Your past sexual experiences also helped you discover what excites you sexually. Unfortunately, some people learn to respond to only a limited number of cues and others never learn to identify feelings of sexual desire as such.”I didn’t even know what sexual desire was until I was almost forty,” says Anne, the housewife-turned-real-estate-saleswoman whose marriage [...]
High blood pressure is called the “silent killer.” You can have it and not know it, because it seldom causes symptoms to warn you that there is a problem. However, it is the most common cardiovascular disease, affecting about one of every four Americans. Fifty-four percent of people older than 60 have high blood pressure. [...]
The emotional aftereffects of abortion have been the subject of much interest. Do women who have had abortions exhibit symptoms similar to those of posttraumatic stress syndrome? Are they forever haunted by the experience of having had an abortion?Although a variety of feelings, such as regret, guilt, sadness, relief, and happiness, are normal, no evidence [...]
This is a unique remedy for the imbecile, the weak-willed people who have no individuality of their own, who are easily influenced by others and are used as willing slaves to do their bidding, who are used only as door-mat. They spend all of their time in serving others, but there is no grace attached [...]
All drugs do not work equally well for every seizure-type. Therefore it is necessary to classify the child’s seizure. For each seizure-type there are several drugs that are usually equally effective. The choice between the drugs is then made on the basis of the drug’s side effects and cost, the child’s age, and any previous [...]
• Aerobic: Walking, biking and swimming are types of exercise that are called aerobic. These exercises help you improve your cardiovascular fitness (heart, blood vessels and lungs).• Strength training: Weightlifting is a form of strength training. This type of exercise helps you improve your muscle fitness and will also help you fight fatigue [...]
Essential hypertension is a persistently elevated blood pressure – specifically, a diastolic pressure exceeding 95 millimeters of mercury – that cannot be attributed to any specific organic cause. Approximately 85 percent of all hypertension fits this definition. The other 15 percent is accounted for by various forms of secondary hypertension, which may result from:Arteriosclerosis, or [...]
In the performance of analytical studies epidemiologists move from the demanding chores of collecting accurate information into the realms of designing studies that seek to answer important individual questions about the causes of cancer. In this area they will usually have an idea to test – a hypothesis about some possible causative factor. The focus [...]
Hepatitis С virus infection becomes chronic in the majority of cases, manifested by the persistence of detectable virus in the serum. Chronic infection is usually characterized by a prolonged period in which there are no symptoms or only fatigue. No clinical features of acute disease or risk factors for infection have been found to be [...]
Rosa frequently touched her hair to make sure it was puffed up. If it didn’t feel right, she rushed to the mirror to fix it. Another woman constantly touched her face to “cool it off so it didn’t look so red. Zach frequently touched his lips, which he thought were too small, tense, and “never [...]