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If you are between 18 and 65 years old, weigh over 50 kilos and feel just fine, there is high probability that you can become a blood donor. Including the examination, it only takes about an hour or so. Blood donors are entitled to a paid day off from work and eight bars of chocolate to help them recharge.

Bulimia and anorexia are nutrition disorders with a mental background; both diseases can be fatal, as they destroy the patient’s body. Most victims are adolescent girls and young women.

It is a man, between 65-66 years of age, who predominantly falls ill. He has been on hypertension treatment for a dozen years, however, his heart rate is still too high – 80 beats per minute. His heart is so weak that he cannot go up to the second floor without stopping.

Giving birth in a vertical position, in water, on a birthwheel, and using laughing gas – the techniques that facilitate natural childbirth and reduce pain are becoming more and more popular in Polish hospitals.

Strong will, pharmacological treatment, hypnosis – there are many ways to quit smoking. If you are a smoker it is worth considering one of them. As the scientists claim, every year smoking shortens your life by three months.

Runny nose, eye pain and cough are characteristic of a cold. Fever or slightly raised body temperature, lack of appetite and headache rarely accompany these symptoms. In turn, flu symptoms include fever above 39°C, shivers, headache, and joint and muscle pain.

The diet used by a pregnant woman has a significant influence on her unborn baby’s growth and development. Both the excess and the insufficiency of nutrients in our prenatal life is of great importance for our adult life. The guidelines on what you should and what you shouldn’t eat when you’re pregnant were prepared by the Institute of Mother and Child (IMiD).

In Zell Kravinsky’s opinion, if you don’t donate a kidney, you’re a murderer. This is rather a shocking statement by the millionaire, philanthropist and poet from Philadelphia. Yet, this is how the American wants to justifiably convince us to become honorary donors.

The helicopters of the Medical Air Rescue transport over 8 thousand patients every year. Air ambulances, equipped with modern medical equipment, land in places of a sick call, often near houses and roads.

Use as often as necessary and as rarely as possible – this is a general rule concerning antibiotics, repeated by the specialists. Unfortunately, these tend to be overused, and administered e.g. for treating cold, which is usually caused by viruses that are not affected by antibiotics.

“It is worth considering vaccination in order to avoid getting flu and related complications. The complications often have irreversible consequences," claims Professor Lidia Brydak, Head of the Department of the National Influenza Centre at the National Institute of Public Health.

Children born as a result of in vitro are not in danger of mental disability or autism. In reality, there are not much more children born with birth defects after in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) – specialists argue.