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title: Isabel Healthcare Blog | Symptom Checker (2)
description: Symptom Checker | Read the Isabel blog, with regular updates on our products and discussions about diseases, symptoms, and the healthcare industry as a whole. (2)
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March 23, 2016

### [Symptom: Rectal Bleeding - Isabel Healthcare](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/symptom-rectal-bleeding)

 Rectal bleeding, also known as hematochezia, blood in the stool or bleeding from the bottom, is often seen as small amounts of bright-red blood on..

October 21, 2015

### [Testicular Pain: Causes and Symptoms - Isabel Healthcare](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/symptom-information-testicular-pain)

 Testicle pain or testicular pain occurs around one or both testicles. Testicle pain can also originate from elsewhere in the abdomen or groin, but..

October 7, 2015

### [Symptom Checker Coming of Age](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/symptom-checkers-coming-of-age)

 The IOM report on ‘Improving Diagnosis in Medicine’ that was published last month made a big call to bring the patient into the diagnostic process...

August 26, 2015

### [Swollen Lymph Nodes: Symptoms and Causes - Isabel Healthcare](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/swollen-glands-lymphadenopathy)

 Lymph glands (also known as lymph nodes) are pea-sized lumps of tissue which contain white blood cells. The white blood cells filter the lymphatic..

July 22, 2015

### [Not Sleeping Well? 4 Facts to help you sleep better](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/not-sleeping-well-facts-to-help-you-sleep-better)

 Sleep is a truly fascinating subject for health and wellbeing. Up until the 1920’s, we thought the that brains simply switched off during sleep and..

July 15, 2015

### [BMJ Symptom Checkers study: self-diagnosis is not the answer](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/symptom-checkers-self-diagnosis-is-not-the-answer)

 With the rise in Internet use over the past decade or so, health information is now at people’s fingertips and symptom checkers are becoming a part..

July 8, 2015

### [How Keeping a Travel History could save your life](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/remember-where-you-have-travelled)

 We hope you’re all almost ready for your holidays this year; you’ve had your vaccinations, you know about sun safety and protecting yourself from..

June 10, 2015

### [WHO World Blood Donor Day 2015 - How to save a life](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/who-world-blood-donor-day-2015-how-to-save-a-life)

 This week Sunday 14th June sees the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) annual “World Blood Donor Day.” This event was established in 2004, and is..

June 3, 2015

### [Where To Now? Triage tools and why A&E isn’t always the answer](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/where-to-now-triage-tools-and-why-ae-isnt-always-the-answer)

 In recent years there has been much talk about waiting times in Emergency Rooms and Accident and Emergency. In the US, changes in the way healthcare..

May 20, 2015

### [Why the symptom checker is a key tool to enable ‘Choosing Wisely’](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/why-the-symptom-checker-is-a-key-tool-to-enable-choosing-wisely)

 The UK version of the US Choosing Wisely campaign was launched this week. The aim of the campaign is to reduce wasteful medical practices. The..

February 24, 2014

### [Stuff You Should Know About Symptom Checkers](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/symptom-checker-know-how)

 There is increasing coverage and discussion in the press about the empowered consumer and all the tools that are now available for people to use to..

November 19, 2013

### [“The Biggest Mistake Doctors Make” is diagnostic](https://info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog/bid/190522/The-Biggest-Mistake-Doctors-Make-is-diagnostic)

 The Wall Street Journal ran a special report on healthcare this week and included two great articles that both referred to the Isabel diagnosis..

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