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  • Cancer Causing Agents: Tobacco & Nicotine
    Smoking is the single biggest cause of cancer in the world, and accounts for one in four cancer deaths in the States. Smoking is known to cause around eighty percent of lung cancer around the world. The 1996 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse has shown that about 62 million people in the United States above 12 years or below 29 percent of the population are current cigarette smokers.
  • Pre-Martial blood Typing: How is it important?
    Pre-Martial blood typing is very important, assuming ofcourse that you are not planning babies before marriage! In that case, you can go on & read it as Pre-conception blood typing.
  • Lab-based Blood Typing vs Home-based Kits: A Comparative Analysis
    Blood typing is a method of determining a person's blood type by serological methods. It is important to know your blood type for various reasons. In case of blood transfusions, organ transplantation, pregnancy etc., knowing one’s blood type is very crucial for various medical purposes.
  • How to Quit Smoking
    Nicotine in cigarette smoke causes an addiction to smoking. Nicotine is an addictive compound, just like heroin and cocaine. Most people begin smoking as teens, usually because of curiosity and peer pressure.
  • Testosterone/Epitestosterone Ratio: How is it significant?
    Testosterone is a potent androgenic hormone, produced chiefly by testes and occurs naturally in human body. It is responsible for the development of male reproductive organs and secondary sexual characteristics.
  • Steroid Testing: A layman’s Guide to Steroids
    Anabolic steroids, also known as anabolic-androgenic steroids or AAS, are a class of steroid hormones related to the hormone testosterone which is known to build muscle tissue & to cause the development of male secondary sex characteristics. However, testosterone in its natural form has a half life of only about ten minutes in the body.
  • All You Need to Know About Sleep Apnea Syndrome
    Sleep Apnea Syndrome refers to transient cessation of respiration during sleep. The most common kind of sleep apnea is called Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSA) which is defined as the cessation of airflow during sleep preventing air from entering the lungs caused by an obstruction.
  • Effects of Tobacco Smoking on Children
    Smoking causes eighty percent of lung cancer around the world. One in 5 deaths in the U.S results from the use of tobacco & each year, smoking claims 400,000 lives in the U.S. alone. In 1999, 65% of all secondary students reported having used some type of tobacco product during their lifetime.
  • Blood Type: How to decide & project your child’s blood type?
    Blood typing is a method of determining a person's blood type by serological methods. These blood types depend on whether or not there are certain antigens on the red blood cells & if there are antibodies to these substances.
  • Sleep Apnea Syndrome: How to test it!
    Sleep Apnea Syndrome refers to transient cessation of respiration during sleep. There is a sleep test, called polysomnography that is usually done to diagnose sleep apnea. Polysomnography is a study of sleep cycles and behavior, usually done all night long in a sleep center, which involves observing a person at sleep while continuously charting brain waves, muscle activity, breathing, eye movements, and heart rhythms.
  • Second Hand Smoking Tests: How do they work…?
    Secondhand smoke or passive smoke or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a combination of the smoke produced from burning cigarettes and the smoke exhaled by the smoker, from which over 4,000 different chemicals have been identified & around 50 of these chemicals are known carcinogens, a combinatorial effect of which poses a myriad of health risks to communities across the globe.
  • Second Hand Smoking: Medical or Physiological Effects
    Secondhand smoke is a combination of the smoke produced from a burning cigarette and the smoke exhaled by the smoker. Second-hand smoke is also known as passive smoke or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS).
  • Blood Typing: What the heck is it…?
    Blood typing is a method of determining a person's blood type by serological methods. These blood types depend on whether or not there are certain antigens on the red blood cells & if there are antibodies to these substances. Blood Typing is also known as - Cross matching, Rh typing & ABO blood typing etc.
  • Blood Type Diet: Fact or Fiction…?
    As per the author of book ‘Eat Right for Your Type’ Dr. Peter DÁdamo, there is a relationship between the blood and the foods one eats. According to him, there occurs a chemical reaction between food and blood which is caused by a factor called lectins.
  • Intestinal Disorders: Induced by Drug Use & Abuse
    Intestine or intestinal tract is the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus. It is a major part of digestive system where it helps in digestion and absorption of digested food.
  • Kidney Disorders: Induced by Drug Use & Abuse
    Kidney is either of the two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them in urine which passes out of the kidney through ureters to the bladder.
  • Blood Disorders: Induced by Drug Use & Abuse
    Blood is an opaque, mobile fluid connective tissue that is mesodermal in origin. It consists of plasma, blood cells and platelets amongst a diverse array of molecules and ions.
  • Liver Disorders: Induced by Drug Use & Abuse
    Liver is a large reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity behind the rib cage. It secretes bile and functions in metabolism of proteins, carbohydrates and fats.
  • Erectile Dysfunction: When Drugs Cause Impotency
    Erectile dysfunction is defined as the inability to achieve and maintain penile erection sufficient to permit satisfactory sexual intercourse. Testosterone is necessary for normal sexual arousal and in men testosterone deficiency is associated with impotence.
  • Physiological Effects Caused by Inhalants Abuse
    Inhalant abuse refers to the inhalation of fumes, vapors or gases to produce a mood altering effect or euphoria. Due to their non-invasive nature and inherent ease of use, an increasing number of teenagers and young adults are turning to inhalants for drug abuse.
  • Dangers of Common Household Products: Inhalants & Their Abuse
    Inhalants are the volatile substances which produce chemical vapors that can be inhaled to produce a desired effect which may or may not be pharmacological in nature.
  • Causes and Effects of Xanax Abuse by Mid-School Kids
    Xanax is prescription tranquilizer which depresses the nervous system in a way similar to alcohol. It is also known as Alprazolam & is a part of the class of drugs called benzodiazepines, more commonly referred to as Benzos.
  • Causes & Effects of Lead Poisoning
    Lead is a highly toxic metal found in small amounts in the earth’s crust. Because of its relative abundance, low cost, and physical properties, lead and lead based compounds are frequently used in a wide variety of products including paint, ceramics, pipes, solders, gasoline, batteries, and cosmetics.
  • Sources of Lead
    Over last few decades, lead poisoning has emerged as one of the major threats to environment and human health. There are many ways in which humans are exposed to lead: through deteriorating paint, household dust, bare soil, air, drinking water, food, ceramics, home remedies, hair dyes and other cosmetics. Much of this lead is of microscopic size, invisible to the naked eye.
  • Vicodin: Prescription Drug Abuse & Testing
    Vicodin is a derivative of opium, which also used to manufacture heroin. It is the most widely known brand name for a combination of hydrocodone and acetaminophen. Some of its generic equivalents include brand names Lorcet, Lortab, Norco, Panacet and Zydone.
  • Methadone: Prescription Drug Abuse & Testing
    Methadone is a synthetic narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit-forming than that. It is frequently used in narcotic detoxification and heroin addiction rehab. It is available by its trade name Dolophine which actually comes from the German word Dolphium that reflects its German Origin as Methadone was developed in Germany in 1937.
  • OxyContin: Prescription Drug Abuse & Testing
    OxyContin is an opium derivative, which contains the same active ingredient as in Percodan and Percocet. OxyContin is a very strong narcotic pain reliever similar to morphine. OxyContin is designed so that its oxycodone salt is slowly released over time. OxyContin products are in schedule II of the federal Controlled Substances Act of 1970 in United States.
  • Ultram: Prescription Drug Abuse & Testing
    Ultram is the trade name for Tramadol which is an atypical opioid. It is a synthetic agent, as a 4-phenyl-piperidine analogue of codeine, and appears to have actions on the GABAergic, noradrenergic and serotonergic systems & is thus used as a centrally acting analgesic for treating moderate to severe pain.
  • How to Cope with Prescription Drug Abuse
    Millions of individuals receive prescription drugs for their ailments and injuries each year. Some of them never finish the prescription and others take it as it was outlined. However, there are many individuals who use the drug to an extreme and they become addicted to it. In most cases, it starts out as an innocent way to control the pain they have on an ongoing basis.
  • Percocet, Percodan, Tylox - Oxycodone: Prescription Drug Abuse & Testing
    Percocet, Tylox & Percodans are the different trade names of Oxycodone products.
  • Codeine: Prescription Drug Abuse & Testing
    Codeine or methylmorphine is an opiate used for its analgesic, antitussive and antidiarrheal properties. It is marketed as the salts codeine sulfate and codeine phosphate. Codeine hydrochloride is more commonly marketed in continental Europe and other regions.
  • Hydrocodone: Prescription Drug Abuse & Testing
    Hydrocodone or dihydrocodeinone is a semi-synthetic opioid derived from two of the naturally occurring opiates, codeine and thebaine.
  • Dilaudid: Prescription Drug Abuse & Testing
    Dilaudid is the trade name of hydromorphone hydrochloride which is a hydrogenated ketone of morphine that is used as an opioid analgesic to treat moderate to severe pain. White coat clad chaps call it 4, 5a-epoxy-3-hydroxy-17 methylmorphinan-6-one hydrochloride in their language.
  • Demerol: Prescription Drug Abuse & Testing
    Demerol is the trade name of Pethidine / meperidine which is a fast-acting opioid analgesic drug used to treat pain. In the United States and Canada, Pethidine or meperidine is more commonly known by its brand name Demerol whereas in many parts of the world, it is also known as isonipecaine; lidol; pethanol; piridosal; Algil; Alodan; Centralgin; Demerol; Dispadol & Dolantin etc.
  • Darvocet, Darvon & Tylenol: Prescription Drug Abuse & Testing
    Dextropropoxyphene, like codeine, is a weak opioid. However, approximately 10-20% of the Caucasian population is unable to metabolize codeine, so dextropropoxyphene is particularly useful with such people. In pure form, dextropropoxyphene is commonly used to ease the withdrawal symptoms in people addicted to opioids.
  • 10 Things to know about Pain Reliever Drugs Abuse
    Pain relievers are medicines that reduce or relieve headaches, sore muscles, arthritis or related aches and pains. There are many different pain reliever drugs. While some of them are prescription drugs, yet many of these are available over-the-counter (OTC) e.g. aspirin, naproxen (Aleve) & ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) etc.
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