Hard Water
.... Local health departments may also assist well owners with periodic testing for bacteria or nitrates”(2).
The Water association makes a point that, “community water systems are required to meet the standards set by the Environmental protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)”(3). Community water systems must ensure that the drinking water they supply does not have contaminant levels higher than standards of the SDWA amendments, or provincial regula .....
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Headaches Their Causes And Effects
.... itself can lead to vomiting, slurred speech, makes the sufferer sensitive to light and worsens when there is a lot of noise.
The mechanism is not completely understood, but many women have their most severe attacks during or just before their menstrual period. This is supposedly due to the hormonal imbalance during that time.
So, what can we do to prevent Migraines?
Because Migraine headaches can recur for years and medication may lead to side effects and rebound headaches prevention is the .....
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Health Risks Of Secondhand Smoke
.... Viscusi says that for many years non-smokers view secondhand smoke as a "smelly annoyance." He generalizes that smokers annoy all non-smokers. Viscusi also uses shared assumptions to stand for
proof. One is he does so is when he stated that "one whiff is less likely to be risky than sustained exposures." But goes on to say that the EDA and the OSHA hasn't made those distinctions but that its instructive to use the estimates anyway. Another way Viscusi uses logical fallacies is by using circular reaso .....
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Healthcare And Coranare Heart Disease
.... any medical attention. But advances in treatment have meant that even more victims can survive and go on to live normal, healthy lives” (www.intellihealth.com) Even with these new treatments the disease is a killer. Doctors have found ways to extend the life of people with the disease, but they have not found a way to completely cure the disease. Once people contract Coronary Heart disease they eventually die from having it.
When looked at across the population, Heart disease is possibly the m .....
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Heart Murmurr
.... blood flow through them will cause a murmur. As the baby grows, the murmur will become softer and many times disappear altogether. Another common innocent murmur heard in children ages 3 to 8 years is a vibratory musical murmur called a Still's murmur. No one knows the cause of the murmur other than blood flowing through a healthy vigorous heart. The murmur is usually detected at a well-child visit or if the child comes in with fever or some other form of illness. In times of fever or illness, the m .....
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Hemophilia
.... is primarily the infusion of factor
VIII concentrates, now heat-treated to reduce the chances of
transmission of AIDS.6 In the case of minor bleeding, the factor
VIII:C levels should only be raised to 25% with one infusion. For
moderate bleeding, 'it is adequate to raise the level initially to
50% and maintain the level at greater that 25% with repeated
infusion for 2-3 days. When major surgery is to be performed, one
raises the factor VIII:C level to 100% and then maintains the
facto .....
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Hemophilia 2
.... unable to form an effective clot. A few of the warning signs of internal bleeding in hemophiliacs are: headaches, sleepiness, nausea, vomiting, unequal pupil size, slurred speech, and disorientation and confusion.
Hemophilia is classified as severe, moderate, or mild, which indicates the expected frequency of bleeding. The normal clotting factor levels are on average 40% to 200%. If a hemophiliac has less than 2% clotting factors, then they are said to have severe hemophilia. If a person has se .....
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Hemophilia 3
.... By combining the genetic tests with a blood test, this percentage rises to about 80 to 90 percent. Recently a single defect was found which is thought to account for about half of the more severe cases of hemophilia.
Prior to 1960, treatment of hemophilia involved massive blood transfusions, which were largely ineffective and even dangerous, because of the huge volumes of blood needed to give the patient enough clotting factor VIII. In the sixties and seventies techniques were developed to give a .....
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Hemophilia 4
.... chromosome. Males have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome. Girls have two X chromosomes. A boy who inherits the hemophilia defect on his X chromosome will most defiantly will be a hemophiliac. A girl who inherits the defective gene on her X chromosome will be a carrier instead of hemophiliac, because the normal gene on her X chromosome provides enough for the most needed clotting factor. She might transmit the defective gene to her children. It is
very rare for a girl to have hemophil .....
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Hemophilia Manitoba
.... only pass on one of
the two chromosomes. If a male has hemophilia, he will
have normal sons and all of his daughters will be carriers
of the hemophilia disorder because all he can pass on is
the defective X-chromosome.
Males mostly have hemophilia, but women can also have
hemophilia. This is extremely rare though because two
defective X-chromosomes would be needed. In fact, the
first proven case of women having hemophilia was not until
the 1950’s (Bornstein 89). Female carr .....
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Hemp - Miricale Plant
.... far more and safer chemical compounds suitable for conversion to methane than any other plant. This renewable fuel contains no sulfur and while growing helps remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere via photosynthesis. For thousands of years, all good paints and varnishes were made from an oil from the plant. Today, it has almost been totally replaced by chemically derived oils. In closing, it is estimated that if just 6 percent of all our farmable land were seeded with this plant, it could supply .....
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Hepatitis
.... on earth. Some emerging viruses are very serious. Common examples are the hepatitis viruses, B and C. The hepatitis B pattern of illness was recognized at the end of the nineteenth century, yet the virus itself was not isolated until 1963. One hundred and seventy six million people are carrying the surface antigen of this one virus globally, and the infection causes a vast amount of illness and death, including most of the fatal cases of liver cell cancer.3 To prevent the wide spread of this disease, .....
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Hepatitis B
.... risk for infection should be vaccinated. Post-exposure prophylaxis with hepatitis B immune globulin is also effective for non-immune individuals after a known exposure (e. g. needle stick).
Consequences of HBV Infection
HBV causes acute and chronic hepatitis. The chances of becoming chronically infected depends upon age. About 90% of infected neonates and 50% of infected young children will become chronically infected. In contrast, only about 5% to 10% of immunocompetent adults infected wi .....
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Hepatitis B 2
.... fact about hepatitis B, considering it is preventable, is that
one in twenty people are or will be infected in their lifetime. There are one
million people infected in the United States. More than 350 million people
worldwide are chronic carriers of the virus. A chronic carrier is someone with the virus in their blood, and can who can pass the disease to others.
Fifty percent of those infected with the virus (a.k.a. HBV) do not develop
symptoms. HBV is often called the “Sile .....
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Hepatitis B Virus
.... foods and cigarettes
· Odd tastes and smells
more than 240,000 people contract hepatitis B in the United States. A highly infectious virus that attacks the liver causes the disease. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection can lead to severe illness, liver damage, and, in some cases, death.
It can take, on average, 60-120 days from the time of exposure for symptoms of hepatitis B infection to develop. However, only 50% of adults infected with hepatitis B ever show any symptoms, with symptoms occurring even less often in infants and children. Some pe .....
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