Nowadays the mobile phones become more common and about seventy percent of world population use it in their daily lives. Many companies, producing mobile phones, compete with each other in the phone production, and it became one of the causes of appearing of new models of phones. Since the first mobile phone was launched in the market, all people have been nodivided into two groups: those, who think that the phone has mostly positive sides, and those, who are sure in negative influence of it.
Of course, first and main advantage of the mobile phone is communication. It means that it is easy to contact with somebody not depending on your or his location. It is very useful when you need help and there is nobody near you. In addition to the previous point, the phone has small size and it is very easy to take it somewhere and use it when it is necessary. One more of positive sides of phone is entertainment. For example, when you have nothing to do and there is nothing interesting around you, you can just play games or listen to music. Read more…
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In my opinion, everyone pf us on the Earth, wants to be beautiful, as much, as it possible. It does not mean, that persons appearance depends, only, on how he or she looks like. A big quarter of entertainments gives us an opportunity to achieve the great ambitions in health. For example, physical activities, sports, food and so on.
As I remember, when we were children, all of my classmates in fifth form, visited sport clubs. As for me, I have been going in for football for five years. It is a great chance to save your own health and have a beautiful appearance. Also, I think that it is great, that almost every town in our country gives young people an opportunity to be strong and healthy. So, our Russia is riched in champions in big quantity of sport competitions. Read more…
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Every smoker would like to be a non-smoker. However that isn’t an easy thing to admit.
Let’s look what smoker will get after quitting smoking.
20 Minutes After Quitting
- Blood pressure drops to normal
- Pulse drops to its normal rate
- Body temperature of hands and feet increases to normal
8 Hours After Quitting
- Carbon monoxide level in blood returns to normal
- Oxygen level in blood increases to normal
24 Hours After Quitting
- Chance of heart attack decreases
72 Hours After Quitting
- Bronchial tubes relax, making breathing easier
2 Weeks to 3 Months After Quitting
- Circulation improves
- Walking becomes easier
- Lung function increases up to 30% Read more…
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“The saliva samples are collected by putting some cotton on the end of a special device placed under the tongue as if it were a lollipop, with an indicator that turns blue when there is a sufficient sample (0.5 millilitres)”, so SINC was informed by Manuel López Rivadulla, one of the creators of the technique and researcher from the Institute of Legal Medicine at the USC. Each piece of cotton is then placed in a tube and labelled for analysis.
Rivadulla commented that when it is the traffic police who take samples from drivers, the tubes are placed in specially prepared containers and transported refrigerated to the laboratory. The saliva is therefore processed and analysed using two combined systems: liquid chromatography (LC), by means of which the molecules searched for are separated, and tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS), which enables the “unmistakable” identification of the different chemical compounds.
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A drug of a class commonly used to combat bone loss may reduce by a third the chance that some breast cancers will spread or recur, a large study has found.
While it may sound odd to treat cancer with a drug that acts on bone, evidence is accumulating that such drugs may do more than just prevent the loss of bone. Other studies are testing the drugs in patients with prostate or lung cancer.
The new study, published in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine, involved 1,803 premenopausal women with tumors that were fueled by estrogen. As part of their treatment, all received drugs that shut down their ovaries, preventing them from making estrogen, along with drugs that stymie cancer cells from using estrogen to grow.
Half also got the bone drug zoledronic acid, or Zometa, as an intravenous infusion twice a year for three years. Those who took the drug had a 36 percent reduction in cancer recurrences and metastases, compared with women who did not get it. After nearly four years, 54 women who received zoledronic acid and 83 who did not had a recurrence of their cancer or had a new cancer in the opposite breast or a metastasis to their bones. Read more…
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A random sampling of pharmacies in Boston’s South End and Back Bay neighborhoods this morning showed that the stores had all removed tobacco products as required under a city regulation that went into effect today.
At CVS shops on Tremont and Boylston streets, shelves that once carried cigarettes are now laden with boxes of Nicorette and other nicotine-replacement products designed to help smokers kick the habit. At Walgreens branches in the two neighborhoods, cigarette display cases remained in place — but with no cigarettes inside.
Small red-and-white signs greeted shoppers entering CVS stores: “Effective February 9, 2009, the Boston Public Health Commission has banned the sale of tobacco products at pharmacies located in Boston. We apologize for any inconvenience resulting from our compliance with this regulation.”
Boston health authorities in December significantly strengthened the city’s antismoking rules, giving Boston some of the most stringent tobacco-control regulations in the nation. In addition to banning cigarette sales in pharmacies, the rules also prohibited tobacco products from being sold in convenience stores on college campuses. Read more…
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Many doctors may lose their ability to prescribe 24 popular narcotics as part of a new effort to reduce the deaths and injuries that result from these medicines’ inappropriate use, federal drug officials announced Monday.
A new control program will result in further restrictions on the prescribing, dispensing and distribution of extended-release opioids like OxyContin, fentanyl patches, methadone tablets and some morphine tablets. Read more…
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A survey study believed to be one of the first efforts to put hard numbers around long-held beliefs about diversity in medical school faculties has affirmed that awareness and sensitivity to racial and ethnic diversity are believed to be poor by most faculty, and even poorer among faculty who are members of underrepresented minorities.
The survey was conducted at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine but is likely a reflection of diversity issues thought to persist at academic medical institutions across the country, said principal investigator Lisa Cooper, a professor of medicine in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
“What we are seeing at Johns Hopkins is likely to be the case in medical schools everywhere, namely that enhancing racial and ethnic diversity in medicine in general, and in academic medicine in particular, remains a challenge,” Cooper said. The study results appear in the January issue of Academic Medicine. Read more…
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