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4th Quarter 2022 - 2022-12-07
Kidney Disease
The kidneys are one of the major organs in the body that filter waste and excess fluid from the blood. As kidneys fail, waste builds up since the kidneys are damaged and can't filter as well. This can cause swelling in your ankles, nausea, weakness, poor sleep, and shortness of breath.
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HIV Integrase Inhibitors
Clinicians now have five classes of antiretroviral agents (ARVs) for the treatment of HIV infection in both treatment-naïve and treatment - experienced individuals.
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All About HIV
HIV testing tells you whether or not you have HIV. Knowing your status is important because it helps you make decisions to stay healthy and prevent getting or transmitting HIV.
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Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) / Diabetes Of Pregnancy
Diabetes is a condition that affects the way your body uses sugar. Upon eating a meal, it is digested, and its components absorbed and transported in blood to various tissues. Insulin is a hormone that helps the sugar in blood enter cells. In Diabetes there is either reduced production of insulin, or reduced response of your cells to insulin leading to high blood sugar. GDM typically occurs in the second and third trimester of pregnancy.
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Diabetes
Diabetes is a lifelong disease in which the body cannot process sugar properly. Diabetes is also called "diabetes mellitus" or "sugar diabetes". When people who have diabetes eat glucose, which is found in foods such as breads, potatoes and sweets, it can't be converted into energy. Instead of being converted into energy, the glucose stays in the blood.
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Fatigue And Biological Assessments
Fatigue is the first reason for consultation with general practitioners. However, this general term covers very diverse origins, most often banal but sometimes more serious. Fatigue is to be differentiated from asthenia, a medical term, which corresponds to fatigue that is not improved by rest. Asthenia requires a consultation with your GP.
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Help Avoid Anesthetic Complications
Thanks to increased client awareness and compliance, preanesthetic testing is not only practical and accepted, it is also expected. The results benefit everyone as they decrease client anxiety, improve anesthetic safety, establish baseline data and increase a practice’s financial health.
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Cytology of The Spleen
Fine needle aspiration (FNA) of the spleen may be helpful in the diagnostic work-up and development of a treatment plan for patients with suspected disease involving the spleen. As sensitive imaging procedures have become more widely available, the use of cytology for evaluation of abdominal organs has increased.
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Age Doesn’t Mean a Thing – Or Does It?
It is unfortunate that our patients and clients have a similarity, in that, pets, just like humans, are prone to agerelated diseases.
Read more4th Quarter 2022 - 2022-10-01
BRCA Testing For Hereditary Breast And Ovarian Cancer
Cancer occurs when cells in your body start to grow out of control. These cancer cells can multiply very quickly, cause growth or tumors, invade surrounding tissues, and even spread. (metastasize) to other areas of the body.
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