Archive for April 2nd, 2009
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BODY SIGNAL ALERT/EYE, “CURTAIN” IN FRONT OF: DESCRIPTION AND POSSIBLE MEDICAL PROBLEMS
Behind the retina, at the back of your eye, lies a thin layer of blood vessels called the choroid. These blood vessels supply the entire eye with blood and oxygen, which help keep it functioning and healthy. Sometimes the retina of one eye can suddenly tear away from the choroid, causing you to see a [...]
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SNORING, CONSTANT FATIGUE, FALLING ASLEEP TOO EASILY
Description and Possible Medical Problems If an elbow in your partner’s side isn’t enough to stop him from snoring, and if he can fall asleep at the most inopportune moments, he probably has a condition called sleep apnea, a condition in which a person can actually wake up hundreds of times a night, even though [...]
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BODY SIGNAL ALERT: FAINTING
Description and Possible Medical Problems Most people have experienced what it’s like to faint. Although the cause is not always known, fainting should always be taken seriously, whether the person recovers immediately or remains unconscious for several minutes or longer. If a person faints in front of you, you should ask yourself the following questions [...]
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HOW THE BRAIN AND NEUROLOGICAL SYSTEM AGE
From the day we’re born, the motor skills and psychological development each of us is given vary to some degree. Though children can be expected to develop at more or less the same rate when it comes to acquiring skills such as walking and talking, when we reach our 50s, a gap begins to form. [...]
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A NEW ERA OF HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED STATES HAS ARRIVED
A new era of health care in the United States has arrived. The ascent of managed care and the prevalence of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) is quickly phasing out the familiar fee-for-service system. In the old system, a consumer could choose both his general practitioner and his subspecialists freely, regardless of whether he really needed [...]