Category Archives: Medicine

Internal Medicine Locums jobs


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Internal medicine doctors primarily work with adult patients and working with medicines for the adults. They do work with medical specialists, medical surgeons, and also with pediatricians. Intrernal medicine doctors also work with their patients and educate them about their overall health and well-being. They advise their patients on mental well-being, substance abuse, women’s health, and on preventive measures to name some examples. The internal medicine doctor tries to find the disease before it can get any worse and most times it can be found without the patient even knowing it exits. Some chronic conditions may appear such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, thyroid disease, depression, anxiety, obesity and countless other conditions.

Internal medicine doctors may further specialize in the other areas in internal medicine. There is thirteen subspecialize in a fellowship. These sub specialities are gastroenterology, cardiology, adolescent medicine, rheumatology, and oncology.  Read more...

Difference Between Allopathic And Holistic Medicine


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You may hear various difference terms when looking at treatments for your conditions. Two of the most common forms of treatment are allopathic and holistic medicine. In this article we will consider what each of these types of medicines are, where you will hear them mentioned and also what the significant differences between them are.

What is Allopathic Medicine?

Allopathic medicine is a term that is used to describe medical practice where a condition is treated with a medication that is designed to kill the illness. This may sound very familiar to you and it is largely because most of conventional medicine is effectively allopathic. You doctor will not tell you he is using allopathic medicine however that is what he is doing. You are more likely to hear the term when you visit a homeopath and that is largely because the differences are marked. In homeopathic medicine you will be given a substance that contains similar elements to your condition rather than those picked to kill it.  Read more...

Acne Medicines: Not an advisable solution?


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Your friends might have told you about acne medicines which worked for them. Then you started using the same medicine but nothing happened to your acne and you felt downhearted.

Maybe you think about trying some prescription acne medicine.

You may think that prescription acne medicines may be a good choice but have you considered that it can be also toxic?

Acne medicines may not just worsen your acne problem but it may also bring some toxins that may be harsh to your skin. They will also take much longer time for the good effects to be seen than over-the-counter medicines.

It is a common fact that there is a wide range of acne medicines that you can use to treat your acne.  Another fact is that although many of them may be helpful, they often have harmful side effects, which could leave you with more serious infection than just the acne.  Read more...

An Introduction to Oriental Medicine


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Oriental Medicine (OM) is one of the major forms of alternative medicine that is primarily based on the concept of balanced flow of energy through human bodies. It is one of the major traditional Chinese medical practices that primarily include some of the traditional therapies and oriental diagnosis. Practiced for almost 2000 years now, this is one of its own kinds of medicinal system that generally classifies body patterns into the different types of diagnoses with corresponding treatment plans.

The most commonly known treatment method of Oriental Medicine is acupuncture. In this form of treatment, very fine needles are inserted into the body at specific locations just to balance the flow of energy. However, this practice not just includes acupuncture, but also herbal medicine, nutrition, Tui Na (a major type of therapeutic massage), and Qi Gong (popular as breathing exercises). The most interesting part is each of them shares the long history, practice, and effectiveness in dealing with different sort of illnesses and maintenance of good health.  Read more...