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- 951: The Female Body
- ... mammography is unquestionably the best way to increase ones chances of surviving breast cancer. Simple self-examinations should be health maintenance priority in every womens life. The American Cancer Society recommends scheduling mammography, X-ray examinations that detects breast cancers too small to feel, every two years for women between 40 to 49 years old & yearly thereafter. Once diagnosed, breast cancer is treated in various ways: Radiation therapy. Chemotherapy ...
- 952: Radar: A Silent Eye in the Sky
- ... If you count the number of seconds from when the sound was made to when the sound was heard, you can figure out the distance the sound had to travel. The formula is: (S/2) X 1100 = D (Half of the total time times 1100 feet per second equals the distance from the origin to the reflection point) Of course, radar is a much more complicated system than just somebody shouting ...
- 953: Rural Healthcare
- ... the grocery store by donating time, materials, and tools to the effort. Volunteers came up with many thoughtful and ingenious ideas to cut costs, such as using the wood from a crate that delivered an X-ray machine to the clinic for building shelves, and reusing wood paneling for the examination rooms. Once completed in 1977, the Lincoln County Primary Care Center became the first Rural Health Clinic in the nation ...
- 954: What Causes Infectious Diseases to Strike?
- ... of forests in Africa either because many poor nations like Zaire, Cameroon, Ghana and Nigeria depend on profits from forests to keep their countries economies above water. The nation of Zaire is covered by 1056 x 10^3 kilometers squared of forest. Over for percent of this forest cover is being logged or managed right now. The amount of rainforest cover in Zaire has also decreased, dropping at a rate of ...
- 955: Biological Warfare and Terrorism
- ... method of deployment of these people and their equipment. Along with this skilled response team there needs to be increased detection capabilities. Most desirable would be a device which could be integrated into current airport x-ray and detection equ ipment. The increase in a counter terrorist group's capability of detecting chemical weapons has the obvious advantage of preventing an attack before it happens. This should clearly be a priority ...
- 956: The American Civil War
- ... Before its first centennial, tragedy struck a new country and stained it for eternity. It will never be forgotten but adversity builds strength and the United States of America is now a much stronger nation. X. BIBLIOGRAPHY "The Civil War", Groliers Encyclopedia, 1995 Catton, Bruce., A Stillness at Appomattox. New York: Doubleday, 1963 Foote, Shelby., The Civil War, Vol. 3. New York: Random, 1974 Garraty, John Arthur, The American Nation: A ...
- 957: The Different Faces of Yoga
- ... are the earliest known collection of yoga teachings. Ancient Indian tradition holds that there was a grammarian named Patanjali who lived around the 2nd century B.C. that wrote The Yoga Sutras (Tola and Dragonetti x). However, more recent studies tend to support the claim that there were two Patanjalis - the grammarian who lived in the 2nd century B.C. and the yogi who lived in the 5th century A.D ...
- 958: Rheumatoid arthritis
- ... an auto-immune disease, a hereditary link is also a possible explanation. People with Rheumatoid arthritis almost always have an antibody called Rheumatoid factor present in their blood. Diagnosis of Rheumatoid arthritis is based on X-rays, symptom evaluation, and blood tests showing high levels of Rheumatoid factor. Synovial fluid analysis and complete blood counts are also part of diagnosis. Radiology studies will show soft tissue swelling, narrowed joint space and ...
- 959: The Partial Birth Abortion Debate
- The Partial Birth Abortion Debate When the debate over partial birth abortion, or D & X abortion, broke in 1995, the media had to report it. After all, it was being hotly debated in Congress where a ban on this horrific procedure was being considered. The abortion proponents knew that this ...
- 960: Home Health Care Nursing
- ... new inventions, developments, technology, and ways to provide improved care for the sick. Many of these different ideas were put to the test as hospitals began to become more accessible. Many of the procedures like x-rays and aseptic surgeries could no longer be provided at the home. As the wide range of services available in the medical field expanded, the need for more hospitals increased. With the increased demand for ...
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