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I am not a huge baseball fan to begin with, and when I am, I route for the Nationals. Thus, I pay little attention to the New York Yankees, and was not aware that Yankee player Mark Teixeira&nbs p...
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When a person visits a doctor to find out if he or she has hypertension (high blood pressure), the doctor would probably measure the blood pressure in both arms. If blood pressure is higher on one arm the...
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"Suck" is a word I seldom use. It's a word I ask my children not to use. However, in this case the word is appropriate. If as a patient, you have ever had a delay in getting a medicati on...
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I should cut down the consumption of white rice! That was the message I heard from my late father who was diagnosed with diabetes in his 40s. But he did not tell me why. Perhaps he thought I was too y oung...
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Soda is sweet and is blamed to be the culprit for causing overweight. That is why many people have switched to diet soda, which is believed to be healthier than the normal soda.
A study released in February...
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In our world of 24/7 media, where we seem to hear about the next big cure, important dietary change or very dangerous drug virtually every day, it is hard to believe that the news people, tweeter s...
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Heart disease is the world’s number 1 killer. In the United States, over 616,000 people died of heart disease in 2008, and almost 25 percent of deaths were caused by heart disease.
In a paper pu blished...
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In general, air pollution is any substance that is introduced into the atmosphere with harmful effects on living things and the environment. Air pollution can be visible or invisible, and it does cont ribute...
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Every year, stroke affects nearly 800,000 people in the United States. It is the 4th leading cause of death in the United States.
A stroke, also known as a cerebrovascular accident (CVA), is the loss of...
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