2011-07-23T11:20:03+0000">July 23, 2011 – 11:20 am
Your rights to housing and employment-Your rights to housing and employment are the same as your right to public accommodations. In general, you have a right to whatever housing you can afford and whatever job you can carry out. In most states, refusing someone housing or employment because they have AIDS is illegal. Most [...]
2011-07-16T11:08:11+0000">July 16, 2011 – 11:08 am
The most ominous burden posed by being overweight is a shortening of your life span. The likelihood of dying early (compared with the average age of death of all people in the population) progressively increases the more overweight you are.Some of the increased risk of early death is a result of obesity-associated problems that produce [...]
2011-07-04T11:01:17+0000">July 4, 2011 – 11:01 am
If results of a blood test show that you have an elevated cholesterol level, you have an increased risk for the development of coronary artery disease. Thus, it makes sense to do what is necessary to keep your cholesterol in an acceptable range. In fact, the American Heart Association and the National Heart, Lung, and [...]
2011-06-29T08:28:01+0000">June 29, 2011 – 8:28 am
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. [...]
2011-06-18T08:15:38+0000">June 18, 2011 – 8:15 am
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 [...]
2011-06-05T07:49:27+0000">June 5, 2011 – 7:49 am
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 [...]
2011-05-20T16:08:32+0000">May 20, 2011 – 4:08 pm
That is a good question, for although girls may have the same symptoms as boys, the symptoms may often look quite different. I will illustrate by telling you about Stephanie, who was first brought to see me when she was eight. Stephanie, an eight-year-old third-graderStephanie’s mother was not aware of any possibility of ADHD, but [...]
2011-05-09T15:34:17+0000">May 9, 2011 – 3:34 pm
Pathophysiology, Microbiology, and Risk FactorsClostridial myonecrosis refers to fulminant skeletal muscle infection caused by Clostridium species. Commonly called gas gangrene, the infection has a prominent history as a complication of battlefield wounds. Prior to widespread use of antibiotics and improved surgical interventions, clostridial myonecrosis complicated as many as 5% of battlefield injuries in World War [...]
2011-04-30T15:04:37+0000">April 30, 2011 – 3:04 pm
This simply means inflammation of the skin and is the term so often applied when it is impossible to be more definite in diagnosis. It goes through many different forms and it is very difficult to describe it in a general way. It may differ on the various areas of the body, and no two [...]
2011-04-16T12:56:12+0000">April 16, 2011 – 12:56 pm
In Great Britain over 3 million women are now using oral contraceptives, i.e. one in three women of child-bearing age. ‘The pill’ has major advantages in addition to its reliability. It has helped many heavily populated countries to achieve lowest-ever birth rates. Fewer and fewer abortions are being performed. Periods are less often painful. On [...]