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11th September 2009
Plastic surgery is a medical specialty that deals with the use of surgical techniques to improve or change the appearance of a person's body. Deformities caused by accidents, hereditary abnormalities, birth defects, and diseases are the main reasons peop... Read >
Author: Robert Palmer16th August 2009
Choice is a fundamentally human quality. Not just epic or major decisions either. Beyond free will and religious notions of choice, there is a quality contained within the simple, everyday decision process that defines our lives as human beings; which san... Read >
Author: Yodle27th July 2009
You're pregnant and would like to know more about what an ultrasound scan is really all about? Ultrasound images are formed using sound waves. A machine sends sound waves through the body which are then reflected back and converted into an image that is ... Read >
Author: Carson Flynn30th June 2009
John Henry Holliday wasn’t called “Doc Holliday” for no reason. He makes the list of famous dentists for obvious reasons, but “Doc Holliday” was not just a gambler and a gunfighter. This famous figure of the Wild West was at one point in time a ... Read >
Author: Daniel Berry19th June 2009
Several women benefit a lot from the important nutrients provided by prenatal vitamins. Prenatal vitamins are specially formulated multivitamins that can help avoid any nutritional deficiencies in the diet consumed by pregnant women. While most prenatal... Read >
Author: devk12th June 2009
The International Friendship Club [IFC] has financed a program of children with a Cleft Palate since 1987. This program grants free medical consultation and treatment to all those children who are born with a cleft palate or harelip. The donations that yo... Read >
Author: Pvrpv05th June 2009
Dental X-rays are pictures of the teeth, bones, and soft tissues around them to help find problems with the teeth, mouth, and jaw. X-ray pictures can show cavities, hidden dental structures (such as wisdom teeth), and bone loss that cannot be seen during ... Read >
Author: thornhilldental06th May 2009
What we know and understand about the practice of dentistry today has evolved over centuries of contributions from several famous dentists. Many of these contributors were not even known as dentists during their lifetime, but still helped to develop the h... Read >
Author: Daniel Berry19th March 2009
If you were to read a surgeon job description, you would likely find out that a surgeon is a type of medical doctor who performs surgery on people who require it for some type of reason. The surgery may be performed to prevent the spread of a disease, rep... Read >
Author: 2Deano10th February 2009
Volunteer health , words which means unpaid health…there is hospitality, care and concern with the people whom you don’t even know. Benevolent acts like this must be given honor, the helpers of health organizations are the people whom we should be pr... Read >
Author: laurafosler03rd February 2009
Shih tzus can live for up to 10 to 18 years but the range can vary depending on their health condition, activities and how they are being cared for. Some factors that can contribute to their health's deterioration are health issues. These health issues in... Read >
Author: Richard Cussons08th December 2008
Speech disorders are fairly easy to recognize by a layperson. The speech may be difficult to understand, articulation may be unclear, it may sound ‘stuttered’ or fluency may by disrupted. Although
most listeners tolerate speech disorders, individual... Read >
Author: Niyan Vadia18th November 2008
In today’s world both men and women consider plastic surgery for many reasons. It used to be that plastic surgery was only for the rich and famous but today people of all means can have the plastic surgery procedures that they desire. Most often people ... Read >
Author: Daniel Berry04th November 2008
Though surgical altering of the human body was first used in India around 800 BC, there is evidence that the actual beginnings of cosmetic surgery began some 4,000 years ago. These radical surgical procedures progressed very slowly in Europe, perhaps due ... Read >
Author: Daniel Berry24th September 2008
Larsen syndrome has been called both a skeletal dysphasia. Larsen syndrome is an inherited condition characterized by congenital interruption of multiple body joints along with other remarkable features of the face, hands, and bones. It is affected both ... Read >
Author: Juliet Cohen24th September 2008
Kniest dysplasia is a disorder of bone growth characterized by short stature (dwarfism) with other skeletal abnormalities and problems with vision and hearing. People with this condition have short size from birth, with a short trunk and shortened limbs. ... Read >
Author: Juliet Cohen17th July 2008
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome affects approximately 1-2 out of every 1,000 births. Prenatal exposure to alcohol can have many subtle side effects such as: trouble learning, impaired development, mental retardation, facial deformities and an inherited propensity ... Read >
Author: MIKE SELVON25th June 2008
Aase syndrome or Aase-Smith syndrome is a rare inherited disorder. A familial deformity syndrome of variable expressivity, characterised by congenital hypoplastic anaemia and connatal triphalangy of the thumbs. Other features may be hydrocephalus with Dan... Read >
Author: Juliet Cohen13th June 2008
Water purification is a complex topic, but learning a little about the technology is a good idea. This is especially true, if you are shopping for a home water filter. There some really good water purifiers and some mediocre products. What follows are... Read >
Author: Hugh Harris-Evans13th June 2008
The public water filtration system used in cities throughout the United States uses chlorine to disinfect the water. Chlorine has been used for this purpose for over 100 years and has been effective in killing the bacteria which cause typhoid, cholera and... Read >
Author: Hugh Harris-Evans25th May 2008
The United States is well-known for its state-of-the-art medical care, including plastic (or cosmetic) surgery. This being the case, why are so many people choosing to obtain their plastic surgery abroad?
The answer, typically, comes down to the "almig... Read >
Author: Paul Easton21st May 2008
Digeorge syndrome is a disorder gift at inborn, caused by problems within a developing embryo that happen payable to chromosome defects. It is too called thymic aplasia, thymic hypoplasia, or third and fourth pharyngeal archway or pocket syndrome. History... Read >
Author: Juliet Cohen20th May 2008
Plastic surgery is becoming quite popular now-a-days due to desire in people to eradicate effects of aging by repairing parts of body. In general term plastic surgery can be understood with number of procedures undertook by a surgeon for reconstructing pa... Read >
Author: Mansi Gupta15th May 2008
Diamond blackfan anemia (DBA) is a congenital erythroid aplasia that usually presents in infancy. The exact cause is not clear, but the problem seems to be a fault in one of the early steps of red blood cell production. In blackfan diamond anemia the body... Read >
Author: Juliet Cohen16th April 2008
Otitis media is an inflammation of the middle ear, it usually occurs after respiratory tract infections. It is often prevalent among ages 6 to 36 months and 4 to 6 years old.It is seen most frequently in males and children with cleft palate. There is also... Read >
Author: k. harris15th November 2006
With the passing of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, schools across the nation are now required to offer services that were before considered a luxury for students with disabilities. One such service is for speech and language therapy.
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Author: Patricia Hawke15th September 2006
With cosmetic surgery being evident through celebrity images and reality television shows, the increase in teenage cosmetic surgery is hardly surprising. Here is an overview.
Teenage Cosmetic Surgery
Cosmetic surgery is extremely popular these days... Read >
Author: Ricardo Silva21st August 2006
Folic AcidVitamin Deficiencies Folic Acid is also known as Folate; along with vitamin B-12 is a water-soluble vitamin. It protecting against birth defects and heart disease. Folic Acid is a vital raw material for production of red blood cells, as well as ... Read >
Author: Get Nutri02nd May 2006
Glutathione for a Healthier PregnancyCopyright 2004 Priya ShahAll parents-to-be nurture the dream of a healthy pregnancyand baby.But the modern environment and diet is deficient in manyfactors essential for the health of mother and fetus. Oneof those fa... Read >
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22nd November 2005
"Ask any of the 12 million smokers in the UK and the chances are they'll say they'd love to stop but just can't. In fact several have tried many times and failed and have therefore concluded that it's impossible," says Lysette Offley of Sounds Positive Hy... Read >
Author: Lysette Offley
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