Archive for April 9th, 2009
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URINE, CHANGE IN STREAM OF
Description and Possible Medical Problems One of the advantages men have over women when it comes to biology is the ability to urinate easily in inconvenient venues. Of course, there are some women who would disagree with me, who think this ability spoils men because there’s no need for them to learn how to “hold [...]
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BODY SIGNAL ALERT VOMITING: DESCRIPTION AND POSSIBLE MEDICAL PROBLEMS
In this chapter, there are a lot of symptoms and illnesses that are not suited to polite conversation. Vomiting is one of them. But the fact is that you need to evaluate the symptoms that accompany vomiting in order to know if you should contact your doctor or just rest until you start to feel [...]
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A SPECIAL WORD ABOUT BREAST CANCER
Another way in which aging influences the breasts is that a woman’s odds of getting breast cancer increase once she turns 40. In fact, breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women aged 40 to 55. One in eight women—or roughly 12%—of the female population in this age group will develop breast [...]
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PAIN IN BACK WITH INSOMNIA: DESCRIPTION AND POSSIBLE MEDICAL PROBLEMS
Even a mild form of back pain can interfere with most of your daily activities, including your ability to sleep. When the back pain doesn’t go away despite rest and treatment, you may find that it’s difficult to sleep through the night. This can quickly turn into a Catch-22 situation, because the accompanying lack of [...]
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NECK, PULSATION ON THE SIDE OF
Description and Possible Medical Problems For people who are tuned in to every minute change in their bodies, anything that even remotely appears to involve either their heart or their circulatory system immediately sends up red flags. One of these changes may be that the artery in the side of your neck is pulsating more [...]