Monthly Archives: June 2011

HIV INFECTION AND ITS EFFECTS ON INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS: RELATIONSHIPS WITH DRUG USERS

Resolving relationships between drug users and their caregivers is not always possible. Relationships between drug users and their parents and partners were often difficult even before an HIV diagnosis. Sometimes addiction is a family illness and everyone is participating in the addiction process: parents or partners pay bills, make excuses, solve problems, make problems bearable. [...]

COMMON COMPLICATIONS OF SPINAL CORD INJURY: BLOOD CLOTS

Several types of medical complications are commonly associated with spinal cord injury, some of which we’ve already mentioned briefly. The more you know about these problems and their solutions, the better prepared you’ll be to cope with them should they arise and the more control you can exert over your health care. These complications are [...]

WHAT IS CANCER?

Invasion means that instead of remaining contained within its own area of the body the cancer is capable of extending outside this area. A cancer of the lungs is capable of growing into other sites in the chest. A cancer in the intestine is capable of growing through the wall of the intestine and sticking [...]