1. Body mass index : Information
A good way to determine if your weight is healthy for your height is to calculate your body mass index (BMI). Being overweight puts strain on your heart and can lead to serious health problems. These problems include:
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2. Serum Sickness
Serum sickness is a type of delayed allergic response, appearing four to 10 days after exposure to some antibiotics or antiserum, the portion of serum that contains anti-bodies, such as gamma globulin, which may be given to provide...
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3. Serum sickness: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
Plasma is the clear fluid portion of blood. It does not contain blood cells, but it does contain many proteins, including antibodies, which are formed as part of the immune response to protect against infection.
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Scenario : Ellen is a 48 year old professional woman who lives and works in Hartford, Connecticut. She has four adult children and two grandchildren. She also has two aging parents who live nearby and who, though they have been active all their li...
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5. Motion Sickness : Search Results - healthfinder.gov - Your Source for Reliable Health Information
This fact sheet provides basic information about dizziness and motion sickness and discusses causes, prevention and treatment options.... Details >
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6. Low body mass index and low serum albumin are pred... [Tohoku J Exp Med. 2010] - PubMed result
Low body mass index and low serum albumin are predictive factors for short-term mortality in elderly Japanese requiring home care.
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7. Serum sickness
Serum sickness is the name for symptoms that result from a delayed immune system response, either to certain kinds of medications or to antiserum (given after a person has bitten by a snake or to counter exposure to rabies, for example).
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8. Serum sickness
Serum sickness is a reaction similar to an allergy. Specifically, it is an immune system reaction to certain medications, injected proteins used to treat immune conditions, or antiserum, the liquid part of blood that contains antibodies that help .....
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9. Serum Sickness: eMedicine Rheumatology
Historically, the term serum sickness connotes a self-limited immune complex disease caused by exposure to foreign proteins or haptens. Immune complex formation is a common event and does not typically cause symptoms. However, an immune reaction c...
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The Zebrafish Gene Collection (ZGC) is an NIH initiative that supports the production of cDNA libraries, clones and sequences to provide a complete set of full-length (open reading frame) sequences and cDNA clones of expressed genes for zebrafish....
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