Articles, tagged with "public health", page 4
03rd December 2008
A specter is haunting the Old Line State: obesity. Today, some 60% of Maryland's adults are overweight or obese -- and the obesity-attributable medical costs for Maryland adults are over $1.5 billion every year.
Obesity is a disease characterized by ...
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Author:
Craig B. Thompson
05th September 2008
After reading the Report, the first reaction is outrageous.
It is a Report from the Associated Press published in the first half of March 2008, written by a research Team that worked on it for five months. It stirred up harsh emotions and was widely quot...
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Author:
Elia E. LEVI
03rd September 2008
Online education is continually growing due to many factors -- the advancement of technology and convenience of the internet in the contemporary life of the average adult, as well as economic factors which show that when the job market decreases, the retu...
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Author:
A. Edwards
01st September 2008
Study abroad loans for us medical students provide cash to the students for their higher study. Many students leave their education in the lurch due to lack of money. There are courses available to cater to the needs of the budding medical transcriptions....
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Author:
Jonesh taylor
24th July 2008
Statistics on health, both physical and mental, are always an interesting thing to observe. The numbers show data on a variety of subjects, such as the number of teenagers who are engaging in stupid sexual practices, or the percentage of people who are ab...
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Author:
harvey ong
21st July 2008
There is a slowly increasing campaign across the United States, a campaign to find and drink raw milk straight from the cow just as our ancestors did for hundreds of years. People are willing to risk illness and death (so says the FDA) to find this elixir...
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Author:
Raven Miller
30th June 2008
Did you know that only female mosquitoes bite? While most people would rather find a way to obliterate them rather than learn about them, finding out all you can about mosquitoes will help you to stay protected. Sadly, there is no way to rid these pests f...
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Author:
John Grimes
25th April 2008
Not knowing about the quality of your public water should be a crime that you never commit. Do you know where your source fluid is located and how you receive your water? It is important to know how your liquid is kept safe.
There may be a discrepancy...
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Author:
MIKE SELVON
02nd April 2008
Many foreigners get surprised whet they learn that practically no historical buildings remained after WWII. You have to explain long how destructive WWII turned for us and how many cities were restored practically from ruins.
Tourists who have already ...
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Author:
Jason Taylor
25th March 2008
Today, more and more people are beginning to realize how much of an impact the built environment
is actually having on our health. A built environment is basically the infrastructure and
physical structures of communities that are made by man. Sin...
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Author:
Tony Seruga, Yolanda Seruga and Yolanda Bishop
23rd February 2008
Yeah, you are reading this now searching for answers. If you are like the rest of us, it may be late at night and you are searching for information that will confirm your worst suspicions that you may be showing symptoms of heart disease.
In my case, ...
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Author:
Robert Palmer
14th November 2007
On November 5, 2007, the manufacturer of a heart surgery drug, Bayer AG, pulled a heart surgery drug called Trasylol off of the shelves. The choice was made after medical regulation agencies pressured Bayer AG to remove the drug as a result of a Canadian ...
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Author:
Legal
26th July 2007
With nutritional education costing the government billions of dollars a year, there are cheaper and much more efficient ways to become naturally health aware. You and your family need to eat together, be mindful of what you eat and be active in taking...
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Author:
Mitamins Team
24th July 2007
We have enjoyed scores of movies where somewhere in the plot the leading woman is so depressed that she gives up food completely. Real life for me however does not seem to follow reel life. The more depressed I am the more I eat and the scary part is that...
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Author:
Nicholas Bowen
20th March 2006
Despite the fact that more than 300,000 birds have now been culled in Turkey to control the avian flu virus-- and this effort is continuing -- the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is concerned that the beginnings of an endemic situation ma...
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Author:
Rosalyn Bronstein