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For the global health conscious, coconut oil isn’t just an ingredient in cooking, it’s a invaluable and perfectly natural tonic used to promote heart health, lose weight, control diabetes, ...

The mere size of a grain of rice, the carotid body, located between two major arteries of the neck that supply the brain with blood, has recently been discovered to control blood pressure. ...

The 67 percent of Indonesian males and five percent of females over 15 years old trying to wean themselves off smoking tobacco have been provided controversial assistance with the advent of the ...

Millions of people are living longer and in better health thanks to major advances in medical technology that have produced new high-quality, cost-effective therapies, from Microsoft to ...

A recent US medical study put over 100 elderly people on a brain fitness regimen for three months that included meditation training, cognitive behavior therapy, and education about the ...

The 1966 movie, The Fantastic Voyage, starring Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, and Edmond O’Brien, has proven a storyline well ahead of its time. The film’s premise finds a comatose scientist with a ...

Urging its citizens to protect themselves from mosquito bites and other dangers while traveling in Indonesia,the Australian Dept. of Health website listed the country with “sporadic and limited” ...

  According to a recent report from the journal Ophthalmology, a healthy diet of fruits and vegetables can help prevent cataracts regardless of genetic predisposition. The condition starts ...

April 25th is World Malaria Day with the fight against the disease still requiring a steadfast approach in most tropical countries, including Indonesia with five provinces showing to still have ...

  Erring on the side of caution, Indonesia has taken a number of preventive measures against the Zika virus after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the spread of the disease a ...

January does not just mark the start of a new year, it’s also Cervical Cancer Awareness Month and here’s what you need to know. Cervical Health Awareness Month hopes to raise awareness of this ...

Osteoporosis may not roll off the tongue easily, but globally, one in three women and one in five men over the age of 50 will contract it in their lifetime. A disease that literally means “porous ...

Bali may be regarded as paradise on earth, but it also offers serious health risks that are almost invisible. One of these is rabies, a disease now unknown in Australia, Japan, much of Europe and ...

One of the great heart disease myths is that it is, primarily, a man’s disease. In fact, it is the No. 1 killer of women and is more deadly than all forms of cancer combined. How did this ...

Forty students from Udayana University International Summer School program visited BIMC Nusa Dua on July 6. The program provided cross-cultural awareness in travel medicine, namely vaccinations, ...

The South Korean Health Ministry reported four new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) June 25 and said the outbreak was at a crossroads, backing off from its earlier view that the ...

Dengue fever remains the most common mosquito borne disease in Bali. However Japanese Encephalitis is much more severe with more reported cases year after year. The disease is essentially a brain ...

The year’s rainy season has witnessed a spike in dengue fever with BIMC Hospitals Bali receiving more cases than previous years. Know the facts and keep safe. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne ...

Alcoholic liver disease refers to a range of conditions and associated symptoms that develop when the liver becomes damaged due to alcohol misuse. Harmful drinking Harmful drinking means drinking ...

Legionnaire’s Disease (LD) is an infectious respiratory and/or lung disease caused by a group of bacteria called Legionella sp., and among all of its “family members”, Legionella pneumophila is ...