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May 08, 2006
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by marcusm
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About 65 million American adults—nearly 1 in 3—have high blood pressure.In the United States, high blood pressure occurs more often in African Americans than in Caucasians. Compared to other groups, African Americans: * Tend to get high blood pressure earlier in life * Usually have more severe high blood pressure * Have a higher death rate from stroke, heart disease, and kidney fai ...
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May 08, 2006
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by SirGan
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Hives, also known as urticaria, is one medical condition which is characterized with raised, red, often itchy circles of various sizes that appear and disappear on the skin. They are localized superficially. Urticaria is also known as nettle rash or uredo. These red skin patches can range in diameter from 5 mm or more, causing itchy sensations severely, and often have a pale border. They usually appear as a result of the body's adverse reaction t ...
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May 08, 2006
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by SirGan
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Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome is one complex condition caused by orthostatic intolerance, which means intolerance to change from the supine position to an upright position.
This change in position causes an abnormally-high increase in heart rate, often accompanied by a sharp fall in blood pressure. The orthostatic tachycardia syndrome is a disabling disease state described since 1940. Patients are often unable to hold jobs or attend ...
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May 08, 2006
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by MariAnne
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Urinary tract infections are so common that most women and some men acquire at least one infection in their lives. In fact, an estimated 50% to 80% of women develop urinary tract infections sometime during their lifetime. It estimates that from 20% to 50% of women will have recurrent infection. Both women and men can develop these infections. However, women are more prone to develop the infection because of their anatomy. The distance between the ...
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May 08, 2006
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by MariAnne
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What are kidney stones?
Kidney stones are made of salts and minerals in the urine that stick together to form small pebbles. They can be as small as grains of sand or as large as golf balls depending from patient to patient. They may stay in the kidneys or travel out of body through the urinary tract.
What causes kidney stones?
Kidney stones form when the normal balance of water, salts, minerals, and other things present normally in urine chan ...
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May 08, 2006
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by SirGan
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Growth hormone, also called somatotropin, is a protein hormone secreted by the pituitary gland located in brain. It main purpose is to stimulate growth and cell reproduction. When inadequate production of growth hormone occurs- the medical condition is called human growth hormone deficiency.
Good thing about this hormone is that it can be produced synthetically and given to both children and adults for a variety of reasons, although, in the pas ...
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May 07, 2006
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by MariAnne
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Many people complain about stomach pain and different gastro problems. Huge number of human population has some stomach disease. Helicobacter pylori is common gastrointestinal problem as it mainly could cause terrible pain. However, it could also be a silent disease, so many people does not know they have it at all. It is very important to understand as much as it is possible about these bacteria. Especially when we know Helicobacter pylori is ba ...
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May 07, 2006
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by MariAnne
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The learning disability we define as a condition, that affects one or more of the elementary processes involved in understanding and applying language skills. Either it could be spoken or written skills. Specific problem areas might include combinations of an inability to listen, to think, speak, write, read, spell or engage in mathematics as most of children with ADHD reported. There might be dyslexia, which is the impaired ability to read or wr ...
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May 07, 2006
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by SirGan
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People have used marijuana as a medical treatment for thousands of years. Marijuana has been hailed as a prescription for many ills and physicians once used it to stimulate appetite, relieve chronic pain, and treat asthma and migraines. Many people don’t know but this has been reported even in modern America, because this plant was listed by the US Pharmacopeia- list of approved drugs in the United States, all unti ...
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May 07, 2006
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by SirGan
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Addison's disease is a severe or total deficiency of the hormones made in the adrenal cortex, caused by a destruction of the adrenal cortex. It is basically one hormonal disorder that occurs in all age groups and afflicts men and women equally. This hormonal disorder affects about 1 in 100,000 people, but there are no accurate statistics on the incidence of Addison's disease in the United States. Because these hormones produced by an adrenal glan ...
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