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Saturday, March 07th, 2009 | Author: Ananda Perwira

Medical imaging is a technique or process to obtain images of body image, especially in the body for medical purposes. Medical imaging is run in order to know the shape and function of organs, certain substances and metabolism process in the body. While this has been used for purpose mentioned such Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Ultrasound Tomography, Nuclear Medicine and Computed Tomography (CT).

One important thing in the development of medical imaging is development of contrast to increase the coverage and quality of the results obtained. In this field, the development of molecular design innovation that promises vast opportunities.

In the 1970s, Ido Tatsui from Brookhaven National Laboratory for the first time introducing a form of glucose analog compound 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) which is bounded with radioisotope fluoride-18 (18F-FDG). Fluorine-18 is radioisotope Positron transmitter with part-time 110 minutes. In August 1976, for the first time 18F-FDG is tried to two volunteers to get a human brain based on glucose metabolism. more…

Sunday, January 18th, 2009 | Author: Ananda Perwira

Healthcare services are combination between medical technology and human touch to serve the basic needs of people in health. Healthcare services are needed in all classes of society, age, or anyone else as well. Furthermore, as an important industry in the area of health, Healthcare industry as well as a wide range of employment offers various types of occupation and expertise in medical, management and administration workers.

There are several different segments in the healthcare services include: hospital, nursing & residential care facilities, home healthcare services, medical diagnostic laboratories, other ambulatory healthcare service, offices of physical, offices of dentists, outpatient care centers, and other health care segments. more…

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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 | Author: Ananda Perwira

Every owner of the building, including hotels, restaurants, offices, or other property, must put area plumbing and sanitation as an integral part of the building. Contamination of a building’s internal piping or associated household appliances whether by terrorist act or through an unintentional mishap, also could pose a serious threat to the health of building occupants.

When we turn on the tap to get water, many of us don’t realize that there a distinct possibility that unhealthy chemicals, and sewage could contaminate out literal water lines from the main sewer that they connect to. Arsenic, lead and other heavy metals are components often found on American buildings tap water. It’s no secret!

However, the role that backflow prevention devices play is so important to public health. It is required by law for certain businesses to get their backflow device tested and serviced by licensed professionals on a regular basis. You can usually find a local professional backflow prevention device tester in the phone book or on the internet, and their prices are fair and manageable for most business owners. more…

Tuesday, January 06th, 2009 | Author: Ananda Perwira

Horse has become human buddy for many centuries. People use horses for many purposes such as transportation, sport racing, farming, entertainment, etc. Just like a dog, a trained horse can interact with humans in many ways, be faithful, and responsive to instructions, feeling, and emotion of the owner or rider. In addition, horses are also animals with personalities as varied as those of humans that give different reaction to each person and each action. Therefore, the interaction with horses can help people to understand about relationship, self-understanding, and fell the emotional surround.

Currently, the horse has been used as a tool of treatment method to maintain, enhance, and develop the mental health of humans, self-control emotion, and happiness. Explaining how it works that basically horses are honest teachers from environment, they are authentic, intuitive, emotional, alert, and sensitive to nonverbal stimulus as it mirrors human behavior. So that, handling a horse will be a good learning for people to understand about behavior, self control, body language, patterns of communication, nonverbal communication, assertiveness, processing responds, relationships, and teamwork. more…

Friday, January 02nd, 2009 | Author: Ananda Perwira

People in the U.S have so many loan assistants from both government and independent creditor companies that other countries haven’t such as medical loan and reverse mortgage loan. Reverse mortgage is a special loan that enables senior homeowners (age 62 and older) to convert full or a part of their home equity into tax-free income without having to sell their home and no monthly loan payment. As qualification for getting a mortgage, senior borrowers do not need to worry about their poor credit score and their current income just as long as they have good value of their home. Besides that a loan lenders also consider about age of the youngest homeowner and the current interest rate.

There also so many discussion and seniors’ frequently asked question that answered in reverse mortgage information sites including the qualification, fund we get, restrictions, and other pros and cons applying a reverse mortgage for our senior days. Actually they will give mostly same answers and explanations. But the most important thing before we step forward, we must ensure ourselves that we really need more…