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1. Cephalic disorders
   Cephalic disorders Cephalic disorders are congenital conditions that stem from damage to, or abnormal development of, the budding nervous system. Cephalic is a term that means "head" or "head end of the body." Congenital means the disorder is present at, and usually before, birth. Cephalic disorders are not necessarily caused by a
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2. BfR - Has there already been a product in which the nanomaterials
   More than 110, in some instances, severe cases of health disorders had been reported to the poison control and treatment centres and BfR by the end of March 2006. Consumers had used the products...
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3. cases_of_health_disorders By GreenHealthSearch.com
   cases_of_health_disorders. Keywords: Results 1-20 of 106. Cephalic disorders ... cases_of_health_disorders. Keywords: Results 1-20 of 105. Cephalic ...
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4. Standards of Care for Gender Identity Disorders
   Standards of Care for Gender Identity Disorders In many countries or areas, an individual's pursuit of sexual reassignment surgery (SRS) is often governed, or at least guided, by documents called standards of care (SOC), or standards of care for gender identity disorders. Various medical and psychiatric fields have developed similar protocols for treatments, covering topics
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5. European Zoo Nutrition Centre - Articles 41-50
   Nutritional disorders of skeleton in emus and rheas ... Home-mixed diets are fed, which are often unbalanced, occasionally resulting in nutritional disorders of the skeleton.
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6. Insomnia
   hops, and/or passion-flower. Some traditional 'cures' for insomnia involve drinking warm milk before bedtime, taking a warm bath in the evening, exercising vigorously for half an hour in the afternoon, eating a large lunch, then a light evening meal at least three hours before bed, avoiding mentally stimulating activities in the evening hours, and paradoxically, making sure to get up early in the morning and to retire to bed at a reasonable hour. Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners have been treating insomnia sufferers for thousands of years. A typical approach may utilize acupuncture, dietary and lifestyle analysis, herbology and other techniques, with
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7. European Zoo Nutrition Centre - Articles 41-50
   Nutritional disorders of skeleton in emus and rheas ... Home-mixed diets are fed, which are often unbalanced, occasionally resulting in nutritional disorders of the skeleton.
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8. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.10.7982&rep
   Well-documented cases of health disorders due to arsenic are `Kai Dam' in Thailand, `Black Foot Diseases' in Taiwan, and `Bell Ville Disease' in Argentina.
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9. Inverted narcissist
   UNHAPPY in relationships with ANY OTHER kind of person. Only THEN – AND if you satisfy the other diagnostic criteria of a Dependent Personality Disorder – can you be safely labelled an "inverted narcissist". Introduction The DSM-IV-TR uses 9 criteria to define the NPD. It is sufficient to possess 5 of them to "qualify" as a narcissist. Thus, theoretically, it is possible to be NPD WITHOUT being grandiose. Many researchers (Alexander Lowen, Jeffrey Satinover, Theodore Millon and others) suggested a "taxonomy" of pathological narcissism. They divided narcissists to sub-groups (very much as I did with my somatic versus cerebral narcissist dichotomy).
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10. Inhibited sexual desire
    may be useful to check testosterone levels, particularly in men who have ISD. Blood for such lab tests in men should be drawn before 10:00 a.m., when male hormone levels are at their highest. Interviews with a specialist in sex therapy are more likely to reveal possible causes. Treatment Treatment must be individualized to the factors that may be inhibiting sexual interest. Often, there may be several such factors. Some couples will need relationship enhancement work or marital therapy prior to focusing directly on enhancing sexual activity. Declining sex is sometimes one of the few areas where someone who feels dominated
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11. Infantile spinal muscular atrophy
    Infantile spinal muscular atrophy My report is on Infantile Spinal Muscular Atrophy. I chose this disorder because I had a family member who was diagnosed and died from it. I wanted to learn more about the disease. Spinal Muscular Atrophies (SMA) are inherited disorders. Spinal muscular atrophy, as defined by international criteria, requires the weakness to be symmetrical and greater in the proximal muscles than in the distal ones. (5) It is when nerves fail to function normally
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12. 2000 Urinary system
    is full, and your urge to empty your bladder intensifies. When you urinate, the brain signals the bladder muscles to tighten, squeezing urine out of the bladder. At the same time, the brain signals the sphincter muscles to relax. As these muscles relax, urine exits the bladder through the urethra. When all the signals occur in the correct order, normal urination occurs. What Causes Problems in the Urinary System? Problems in the urinary system can be caused by aging, illness, or injury. As you get older, changes in the kidneys' structure cause them to lose some of their ability to remove
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13. Electroconvulsive treatment
    epilepsy (seizure disorder) and schizophrenia could not exist at the same time in an individual. Accumulated clinical experience—later confirmed in controlled clinical trials, which included the use of simulated or "sham" ECT as a control (Janicak et al., 1985)—determined ECT to be highly effective against severe depression, some acute psychotic states, and mania (Small et al., 1988). No controlled study has shown any other treatment to have superior efficacy to ECT in the treatment of depression (Janicak et al., 1985; Rudorfer et al., 1997). ECT has not been demonstrated to be effective in dysthymia, substance abuse, or anxiety or personality disorders.
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14. Encephalopathy
    neurological symptoms are progressive loss of memory and cognitive ability, subtle personality changes, inability to concentrate, lethargy, and progressive loss of consciousness. Other neurological symptoms may include myoclonus (involuntary twitching of a muscle or group of muscles), nystagmus (rapid, involuntary eye movement), tremor, muscle atrophy and weakness, dementia, seizures, and loss of ability to swallow or speak. Blood tests, spinal fluid examination, imaging studies, electroencephalograms, and similar diagnostic studies may be used to differentiate the various causes of encephalopathy. Is there any treatment? Treatment is symptomatic and varies, according to the type and severity of the encephalopathy. Your physician can provide
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15. Esophageal cancer
    5 Staging the Disease 6 Treatment 7 Nutrition for Cancer Patients 8 The Importance of Followup Care 9 Providing Emotional Support 10 External Links Understanding the Cancer Process Cancer is a disease that affects cells, the body's basic unit of life. To understand any type of cancer, it is helpful to know about normal cells and what happens when they become cancerous. The body is made up of many types of cells. Normally, cells grow, divide, and produce more cells when they are needed. This process keeps the body healthy and functioning properly. Sometimes, however, cells keep dividing when new cells
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16. Dissociative identity disorder
    Dissociative identity disorder In psychiatry, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is the current name of the condition formerly listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as Multiple Personality Disorder and Multiple Personality Syndrome. The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems continues to list it as Multiple Personality Disorder. Multiplicity is often used to describe wider behaviours than DID—in other words, it includes the
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17. Diabetes insipidus
    of the symptoms of diabetes mellitus - they have to urinate often, get very thirsty and hungry, and feel weak. However, they do not have hyperglycemia (elevated blood glucose). To make up for lost water, you may feel the need to drink large amounts of water. You are likely to urinate frequently, even at night, which can disrupt sleep or, on occasion, cause bedwetting. Because of the excretion of abnormally large volumes of dilute urine, you may quickly become dehydrated if you do not drink enough water. Children with DI may be irritable or listless and, in some cases, may have
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18. AIDS
    below 200 per cubic millimetre is considered as one criterion for AIDS. Right after HIV infection a mild disease (seroconversion) develops, which passes when killer T cells begin to suppress the virus, shortly before the body produces antibodies. In the absence of any kind of treatment, AIDS (HIV-induced immune system collapse) develops on average 10 years later, although the documented range is as short as 2 years and as long as about 18. Death usually occurs some 2 years after the onset of AIDS. Newer anti-retroviral cocktail treatments have played a part in delaying the onset of AIDS or reducing the
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19. Antiretroviral drug
    FDA-approved protease inhibitor (sixth antiretroviral) in December 6, 1995, as Invirase®, a poorly-absorbed hard gel capsule which quickly led to viral resistance in many of the pioneer patients and again as Fortovase®, a soft gel capsule reformulated for improved bioavailablity in Nov 7, 1997. It appears that the manufacturer, Roche, rushed Invirase® to market, but again the conditions that prevailed at the time were very bad and there was a lot of pressure to produce products quickly. ritonavir: trade name: Norvir® FDA approved March 1, 1996, seventh approved antiretroviral. Exceptional in that this is the only antiretroviral that inhibits a liver
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20. Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
    Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental disorders among children. According to sources such as the CDC, the causes are currently unknown. There is no single medical test that can accurately diagnose ADHD, though there are assessment tools. The authoritative definition of ADHD is to be found in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
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