What is Osteoporosis? Have you ever heard of the disease “Osteoporosis” and wondered what it is and if you may be at risk? Well‚ you will learn throughout this paper how important it is to be informed about osteoporosis. This medical condition is when your bones become brittle and fragile with thinning and reduction in bone mass‚ due to depletion of calcium and bone protein (MedicineNet). Bone is living tissue that is constantly becoming broken down and replaced. When you have osteoporosis‚ bone
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Life Cycle Management Strategies - Optimizing revenues and defending generic competition Released On 11th September 2015 Summary ""Life Cycle Management Strategies - Optimizing revenues and defending generic competition"" discusses various stages of product lifecycle management (LCM)‚ Developmental‚ commercial and legal LCM strategies‚ objectives‚ benefits‚ factors impacting the choice of lifecycle management strategies‚ and keys to successful implementation of the strategies. The Life Cycle Management
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from the vagina. The damage caused from PID can affect the sperm movement through the cervix and uterus and also impact the transplantation of the egg in the fallopian tube. Other causes may be infertility problems associated with her husband or idiopathic
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the production of sweat in high quantity more than normally (physiologically) produced and needed for regulation of body temperature. When its localized to a specific part of the body then its referred to as primary focal hyperhidrosis. It can be idiopathic or secondary to disease or medication. The criterias for diagnosing primary focal hyperhidrosis are: It has to be focal‚ visible and excessive sweating of not less than six months without any obvious reason. Hyperhidrosis is a disease in which an
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Non Caries Lesions Tooth surface loss is a process that results in non-carious lesions. Several categories of tooth surface loss exist‚ including attrition‚ abrasion‚ erosion and abfraction. (Dentistry‚ n.d.) Non caries lesions will be discussed: • Attrition (wear) • Abrasion • Erosion • Enamel hypoplasia • -Enamel hypocalcification • -Discoloration • Malformation Causes of non caries lesions: - Bruxism - Clenching - Disease - dietary factors - habits and lifestyle - incorrect tooth brushing
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It usually attacks middle-aged people‚ but it can also affect children. Most patients who suffer from this sickness are men. There are many names for this illness such as familial dilated cardiomyopathy‚ idiopathic cardiomyopathy‚ and congestive cardiomyopathy. Dilated cardiomyopathy develops slowly‚ so some patients may have a quite symptoms before they are diagnosed. There are many symptoms of dilated cardiomyopathy‚ for example‚ shortness of breath‚ excessive
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Epilepsy in Children: A Brief review November 14‚ 2008 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Epilepsy is a condition in which seizures are triggered recurrently from within the brain. 1 A seizure is a sudden‚ transient disturbance of brain function‚ manifested by involuntary motor‚ sensory‚ autonomic‚ or psychic phenomena‚ alone or in any combination‚ often accompaniec by alteration or loss of consciousness and may occur after a metabolic‚ traumatic‚ anoxic‚ or infectious insult to the brain. 2 The epilepsy
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In many cultures around the world people have the same problems to face as we do. They just refer to them by different words and or different meanings. In “The Spirit Catches You‚” a young girl by the name of Lia has a condition that Western Medicine considers to be epilepsy‚ but in her culture of the Hmong they believe it to be qaug dab peg. Some might consider these two conditions of the body and soul to be the same thing or quite different. Western medicine’s way of dealing with the issue is
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The body health depends in keeping body fluid in balance‚ which distribute between intravascular in blood vessels‚ and extravascular which can be inside the cell (intracellular fluid) or between the cells called (interstitial fluid). Edema occurs when the interstitial volume has increased due to fluid leaks from capillaries or tiny blood vessels to interstitial space‚ then the space will expand cause edema.[1] To understand the mechanism clearly‚ fluid dynamic control should be considered‚ the hydrostatic
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Depression And Its Effects On Motivation Depression is one of the most frequently seen mental disorders. It affects approximately 9.5% of the United States population. (National Institute of Mental Health) It can cause an individual to be unable to experience pleasure in acts that they would have previously enjoyed immensely. This can cause them to fall into a slump or motivational deficit which can in turn have a huge impact on their day to day lifestyle. Depression is defined by Dictionary
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