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Dr. Owen R. Thompson explains what you need to do when someone is having a heart attack. Most heart attacks involve discomfort in the center of the chest that lasts more than a few minutes, or that goes away and comes back. It can feel like uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness or pain. Symptoms can include pain or discomfort in one or both arms, the back, neck, jaw or stomach. Heart attack and stroke are life-and-death emergencies — every second counts. If you see or have any of the listed symptoms, immediately call 112 or your emergency response number. Not all these signs occur in every heart attack or stroke. Sometimes they go away and return. If some occur, get help fast! Today heart attack and stroke victims can benefit from new medications and treatments unavailable to patients in years past. For example, clot-busting drugs can stop some heart attacks and strokes in progress, reducing disability and saving lives. But to be effective, these drugs must be given relatively qu...

People get cancer when something in the nucleus of a cell causes the cell to divide rapidly at an abnormal rate, leading to uncontrolled growth. Find out how cancer puts pressure on adjacent organs and bodily systems with information from a doctor in this free video on cancer. Expert: Dr. David Cathcart Bio: Dr. David Cathcart specializes in occupational medicine and has an in-depth knowledge of cancer, as well as experience dealing with cancer patients and treatment for multiple years. ORAL TRANSLATION: Hello I'm Dr. David Cathcart and I work for Heartland Regional Medical Center in St.Joseph, Missouri and today we are going to talk a little bit about cancer, what it is and how people get it. Cancer is formed when something in the nucleus of the cell goes haywire and reprograms the cell to divide rapidly at an abnormal rate. What that does is it causes this uncontrollable growth of cells in a particular area that by sheer size of the growth of that can put pressure or adjacent org...

Isabelle Dinoire, born 1967, was the first person to undergo a partial face transplant, after her Labrador dog mauled her in May 2005. Prior to the operation, she could barely eat or speak, but after the operation, she can do both. Dinoire's dog "chewed her face after she passed out from an overdose of sleeping pills." Some reports following the initial surgery claim that her daughter said that the black Labrador cross (named Tania) was "frantically" trying to wake Dinoire after she took sleeping pills in a suicide attempt, and Dinoire wrote about her suicidal feelings in her own memoir. Dinoire's injuries affected her nose, lips, chin, and cheeks. She wore a surgical mask to cover the injuries on the lower part of her face, as the upper face was not affected. Doctors and the media debated whether the donor and/or the recipient had attempted suicide, with reports stating that the donor had hanged herself. The Sunday Times, a British newspaper, stated that Di...

The move by Pope Benedict is particularly surprising because he caused controversy last year by suggesting condom use could actually worsen the problem of Aids in Africa. He described the epidemic in the continent as "a tragedy that cannot be overcome by money alone, that cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which even aggravates the problems". See next video about his comments last year. After decades of fierce opposition to the use of all contraception, the pontiff will end the Catholic Church's absolute ban on the use of condoms. He will say that it is acceptable to use a prophylactic when the sole intention is to "reduce the risk of infection" from Aids. While he will restate the Catholic Church's staunch objections to contraception because it believes it interferes with the creation of life, he will argue that using a condom to preserve life and avoid death can be a responsible act – even outside marriage. Asked whether "the Cath...

Music video by a little crazy hospital. Music video by Bon Jovi performing Bad Medicine (1988) Here you are two versions about this amusing song. Choose what music video you like the most. Lyrics: I ain't got a fever got a permanent disease It'll take more than a doctor to prescribe a remedy I got lots of money but it isn't what I need Gonna take more than a shot to get this poison out of me I got all the symptoms count 'em 1,2,3 First you need That's what you get for falling in love Then you bleed You get a little but it's never enough On your knees That's what you get for falling in love And now this boy's addicted cause your kiss is the drug Your love is like bad madicine Bad medicine is what I need Shake it up, just like bad madicine There ain't no doctor that can Cure my disease Bad, bad medicine Bad, bad medicine I don't need no needle To be giving me a thrill And I don't need no anesthesia Or a nurse to bring a pill I got a dirty down ...

There are many ways to write an essay. However, the standard essay form follows the same basic patterns as discussed in this 'how to'. 1.Select the topic of your essay. 2.Choose the central idea, or thesis, of your essay. For example: Information technology has revolutionized the way we work. 3.Outline your essay into introductory, body and summary paragraphs. 4.The introductory paragraph begins with an interesting sentence. For example: Home workers have grown from 150,000 to over 12 million in the past 5 years thanks to the wonders of the computer. 5.After this first sentence, add your thesis statement from above. 6.Use one sentence to introduce every body paragraph to follow. For example: The Internet has made this possible by extending the office into the home. 7.Finish the introductory paragraph with a short summary or goal statement. For example: Technological innovation has thus made the traditional workplace obsolete. 8.In each of the body paragraphs (usually two or thr...

"Global warming could do more than just melt polar ice. It could change our maps, and displace people from cities and tropical islands." Nowadays there are different points of view about this matter. What do you think about?. Does climate change really exist or is it pure invention?.

The legendary broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough was long unsure about the causes of the observed climate warming. In his documentary, The Truth About Climate Change, he sheds doubt and explains what convinced him. Climate models based on purely natural processes such as solar activity and volcanic eruptions fail to explain the observed change in Earth's climate in the latter part of the 20th century. Models factoring in the human impact, that is, the increase of carbon dioxide in the athmosphere, depict the transpired warming accurately, however.