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Polio, once known as infantile paralysis, is a disease that causes lasting disabilities in a minority of infected individuals. Prior to the development of the Salk vaccine in 1955, it used to strike thousands of children each year. Polio is caused by any one of three types of viruses. It attacks mainly infants and children, but young adults and older people can also be infected.
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Shaken baby syndrome is a severe form of head injury caused by violently shaking an infant or child. It usually occurs in children younger than 2 years old, but may be seen in children up to the age of 5. The violent shaking may result in severe injuries to the infant including permanent brain damage or death.
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The number of social interactions that a patient with heart disease has may significantly affect the likelihood of his or her survival, researchers report. In fact, whether or not that support comes from friends, family or other confidants is less important than the total number of people a patient has in his or her social circle, according to a report in the April issue of Psychosomatic Medicine. Dr. Beverly Brummett and her colleagues at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, evaluated 430 patients with severe heart disease for both the quality and quantity of their social interactions over a five-year period.
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Testicular cancer, though the commonest cancer in young men, is rare. Between the age of 15 and 50 about 1 in 500 develop this problem, but the rate is increasing.
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Gonorrhea is a very serious and well-known sexually transmitted disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria Gonorrhea, or gonococcus. This disease is known to be of very dangerous complications especially in women.
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