Type 1 Diabetes: What You Should Know

A who, why, what article with headings providing information regarding type 1 diabetes.

Submitted By topdycke

Countering Cervical Cancer

The FDA has just approved a vaccination for HPV, the cause of most cervical cancers. Countering Cervical Cancer explains the basics of this cancer, the vaccine and HPV.

Submitted By LauraBeal

Thermography: A New Look at an Old Technology

Thermography is a technology that has been around since the 1950s. But according to a series of recent tests, it can screen for breast cancer much more effectively than mammographies, catching potential cancers up to two years sooner, when they are readily treatable.

Submitted By Grammar Goddess

In Defense of Autopsy

The declining autopsy rate has done a severe disservice to medical science, and given rise to a new kind of entrepreneur—portable autopsies, provided with door-to-door service.

Submitted By Grammar Goddess

My Child is Having a Seizure - What Do I Do?

Watching your child having a seizure can be a pretty scary thing and leave a parent feeling helpless. This article focuses on some do's and don'ts to help parents not feel so helpless during a seizure.

Submitted By V Rose

Medications Treating Alcoholism

Alcoholism affects 10 to 20 percent of men and three to ten percent of women. Detail information regarding various medications to treat alcoholism.Benzodiazepines is administered for limited amount of time, because medication becomes addictive. Naltrexone is very expensive, averaging $200 a month. Disulfiram is not administered to patients taking Ritalin or dopamine, because of serious side effects. Acamprosate is taken two 333 mg tablets three times a day, and preferable in conjunction with three meals a day. Zofran is useful when cognitive behavior therapy is conjunctively applied. Analysts predict: Vivitrol sales of $30 million for the first year 2006, and increase to $85 million a year later.

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