Health Care
Two Doctors and a Nurse Suspended For Rectal Surgery Scandal
Here is an update on the rectal surgery scandal where a video showing the misconduct of a medical team while extracting a canister from a patient’s rectum was uploaded on YouTube. It was
Apparently justice has been done and two doctors and a nurse are facing preventive suspension for three months. Many have questioned this […]
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U.S. Shortage In Nurses
We all know about the nursing shortage in the U.S. The news now is that it has gone to an all time low. Yes, the number of nurses to cover all the patients in the hospitals is lower than ever. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn’t seem to worry about this since they are […]
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Insulin Pumps Cause Injuries
Type 1 diabetes or also known as juvenile diabetes mostly occurs in your children or teens whose own body attacks the pancreas so it produces lesser or no insulin. This would mean the diabetic has to provide the body with insulin through other means and this includes insulin injections and also through pumps.
Although the […]
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The Fit But Fat Theory
Have you heard about the fit but fat theory? It’s when a person is overweight or obese but still he exercises regularly or is constantly active in most days of the week. This has been a theory long studied by many researchers to determine if there is a relationship between being fit but fat and […]
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EV 71: A Threat to the Olympics?
China, which is to host the Beijing Olympics, is now having a problem with another disease outbreak, the EV71 or also known as the Enterovirus 71. This highly infectious virus has already caused the deaths of 25 children in China. Could this child virus become a threat to the Olympics?
The EV71 was discovered late […]
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Get Your Kids Vaccinated
Some of you might ask yourselves why you should go through all the trouble of remembering dates for your kid’s vaccination schedules. That’s because there are lots of diseases that can be prevented through vaccines. It could mean that you have to pay for the shots but those expenses are negligible compared to the expenses […]
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What’s wrong about Pregnancy with Diabetes?
Reports have shown that rates of women starting their pregnancies with type 1 or type 2 Diabetes have doubled since 1999. But the statistics on women developing diabetes during pregnancy, which is called gestational diabetes, remains the same and that is the good part about it.
Diabetes is considered a risk factor when the woman […]
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More and More Breastfeeding Mothers
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n reports from the CDC, there are now 3 out of 4 women who breastfeed in the US. This is the highest that it has ever been for the last 20 years. This has been attributed from the increase in breastfeeding campaigns and educating pregnant women early on about the advantages of breastfeeding.
According to […]
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Which Would You Choose, Girls Or Boys?
If you had the power to choose the sex of your unborn child, would you take that chance? Are you going to choose a boy over a girl or vice versa?
A study was conducted from the University of Exeter in Britain to determine if the diet of the mothers could affect the sex […]
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A Diet Reduces Heart Attacks And Strokes?
A study was conducted for a span of 25 years and followed more than 88,000 healthy women on their diet. This is the largest study yet where there is strong evidence that a diet program can reduce the incidence of heart attacks and strokes.
The number of women who followed this diet was 24% less […]
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