How Will I Feel If I Have a Heart Attack?
Heart attacks, known by their medical name of acute myocardial infarction, is a state of disease that involves the interruption of the bloody supply to part of the heart. The result is a shortage of oxygen that can damage the heart tissue and potentially kill. Heart attacks are the leading cause of death all over the world. Major heart attack risk factors include a history of angina or vascular disease, a previous stroke or heart attack, old age, excessive alcohol, the abuse of illegal drugs, smoking, episodes of abnormal heart beat, obesity, high levels of stress, high or low cholesterol, high triglyceride levels, high blood pressure, and diabetes.
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Ecstasy: How Dangerous is This Wildly Popular Drug?
In February 2004 a 16-year-old girl in Connecticut went to a house party with some friends. She took a powdered form of the popular drug known as ecstasy with her friends, went into seizures and later died. In April 2004, a 14-year-old girl in California took ecstasy at a sleepover with two friends and died the next day from an overdose.
These stories are not rare-in fact, 2.6 million teens report having experimented with ecstasy in 2003 and hundreds of teens have died taking such drugs, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Ecstasy is used by kids in their early to late teens and early 20s because it promotes a euphoric feeling by releasing
How Will I Feel If I Have a Heart Attack?
...well as being informed on potential cardiac problems that might arise. In today s world, we have the benefit of new and improved treatments and medications for heart attacks and strokes that were not available in the past. Clot busting ...
a chemical in the brain called serotonin (the same chemical that, when lacking, is linked to depression)....well as being informed on potential cardiac problems that might arise. In today s world, we have the benefit of new and improved treatments and medications for heart attacks and strokes that were not available in the past. Clot busting ...
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Can the Cure for Headaches be Worse Than the Pain?
Many drugs that were previously available only through prescription are now available over-the-counter. Today drugs are so common and easily obtained people just assume they are safe. After all, would multi-million dollar companies offer drugs for sale if they weren’t safe? Wouldn’t the FDA ban medications that could harm or possibly even kill you? Sure, if they knew they were dangerous. But the method of determining which drugs are safe and which drugs are deadly may surprise you. Many times the tests are determined through the use of guinea pigs, which very likely includes you.
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Violent Gangs in America
Recently, Local Law Enforcement people, with the help of the F.B.I. and Justice Department, arrested more than 40 members of two very well organized gangs in Florida. Who knows how many people within Florida and other States became victims of such illegal gang activity?
After about a year of investigation, the law finally put an end to those gang members, but how many other gangs and its members exist throughout the Country? Those people sell illegal drugs and weapons for the most part. As a result, tens of thousands of our children, as well as the entire population is in danger of dying from the poison those criminals sell.
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How Will I Feel If I Have a Heart Attack?
Heart attacks, known by their medical name of acute myocardial infarction, is a state of disease that involves the interruption of the bloody supply to part of the heart. The result is a shortage of oxygen that can damage the heart tissue and potentially kill. Heart attacks are the leading cause of death all over the world. Major heart attack risk factors include a history of angina or vascular disease, a previous stroke or heart attack, old age, excessive alcohol, the abuse of illegal drugs, smoking, episodes of abnormal heart beat, obesity, high levels of stress, high or low cholesterol, high triglyceride levels, high blood pressure, and diabetes.
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