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When will China consider having a National Health Care Service? What type of health care does China have? China’s National Health Care System financed mainly by taxation, when will it happen? How long will it take to organize?

Specialists say such safeguards are critical for young ears in a deafening world. Hearing loss from exposure to loud noises is cumulative and irreversible….

What is amblyopia? Amblyopia is also called ‘Cross-eye’, ‘Lazy Eye’, ‘Strabismus’. It is a condition that occurs in children in whom one eye has poorer vision than the other.

Rates of obesity in kids are rising. Your children are facing obesity problem? There is no quick and easy way to help your child lose weight. It requires long-term modifications in lifestyle and eating habits that need to be incorporated into the family structure. But it can be done.

Road mapping could be key to curing TB. The complex chain of metabolic events in bacteria that lead to fatal diseases such as tuberculosis (TB) may be better understood using mathematical models.

What is Laryngitis? Laryngitis is an inflammation of the larynx due to overuse, irritation or infection. Inside the larynx are the vocal cords. The irritation causes a hoarse voice or the complete loss of the voice.

What are red birthmarks? Red birthmarks are colored, vascular (blood vessel) skin markings that develop before or shortly after birth.

How to treat sex addiction? What, exactly, does treatment involve? Golfer Tiger Woods is believed to be undergoing therapy for sex addiction at a Mississippi clinic called Gentle Path.

Anal Cancer is a disease in which malignant cells form in the tissues of the anus. The anus is the end of the large intestine, below the rectum, through which stool (solid waste) leaves the body.

Despite the health potential of vitamin D, as many as half of all adults and children are said to have less than optimum levels and as many as 10 percent of children are highly deficient.