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Genes
Published on May 7, 2008 3:42 PM
The decisive step toward identifying genes is to understand the patterns of disease and the relation between the inheritances of DNA types . Agribusiness and pharmaceutical companies study and use genetic engineering. Many proclaim that the language of the …
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Diabetes Is…
Published on May 7, 2008 3:39 PM
A disorder of metabolism is called diabetes . And metabolism is the process of digestion food for energy and growth. Most of the food moves into glucose, the main source of energy for the body. Glucose forms sugar in the blood and sugar from our food is dumped …
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Asthma Is
Published on May 7, 2008 3:35 PM
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory lung disease . People with asthma have lungs that are extremely sensitive. Asthma causes wheezing, tightness of the chest, coughing and shortness of breath. A narrowing of the breathing passages in the lung causes an …
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Depression is…
Published on May 7, 2008 3:29 PM
Some people think that depression is chemical imbalances in the brain and it is a medical illness, without psychological causes. But almost all psychological problems have physical traces, and all physical sicknesses have psychological consequences. …
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Depressed People Need Help
Published on May 7, 2008 3:26 PM
The most efficient method to assist a depressed person is to help her or him obtain appropriate treatment . This method may include encouraging the person to stay with treatment until the recovery when symptoms begin to decrease, or to find different way of …
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Heart Disease Is…
Published on May 7, 2008 3:22 PM
Heart disease is the result of the narrowing of the blood vessels and it is the first leading cause of death. Stroke is the third cause. This vasoconstriction can seriously reduce or even stop blood flow to essential parts of the body like the brain or heart. …
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Moxifloxacin could speed up Treatment of Tuberculosis
Published on May 7, 2008 3:11 PM
The U.S. researchers said that substituting the antibiotic moxifloxacin in the regimen of drugs used to treat the tuberculosis (TB) could dramatically shorten the time needed to cure the illness from six months to four. Moxifloxacin is a fluoroquinolone …
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Antibiotics Could Reduce the Infections
Published on May 7, 2008 3:03 PM
In the future, hospital patients may have a new weapon to fight infection after surgery : powerful antibiotic, catheters, surgical instruments and other medical devices. Researchers at the University of Southern Mississippi say they've developed a way to …
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Cephalosporins should become the only drug treatment for the sexually transmitted disease Gonorrhea
Published on May 7, 2008 2:59 PM
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that antibiotics called Cephalosporins should become the only drug treatment for gonorrhea, the sexually transmitted disease, because the bacterial infection is becoming increasingly resistant to the …
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Alcoholism
Published on May 7, 2008 2:56 PM
Alcoholism is one of the progressive and chronic diseases . A person drinks jigger after jigger until drinking hurts his or her life. Alcoholics think that some people drink who have problems in their personal or business life and because of other …