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Health News articles from February 1995
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Health News archives from February 1995
Easier ways to diagnose breast cancer.
February 1, 1995... Biopsy, the removal of tissue samples from the abnormal are for examination is the diagnostic step that confirms cancer. If a breast lump turns out to be cancerous, further surgery will follow to remove the entire tumour and surrounding area....
How healthy is your lifestyle?
February 1, 1995... Compelling evidence shows that certain lifestyle behaviours can improve health, prevent premature death and may even prolong life. The problem is that people often drift along, continuing their unhealthy ways - maybe vowing to stop smoking or...
Run-down on groin hernias.
February 1, 1995... A hernia, often wrongly called a "rupture," is a bulge of tissue that occurs when a soft part of the body herniates or bulges through a weak spot in the retaining layer of muscle or lining tissue (fascia), penetrating nearby compartments. Hernias...
Why we shiver and get goose bumps.
February 1, 1995... Shivering, the involuntary contraction and relaxation of skeletal muscles, is one way the body tries to warm itself when it is cold. Shivering can be an unpleasant sensation especially if, as happens with severe bouts of shivering, every muscle...