Posted on May 15th, 2009, by admin
Changes may occur in the cells of the cervix. This is known as dysplasia and can be recognised on the Papanicolaou smear. It is believed these changes may be pre-malignant so that treatment at this stage could prevent the development of cancer. Cancer-in-situ is also detected by the smear. This is cancer at its earliest [...]
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Posted on May 15th, 2009, by admin
Your inside knowledge is just as important with these ongoing modifications to treatment as it was with the initial decision. Your practitioner may advise you to continue intensive chemotherapy because the secondary deposits on your chest X-ray have stopped growing since starting treatment. This means that the cancer has stopped getting bigger, but has not [...]
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Posted on May 8th, 2009, by admin
There are really no big distinctions between sugars and starches in either nutritional terms or in the G.I. sense. Some sugars such as fructose or fruit sugar have a low G.I. factor. Others, such as glucose, have a high G.I. factor. The most common sugar in our diet, ordinary table sugar (sucrose), has an intermediate [...]
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Posted on May 8th, 2009, by admin
Aerobics, or exercise to music classes are popular, particularly amongst females, because of their social involvement, safety and the support of numbers. Some modem aerobics classes now cater for the body image concerns of big people by insisting on big T-shirts, floppy clothes and no body-hugging leotards (even on instructors). In line with the previous [...]
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Posted on May 8th, 2009, by admin
Clearly both the environment and genetics are responsible for obesity, but how do they interrelate? There are large differences in the amount of obesity between populations. Some of this variation can be explained by differences in body frame which makes it difficult to compare, for example, Samoans with Cambodians. However, even within Caucasian populations there [...]
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Posted on May 8th, 2009, by admin
Men have sought the fountain of youth since the dawn of history. The medicine man of the Stone Age, in addition to being a specialist in driving the evil spirits away, also tried to restore virility to aging men. Records from early medical history show a variety of herbs used to retard aging processes and [...]
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Posted on May 8th, 2009, by admin
If you fast for ten to 14 days in accordance with instructions given in Chapter 2, your blood pressure will probably drop to normal in that period. After the fast is completed it is of great importance to adopt intelligent eating habits, if you wish to prevent the recurrence of high blood pressure. Your diet [...]
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Posted on April 29th, 2009, by admin
From anterior to posterior the iris is organised in the following layers: 1. Endothelial 2. Anterior marginal layer 3. Vascular layer = Stroma 4. Posterior marginal layer = Dilatator layer 5. Epithelial pigment = Stratum pigmenti iridis 6. Retinal layer = Pars iridica retinae 1. The question of the existence of the Endothelial layer is [...]
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Posted on April 29th, 2009, by admin
Greasy hair is a problem at period time too. I’m not going to advise you to wash your hair every day, although I know many girls do. It’s a good idea to keep it clean, but if you subject it to a daily dose of hot water, you could be forcing it to produce even [...]
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Posted on April 28th, 2009, by admin
Everybody knows what a fever is, but many people don’t know what it means. One common error is to assume that the higher the fever, the sicker the child. It is also commonly believed that fever is a child’s enemy, that it should be fought and the temperature brought to normal as soon as possible. [...]
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