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Opiate withdrawal
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Opiate withdrawal refers to the wide range of symptoms that occur after stopping or dramatically reducing opiate drugs after heavy and prolonged use(several weeks or more).Opiate drugs include heroin, morphine, codeine, Oxycontin, Dilaudid, methad...Reviewer: Jacob L. Heller, MD, Emergency Medicine, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, Clinic. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc. Date: 04/20/2009
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Nicotine withdrawal (1 Image)
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Nicotine withdrawal involves irritability, headache, and craving for cigarettes or other sources of nicotine. These symptoms occur when a nicotine-dependent individual suddenly stops smoking or using tobacco, or cuts back on the number of cigarett...Reviewer: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.Date: 06/19/2008
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Alcohol withdrawal
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Alcohol withdrawal refers to symptoms that may occur when a person who has been drinking too much alcohol every day suddenly stops drinking alcohol.Alcohol withdrawal usually occurs in adults, but it may occur in teenagers or children as well. It ...Reviewer: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.Date: 02/27/2009
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Cocaine withdrawal
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Cocaine withdrawal occurs when a heavy cocaine user cuts down or quits taking the drug.Cocaine produces a sense of extreme joy by causing the brain to release higher than normal amounts of some biochemicals. However, cocaine''s effects on other par...Reviewer: Jacob L. Heller, MD, Emergency Medicine, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, Clinic. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.Date: 04/20/2009
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Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body. Cancerous cells are also called malignant cells.Cells are the building blocks of living things. Reviewer: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.Date: 08/02/2008
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Artificial Sperm
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United States Preventive Service Task Force recommends against annual ...
ABC News | 13 minutes ago
... Sens. Nelson and Coburn, Reps. Wasserman Schultz and Blackburn. "The guidelines that came out this week by the Preventive Services Task Force have a direct link to what would be offered if the House and the Senate bills were to go into law," Rep. ...
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... we continue to learn and grow, and so must our advice. The recommendations announced last week by the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and the American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology (ACOG) that women reduce the number of mammograms ...
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... fiscal 2008, to a total of 261-four times more than a decade ago. [ Source : Philadelphia Inquirer ] Evidence-Based Medicine Loses a Round - The recommendation of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force that average-risk women not get mammograms to ...