There are many causes for headache and migraine pain. Usually they are common problems that nearly every adult will experience. Sometimes a headache or migraine may signal a more serious condition and a doctor should be treating the patient. Four causes of serious headache pain are:

When you experience a head injury one of the possible symptoms you may have is a headache. The headache may persist for months or years afterwards, even with a mild head trauma. The frequency and the severity of the headache should diminish over time. Most posttraumatic headaches disappear entirely after 6 to 12 months from [...]

Tension headaches are those that start with a pain in the back of your head and upper neck and act like a band that tightens and causes pressure. Some describe them as like having a vise-grip around their head that tightens. The pain is usually NOT disabling and typically affects both sides of the head. [...]

The everyday, run of the mill, common headache that everyone seems to get around tax time, or when it is cold and flu season can be treated at home with over-the-counter pain relievers and home remedies. These headaches are more annoying then anything else. They usually feel like a dull, throbbing pain that happens inside [...]

Influenza is a deadly disease that kills hundreds of people each year, and one that has killed tens of millions in the past. So how come you don't know so much about it? If you want to beat such a deadly illness, you might want to read on. Here are five facts about the flu [...]

If you were to look in the dictionary under the word "pandemic" you will see that a pandemic is an epidemic of global proportions, occurring over a very large area, affecting a large number of people and spreading uncontrollably among the population. Flu pandemics occur on a predictable basis, of roughly 3 times each century. [...]

Flu pandemics occur on a relatively predictable ratio of 3 per century, as the flu virus has "pattern cycles" which last around 40 years. For that period of 40 years, the virus will slowly evolve into newer strains, however when the pattern cycle is over, it will form an almost radically different strain of the [...]

Do You Really, Really Need A Flu Shot?

Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is a mental illness caused by a number of factors including neurological, biological, emotional, and environmental factors. It is typically characterized as mood cycling from manic, or extra happy, moods to depressed, or extra sad, moods.

Bipolar disorder is a being diagnosed in children as young as six years old in recent years. Some doctors think this is a good assessment of many children while others think the diagnosis is overdone. While it may be just an intellectual controversy to some, others who know a child who may have [...]