Contributor ReportsThe top five cancer-causing foods
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Concepción :: Chile | updated Tue Nov 24 07:48:34 -0800 2009 | health-news
1. Hot Dogs Because they are high in nitrates, the Cancer Prevention Coalition advises that children eat no more than 12 hot dogs a month. If you can’t live without hot dogs, buy those made without sodium nitrate. 2. Processed...
ReachCommon Medical Terms
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Queimados :: Brazil | updated Fri Nov 20 09:14:43 -0800 2009 | health-news
BIOPSY The surgical removal of tissue for microscopic examination to aid in diagnosis. INFUSION Delivering fluids or medications into the bloodstream over a period of time. CARDIAC ARREST Used in a medical sense, this means a cessation of bodily activity...
how special children can become useful citizens
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Blowing Point :: Anguilla | updated Fri Nov 20 23:28:19 -0800 2009 | health-news
Joy and fear come together while brining a baby to the world whether the baby would be healthy or not? For many parents this fear turns into bitter reality when they find their child with a disability. The disability may...
Career as a Physiotherapist
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All Saints :: Antigua and Barbuda | updated Tue Nov 24 07:41:17 -0800 2009 | health-news
Physiotherapy is a system of treatment of disease and disability using physical agents like therapeutic exercise, manual therapy, massage, hydrotherapy (use of water) and electrotherapy (use of electric current). It is an important rehabilitative service that involves the assessment, maintenance,...
PLP FutureCare a 'disaster':Bermuda seniors left out in the cold | The ...
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Hamilton :: Bermuda | updated Mon Nov 23 07:15:53 -0800 2009 | health-news
Government backbencher Terry Lister said private health insurers were to blame, for pulling their affordable plans for seniors after FutureCare was launched. "The insurers need to take their share of this risk, their share of this responsibility," he said. "The...
Legion, Knights of Columbus hold blood drive for Luis Hospital --
Source: The Virgin Island Daily News
San Juan :: Puerto Rico | updated Mon Nov 23 13:43:44 -0800 2009 | health-news
Two civic organizations led an effort in Estate Peter's Rest during the weekend to bolster Luis Hospital's blood bank. American Legion Post 102 and the Knights of Columbus spearheaded the drive, in which nine people gave blood in the hospital...
Seedless watermelons recalled over bacteria
Source: The Orange County Register
Guatemala City :: Guatemala | updated Tue Nov 24 14:14:41 -0800 2009 | health-news
If you’ve purchased a large seedless watermelon with this “MelonUp!” sticker attached, give it the thumbs down. Timco Worldwide Inc., based in Davis, recalled 832 cases of large seedless watermelons that where shipped to points in California and Texas after...
CNCDs account for more than half of Jamaica deaths
Source: Caribbean360
Kingston :: Jamaica | updated Fri Nov 20 07:32:39 -0800 2009 | health-news
Advisor for disease and control, Dr Rwang Abwoba, said there has been a steady increase in these illnesses and they're resulting in many deaths. "It is not an exaggeration when we say non communicable diseases have reached epidemic proportions in...
Cuba offers free penis implants
Source: The Age
Havana :: Cuba | updated Fri Nov 20 15:54:28 -0800 2009 | health-news
It is likely not what Karl Marx had in mind when he imagined a society transformed "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs," but Juventud Rebelde reported on Friday that the silicon and silver penis...
Construction of new Cartagena hospital almost complete
Source: Typically Spanish
Cartagena :: Colombia | updated Thu Nov 19 08:04:18 -0800 2009 | health-news
The 650-bed facility will open at the end of next year Cartagena’s new 650-bed hospital is to take in its first patients at the end of next year, with construction set to be completed in January. The Regional President, Ramón...
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