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Archive for February, 2017


   Feb 17

Eating Well

If you have discovered that you are overweight and want to lose the pounds in a short time, do not rush to do so in the gym immediately. While exercise can be beneficial for weight loss, you need to adjust your diet in the first place. If you do not keep a good diet, then […]

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   Feb 13

Gastric Bypass

There is already a new scoring system to predict, so successful, that patient is at increased risk of death to be a bariatric surgery such as gastric bypass. This system is based on five medical factors, and was proposed last year by the Medical Center surgeons at Duke University. To do this, we take into […]

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   Feb 09

Anthrax

Anthrax (ANTHRAX) etiology. Pathogen – B. anthracis, a large gram-positive rod length 5-8. Located in the crops in pairs or chains, forms a capsule in animals and spores in the environment. It grows well on ordinary nutrient media (meat-peptone broth, agar, gelatin). Dyed with aniline dyes, and all Gram. Epidemiology. The source of infection are […]

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