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Ask any parent, that he would prefer for the child: heavy flowing illness or innocuous response to the vaccine with a guarantee of protection against subsequent infection? It would seem that the answer is obvious. So why do many educated mums and dads, the word "vaccination" to this day causes a seizure? Perhaps still need to use the same "blessings of civilization" that the entire civilized world? .. Questions ...

Coming to the clinic even with the common cold, we sometimes hear: "To clarify the diagnosis will have to refer you to the X-ray. And we are going to "radiate" or take a shot that the doctor was able to accurately determine the nature of pathology. But X-rays, these amazing rays, discovered by the German physicist Roentgen more than a hundred years ago, helping not only in ...

Use broccoli helps prevent chronic lung disease. It was proved that the composition of this vegetable antioxidants stop the degradation of NRF2, the key components of defense system against inflammatory processes, whose concentration decreases in lung injury. Doctors at Johns Hopkins Medical School (USA) and the National Institutes of heart and lung (London, UK) have made such conclusions after analyzing tissue samples from the bodies of patients ...

The concept of emphysema combines increased lightness and decreased mobility of the lung tissue. Most often affects all light (diffuse emphysema). Sometimes the swollen parts of light are combined with normal lung tissue. Such areas are referred to as bullae and emphysema bullosa. What happens? The main cause of the disease - chronic bronchitis. In fact, the result is the formation of chronic bronchitis, emphysema. In the development of emphysema bullosa important ...

Tuberculosis - an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and characterized by the development of cell allergies, specific granulomas in various organs and tissues of the polymorphic clinical picture. Characteristically lung, lymphatic system, bones, joints, genito-urinary organs, skin, eyes, nervous system. If untreated, the disease progresses and ends fatally. Infectious nature of TB was proved by German Robert Koch in 1882. It was he who opened the mycobacteria, causing disease ...