posted by Lionking filed under Diseases,
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Forget about crack, cocaine, speed, and heroin. Alcohol is the most widely abused drug in the world and alcoholism is the number one drug problem. Alcoholism is the third largest killer in the world and would probably be number one if blood alcohol levels were determined for all victims of suicide, homicide, and car wrecks.
Although alcoholism varies from person
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posted by Lionking filed under Diseases,
Health
If you are a middle aged man, and if your total cholesterol is below 160, you might want to ask your doctor to check whether you are one of the rare individuals for whom this could pose a problem.
And if you are that rare man at risk, you may in fact need to consume a little more saturated fat
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A substance produced in the human breast to inhibit hormone-stimulated cell growth is being eyed as a future breast cancer treatment.
The substance is called mammastatin, a protein made by human mammary cells. If scientists can figure out exactly how mammastatin production is triggered, in theory they may be able to make breast cancer cells switch themselves off.
When a cell
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posted by Lionking filed under Diseases
If blood pressure-lowering medications are necessary, the next step is to determine which drug will work best for you. Fortunately, today, we have dozens of different drugs to choose from. Diuretics drugs increase the excretion of sodium and water by kidneys. They thereby reduce the volume of blood in the arteries and veins and consequently lower blood pressure. Also loss
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Advances in cardiac electrophysiology are occurring so frequently now that researchers are building on each other’s breakthroughs, constructing a pyramid of medical achievements that none would have thought possible just a decade ago.
As an example, clinical and laboratory investigators have produced computer-created, three dimensional depictions of the stages and breakdowns in normal performance as a healthy heart deteriorates into
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