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Showing posts with label Articles. Show all posts

Recommended Food For Children In Their Very Early Years (1)

Breast milk is the best food for the healthy growth and development of infants. Infants should be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life to achieve optimal growth, development and health. After six months, they should be fed adequate and safe complementary foods while continuing breastfeeding for up to two years or beyond.
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Acupuncture For Slimming, Is Effective? (0)

For most women, having beautiful and slim body, of course, be a dream. No wonder that many women who have problems with weight gain, especially those who are obese, often looking for quick and inexpensive way to lose weight, including alternative methods.
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Stress Triggering Body Odor? (0)

The body fresh and clean is one of the capital to appear confident. That's why if body odor issue of confidence can vanish. Problem of body odor due to sweat can be influenced by many things, such as stress.

Indirectly, stress does contribute to the occurrence of body odor. In times of stress the body uses different sweat glands with glands that are used when we move.
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20 Percent of Lung Cancer Patients Continue to Smoke (0)

Although smoking can exacerbate the disease but about 20 percent of lung cancer patients, as well as families desperate to continue that habit. Most patients argued it was too late to quit smoking.

"Most of them had already reasoned disease so severe nothing in it to quit smoking," said Kathryn E. Weaver, of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
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Cervical Cancer Is The Main Cause Of Death (0)

Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in developing countries. In fact, it actually can be minimized cancer sufferer.

This was revealed in the show "Fight for Cervical Cancer" held by the Faculty of vocational Public Relations University of Indonesia, on Thursday (05/06/2010). Activities aimed at raising awareness of women, especially female students about the dangers of cervical cancer (cervical).
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Drinking Coffee Prevents Cancer Uterus (0)

Drinking coffee was not only the spirit will keep you in the move. Especially for you ladies, coffee could be brought huge benefits to the health of reproductive organs.
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Antibiotics Trigger Asthma Risk In Infants (0)

Prescribing drugs germ killer or antibiotics in infants before the age of six months turned out to invite risk. A U.S. study says, infants who received antibiotics 70 percent higher risk of suffering from asthma in childhood.

Researchers at Yale University indicated that infants at increased risk of asthma by 40 percent when antibiotics have been prescribed for treatment once in the early months of his birth. The risk will increase to 70 percent if they have been prescribed both to treat infections that are difficult to cure.
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Antibiotics Are Not The Super Drug (0)

Some studies show, tend to excessive use of antibiotics and is generally given to diseases or conditions that do not require antibiotics.

Antibiotics are powerful drugs and have saved many lives. But the point is well known, antibiotics are not cure all ills. Antibiotics can only cure the diseases caused by bacterial infection.

"Use antibiotics appropriately to prevent immune germs," ​​says Prof. Iwan Prahasto, Professor of University of Gajah Mada in Farmakolgi workshop and briefing the media about drug prescribing patterns in Indonesia, especially antibiotics, Saturday (26 / 3) on the campus of the UI Depok, West Java, Indonesia.
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Radiation Knowledge: What Is Ionizing Radiation ? (0)

When certain atoms disintegrate, they release a type of energy called ionizing radiation. This energy can travel as either electromagnetic waves (i.e. gamma or
X-rays) or as particles (i.e. alpha, beta or neutrons).

The atoms that emit radiation are called radionuclides; e.g., radioactive iodine, caesium, and plutonium.

Ionizing radiation is an essential tool for diagnosis and treatment in medicine, that must be used with rigorous attention to safety.
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Antiretroviral Therapy For HIV Infection In Adolescents & Adults (0)

The guidelines identify the most potent, effective and feasible first-line, second-line and subsequent treatment regimens, applicable to the majority of populations, the optimal timing of ART initiation and improved criteria for ART switching, and introduce the concept of third-line antiretroviral regimens.
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WHO Guidelines For Laboratory Diagnosis Of Avian Influenza Infection - 2 (0)

Read: WHO Guidelines For Laboratory Diagnosis Of Avian Influenza Infection - 1

Preparing to collect specimens
Clinical specimens should be collected as described below and added to transport medium. Nasal or nasopharyngeal swabs can be combined in the same vial of virus transport medium. When possible, the following information should be recorded on the Field Data Collection Form: general patient information, type of specimens, date of collection, and contact information of person completing the form, etc.
Standad precautions should always be followed, and barrier protections applied whenever samples are obtained from patients.
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WHO Guidelines For Laboratory Diagnosis Of Avian Influenza Infection - 1 (0)

General information
Respiratory virus diagnosis depends on the collection of high-quality specimens, their rapid transport to the laboratory and appropriate storage before laboratory testing. Virus is best detected in specimens containing infected cells and secretions. Specimens for the direct detection of viral antigens or nucleic acids and virus isolation in cell cultures should be taken preferably during the first 3 days after onset of clinical symptoms.
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Tropical Diesease: Tropical Diseases Threatening Still Continues (0)

Climate change and global warming in recent years led to increased incidence of tropical diseases. Increase in world temperatures play a role in the spread of tropical diseases and vectors of disease. Some tropical diseases are referred to, among other things, diarrhea caused by rotavirus, elephantiasis (filaria), leprosy, dengue, malaria, influenza, tuberculosis, hepatitis, and fungal diseases.
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