Healthy Aging Articles

• Food Additives
  Diet and Weight Loss
  Nutrition
  Healthy Aging
  Obesity
  Sports Medicine
   

  Sugar substitute

  A sugar substitute, or artificial sweetener, is a food additive which duplicates the effect of sugar or corn syrup in taste, but often with less food energy. In the United States, five artificially ... > more
• Lung Disease
  Lung Cancer
  Healthy Aging
  Heart Disease
  Diseases and Conditions
  Cystic Fibrosis
   

  Emphysema

  Emphysema is a chronic lung disease. It is often caused by exposure to toxic chemicals or long-term exposure to tobacco smoke. Emphysema is characterized by loss of elasticity of the lung tissue; ... > more
• Osteoporosis
  Bone and Spine
  Healthy Aging
  Women's Health
  Leukemia
  Stem Cells
   

  Bone age

  Bone age is a way of describing the degree of maturation of a child's bones. As a person grows from fetal life through childhood, puberty, and finishes growth as a young adult, the bones of the ... > more
• Skin Care
  Allergy
  HIV and AIDS
  Infectious Diseases
  Psoriasis
  Diseases and Conditions
   
  

  Rash

  A rash is a change in the skin which affects its appearance or texture. A rash may be localised to one part of the body, or affect all the skin. Rashes may cause the skin to change color, itch, ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Children's Health
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Pregnancy and Childbirth
  Child Development
  Educational Psychology
   

  Erikson's stages of psychosocial development

  Erikson's stages of psychosocial development describes eight developmental stages through which a healthily developing human should pass from infancy to late adulthood. In each stage the person ... > more
• Brain Tumor
  Lung Cancer
  Breast Cancer
  Leukemia
  Cancer
  Ovarian Cancer
   

  Tumor suppressor gene

  A tumor suppressor gene is a gene that reduces the probability that a cell in a multicellular organism will turn into a tumor cell. A mutation or deletion of such a gene will increase the probability ... > more
• Hearing Loss
  Diseases and Conditions
  Cosmetic Surgery
  Disability
  Dogs
  Human Biology
   

  Equilibrioception

  Equilibrioception or sense of balance is one of the physiological senses. It allows humans and animals to walk etc. without falling. Some animals are better in this than humans, for example allowing ... > more
• Hypertension
  Diabetes
  Healthy Aging
  Dietary Supplement
  Bone and Spine
  Nutrition
   
  

  Collagen

  Collagen is the main protein of connective tissue in animals and the most abundant protein in mammals. It is one of the long, fibrous structural proteins whose functions are quite different from ... > more
• Breast Cancer
  Cancer
  Colon Cancer
  Lung Cancer
  Women's Health
  Ovarian Cancer
   
  

  Breast cancer

  Breast cancer is cancer of breast tissue. Worldwide, it is the most common form of cancer in females, affecting approximately 1 out of 11-12 women at some stage of their life in the Western world. ... > more
• Mumps, Measles, Rubella
  Diseases and Conditions
  Viruses
  Healthy Aging
  Sports Medicine
  Infectious Diseases
   
  

  Incubation period

  Incubation period, also called the latent period or latency period, is the time elapsed between exposure to a pathogenic organism, or chemical or radiation, and when symptoms and signs are first ... > more

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