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66Six Difficult to Stop Killer Diseases
Killer diseases around the world are indeed difficult to halt. Although medical knowledge and advance technologies have made significant improvements and breakthroughs, there are still infectious diseases...
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80Do American Laws Against Spitting Do any Good?
Ever since the tuberculosis bacterium and its transmission modes were identified in the late 1800s, municipalities across the country have struggled with enacting and enforcing effective laws against spitting.
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87One Third Of The World's Population Has It
When you read the current statistics on a disease most people still think of as something of the past -- one that one third of the planet's human population has already, and understand that over a million and...
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68My First Miracle
Miracles are good things that we expect but they don't happen much often. If we try our best, we can create these miracles. Still, there are some miracles that we have no control over. To me, one such...
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64America, land of the free and the brave
                                         WELCOME TO AMERICA Amongst the human tide, Umberto and Antoinette, their small, innocent girl child in tow, would not be...
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81Anne Bradstreet/Hester Prynne
Hester Prynne, the Main character in The Scarlet Letter, and Anne Bradstreet, the early Puritan Poet have much in common. For instance, they both survive the arduous overseas journey from England to...
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73ASK THE NURSE
by Helen Borel, RN,PhD ASK THE NURSE is your column for answers to questions patients and their loved ones need to, or should, ask about the kind and quality of healthcare you are entitled to from your...
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74Keats: on the Necessity of Poetry
John Keats didn't live very long (1795-1821). He was twenty-six or so when he died, slowly and painfully, of tuberculosis. Treatments prescibed included althernating between bleeding the patient with giving...
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71The Ridges Cemetery at the Athens Lunatic Asylum in Athens, Ohio
The Ridges was a formal mental health hospital and it has a place were they buried the deceased patients. Locals say that there are two or three asylum cemeteries at the Ridges. Yet the most famous of them is...
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59Differential Diagnosis of Pain in the Right Lower Quadrant
In cases of pain with acute onset in the right lower quadrant the first considerations should be hernia and nephrolithiasis. In women, gynecologic diseases must also be considered in the differential...
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