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Coping With a Family Member With Bipolar Disease

Whenever a family member is ill no matter whether it’s physically or mentally it’s pretty difficult not to let it become the focal point of your life. This is particularly true when a family member is suffering from bipolar disease. This is a devastating disease that often goes unpredicted and then many times can lead [...]

Different Types of Microscopes

Types of Microscopes Compared

1. Slide microscope
2. Stereo microscope
3. Digital microscope
4. 3D Digital microsocope
5. USB microscope
6. Transmission electron microscope
7. Scanning electron microscope
8. Scanning probe microscope

1) Slide microscope

* Magnification: Uses lenses arranged in series, made of optical material that bends light. All magnification takes place via lenses. Uses diascopic illumination (that is, light is transmitted through the [...]

Functions of Protein in The Human Body

What does Protein Do?

Protein has a large number of important functions in the human body—and in fact, the human body is about 45% protein. It’s an essential macromolecule without which our bodies would be unable to repair, regulate, or protect themselves.

Functions of Protein

Protein has a range of essential functions in the body, including the following:

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Diet Tips: The Acidic and the Alkaline Foods

There has always been a very direct link between IC (also known as Interstitial Cystitis) and diet.

Interstitial Cystitis is a hardening of the bladder and the eroding of the bladder lining wall.

What you eat has a direct result on how bad you’ll feel and how long your flares (or increased symptomatic days) will be. There [...]

CHILDREN HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT CASE STUDIES

The need to collect examples of successful actions to protect children from harmful environmental risk factors has arisen as part of the development of the Children’s Environmentand Health Action Plan for Europe (CEHAPE) and in preparation for its future implementation.

Over a period of approximately one year and in the context of a number of CEHAPE [...]

Case Studies for Global Health

This publication is an initiative of the Alliance for Case Studies
for Global Health, a collaboration of the Association of University
Technology Managers (AUTM), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health Progress, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and Tropical Disease Research (TDR). The alliance members conceived of this multisector case study initiative in December 2007. [...]

Israel Admits To Organ Thefts

Israel has admitted that it harvested organs from the dead bodies of Palestinians and Israelis in the 1990s, without permission from their families.

The admission follows the release of an interview with Jehuda Hiss, the former head of Israel’s forensic institute, in which he said that workers at the institute had harvested skin, corneas, heart valves [...]

Statement on Senate Healthcare Reform Legislation

Karen Ignagni, President and CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), released the following statement today on the Senate health care reform legislation:

“The debate before the country is not whether insurance market reforms are needed. They are. The debate is not about whether all Americans should have healthcare coverage. They should. The debate is about [...]

Federal Government Announces $80 Million Funding To Support Health ICT Workers

Grants Will Support Community College Training Programs, Curriculum Development, Additional Programs to be Announced in Coming Weeks

The grants that will be made available include $70 million for community college training programs and $10 million to develop educational materials to support these programs. Both programs will support the immediate need for skilled health information technology (health [...]

An Easy Explanation of HL7

Health Level Seven (HL7), an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accredited Standards Developing Organization (SDO), is responsible for the continued development and maintenance of the HL7 clinical messaging standard. HL7 is a syntax used to exchange clinical and administrative information–e.g., lab results, diagnosis, admissions, and discharges–between health information systems.

The acronym HL7 is most often used [...]