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  • Immunization: Call For The Day
    By: Tina Khanna | - Delivering useful and safe vaccines through a well-organized delivery system is one of the most important public health endeavors. Immunization programs aim to reduce mortality due to vaccine preventable diseases, particularly for children.

    But the question is why immunizing our kids? Sometimes we are perplexed by the messages in the media. First we are assured that, thanks to vaccines, some diseases are almost gone. But at the same time, we are also warned to immunize our progeny, ...

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  • Naltrexone Shows Potent Anti-tumor Activity
    By: anelwew | - The research of Pennsylvania State University Medicine School shows that low-dose of naltrexone (LDN) have extraordinary anti-tumor effect on human ovarian cancer with the tissue culture and nude mouse xenograft. When LDN has combination with chemotherapy, it enhances inhibition of tumor formation. This finding provides new insights into the pathogenesis and treatment of ovarian cancer. Among the U.S. women, ovarian cancer is the fourth leading cause of death in cancer-related mortality.
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  • Immunization: Call For The Day
    By: Tina Khanna | - Delivering useful and safe vaccines through a well-organized delivery system is one of the most important public health endeavors. Immunization programs aim to reduce mortality due to vaccine preventable diseases, particularly for children.

    But the question is why immunizing our kids? Sometimes we are perplexed by the messages in the media. First we are assured that, thanks to vaccines, some diseases are almost gone. But at the same time, we are also warned to immunize our progeny, ...

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  • Since The Early 1980s, Abnormal Expression And Aberrant Activation
    By: john | - It is well known that pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive types of human cancer. In spite of major development in new technologies including imaging technologies, surgery, and chemotherapy, as well as radiotherapy in the past few decades, survival rates for patients with pancreatic cancer are very low with a mean 5-year survival rate of less than 10%. Worldwide, more than 200 000 people die of pancreatic cancer each year. One major contributing factor to mortality is the lack of spec ...
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  • Quality Advice For Sufferers Of Cancer
    By: Andrew Gallop | - A diagnosis of cancer is probably one of the scariest anyone can receive, and for quite obvious reasons. Once diagnosed, its mortality rates are quite high, and even those who survive it are often traumatized and completely different people after. To help you survive cancer, here are some tips.

    As a cancer survivor, you should be making plans to permanently monitor the long-term effects of the treatment you have completed. Some treatments will put you at a higher risk for cardiovasc ...

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    By: Frbiz | - 1, Beginning Economic Conditions this to incrementally improve the quality lifestyle, but additionally adult men and women around the going down hill surviving enviromentally friendly, those slowly and gradually grew into attentive to the dangers along with polluting the environment, and put forward the necessity of skill along with income then green improvement. Smog and individuals's lifestyles, this may specifically lead to number of people mortality, deterioration as to ecosystems, prompting ...
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  • The Top Five Reasons People Are Turned Down For Life Insurance
    By: Denise Mancini | - Life insurance companies have the right to deny coverage to any life insurance applicant based on your mortality rate. A high mortality risk means that you may die soon and life insurance companies dont want to run the risk of insuring you and then immediately having to pay out claims to your beneficiary. The lower your mortality risk, the better your chances of getting a life insurance policy and being eligible for lower premiums. If youre wondering whether you could be denied life insura ...
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  • Searching For A Life Insurance Coverage
    By: Dave Taylor | - Life insurance is one of the most important purchases that any of us will make in our lifetime. It's not something that we think about all that often, especially since none of us really like to dwell on our mortality; however, an insurance policy can do more than almost anything else to help give you peace of mind.

    Everyone wants to make sure that the people they love are cared for and when you come right down to it, that's exactly what life insurance is about. It provides your bene ...

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  • Weight Gain In Adulthood - Stop It
    By: Lise Beverley | - The biggest problem we face in America today is not terrorism - that is obesity. This is according to Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States. And it seems that much of this problem is happening in a slow and progressive through the gradual gain of young adults and middle-aged weight for very long periods of time.

    On average, a typical American adult increased at least two pounds a year for life. That probably means that ...

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  • Why It Makes Sense To Make A Will
    By: Mark Smith | - If the idea of will writing leaves you completely in the cold, there is a whole raft of reasons to reconsider and give it more than a passing second thought. Contemplation of your own mortality might not be the most pleasant thing in the world, but try to bear in mind that there is nothing maudlin or morbid about wills.

    Think of them as safety nets or insurance policies, not only for yourself, but for the loved ones who will be left behind to deal with the aftermath of your death ...

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  • Understanding Falls And How To Manage Them
    By: Austin DWI Lawyer | - Older adults, the frail and disabled have many well-being issues to consider and then find solutions for achieving their best daily quality of life. One of the
    simplest and most cost effective first lines of protection for medical and security purposes is a Personal Emergency Response System (PERS). Statistics from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as the National Institute on Aging, list falls as the leading cause of injury deaths and the biggest common cause of trau ...

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  • Zebov Vp24 Protein, A Therapeutic Target Against Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever
    By: Dr. Ribia | - Ebola hemorrhagic fever (Ebola fever) is caused by a virus belonging to the family called Filoviridae, including BDBV, EBOV, RESTV, SUDV, and TAFV. The disease causes mortality rates as high as 90% and patients usually die from shock rather than from blood loss.
    At the present, tyrosine kinase inhibitors including imatinib, dasatinib, and nilotinib, as effective agents, have been the first-line drugs against CML due to the advent of these targeted therapies. However, on clinical studie ...

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  • High Blood Pressure In Young Adults And Children
    By: Maria Gonzales | - High blood pressure is a well-known and important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases in adults and significantly contributes to morbidity and mortality from myocardial infarction ("heart-attack"), heart failure, peripheral vascular disease, chronic kidney disease and stroke.
    It is not yet known for sure whether high blood pressure that has been diagnosed during childhood or adolescence is related to these diseases as adults.
    In addition, these complications and diseases are ...

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  • Life Insurance Is An Important Decision To Make Early In Life
    By: Casey Trillbar | - We as human beings have a natural disposition to think about things that affect our life. We tend not to want to think about our mortality but the truth is we will eventually pass away and leave our families. Though one day we will be gone, we do not have to leave our families with burdens caused by loss of income or burial expenses. The decision to purchase life insurance should be one that is made early in life. Of course at an early age we say to ourselves we have plenty of time to do that bu ...
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  • Later Diagnosis Of Breast Cancer In Poor Women: Higher Mortality Rates
    By: Heather MacGibbon | - CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians report for 2011 shows that later detection of breast cancer in poor woman has lead to a higher mortality rate then that of non poor women who generally receive more frequent screenings.

    "In general, progress in reducing breast cancer death rates is being seen across races/ethnicities, socioeconomic status, and across the U.S.," said Otis W. Brawley, M.D., chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society. "However, not all women have benef ...

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  • Packaging Has Improved Immensely
    By: Rammoon Carrasiel | - We've all heard over and over again how far the system of medicine, even medicine packaging has come since way back when. The mortality rate has decreased tremendously in even just the past few decades. Going to the hospital these days does not mean you are condemned to death, or to long term care, but that you will receive professional treatment no matter what your height, weight, race, religious preference, sickness and so forth may be.

    Seeing the distance we have made with all ...

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  • Pensioners Insurance - What's The Best For You
    By: Peter B Yard | - Who says it is too late to have a life insurance over 50? Although most seniors avoid this topic because of the common thinking that life would be too short upon 50's in consideration with the current mortality rate. However, it is important to think about your financial responsibility to your loved ones. This is not just for yourself but for your loved ones to be worry-free from financial obligations.

    Life insurance is a contract between the policy holder and the insurer that usua ...

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  • Ways To Reduce Cholesterol Levels In The Body
    By: Lisa Brun | - The growing number of cases of cardiac diseases has outdone other dreadful disease like cancer, thus becoming the 3 rd biggest cause to kill most number of people in the US alone. The bottom-line behind the phenomenon is no other but the high calories of cholesterol in the food items that make people too fat and suffer from heart disease. This facilitates the risk of stroke to occur, and triggering mortality rate in the US. To overcome the alarming situation, it is necessary to be aware of using ...
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  • Most Advanced Technology For Simple Diagnosis Of Breast Cancer Today
    By: Fower Lee | -

    Recognition of cancer of the breast is ready to obtain better using the entry of breast tomosynthesis, a faster, more accurate and detailed 3-D imaging technology, available these days at AIIMS. With cancer of the breast overtaking cervical cancer because the leading reason for cancer-related mortality in urban women based on the Indian Council of Scientific Research, fraxel treatments could be a cure all in cancer treatment.

    Apparently, the AIIMS and also the Hinduja ...

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  • Types Of Canine Cancer "€" What You Should Be Aware Of
    By: Alex Howell | - Not all of us are aware that dogs can have cancer. But this is true; dog cancer is rampant and could account for the mortality of your pet. It is one of the leading causes of death especially for a ten-year old canine or more. Just imagine that out of four dogs, one has the possibility of having a cancer. It might be my dog, but it might also be yours. Now, knowing that dog cancer actually exists is not enough. You should go deeper and understand more. Start on the basic such as by knowing the ...
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  • Breast X-ray Mammography Can Reduce Mortality Of Breast Cancer Significantly
    By: zhaowei | - The researchers form Swedish studies have shown that Breast X-rays can reduce mortality of breast cancer significantly. Uppsala University in Sweden and other research institutions show The patients with breast cancer who have accepted breast x-ray, Mortality was reduced by 30% than patients not accepted. It is the largest survey on breast X-ray. The Swedish government have Provided Breast X-rays for the women over the age of 40. They want to find breast cancer in time, Some researchers object t ...
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  • Ayra Samaj And Society
    By: Prashant Kumar | - The Indian society in this 21st century is transforming into a developing nation with a strong future ahead. In economic terms, the rate of its progress is very high. However, there are lot of improvements required on the social front. Gender bias, health and education issues, mortality rate, unemployment and poverty etc. are the major factors which are plaguing the nation. This brings us to another issue that India is facing today, that is the onset of western culture. This westernisation has b ...
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  • Mortgage Life Insurance Cover Keeps Your Family Secure
    By: Joe Maldonado | - If you should happen to pass on while your mortgage is still unpaid, mortgage life insurance cover may be the only thing that can save your family form foreclosure. Nobody enjoys thinking about their mortality, but you will want to do right by your family and plan for their financial security in the event of your death.

    This is fixed term insurance, and the term will generally be the life of your mortgage. This is going to give your family money to pay off the mortgage if you pass a ...

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  • Harlem Community Group Has Success Combating Infant Mortality
    By: The Grio website | - When Mario Drummonds yesterday urged federal officials to substantially broaden efforts to pare the death rate for black babies -- which averages 2.5 times that of white ones nationwide -- his argument rested largely on what the agency he oversees has achieved in a four-block stretch of Harlem. There, in a single, 1,500-unit high-rise housing project, Drummonds' North Manhattan Perinatal Partnership has led an effort that reduced the black infant mortality rate from 27.7 deaths per 1,000 live bi ...
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  • Main Causes Of Infant Mortality
    By: Nyrie and Tony Roos | - What causes infants to die at birth or shortly after birth? Currently, about 3.6 million infants die every year from various causes. Many of these deaths can be prevented with timely interventions such as better antenatal care, nutrition, avoiding drug use, better delivery facilities and medical personnel as well as Kangaroo Mother Care.
    There are five main causes of infant mortality as follows:
    Neonatal infection
    Infants are highly susceptible to infection after delivery. The ...

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  • Kangaroo Mother Care "€" Helping Achieve The Millennium Development Goals
    By: Nyrie and Tony Roos | - The Millennium Development Goals, popularly referred to as MDGs are one of the most widely ratified developmental targets in the world. The MDGs were established in 2000 after the Millennium Summit in which all world leaders that were present adopted the UN Millennium Declaration. There are 8 goals in the Millennium Development Goals outlining 21 targets. Goal four of the MDGs outlines the target of reducing child mortality rate. Specifically, nations should aspire to reduce the mortal ...
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  • Registered Nurses Reduce Mortality Rates
    By: Michaela Leigh Nakata | - A study released by the Nursing Times in 2009 suggested a direct correlation between staffing levels of registered nurses and mortality rates in hospitals. The statistics mentioned in the report claimed that when hospitals were understaffed in terms of RNs, the chances of increased patient deaths and significantly lengthened hospital stays rose significantly. In contrast, keeping shifts properly staffed kept those numbers within a normal range.

    Until recently there were no further s ...

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  • Sids: The Silent Killer
    By: Steven Chang | - I used to work as a primary care physician in a small hospital at my place. I can vividly recall one early morning at around 6 o'clock, I was called by the nurse on duty to see an infant brought in by the mother. I rushed to the emergency room and saw a lifeless two-month old baby, bluish in color and seemed to be dead for several hours already. The mother told me that the baby was apparently healthy. She remembered putting the baby to sleep after breastfeeding that night with no unusual symptom ...
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  • Mortality Charges Part Of Life Insurance Premium
    By: Deepak Yohanann | - Cost of Insurance is referred as as Mortality Charge. It is essentially the amount which is charged by the Insurance provider to offer you life insurance for one year. It is the amount charged for the confirmed Sum Assured that is given on premature death of the policyholder. In majority of life insurance policies, right after reduction of Mortality Charge, the bulk of the premium goes in the direction of investing in a savings fund which is returned to the policyholder at the time of the life i ...
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  • The Importance Of Exposure Levels Regarding Asbestos Related Mortality
    By: Mont Wrobleski | - Some research has shown a correlation between high exposure rates to asbestos with a significant excess of cancer related deaths. Just how much impact do exposure levels really have on mortality?

    One interesting study is called, Lung cancer among asbestos cement workers. A Swedish cohort study and a review. By C G Ohlson, C Hogstedt - Br J Ind Med 1985;42:397-402. Here is an excerpt: Abstract - A cohort study of 1176 Swedish asbestos cement workers did not indicate any ...

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  • Asbestos Exposure Levels And The Impact On Mortality Rates For Workers
    By: Mont Wrobleski | - Many statistical models have been developed over the years to help with research regarding mortality rates resulting from asbestos exposure. One interesting study worth reading is called, Exposures and mortality among chrysotile asbestos workers. Part I: Exposure estimates by John M. Dement, PhD, Robert L. Harris Jr., PhD, Michael J. Symons, PhD, Dr PH Carl M. Shy, MD - University of North Carolina, School of Public Health, Chapel Hill - American Journal of Industrial Medicine - Volume 4 ...
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  • Young Baby - How To Succeed - Part 6
    By: peter radford | - Infant Mortality

    Continued

    Infant mortality is an epidemiological (epidemiology considers the factors affecting the health and illness of populations) indicator and is widely recognised as representing an important measure of the level of healthcare in a country. This is because there is a direct correlation with the health status of pregnant women, children and infants together with the availability of medical care, of socioeconomic factors as well as the prevailing me ...

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  • The Emotional Recovery From A Heart Attack
    By: Stephen Lau | - A heart attack is one of the most devastating and traumatic experiences in life. At least 1.5 million Americans suffer a first or recurrent heart attack every year. Heart attacks are often an indication of advanced coronary heart disease, which is the Number One cause of death in the United States. Attacks occur when oxygen is unable to be delivered to some parts of the heart due to blockage in one or more of the coronary arteries.

    Unfortunately, about half a million of those suffer ...

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  • Know The Foods To Eat When Pregnant.
    By: Roger Noonan | - As an expectant mother, it's completely natural that you will want to do everything you can to ensure a healthy baby. What's good to know is that with a little research on the right foods to eat when pregnant, and by applying what you learn, you are already taking a significant step in the right direction. Eating the right foods that will give your developing fetus all the essentials vitamins and minerals that he needs gives him a wonderful chance of developing normally and to full term. Convers ...
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  • Do You Know The Foods To Avoid During Pregnancy?
    By: Roger Noonan | - In this day and age, it is an unfortunate fact that the majority of foods on our supermarket and kitchen shelves are compromised when it comes to their nutritional value, and can be considered foods to avoid during pregnancy. There are a number of reasons for this, the main one being the dominance of the supermarket chains and their focus on profit above quality of produce. Therefore as consumers, we have a responsibility to ourselves to become more vigilant in what we eat, and this is especiall ...
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  • Foods During Pregnancy: Get To Know The Right Foods For You!
    By: Roger Noonan | - Foods during pregnancy play an essential role in each stage of the pregnancy, both for the mother and her unborn child. This would seem like common sense but it continues to amaze medical professionals how many expectant mothers have a poor knowledge of the correct foods to be consuming, and even more importantly, the foods that they should be avoiding.

    The foods that you eat during pregnancy have massive implications on the development and well being of your unborn child. Eat the c ...

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  • The Right Foods To Eat When Pregnant.
    By: Roger Noonan | - Knowing the right foods to eat when pregnant is an essential part of every pregnancy plan. The right pregnancy diet will ensure that the developing fetus is getting all the essential nutrients that he requires to give him the best chance of developing normally. Unfortunately in this day and age, with the extent of processed foods, pollution, and intensive farming, there is a much higher possibility that you may be eating the wrong pregnancy food than not, and this is why it is so important that ...
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  • Eating During Pregnancy: The Right Foods For You.
    By: Roger Noonan | - It is essential that you, as an expectant responsible mother, have a full understanding of your required nutrients while eating during pregnancy. After all, you are now eating for two. Your baby is relying completely on you to receive all his required vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and folic acid. Poor pregnancy nutrition leads to increased risk of mortality and birth defects for your baby, as he is more susceptible to degenerative diseases, and neural or cognitive disorders. ...
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  • Cancer Mortality And Racial Implications
    By: Alex White | - A significantly higher number of African Americans die from cancer than Caucasians - a recent study corroborates statistical figures that seem to remain almost unchanged from as early as 1981.


    While the death rate for cancer has drastically decreased in the recent past, the gap between the death rate in Caucasians and African Americans still remains the same. African Americans seem to be at more risk to die from cancer than Caucasians.

    African American women ha ...

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  • Eating During Pregnancy: Life Or Death For Your Baby?
    By: Roger Noonan | - While eating during pregnancy, the expectant mother needs to be aware of all the essential nutrients that she needs to consume on a regular basis, both for herself and for her growing baby. Such nutrients are necessary for the healthy development of the foetus growing in her tummy, and ensure that her child is born healthy and well. Poor pregnancy nutrition increases the chances of birth defects including disability, low birth weight, and poor foetal development, as well as increasing the possi ...
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  • Annuity Fees: Are They Worth The Investment?
    By: Leo Vidal | - Annuities are in-between the perfect retirement investment and an expensive safe money vehicle for individuals interested in keeping more principal in the later years. Designing an annuity involves considering your needs, desires, and the best lifestyle you would like to have after the working years. Retirement needs can extend to the costs of medical expenses, medicine, estate, and taxation at the end of the year. With the right planning, this can act as the safe haven many financial gurus clai ...
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  • Missing Doctor Visits Increase Hiv/aids Mortality Rates
    By: Jason Hachkowski | - When beginning any course of treatment for a chronic yet manageable disease such as HIV and AIDS it is important for one to follow their HIV specialists advice, maintain a regular schedule of appointments, and strictly adhere to the pharmaceutical treatment regimen. These three practices establish early on a life-time of disciplines that one will require to effectively manage living with the HIV/AIDS virus.

    If ever there was doubt as to the importance of regular visits with one's ...

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  • Angels, Spirits Or Ghosts
    By: Rob Daniels | - When it comes to the supernatural, few have not had a brush with eternity. Whether you attend church regularly or are the most determined doubter, the miraculous seeks out all at one point or another. Most of us have one or two fleeting incidents which we easily explain away, while an insistent few claim to have regular contact with members of the great beyond. Who are these beings who open the veil and remind us that we are not alone? Are they glorious messengers sent from God, or malevolent to ...
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  • Association Between Wine And Mortality
    By: devi | - Many of the respected studies on population prove that consuming alcohol such as wine, beer or spirits in moderation is been related with an increased life expectancy. Researchers report that even though considerable decreases in mortality risk for regular drinkers could be attributed to lessen danger or heart disease, this factor alone not completely account for their constructive mortality profile. Moderate drinkers compared to abstainer, both male and female, look to be at lessen risk for all ...
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  • Finding Grace In Facing Mortality
    By: Jana Baldridge Vargas | - As an author and speaker on the topic of death, loss and living fully, I am often asked what led me to write about such a heavy topic. Fortunately, for me the topic is not filled with fear and pain. Studying and reflecting on death has allowed me to experience life in a rich and meaningful way. Being prepared for death and living in a state of awareness about life's temporary nature can be a conscious effort on your part, as it is in mine, but for many of us it will be fostered and enhanced b ...
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  • Motorcycle Helmets: The Statistics
    By: Andrew Dillan | - When you go for a ride on your motorcycle, you're out to have fun. And hey, you've never had a crash before, so why would it happen now? Here are the government statistics about motorcycle helmets.

    A brief history of the Law

    In 1967, the US federal government said that it would take away funding from any state that didn't have a helmet law. By 1975, 47 states had complied with the federal government. However, in 1976, they repealed the law, ruling it unconstitutiona ...

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