In 1998 a group of specialists opened their statement of recommendations to the World Health Organization by writing: “Deafness can lead to significant reductions in the quality of life, impaired human relationships, reduced access to employment and diminished productivity.” More »
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While they are not failsafe indicators of pregnancy, a missed menstrual period, nausea, tender breasts, frequent urination, and fatigue are often the first indications that conception may have occurred. Other common early signs of pregnancy include changes in the color of vaginal tissue, darkening of the areola (the skin around the nipples), blue and pink lines under the skin on the breasts, and unusual food cravings . More »
Many men, and even some women, fear losing their hair. But nowadays you have choices in the fight against hair loss. This article will explain your choices.
Everyone is familiar with the usual hair loss treatments. More »
Improve the taste of tea, coffee & soft drinks
This high specification Water Filter unit can now free your drinking water from organic particles, chlorine taste, herbicides, limescale, etc. – and continuously maintain your tap water at a high standard.
Easy step-by-step instructions for simple home installation. NO plumbing skills are needed … NO pipes need to be cut. In fact the ingenious self-piercing valve means you don’t even need to turn off your water supply!
Mounted anywhere near a sink, the chrome-finished tap head of the versatile Water Filter will swivel through a full 360 degrees so it utilises the minimum of kitchen work space. Ideal for filling of kettles, pans etc. Tap also has special ‘hands free’ setting to allow washing of vegetables, etc.
Up to 2000 litres of purer water from one cartridge
At less than 1p per litre – or approx. 10p a day – using this Water Filter unit will prove much cheaper and far more economical than the continual purchase of bottled water which could cost you up to £1000 for 2000 bottled litres.
Dear Colleagues
Centrelink is conducting a Satisfaction Survey to get the views of the disability service sector about their working relationship with local Centrelink office/offices. Centrelink wants to ensure that, before the implementation of the Welfare To Work changes in July, local Centrelink offices have in place good working relationships with their local providers who work with customers with disabilities. More »
There seems to be an enormous amount of controversy when it comes to using diet supplements to help individuals lose weight. And some of it seems to be rather unfounded. More »
Viagra (sildenafil), the headline-grabbing oral medication for the treatment of impotence, has been on the market since March 1998. According to the Food and Drug Adminsitration (FDA), from the time of Viagra’s approval through mid-November 1998, prescriptions have been written for more than 50 million of the blue, diamond-shaped tablets. More »
Your computer can be a real pain in the neck! Not to mention your wrist, your back, your eyes and your head!
Here’s what to do. More »
Hepatitis C: Achieving Maximum Results Putting Combination Therapy for HCV into Practice
In the past year, clear-cut evidence has been presented that interferon/ribavirin combination therapy greatly improves the sustained virologic response rate, providing the strongest rationale yet for treating patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. More »
When a child or adult in later life reacts to a stressful event with inappropriate behavior or excessive vital signs (e.g. high or low blood pressure), it is because the imprint of a very early trauma in the lower brains has been triggered. Making an appeal to the thinking brain (which was not around at the time) can only take the form of exhortation, moralization or present-time analysis. More »