Category: Health Science
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Culture-Bound Syndrome and An Untimely Death
3 Likes Thank You! My sister and I were in a hurry. Our mother was home from the hospital after vomiting and experiencing loss of vision and speech impairment. According to our neighbor, it was due to
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Metformin: Benefits and Harms
0 Likes Thank You! Of all the diabetes drugs available in the U.S. market, metformin is considered the most beneficial yet the least harmful. On February 6, 2012, the American College of Physicians (ACP) released a new
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Prescription Drug Dependence: Implication and Cost
0 Likes Thank You! While prescription drug is meant to remedy acute and chronic diseases, it is not intended as a replacement for healthy living. For the majority of Americans, however, the replacement stance is becoming the
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Five ‘Practical’ Scientific Breakthroughs of the 21st Century
0 Likes Thank You! The top five scientific breakthroughs in my list are limited to those with significant value to human’s everyday life. That means between a meteor-related discovery and a new way
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LASIK: Definition, Risks, and Benefits
0 Likes Thank You! For the major league baseball fans, LASIK is another baseball term. With Dan Uggla‘s improving vision of 20/15 post eye surgery, the term LASIK headlined in almost all baseball-related news in August. Uggla is