The National Health Council recommends you to keep a personal health record and take it with you to your doctor. It’s one thing to document your medical information… It’s another to know when and how to use it. Welcome to MedicDrive, a collaborative project of medicdrive for advancing and educating about the role of Healthcare …
Medicine is an ever-changing field and this is one sector which depends heavily on information access. But, unfortunately, suffers from Information Access Syndrome. We cannot access information about the health of a patient at the same speed as we could retrieve information about weather report or travel information. Web technology has been growing rapidly in …
An Overview Of Primary Headaches There’s perhaps no medical terminology/condition— save for the “malarias,” and the “typhoids“—as abused as “migraine” by the uninitiated. Migraine has come to mean different things to different people: for some, it is any headache that is “severe” and perhaps incapacitating. To others, it is any headache that recurs habitually. With …
What is Apixaban used for? Apixaban brand name is called Eliquis and is used to; Treat deep vein thrombosis (DVT). This is when you have a blood clot in the leg. Treat pulmonary embolism (PE). This is when you have a blood clot in the lungs. Prevent stroke and blood clots in adults aged 18 …
Buccal administration of medication is one of the two ways that medicines can be administered through the oral cavity (mouth). The other one being the sublingual administration. This is different from oral administration of medicine where medication is administered through the mouth and swallowed. In buccal and sublingual administration, the medication is not swallowed. It …
What is Fluoxetine Fluoxetine is an antidepressant that is used to treat depression. It belongs to a class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI).It can sometimes be used to treat obsessive compulsive disorder and bulimia. It is believed to have less unwanted side effects than older antidepressants. It takes between 4 to 6 …
Tramadol is a strong painkiller that is used to relieve moderate to severe pain. It belongs to a class of medicines called opioid. A class of medicines is a group of medications that work in a similar way and may be used to treat similar conditions. It is usually prescribed when other weaker painkillers have …
Losartan is a medicine that is commonly used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure. It is also used to protect your kidneys if you have diabetes or kidney disease. Your doctor may prescribe losartan to help prevent kidney disease, strokes and heart attack. How does Losartan work? Losartan belongs to a class of …
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common condition that affects how a woman’s ovaries work. It occurs in about 20% of women and is one of the main causes of infertility. About half of women with PCOS do not show any symptoms. Women who show symptoms usually show at late teens or early twenties. The …