Posted in Health And Healthcare on Mar 22nd, 2008
Fundamental Tips On Purchasing A Villa In Cyprus
Whooping Cough (Pertussis) is a bacterial infection of the lungs which is caused by a bacterium Bordetella pertussis. It is a very contagious disease which causes coughing with little or no fever. The coughing may be so severe that it leads to vomiting and aspiration.
Causes of whooping cough [...]
Posted in Health And Healthcare on Mar 21st, 2008
Kniest dysplasia Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Kniest dysplasia is a disorder of bone growth. This condition is characterized by short stature (dwarfism), enlarged joints and other skeletal abnormalities, and problems with vision and hearing. People with this condition have short stature from birth, with a short trunk and shortened limbs. Adult height ranges from 42 inches [...]
Posted in Health And Healthcare on Mar 20th, 2008
Information on Kniest dysplasia
Kniest dysplasia and demonstrated abnormality of collagen fibril organization by electron microscopy in each. Fibrils were much thinner than normal and were irregular in shape, without the characteristic banding pattern. Furthermore, chondrocalcin was found to be absent from the extracellular matrix of epiphyseal cartilages and to be abnormally concentrated in intracellular vacuolar [...]
Posted in Health And Healthcare on Mar 19th, 2008
Information on Whooping Cough
Whooping cough - or pertussis - is an infection of the respiratory system caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis (or B. pertussis). It’s characterized by severe coughing spells that end in a “whooping” sound when the person breathes in. Before a vaccine was available, pertussis killed 5,000 to 10,000 people in the [...]
Posted in Health And Healthcare on Mar 18th, 2008
How to Treat Anxiety
Anxiety can affect groups and whole societies as well as individuals. There has been, for almost a decade in the United States, a mass fear of terrorist attack, brought on by the 2001 attack of 9/11. It is difficult, however, to maintain a high level of anxiety over a long period without [...]
