Archive for May 12th, 2009
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COLDS, RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS (BRONCHIOLITIS; WHEEZY BRONCHITIS AND ASTHMA)
BRONCHIOLITIS: Confined to children under the age of two. It is usually due to the respiratory syncytial virus but may have secondary bacterial invaders. It involves the smallest of the airways — the bronchioles — as well as the larger bronchi. The illness often starts as a rather mild infection with a nasal discharge and [...]
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YOUR CANCER YOUR LIFE – STAGES OF CANCER
Doctors have developed a sort of shorthand method for describing how extensive a cancer seems to be. We call this the stage of the cancer. For most cancers there are four stages. Here are the essential things which determine the stage of a cancer. I won’t go into details, but for each type there are [...]