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How Does Blood Transfusion Change Your Body & DNA?

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It can be an icky thought to imagine some one else’s blood flowing through your own veins. Blood is one of the bodily fluids through which all sorts of diseases can be transmitted. And adding to the weird factor,blood carries a persons DNA. But when it’s the matter of life and death, another person’s blood could be the only option. Transfusions are a common procedure. The process of blood transfusions can be due to injuries or surgeries that causes blood loss, bleeding disorders like haemophilia in which the blood does not clot properly, Infections that inhibit the body’s ability to make blood, and other illnesses like anemia, cancer and auto immune disorders. Although scientist in Singapore have recently found a way to turn skin cells into blood cells in rats, that method has yet to be tested on humans. With the exception of some people who can donate blood ahead of an elective surgery to then be transfused back into their bodies afterward, the blood will come from a kin

Importance of regular health check up

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Prevention is better than cure more than just being a simple proverb that we learnt in school, there must have been times in our adult life. Establishing good health habits means people may enjoy longer, healthier, happier lives. Regular health check ups are an important part of a prevention routine and can help keep people on track with their health goals. The aim of a health check is to help find, prevent or lessen the effect of disease. Its like getting a car serviced before its breaks down, Its often better to pick up potential problems earlier rather than later. Health checks can provide health care professionals with an opportunity to look at a person’s lifestyle, medical history and family history to find out if they are at risk of any preventable health conditions. Getting the right checks at the right time throughout life may help people detect potential health problem early on. This may allow for earlier treatment and better outcomes. Health checks can also iden

Best college resources for students

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One thing many college students never discover over their two or four years in college are the impressive resources available on campus for preparing them for a career for learning effective writing and studying skills for health, physical, emotional and mental for student activities. College is more than just going to class and partying. There is a whole network of resources there that can expand you current interests and passions as well as introduce you to new ones. Students should take advantage of all that your campus offers in terms of resources. Using these resources and services can help students grow academically, also teach good time management skills which will help you in your future. students will never again in there whole life will you find so many different resources in one place. Here are the list of common resources available at most colleges.   Academic Resources Academic resource centres might be known by a variety of different names, but it is where s

Tips for getting good grades in college

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Are you struggling with grades and interested in raising your grade average. Everyone can get good grades no matter who you are. But, you need to take studies seriously because it may affect your whole future. Go through this article and get tips for getting good grades in college.   Schedule You have a calendar for the week or the month, but you also need a weekly study schedule. Map of your week to see when your study can and should be done. This way you will know how much time you can devote to each classand when it makes more sense to study for each. And also make sure you stick to the plans you make. Be sure to complete all of your homework.   Read The Textbook Sometimes teachers do not even mention the total information in class! After reading a paragraph, check it in your head without looking. Then read it again. It will stay in your mind longer. It is particularly effective when you have less time to study. Often, the things mentioned in class that are a

Things You Must Do to Achieve Your Goals

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To ensure that you meet your goals, you must do more than want to achieve them. In most cases, realizing your ambitions will require a number of lifestyle changes. Read this article and keep in mind that success is a habit, not an act.   1. Make A List To achieve your goals, First you have to determine exactly what they are. Do not let this process overwhelm you, trust your instinct. Set a timer for three minutes and get all your goals on paper. without worrying about how difficult it will be to achieve them. After that, come back and brainstorm about the changes, you have to implement or adjust the lifestyle that you will have to make to realize your goals. 2. Keep A Clean Work Space Extra objects on your desktop compete for your attention, and your brain must constantly reconcile the presence of these elements with those that are really relevant to its work. Speaking of presence, consider that it is likely that some of the things that have been there for a while w

Things you need to do to survive university

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University life is very tough. Normally they say your university years are the best you will ever have in your life but we would argue that being a poor knackered perpetually hungover student does come with its challenges too. We have put together a list of skills that will help students survive the university life.   1: Learn To Budget Students should be very careful handling the budget. Being permanently penniless is something you can avoid if you take the time to work out a budget and stick to it. The best option for students is they need to get themselves a prepaid budgeting card, in which you can put a certain amount of cash on the card every month and assign this as your disposable income for food, night outs and other expenses. This will help students to stay within the budget.   2: Know When To Call It A Night For students its easy to get carried away on nights out. Students should know when to say enough is enough because its quite a tough skill to acquir

Everything you need to know about Preventive Health Check-ups

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Its time to take charge of your health, Schedule an appointment with your health care provider to discuss what screenings and exams you need and when you need them. Health expenditure in India accounts for 4.1% of the national GDP. Private expenditure on health adds up to 70.8% of all healthexpenditure in the country. Tips for ordinary citizens is that they need to invest a small sum on preventive  health check ups instead of shelling out huge money during health crises. Regular health exams and tests can help find problems before they start. They also can help find problems early when you chances for treatment and cure are better. By getting the right health services, screenings and treatments you are taking steps that help your chances for living longer, healthier life. It has been observed that people of working age group are being increasingly effected by lifestyle diseases. It is recommended by international consensus that men who are above the age of 35 and women above