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What Causes Hiccups And Treatment | Health Blog - 0 views

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    Hiccups are an uncontrollable reflex of the human body. What exactly goes on within the body to generate this weird sound is highly debated. The fact that hiccups can be heard and seen from fetuses suggests that the central circuit involved in producing hiccups...
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    Hiccups are unwanted contractions of the diaphragm - the muscle that participates in breathing. Although evolutionary scientists have a few theories, the exact cause and purpose of hiccups is unknown. They remain a unique and age-old feature of the human physiology that continues to elude scientists to this day.
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Cornea Transplant: Enjoy The Colourful Life In Cost Effective And Safe Manner - 0 views

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    Vision is not only important for human beings but for each and every living species on this earth. As a human, to live a life as self dependent manner vision is first need. But this need is significantly affected by the components like age, infections and diseases.
Leena Marilda

The Secret To Living 200 Years? Ask A Whale - Forbes - 0 views

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    The late Henry Allingham, the oldest British man ever, once told Brighton's Argus newspaper that the secret of his longevity was "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women". It's not the orthodox prescription. But the latest ideas about how to extend human life are even more iconoclastic. Scientists studying longevity have for [...]
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Aarskog Syndrome - 0 views

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    Read more on Abetalipoproteinemia, Abetalipoproteinemia
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Down Syndrome: Symptoms, Types & Treatment | Health Blog - 0 views

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    Down syndrome is also known as DS or DNS. This is a genetic disorder. Our human body is made of millions of cells.
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Measuring the Impact of a Moving Target: Towards a Dynamic Framework for Evaluating Col... - 0 views

  • Articles were selected for inclusion in the final analysis if they described an evaluation framework applicable to Web-based, consumer-oriented health applications that could be categorized under at least two of the three core evaluation phases: (1) formative evaluation, (2) summative evaluation, and (3) outcome assessment.
  • These included an emphasis on: (1) the People affected by the website, (2) the Content of the website, (3) the Technology of the website, (4) Human-Computer Interaction between the person and the website, and (5) effects on the greater health care community, or Health Systems Integration. These themes reflect the core attributes, user-centric, context-centric, and functionality-centric, that Currie [10] advocates should be addressed in any eHealth evaluation framework.
  • Currie LM. Evaluation frameworks for nursing informatics. Int J Med Inform 2005 Dec;74(11-12):908-916. [Medline] [CrossRef]
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  • Therefore, users’ Cognitive Style may also have an important role to play in the design of the site, given that whether or not individuals are impulsive or reflective, conceptual or inferential, thematic, or rational etc [29] will have an impact on how they experience a computer mediated-interaction
  • outcome evaluations may usefully include impacts on the Caregiver-patient relationship, especially in cases where the application is designed to address health and life conditions involving a caregiver
  • Level of Personalization [13] refers to users’ access to information that is applicable and useful to them as individuals and represents the parameter Relevance from the formative phase, implemented in practice.
  • With increased user-generated content, readers must be prepared to evaluate each entry, rather than each site, for its credibility
  • Is there any mechanism for feedback or dialogue between users of the site and communities of clinicians and researchers?
  • The category “Health Systems Integration” refers to the larger system, health processes, and society in which a health website for laypeople might be implemented
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Causes & Symptoms Of Water Deficiency In Human Body - 0 views

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    Water (H2O) is one of the most important chemical substances required for the survival of all the living creatures on earth. It is necessary for almost all the body functions and activities.
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How To Relieve Constipation Fast | Health Blog - 0 views

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    How To Relieve Constipation Fast? About twelve percent of the population worldwide report constipation each year. It is characterized by undue effort and time to expel the stool. Here we discuss some useful home remedies to treat constipation. Sometimes it can be really stubborn and won't go away.
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    An average human being visits the toilet six times a day and stays there for about two minutes. However, attending the call of nature is not always this easy. Sometimes, a common gastrointestinal condition called constipation occurs. It becomes difficult to expel the feces. A desire to visit the washroom is not enough to physically eliminate the feces.
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