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What is the best preventive hangover cure?
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Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates
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What are the treatments for acid reflux in infants?
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If your baby is having difficulty with spitting up, abdominal pain or projectile vomiting, or if he is not gaining weight, talk to his pediatrician about his symptoms. He may be suffering from acid reflux, which is sometimes a temporary condition.Cha
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What are the long and short term effects of Tuberculosis?
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Well here are the effects: A cough that will not go away Feeling tired all the time Weight loss Loss of appetite Fever Coughing up blood Night sweats Pleurisy (sharp chest pain) Pretty much the first 2 for sure are long term effects.
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What are the treatments for spinal cord tumors?
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If the tumor is malignant and has metastasized, treatment depends on the type of the primary cancer. Surgery is usually the first step in treating benign and malignant tumors outside the spinal cord. Tumors inside the spinal cord may not be able to b
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Does riding a bicycle irritate pilonidal cyst?
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It's never bothered mine. When you ride a bike you typically sit on the bony part of your butt cheeks, and a pilonidal cyst is usually much higher up, near the tailbone.
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What are some behavioral interventions that you think focus on self-stimulation aspect of the individual?
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I'm not sure if music therapy counts as a _behavioral intervention_. If so, music therapy for autism would concentrate on transforming some of the repetitive behavioral aspects of self-stimulation into functional and comprehensible body movement; tha
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Could drinking cold water on a regular basis from the fridge cause cancer in the throat?
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Cold water causes your stomach to shrink, which is good, if you're on a diet but it will not cause cancer. Contaminated water causes disease not cold water.
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What is a multiple-gated acquisition (muga) scan?
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Definition The multiple-gated acquisition (MUGA) scan is a non-invasive nuclear test that uses a radioactive isotope called technetium to evaluate the functioning of the heart's ventricles. Purpose The MUGA scan is performed to determine if the heart
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Is a brain transplant theoretically possible?
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While such a transplant is theoretically possible, the problem is that we don't yet have a good way to regenerate severed nerves. Hence, the transplanted brain would have fairly few fairly poor connections with the body into which it was transplanted
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How do I relieve foot pain?
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There are various factors that can cause foot pain. One of these is the type of shoes you wear. If your shoes do not fit properly, they may cause significant foot pain and discomfort. Additionally, if shoes fail to provide a good arch support, they m
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