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CHILDREN’S HEALTH: BLOOD POISONING

on April 28th, 2009 by admin

Blood poisoning is the spread of an infection into the bloodstream. The infection may be caused either by bacteria or by viruses. Blood poisoning can occur during early infancy, when natural resistance to infection is low. Beyond infancy, blood poisoning results in high fever, chills, and prostration (extreme exhaustion or collapse). In popular usage, blood [...]

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LIVING LONG: ANGRY YOUNG MEN

on April 23rd, 2009 by admin

There’s increasing evidence that angry young men don’t grow up to be angry old men. They die before they get the chance. “High levels of anger are a big risk for heart attack,” Dr. Kawachi says. “The relative risk of having negative emotions like anger and anxiety are almost as strong as other risk factors [...]

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HEART SAVING TIPS TO FOLLOW: MANAGE YOUR STRESS

on April 23rd, 2009 by admin

We all know that stress is bad for our health. You can have a perfect diet and exercise regularly, yet if stress is a big part of your life you are still likely to get sick. The stress hormones adrenalin and Cortisol promote inflammation in our bodies, cause us to gain weight, make us more [...]

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LIVING LONG: DEATH WITH DIGNITY.MAKING WANTED ADVANCES

on April 23rd, 2009 by admin

There was a time when doctors were applauded for doing everything humanly possible to keep us alive. Then medical technology blasted off like the starship Enterprise into realms where no man had gone before, allowing gravely ill people with no hope for recovery to be sustained on machines almost indefinitely. That’s a fate that many [...]

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PREVENTIVE MEDECINE: IMPLICATIONS OF PERSONAL LIFESTYLE FOR HEALTH

on April 23rd, 2009 by admin

Obviously there are many factors that influence what we believe about preventive health and our behaviour when we do decide to act. Many of these factors can be related to socioeconomic status. For example, studies have repeatedly found that people from the less advantaged sections of society receive less accurate health information and have more [...]

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GAMES FOR HYSTERICAL COUPLES – GAME 4: REVERSE HEADACHE (PART 4)

on April 9th, 2009 by admin

Eventually, if the husband can stay with it to the point where he becomes a nuisance, claiming to have a headache whenever the wife asks for anything, she will become upset. When she becomes so upset that she’ll try anything to get him to stop (even going so far as to offer to have sex [...]

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GAMES FOR PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE COUPLES – GAME 2: HEADACHE (PART 3)

on April 9th, 2009 by admin

In this game, he surprises his wife one night by dispensing with his usual woe-is-me demeanor and adopting her own caretaker mode. To signal this change, he has donned a white-— bow tie, which he wears along with his pajamas. He slides into bed with her, smiling cheerfully, and asks, “So how are you tonight?” [...]

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SEXUAL PROBLEMS AS PHOBIAS

on April 7th, 2009 by admin

Once the target behaviors are identified, a further step in the behavioral analysis is required: to formulate the psychological organization of that specific behavior. The disturbed sexual behavior may be a blind habit, a product of assertive difficulties, the result of incorrect cognitive patterns or inappropriate learning, or a straightforward phobic response. Each of these [...]

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SEX AND LAW: RAPE

on April 7th, 2009 by admin

Particular difficulties in trials of rape with respect to definitions and demonstrations of consent or its absence on the woman’s side are further framed through comparison to crimes of theft. All too typically a rape victim’s acquiescence to the act has been established in court and thus charges against the alleged rapist have been dismissed, [...]

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SEXUALITY IN MARRIAGE: THE WOMAN’S MOVEMENT AND MARITAL SEX

on April 7th, 2009 by admin

The changing roles and status of women are rooted in the renaissance of feminism, the women’s movement which re-emerged in the late 1960s. These changes generally are toward greater equality for women, through the removal of historic oppression. Shifts toward greater power and participation for women now can be seen in the personal, social, political, [...]

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