If you cut yourself with a sharp object, the wound heals itself in a few days. If the damage is not excessive, the repair job is so perfect, that in a few weeks you cannot even find the location of the cut.
All you need to do is not disturb the healing process -protect the wound from getting dirty and keep the separated parts together.
Now let us analyze in more detail, what exactly happens in such a healing process.
When you cut yourself it hurts. The pain informs you, which part of your body requires your attention. When you attend the wound promptly by cleaning it with clean water or your own saliva and covering it perhaps, the pain is greatly reduced. If you do not clean the wound, it would be automatically cleaned by the blood flowing from it, and then the blood flow would be stopped. Read the rest of this entry »
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Depression in adolescents is a disorder that occurs due to persistent sadness, loss of interest, loss of self esteem and despair. Depression is usually a temporary reaction to stress. Depression is a normal part of the maturation process of adolescents. It is even induced due to the production of sex hormones. Adolescent females are depressed twice as often as teenage boys, according to a study.
The behavior of adolescents is usually marked with good and bad moods. The transition from a good mood to bad mood and vice versa, can take minutes, hours or even days. That is the real reason why depression is very difficult to find out. Depression in adolescents may be caused due to poor school performance, breaking with a boyfriend or girlfriend, and relationships with friends and family. These causes can lead to persistent depression. Other causes are severe chronic disease, obesity, child abuse, stressful lifestyle, poor social skills, giving attention unstable and depression in family history. Read the rest of this entry »
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Innovations don’t need to be complicated.
For example, the Boston Globe today features the story of Dr. Dennis M. Dimitri, a family physician affiliated with UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, who promotes open access, i.e. same-day scheduling of patient appointments. According to the article, this change has helped Dr. Dimitri address some of the problems associated with an over-burdened practice and has helped alleviate his patients’ experiences with delayed bookings and long wait-times.
The article further states, “Dimitri’s patients start calling in at 9 a.m. and are assigned 15-minute time slots on a first-call, first-serve basis. Those who want a traditional scheduled appointment can try for the two to three hours a day he reserves for advanced bookings … A few extra slots are left open for walk-ins and emergencies.” Importantly, the article goes on to mention that Dr. Dimitri’s office does not double-book and has very few no-show patients. Read the rest of this entry »
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The state government announced last week that were awarded grants totaling $ 85,000 dollars to the cities of Boston and Brockton to continue their fight against obesity. In a previous message – when Massachusetts received more than half a million dollars for the same purpose – commented that he thought it ironic that more money was needed to get people to eat less. Let me talk about how these cities proposing to invest the funds. Read the rest of this entry »
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Perhaps you noticed that you have in the menu on the right is a new section, titled “Skeptics reports.” It is an idea that originated when I did low carb diet. I spent enough time searching studies “truth” I confirmed or denied that diets high in fat and protein were unhealthy.
The truth is that most of the available information confirms this idea. However, I decided to push it a little more and turn to the sources, since that information was often vague and very general, obtained at low stem magazines, internet, etc. Furthermore, there Read the rest of this entry »
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