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Often parents will seek advice from friends or neighbours. Local government, community nurses, and other local agencies will also be able to recommend daycare facilities. Many services have quite long waiting lists and so you need to make these enquiries well in advance. If you plan to return to work soon after your baby is [...]

There is no love triangle in our marriage. There are more people involved than that. My wife knows almost everybody in the world. The police should call her if anyone is missing. She either knows them or would know someone who did. HUSBAND One of the most difficult tasks for the thousand couples was balancing [...]

All of us can recall one girl or boy who became a friend, our first encounter with “one of them.” It was not a sexual encounter, it was a boy/girl relationship that taught us a little about the person-hood of the other gender. Perhaps then we were just immature enough to see people as persons [...]

The condom, while not so effective as a contraceptive, is certainly a good means of avoiding the spread of V.D. We no longer tend to use this term, but prefer to speak of the sexually transmitted diseases. The varieties of sexual contact, both heterosexual and homosexual, mean that infection can involve not only the genitals [...]

The word epilepsy comes from the Greek, and means a seizure. And the unfortunate sufferer does appear to be seized by something when he is thrown to the ground and shaken violently. Epilepsy is a symptom, not a disease. It may have many causes, some obvious, some unknown. This condition is common and affects one [...]

If you’ve read everything up to here, you will know why there is no sjufple screening method for cancer. Unfortunately, we can’t jtfst line everyone up once a year and do a simple test which picks out all the ones with early cancer. Even when cancer is well established, you now know that the diagnosis [...]

Whether or not liver secondaries are suspected, on the basis of symptoms and clinical examination, blood tests to check the liver’s function may still be recommended. This is because even a normal sized liver in a person who feels quite well may still contain small secondary deposits. The enzyme we mentioned before when talking about [...]

Teething has been blamed for causing crying, fevers and even convulsions. There is no doubt that most children suffer some pain, salivate more and, perhaps, have a reddened cheek when teeth are erupting through the gums. They may also be irritable and cranky, but teething does not cause a rise in temperature or a convulsion, [...]

The relationship between developing an eating disorder and ‘dieting’ is unclear, but it is generally accepted that both anorexia and bulimia tend to be preceded by a period of intense dieting, or food restriction. How or why this happens is uncertain, however, in laboratory conditions it can be demonstrated that ‘dieters’ will eat more than [...]

The usual source of glucose for the body is from the sugars and starches in food. To make use of these, the body must first break them down in the gut into a form that can be absorbed and which the cells can use. This process is called digestion. Digestion starts in the mouth when [...]