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… have been difficult to help with standard hip replacements. They have many years of activity ahead of them and … of stress on their replaced hip joint. So their hip replacements often need to be redone a few years after the original … are usually less successful than the original hip replacements. Hip resurfacing removes less bone than a hip …
Medical tests
… how much fat tissue you have and where it is. Air displacement plethysmography. This is similar to underwater … healthy body fat is considered to be: 10% to 22% in adult men. 20% to 32% in adult women. Your age, sex, and activity level will also affect your …
HealthLinkBC files
… 1, 2017 HealthLink BC File number 74 Download PDF Document English Document Chinese Document Farsi Document French Document Korean … often, they can cause more serious infections of the blood, urinary tract or other body tissues. What are …
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… interact with people or objects in his or her environment. Look for a change in the level of consciousness . … in babies that may cause crying are: Ear infections . Urinary tract infections . Pneumonia . Stomach flu … in babies that may cause crying are: Ear infections . Urinary tract infections . Pneumonia . Stomach flu …
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… antibiotics . You will probably need several weeks of treatment. The antibiotics must be given long enough and at a … antibiotics . You will probably need several weeks of treatment. The antibiotics must be given long enough and at a …
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… Partial Hip Replacement Surgery On this page: Surgery Overview What To Expect … Well It Works Risks Surgery Overview A partial hip replacement removes and replaces the ball of the hip joint. It does … It is firmly fixed in the femur in one of three ways: Cemented to the bone. Uncemented. This kind of stem has a …
Medications
… is based on your medical condition and response to treatment. Use this medication regularly to get the most benefit … if you have any serious side effects, including: signs of a urinary tract infection (such as … urination or pink/bloody urine that are usually signs of a urinary tract infection, but they may also be signs of a …
Medications
… genital warts and other problems). The vaccine is recommended for people at an increased risk of getting these … laboratory workers who handle blood and patient specimens, police, fire and emergency medical personnel who give first aid treatment, hemophiliacs, dialysis patients, people who live with …
Medications
… on your body size, medical condition, and response to treatment. Do not increase your dose or use this drug more often … through the skin and lungs and may harm an unborn baby, women who are pregnant or who may become pregnant should not … order a pregnancy test before you start this medication. Men and women using this medication should ask about …
Medications
… these problems increases with higher doses or longer treatment with carboplatin. Also, an unlikely but very serious … to therapy. In general, courses of carboplatin treatment should not be given more often than once every 4 weeks. … some patients but usually go away within 24 hours of treatment. Drug therapy may be needed to prevent or relieve …
