Birth rate in Transition
Birth rates are falling really? Is it true that couples have less interest in starting a family, or are the reasons maybe somewhere else? One thing is certain, never took the issue of child pairs as serious as it is today. 1.4 children get the American woman on average and this figure could fall further. While today the average age of new mothers is between 26 and 35, the number of women giving birth continues to rise late. In 2013 28.455 women were older than 40 at the birth of her child, since the number of women of childbearing age will decrease but according to statistics on, would in the next few years more than just bring a child into the world statistical older women, so that the 1.4 children per woman retained at all. That this happens is...
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Winter and Health: The biggest mistakes
The winter is back, and relevant tips, such as, how to protect yourself from the common cold, viruses are rampant and how to fight them, can help you. Unfortunately, many of the well-intentioned advice is not only don’t help, but often just plain wrong. How possible protect against colds and what you can do if it is a really gets me, almost everyone seems to know, and often will rely on knowledge handed down family. The fact that the much-quotes grandmas and moms, but they may be wrong, as show various studies that have provided such persistent “general knowledge” to the test. Read the most detailed information. Fast real health tips for winter. A truism states that anyone who takes a lot of vitamin C, not sick. Unfortunately, recent studies have shown that vitamin C can not protect against...
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Mammography – Many false alarms and subsequent tumor risks
Facts at a Glance. In the US, the risk of false-positive tests has increased to 77% at 58% of mammograms. If a woman is told that she can have breast cancer, causing the already own considerable fears and a great psychological burden. It is important for you as a patient, to remember that the most important decision a good prevention and a healthy lifestyle is for your health and for the prevention of cancer, and mammography. One of the reasons why you should think carefully about it before you decide to have a mammogram, is the high rate of false-positive results of such investigations. That said, there is indeed a suspicion of cancer disease close, but is in truth no. In the aftermath of such a false-positive result, the affected women have to undergo more tests and biopsies and/or...
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Mushroom poisoning – symptoms and first aid
Mushroom poisoning have become fortunately rare. But how to distinguish them from ordinary indigestion? Of the more than 5,000 large mushrooms in the local forests are only 150 toxic. Nevertheless, “mistakes” in mushroom picking are not harmless. Mushroom pickers should be able to distinguish edible from inedible or poisonous copies. Also in the preparation of some rules must be observed: Reheating is not getting mushroom dishes. This decompose certain proteins that are similar to those of a cause symptoms of food poisoning. Mushrooms spoil quickly and some people lack, genetic, an enzyme to digest fungi. In all these cases threaten abdominal pain, nausea and diarrhea. The comparatively harmless toadstools make itself a quarter of an hour to four hours after eating noticeable. With salt water, can cause vomiting. The symptoms normally disappear after a few days from final. Severe...
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What to consider when recipes
Sometimes red, sometimes blue or maybe yellow or green, the talk is of recipes where the physician prescribes medication. But with recipe a prescription drug and is not always obtained at the pharmacy and the prescribed medication. For patient security, a prescription may be redeemed only in pharmacies and not more than three different medications contain indicated in the lower part of the recipe. However, not every drug must be on the recipe and also the insurance company has an influence on the shape or the color of the recipe. The color of the recipe depends on the drug and insurance status. Recipes can be both red and blue, yellow or green. Where: Red Recipes get all the patients who are insured in a statutory health insurance. They are used by the doctor for prescription drugs, for which the...
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