Category: Health
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What Causes Dental Cavities?
The dental cavity can be everyone’s nightmare, especially if the cavity happens to be in a visible place. There are options, like porcelain fillings, but those can be expensive. Cavities can be signs of worse things to come, says Dr. Sid Solomon, so it may be a good idea to address them as soon as…
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How New Mattresses Can Improve Your Health
Summary: A new mattress can provide more benefits than you might think. If you’ve been waking up feeling sore and dissatisfied with your sleep, you might want to take a look at your old mattress. Instead of constantly pushing back the idea that your mattress needs to be replaced, consider the ill effects of continuously…
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Top Tips on a New Mattress Purchase
Don’t wait until your mattress is filled with bacteria and dust mites, purchase a new one today. Have you ever taken the time to look deep inside your mattress? To the naked eye, you might feel like there’s nothing but dust and the slight stain. But, on a microscopic level, you’ll find that there are…
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The Fight Against Diabetes
By Phin Upham Diabetics have a complicated life. Type 1 diabetes makes it difficult for a patient to produce insulin due to problems with the person’s pancreas. Type 2 diabetes creates a resistance to insulin, usually through a patient’s poor diet and lack of exercise. Both present serious complications, but patients train themselves to inject…
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Common Questions to Ask Your Dentist
Before the next appointment with a Glendora dentist, it pays to prepare some questions in advance. Since it’s so easy to forget them once the patient is settled in the dental chair, write them down. Here are some suggestions of what to include on the list. Tips for Choosing the Right Toothbrush Most people choose…
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Meet the Father of Western Medicine: Hippocrates
By Phineas Upham Hippocrates was one of the most important figures in medicine, even by modern standards, because he was one of the first people documented to challenge the idea that disease was caused by the gods. The prevailing belief at the time was rooted in superstition, and disease appeared to strike arbitrarily. It was…
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Constructing RNA Chains Through Transcription in Virology
Summary: Learn more about RNA polymers, an important part of all life on Earth. The RNA polymerase (RNAP) enzyme is essential to organic life. Discovered in the 1960s, RNA polymers produce primary transcript RNA, are found in many viruses, and polymerize ribonucleotides at the 3’ end of an RNA transcript. If the encoded gene is…
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What are the Costs of Researching Cures?
Summary: Utilizing automated means, medical engineers can manufacture strands used in DNA or RNA synthesis. The process of researching the cure for a disease used to be more expensive than it is today. That’s because entire DNA molecules, rather than just strands, were manufactured and used for testing. This was highly inefficient. Most reactions need…
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Introducing a First-of-its-Kind Breakthrough in Robotics
The Alfred Mann Foundation has constructed an entirely new kind of prosthetic. The Alfred Mann Foundation is leading the way when it comes to robotics, prosthetics and medicine. The Foundation recently announced an exciting new trial of seven individuals, and with the help of Rich Davis and the team at Rogers & Cowan, they hope…
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Human trials with African mango
Article written by Cellan. With the introduction of African mango to the West, interest is growing to find many benefits it offers. Trials that were limited to animals are now finding its way into humans. One recent article published on the Internet cites a study conducted by the University of Yaounde I using a double…