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1.

What poisonous metal is used on garden hose fittings?

Cadmium

2.

What are the biggest Cal. Health Insurance companies?

Aetna, Anthem (Blue Cross), Blue Shield, Cigna, Health Net, Kaiser, Pacificare

3.

What are the most common OTC weight loss pills?

Cortislim, Dexatrim, Hydroxycut, Leptopril, Metabolite, Propoline, Relacore, Trimspa X32, Xenadrene, XtremeLean, and Zantrex3.

4.

What were the leading causes of death in the U.S. in the Year 2002

cancer, heart attack, stroke

5.

What are the major urban medical injury lawyers?

California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia. Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas

6.

Where are the best paternity DNA testing labs?

Missouri, New York, Ohio, Utah

7.

What is the shingles virus?

reoccurrence of childhood chicken pox

8.

What are the 10 most common Sexually Transmitted Diseases?

AIDS, chlamidia, genital herpes, genital lice, genital warts, gonorrhea, hepatitis, scabies, syphilis, and trichomoniasis

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9.

What is normal human pulse variation?

10%, or about 7 beats per minute

10.

What is a typical pulse variation in a person with atrial fibrillation?

30%, or about 20 beats per minute

11.

What are some heart arrhythmia information resources?

Here is a list.

12.

What is high blood pressure?
What is borderline high blood pressure?
What is normal blood pressure?
What is low blood pressure?

150 - 100
140 - 90
120 - 80
100 - 60

13.

What is the best way to monitor your blood pressure?

Automatic wrist BP monitor

14.

What are the common blood types -

A, B, AB, O, + and -

15.

What is high total cholesterol?
What is normal total cholesterol?
What is high bad cholesterol?
What is normal bad cholesterol?
What are normal triglycerides?

250 mg/ml
200 mg/ml
170 mg/ml
120 mg/ml
150 mg/ml

16.

What are the 4 valves of the human heart?

Aortic, mitral, pulmonary, tricuspid

17.

What are the tactics for lowering high blood pressure?

Stop Smoking
Exercise Daily
Reduce Weight
No caffeine
Enough rest

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18.

What are some prescription drugs with serious side effects, and large lawsuits?

Avandia, Baycol, Bextra, Celebrex, Dexatrim, Ephedra, Paxil, Pondimin, Propulsid, Redux, Rezulin, Vioxx, Zyprexa

19.

What is a classification graph of prescription drugs, based upon safety and efficacy?

Drug risk profiles

20.

What are the top 10 best selling prescription drugs (2006)?

Lipitor, Advair, Nexium, Norvasc, Zyprexa, Diovan, Risperdal, Aranesp, Mabthera, Effexor

21.

What are common side effects of prescription drugs?

allergy, blood, bone, brain, interaction, intestinal, liver, lungs, mental, muscle, pain, senses, skin

22.

What are some DTC prescription drug ads?

Here is a list of warnings.

23.

What are some selected recent FDA drug warnings?

Here is a list of warnings.

24.

What are the 6 main types of heart medications?

BP reduction, antiarrhythmics, cholesterol lowering, blood thinners, rate control, vasodilators

25.

What are the strongest painkillers?

morphine, hydromorphone, oxycodone

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