Coal Worker’s Pneumoconiosis (CWP)
Occupational exposure to coal dust leads to Coal Worker's Pneumoconiosis (CWP), which has enormous social, medical and economic importance of many countries in the world where coal mining is a major industry. About 10% of the workers in a coal mine are having Coal Worker's Pneumoconiosis who are working in coal mine for more than 20 years, that can be diagnosed by simple X-ray and if more sophisticated equipments are used than it is much higher. The anthracite miners have more grave situation, they have more than 50% positive X-rays on plain radiography. The prevalence of Coal Worker's Pneumoconiosis is much lower in bituminous mines and in US and most western nations the mines are of bitumen so Coal Worker's Pneumoconiosis is less prevalent in those countries.
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Drug Rehab: Treatment Prospect & Requirement
One of the most dangerous social evil is drug addiction in modern day society. These days of globalization no country, no society or no community is immune from drug addiction problems. Drug and alcohol addiction and its evil impact on society is prevalent throughout the world regardless of geographic region or the advancement of a nation. The drug addiction problem is present in the developed industrialized nation as well as poor and undeveloped regions. In one word the problem of drug addiction is ‘ubiquitous’.
Drug rehab or drug rehabilitation centers throughout the world are offering hope to drug addicted men and women as well as their families. These families are suffering from the devastating and dangerous effects of these physical and chemical dependency and addiction.
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Weight Loss by Surgery
Losing weight for obese and overweight people may be very disturbing. It is more problematic if you can not maintain body weight within normal limit after losing it. In case of failure to maintain body weight within normal range after losing it, after using traditional weight loss techniques like a low calorie diet and regular exercise, surgery is an alternative and excellent option.
There are many weight loss surgery techniques available and one of the most popular and successful surgery is “lap band surgeryâ€. The lap band surgery is a simple and uncomplicated surgery and takes approximately 30 minutes to 1 hour to perform the surgery. The right candidates for surgery is a person with BMI (body mass index) of more than 40 or a person with a BMI of 35 and has associated health problems related to obesity. The lap band surgery also should be conducted on an obese person for whom other weight loss strategies have failed.
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Bath Bombs: an Introduction
Bath bombs or bath fizzie are used for making bath an wonderful experience. The difference between a bath bomb and bath fizzie is that bath bombs are solid form and fizzies are in grain form. Generally bath bombs are of round shape, but these days they are available in various shapes and sizes, various colors and of various scented. They can be rounded like a cricket ball, heart shape or there may be many different designs on the body of the bath bomb. Bath bombs may be of different colors like pink, rose, white, light green and may be in combination of 2 or more colors. Bath bombs are available these days in practically any imaginable color.
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Contact Lenses: an Overview
Contact lenses are used for corrective (to correct refractive errors of eyes, improve vision etc.), therapeutic and cosmetic purpose. Previously there were only hard contact lenses available, but thanks to Czech chemists Otto Wichterle and Drahoslav Lim who invented present modern soft contact lenses. They also invented the gel that is used for the production of these soft contact lenses. Contact lens was first successfully fitted by Adolf Eugen Fick, a German physiologist, while working in Zurich in the year 1887. only hard contact lenses were available at first and they had many disadvantages like chances of injury to the eyes, painful, chances of infection etc.
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