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George McKenzie
Member since 31st January 2007
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21st August 2007
Liver cancer claimed about 13-thousand lives in the United States about ten years ago. Since then, deaths from liver cancer have shot up almost 40 percent. The American Liver Foundation says liver cancer deaths will soon reach 19-thousand a year, and the ...
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06th August 2007
How often have you heard someone start a speech with a joke? Too often probably. Speakers with limited experience tend to tell jokes just to get a laugh in the hope the audience will warm up to them. The jokes are often irrelevant to the topic of their sp...
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02nd August 2007
We all know what stage fright is, and I don't know of anyone who has never gotten it sometime in their life. I our worked in radio and TV for more than 30 years, and I can tell you this about stage fright. Even now, if I have to get up and speak in front ...
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31st July 2007
Actress Lindsay Lohan has made a lot of news lately because of repeated arrests for alleged "driving under the influence."
Besides the fact that she may face jail time like Paris Hilton and her career is quickly becoming "radioactive," there may also ...
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27th July 2007
Ask most people what the number one liver problem is, and they'll probably say "cirrhosis."
Until recently, they would have been right.
Health officials and experts in the U.S. and Canada now agree that obesity caused by poor nutrition and lack of e...
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01st March 2007
Pink eye, or pinkeye, is a common name for a condition known medically as conjunctivitis. Pink eye is an inflammation of the clear membrane that covers the white part of the eye and the inner surface of the eyelids. This membrane is know as conjunctiva.
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01st March 2007
Lazy eye is a disorder of the coordination between the eye and the brain, usually beginning in childhood. This disorder causes the body to prefer one eye over the other. It is known medically as amblyopia.
Lazy eye is characterized by poor or blurry v...
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20th February 2007
Kidney infections, known medically as pyelonephritis (pyelos means pelvis of the kidney) and glomerulonephritis, often start in the bladder. If a person has low resistance, germs from the bladder can travel up the ureters to the kidneys and begin to multi...
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17th February 2007
It was not a sinister political conspiracy that killed Napoleon Bonaparte, one of the most powerful men of the 19th century. It was stomach cancer, the same disease that now causes about eleven thousand deaths each year in the United States alone.
The...
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15th February 2007
Swimmer’s Ear (also known as otitis externa) is an infection of the ear and/or outer ear canal. It can cause what is commonly referred to as an ear ache (or earache). It can also cause the ear to itch or become red and inflamed. Moving your head or eve...
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13th February 2007
The liver is the second largest organ in the human body (only the skin is bigger). The liver is also one of the most important organs, because it performs dozens of tasks that are critical to human health. Since most liver diseases cause only mild symptom...
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09th February 2007
There are dozens of diseases that affect the liver. The two most common causes of liver diseases are viral infections and drugs. Though there are different causes of liver diseases, the clinical signs and symptoms are divided in to two categories.
Due ...
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08th February 2007
The liver is one of the largest organs in the human body, second only to the skin. The liver is also one of the most multi-functional organs, performing dozens of tasks that are necessary to human health. The liver aids in the absorption of food. The liv...
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06th February 2007
It's a cough that comes on unexpectedly, and just won't go away. This persistent cough can wake you up in the middle of the night and interrupt your meals with repeated hacking. Cough medicines and over-the-counter cough remedies bring little relief, and ...
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