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| THE AIDS PANDEMIC | 27 Mar 2006 01:16 GMT | 4 |
"AIDS has changed forever the way doctors and patients think about blood. And that's not a bad idea, said the doctors gathered at the National Institutes of Health for a conference on blood transfusion."—Washington Post, July 5, 1988.
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| HIV second Shoe | 27 Mar 2006 01:12 GMT | 1 |
Many apartment dwellers have heard the thump of one shoe hitting the floor above them; they may then get tense awaiting the second. In the blood dilemma, no one knows how many deadly shoes may still hit. The AIDS virus was designated HIV, but some experts now call it HIV-1.
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| Continous Birth Controll Pill | 26 Mar 2006 23:45 GMT | 5 |
My wife is on continous BCP since a year i.e. she doesn't take the dummy pills, but directly goes on to the next pack. (her gynaec put on these because she has had a lot of minor gynaecological problems. She had endometriosis 7 years ago
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| NYU Medical Center Official Complaint filed | 26 Mar 2006 23:07 GMT | 226 |
24 August 2005 Thomas Feurstein Office of Compliance New York University Medical Center
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| Questions about high c-reactive protien test | 26 Mar 2006 19:50 GMT | 4 |
I'm a 47 yo male, 6 feet tall, weight about 173 lbs. I recently got a c reactive protein test (not sure if it's the "high sensitivity" type), and according to the results I just opened, it 23. The stated normal range is 0.0 to 7.0, from what I've read online the average in the ...
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| two sigmoidoscopies in a month | 26 Mar 2006 17:16 GMT | 5 |
Hello, i have had crohns for the peast 20 years. Recently, ive been feeling pretty sh*tty but my primary Gi doctor didnt think much of it. So i went to see another GI doctor for his opinion.....long story short... now each of them wants to perform a
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| lorazepam & alcohol | 26 Mar 2006 08:53 GMT | 8 |
I take lorazepam (.5 mg) as needed for anxiety. I know that you are not supposed to drink alcohol with this. Is it really a problem to have one or two glasses of wine with this stuff? I'd like to have a drink or two with dinner.
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| Bioethics and Bloodless Surgery | 26 Mar 2006 04:44 GMT | 2 |
RECENT years have seen unprecedented progress in the field of medicine. However, while solving medical problems, some advances have created ethical ones. Doctors have to ponder such dilemmas as: Should aggressive medical
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| Stiff neck and meningitis | 26 Mar 2006 02:50 GMT | 1 |
Can anyone explain the cause (pathogenesis) of a stiff neck with meningitis?
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| Doctors Take a New Look at Bloodless Surgery | 26 Mar 2006 02:13 GMT | 4 |
JANET, a Canadian woman, explained to her son why she had AIDS. She had contracted the disease from her husband before he died. In turn, her husband, a hemophiliac, had likely got AIDS through a blood fraction. Nightmares like this are just one of the factors that have
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| ED CONRAD TO DONATE HIS BRAIN TO SCIENCE | 26 Mar 2006 00:35 GMT | 1 |
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| For those in need of a blood transfusion | 26 Mar 2006 00:32 GMT | 63 |
For those in need of a blood transfusion and whose religious convictions or individual concerns prohibit the process, an alternative program is being offered by Allegheny General Hospital (AGH) in Pittsburgh.
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| Do you feel the muscle clamp down? | 25 Mar 2006 22:30 GMT | 1 |
463102225869 Men, During that most pleasurable of interludes, do you feel the muscle clamp down that prevents backflow of the white stuff? How old are you?
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| Keeping mentally and physically active helps prevent Alzheimer's | 25 Mar 2006 15:28 GMT | 28 |
Keeping mentally and physically active when young and middle-aged can help prevent the brain degeneration associated with Alzheimer's disease, research suggests. Jean Marx (2005) Preventing Alzheimer's: A Lifelong Commitment?
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| Is a callus the same thing as a corn on the sole of the foot? | 25 Mar 2006 14:06 GMT | 2 |
I'm curious if a callus could be described as a corn on the sole of the foot.
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