BioSURE HIV Self Test Kit: How Accurate is BioSURE?

Would you like to test whether you have the human immuno virus (HIV) but are too embarrassed to go to a testing clinic?

There’s good news for you if you live in the U.K. because British health authorities have given the go signal for the marketing of BioSURE, the first-ever HIV self-testing kit.

With BioSURE, you can do the test yourself in the privacy of your own home. This sure sounds ideal but is this test reliable? Can it really detect whether a person has HIV?

BIOSURE HIV self test kit

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Is Kinoki Foot Detox a Scam? Or Does it Work?

Is Kinoki Foot Detox a Scam? Is Kinoki foot detox an effin’ scam or does it work as claimed in its adverts? We here at Health Care Zone are all for alternative medicines and other health options but these alternative options must be proven to work.

Sadly, we can’t say that Kinoki detox footpads works as claimed, i.e., that they have the ability to drain toxins away from the body.

In fact, as far back as 2008, ABC’s 20/20 did an investigative review on Kinoki and concluded that its detox thingie is nothing but a big fat scam. The National Public Radio (NPR) did a similar study and reached the same conclusion.

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Rebalance Weight Loss Scam or Legit: Dr. Michael Kunzler Criminal Case

Rebalance Weight Loss Scam? Is Rebalance Weight Loss a scam or is it a legitimate weight loss program? The top dog in the Davis County Attorney’s Office believes that Rebalance Weight Loss and its owner Dr. Michael Kunzler are pulling a scam. For this reason, said office has filed several felony cases against Kunzler.

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How Fast Can Lung Cancer Spread or Grow?

How fast can lung cancer spread or grow? There is no one definite answer to this question. Lung cancer behaves in different ways — the aggressive ones will grow immediately while others do not spread at all — so it is hard and foolish to put a timeline for lung cancer growth.

Still, it is important to note that lung cancer, compared to other kinds of cancer, tends to grow faster and spread earlier. This is specially true for small cell lung cancer which, to borrow the words of cancer.org, “tends to grow and spread quickly, and it has almost always spread to distant parts of the body before it is found”.

Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC). Small cell lung cancer comprises about 10% to 15% of all lung cancers. If a patient with small cell lung cancer is left untreated, he or she can die within six months from diagnosis.

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Endometrial and Uterine Cancer: Same or Different?

Are endometrial and uterine cancer the same? Or are they different? If they are two different things, how can a person differentiate one cancer from the other?

We wondered about the above question when we were writing our earlier post on celebrities with endometrial cancer. After some hours of research, this is what we found out:

Endometrial cancer is a type of uterine cancer in the same way that avocado is a type of a fruit.

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Celebrities With Endometrial Cancer

Celebrities With Endometrial Cancer. Endometrial cancer is a type of cancer that begins in the endometrium or the inner lining of the uterus or womb. According to the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), endometrial cancer is the sixth most common cancer in women worldwide with 320,000 new cases diagnosed in 2012.

The top 20 countries with the highest rate of endometrial cancer are as follows: Barbados, FYR Macedonia, Armenia, Luxembourg, Guyana, New Caledonia, United States of America, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Guatemala, Belarus, France, Guadeloupe, Norway, Poland, Latvia, Ukraine, El Salvador, and Canada.

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