Peptic ulcers - also referred to as peptic ulcer disease - is a relatively common condition affecting approximately ten percent of all individuals within the United States. While these diseases were once the to primarily be caused by the consumption of spicy food or stress, researchers and medical experts have now determined that the most common cause of peptic ulcers is a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori or H. pylori.

Peptic ulcer located in the stomach is called gastric ulcer; peptic ul
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Rabies is an acute viral infection. Rabid animals usually stop eating and drinking, and may appear to want to be left alone. Because it can be fatal, rabies should be considered extremely dangerous. Therefore, it is important to prevent exposure to the rabies virus whenever possible. In Europe the virus is mainly carried by the fox. Each year a few people die of rabies in the United States. Most deaths occur because the person didn't seek medical assistance. People are most often infected by t
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Influenza is a common contagious disease with flu-like symptoms. Influenza is caused by a sphere or filament-shaped virus. The most problematic part of these viruses is that they keep on changing. Such mutated virus strains can adversely affect a person even though that person had immunity to another strain of the influenza virus. And the situations worsens if separate strains combine. Such a combination can be really fatal as the newly emerged virus gains in its immunity against the extant v
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Alzheimer's Disease is the most common dementia type with over 50% of cases reported. Dementia types will share common themes but each one does have slightly different factors that effect the brain.

According to Dr. Harvey Gilbert, MD of the Gilbert Guide, some of the most common types of dementia and their causes are:

1. Vascular Dementia

This type of dementia is the second most common. It is caused by poor blood flow to the brain, depriving brain cells of the nutrient
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The causes of dry hair and scalp are most often interrelated. Environmental conditions have caused dry hair through overexposure to the sun and wind and the presence of minerals and chlorine in water used to wash our hair. Dry hair can also occur due to the result of swimming or bathing in pools and spas with chlorinated water, or hair treatments using perm chemicals, peroxide bleach, color developer, and hair relaxer chemicals and even from straightening tools and hair dryers.

The use of har
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