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Posts Tagged ‘history’

The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere

Friday, February 5, 2010 5:37

Product DescriptionThis study gathers skeletal evidence on seven basic indicators of health to assess chronic conditions that affected individuals who lived in the Western Hemisphere from 5000 B.C. to the late nineteenth century. Signs of biological stress in childhood and of ...

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Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan

Sunday, January 31, 2010 12:40

Product DescriptionThe Earth's environment is interlaced with complex, constructed ecological pathways that link industrial facilities and human consumers. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago. During the nineteenth century, Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis, a ...

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History of Birth Control

Sunday, January 24, 2010 16:44

Can you imagine what life was like for women and men for that matter before birth control pills like Yasmin?  The birth control pill has revolutionized sex and if we take a look back in time, we can see just to what degree.  Before birth control, women had to rely ...

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The origins and history of Uterine Fibroids, coping and understanding the condition

Sunday, January 24, 2010 15:53

Where do uterine fibroids come from?Leiofibromyoma are non-cancerous tumours that arise from the smooth muscle layer and the tissues of the intimate female anatomy. Fibromyomas are the most shared form of benign tumour found in women, which usually found during the advanced stages of a females reproductive cycle....

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Cancer: Symptoms & Treatment History

Thursday, January 14, 2010 8:37

Product DescriptionCancer is an interesting short film that explains the signs and symptoms of cancer and its treatment. It features Mr. Bert Marshall, an average man who was diagnosed with stomach cancer. Aside from illustrations of the human anatomy and how ...

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Colon Cancer Screening Guidelines Family History

Thursday, January 14, 2010 6:35

It is responsible for over 16,000 deaths in the UK each year and is therefore one of the most dangerous types of cancer around. Colon Cancer Screening Guidelines Family History There are a number of symptoms which could indicate that you have bowel cancer. In this article ...

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History of Chemotherapy – StudentScholarships.org

Thursday, January 14, 2010 1:40

I think that chemotherapy is the most important invention in the 20th century because it has been used to treat many types of cancer and other diseases like tuberculosis. Chemotherapy has given hope to people who have cancer or know someone with cancer; it also gives us all hope of ...

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History of Radiation Therapy

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 22:39

The discoveries of x-rays and radiation by scientists Becquerel and Rontgen in the late 1800s got the ball rolling in radiation application. Marie Curie's Nobel Prize winning work with radioactive elements also helped set the stage at the turn of the century. Scientists and doctors, out of happenstance, ...

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Machining’s role in making cancer “history”: a machine shop in a new cancer treatment center produces components to precisely guide proton radiation to … story): An article from: Modern Machine Shop

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 16:58

Product DescriptionThis digital document is an article from Modern Machine Shop, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2006. The length of the article is 2371 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article ...

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At What Age Should You Start Prostate Cancer Screenings If You Have A Strong Family History?

Thursday, December 24, 2009 19:50

My husband will be 30 soon and I wonder when he should start psa screening for prostate cancer. His father, paternal grandfather, and paternal uncle all had/have prostate cancer. His father was diagnosed at age 43 but it appears to be out of remission now after 10 years. ...

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