deaths in the US alone and in 75% of cases, they have […]
14 Symptoms That it Might Be Pneumonia
Pneumonia is an infection of the air sacs (alveoli) in the lungs, often as a result of the bacteria Streptococcus Pneumoniae. It can also stem from an infection by the virus responsible for the common cold or that of the flu, having migrated from the nasal and throat region into the lungs. Other types of […]
14 Symptoms of Carpal Tunnel
Carpal tunnel syndrome is a painful disorder of the wrist and hand caused by pressure on nerves in the wrist. Several nerves and tendons including the median nerve run from the forearm into the hand through a narrow tube in the wrist called the carpal tunnel. Movement and feeling of the thumb and the first […]