Introduction

Injuries to the head and neck during sports, accidents, and other traumatic events are common. Two of the most frequently occurring conditions in the head and neck area are whiplash (a particular neck injury from high velocity forces) and concussion (a closed-head injury, sometimes called mild traumatic brain injury). These two injuries could both occur during the same incident, but not always in ways that are immediately obvious.

What Exactly is “Whiplash”?

The term “whiplash” is actually not a very good description of this type of injury as it is describing the movement of the head and neck during a collision or other high velocity forces on the body.
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About Vaccinations (Immunizations) For Travel to India

Large numbers of travelers are visiting developing countries, like India, from developed countries (Europe, North America). Studies show that 50-75% of travelers to the tropics and sub-tropics (including India) report some health problem during their stay or after leaving the country which they visited although most of the health problems are minor and only about 5% require medical attention and less than 1% requires hospitalization (1). Infectious diseases are the main culprit for the health problems among the travelers. But they rarely cause death among travelers.

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According to the US researchers, the gas that comes out with many stink bombs may also play a role to control blood pressure.

The foul odor of flatulence is the result of those small amounts of hydrogen sulphide that are generated by bacteria live in the human gut.

However, it appears that the gas can also be produced by an enzyme that is found in blood vessels.

The tests in mice may help to find some new treatments for high blood pressure, the Science journal says.

Researchers from John Hopkins University, Maryland, discovered that the gas was generated in the cells along with blood vessels by an enzyme named CSE.

The researchers engineered the mice to be deficient in this enzyme and they found that levels of hydrogen sulphide were quite reduces in a comparison with normal mice.

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There are many quit smoking methods that you can apply in order to kick away your bad habit of smoking. Some may work and some may not work for you. Whatever method that you choose, you must have a strong desire and determination to make it work. Here are 5 of the top quit smoking methods that you can try today.

1) Patches

Patches are not that expensive and you can get it at pharmacies or you can get a prescription from your health doctor. Let me point out that you might not get good quit smoking results using patches. As you can see, patches are only tools that can aid you in your quest to stop smoking. If you do not have any willingness to stop buying those cigarettes, patches will not do you any good.
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Now a day itchy skin rash has become one of the most common skin problems, however some are simple and the rest are complicated due to derivative infections.

A part of inflamed and irritated skin can be called as rash. It is characterized by Itching, swelling, and redness. It is essential to know that, some chemicals and basic ingredients of skin care products can sometimes be the source of itchy skin rash.

There are so many forms of skin rashes. Dermatitis is the common rash characterized by inflammation, itching, redness, swelling, blistering, etc. For the treatment of itchy skin rashes you should have to consult to dermatologist, as he will guide, which is the best itchy skin cream for you.

There are different kinds of dermatitis (also known as eczema) that cause itchy skin rash. The most common form of dermatitis is atopic dermatitis.

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These days, dieting has become a fashion among teenagers as more and more teens tend to dieting no matter whether they are obese or not. Teenagers are at a critical development stage of their lives and their bodies need a sufficient amount of essential nutrients. If they deprive their bodies of these essential nutrients, dieting may bring more harm than good to them.  Another problem is the type of diet that teenagers are consuming as the use of fad diets is on increase in the teenage community. These sorts of diets are deigned to especially targeting the impatient audience as these diets offer quick fix that make people have them. Fad diets often become the cause of serious eating disorder in teens.

Mostly female are prone to develop an eating disorder as they are more body image conscious than male teenagers. Actually the reason is whenever these teenage girls turn on the television or open a magazine, they have to confront the “Barbie Doll’ look. When these girls try to possess the same look (that often proves an unattainable look in most cases.), they start dieting and want to get the desired results immediately.  It has become quite difficult for parents to monitor their teenagers eating habits, but they need to be watchful of the signs that begin to occur when an eating disorder develop.
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To feel exhaust, light headed and lack of energy without any particular reason may be the signs of Anemia in some patients. Similarly, paleness around the eyes and gums, short of breath and anxiety are some other symptoms of the disease. Anemia is a medical condition that occurs because of Iron deficiency in the blood. Deficiency of vitamin B12, copper and folic acid in the body system may cause Anemia as well. Anemia can be very dangerous if it is not controlled properly.
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After the deaths’ reports from contaminated milk, the scandal of tainted dairy products has spread like a wild fire in China as well as in other countries of the world.

In their inspection, the inspectors noticed that around 10% milk taken from three companies was contaminated with melamine. The milk powder killed four babies and sickened around 6,000 others in three provinces of China.

The manufacturers of this milk powder added a banned chemical melamine (use in making plastic) that makes milk appear higher in protein.
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The psychiatric community divides mood disorders into two categories and they are unipolar and bipolar disorder. They both are a kind of depression with some difference in conditions the patients have to go through. People who suffer bipolar disorder (Also called manic depression) have to face intense mood swings in depression and episodes of high energy or extreme mania.

While the unipolar disorder or depression is a kind of mood disorder that can be divided into several other kinds of depression including:

1) Dysthymia 2) Major depression 3) Seasonal affective disorder 4) Postpartum depression
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After deaths of three babies from contaminated milk formula, Chinese officials have announced to launch a countrywide testing of all dairy products.

According to the officials, more than 6,100 babies got illness after taking milk contaminated with the chemical called melamine.

Different tests of these milk formulas showed that around 69 batches from 22 companies had banned substances in their milk formulas.
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