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Rants and ravings about the news, as well as a glimpse of my life. If it happens in the Netherlands, and I think it's important, it's on my blog. Please note, that I'm living proof that Andrew Keen ("The Cult of the Amateur")is right.
Recent Posts Tagged With 'medical school'
SAfrican traditional healers seek leap to modernity (AFP)
In the eclectic buzz of Africa's richest city, where old buildings abut sleek mining houses, is a gateway to a centuries-old world of giant tubers, herbs and musty animal parts. More: - Brought to my attention by ...
Salt Really Does Boost Health Risks
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 25 (HealthDay News) -- It's known that eating a lot of salt puts people at greater risk of high blood pressure. Now there's confirmation of a corollary: High salt intake also diminish to significantly greater risk of s...
Holiday Eating Without the Guilt -- or the Pounds
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 25 (HealthDay News) -- If you love the five-week holiday smorgasbord from Thanksgiving to New Year's, but are already stressing about the added pounds you'll have to sweat off come Jan. 1, help is at hand. ...
Cetuximab Helps Treat Colorectal Cancer
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Adding the drug cetuximab to neoadjuvant chemotherapy can shrink tumors and boost the odds of successful surgery in colorectal cancer career with inoperable metastatic liver lesions, new origin su...
Health Tip: Possible Triggers for Pica
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Pica often affects travail with developmental disorders, gestating women and intermittently people with epilepsy. It's characterized by a craving to eat non-food substances, such as paint, plaster, chalk, cornstarch...
When Clocks Change, Body May Need Time to Adjust
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Oct. 30 (HealthDay News) -- That extra hour of sleep you'll get in most parts of the country on Sunday might be restful, but the end of Daylight Saving Time could spell trouble for your body clock, a sleep expert says. ...
Health Tip: What\'s Behind My Asthma and Allergy Symptoms?
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- While allergies and asthma usually are chronic, affection can flare from openness to certain triggers. More: - Read the rest here ...
Health Tip: Exercise During Pregnancy
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Being gone shouldn't give you an excuse to give up on your form regimen. More: - Read More ...
Even Light Smoking Affects Young Adults\' Arteries
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Oct. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Smoking just one cigarette stiffens the arteries of young adults by 25 percent, says a new study. More: - Continued here ...
Let Kids Sleep Late on Weekends to Fight Fat: Study
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Oct. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Letting bearing children sleep late on weekends and holidays might help them avoid flattering porcine or obese, a new study suggests. More: - The rest... ...
Clinical Trials Update: Oct. 28, 2009
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, mannerliness of ClinicalConnection.com: More: - Continued here ...
Meditation May Reduce Stress in Breast Cancer Patients
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Oct. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Transcendental meditation reduces stress and improves the effusion and mental benefit of breast cancer patients, new study findings suggest. More: - Brought to my attention by ...
Takes a Pro to Make Offices Pain-Free
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Oct. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Taking a proactive approach can help reduce the level of pain linked to poor posture in office workers, researchers have found. More: - Continued here ...
SEC, Homeland Security need Web backup, GAO says
Securities exchanges have a sound network back-up if a severe pandemic keeps people home and stuff the Internet, but the Homeland shelter task has done little planning, Congressional representatives said on Monday. More: - Continued he...
Caribbean sees drop in HIV, AIDS cases (AFP)
The number of people with HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean is on the decline, but more must be done to contain the disease, a senior conclusive said Monday, on the eve of a local meeting on the ailment. More: - Brought to my attention by ...
Ohio can\'t find doctors to offer execution advice (AP)
Ohio was on track this year to execute a record number of inmates. One botched execution and several lawsuits later, the death penalty is temporarily on hold. More: - Read More ...
Up to 30 percent in EU could catch swine flu: commissioner (AFP)
In the coming months one in three EU amateur band could pact the H1N1 flu virus, a provencal health commissioner told German media Tuesday. More: - Read the rest here ...
Sperm May Play Role in Transmission of HIV
HealthDay - MONDAY, Oct. 26 (HealthDay News) -- New inquisition suggests that sperm, not just semen, can transmit the virus that causes AIDS to immune cells in the body and, in fact, sperm may play a major role in transmission. More: ...
Health Tip: Dietary Needs of Aging Women
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- As women age, their dietary needs change. A healthy diet is always important, but even more so as women get older. More: - The rest... ...
Health Tip: Leave Jet Lag Behind
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Jet lag is the term for disrupted sleep when you travel between time zones, and your body doesn't adjust to african sleeping sickness on a new schedule. More: - Brought to my attention by ...
6 Million U.S. Kids Lack Enough Vitamin D
HealthDay - MONDAY, Oct. 26 (HealthDay News) -- While the optimal amount of vitamin D is still subject to debate, a new study finds one thing is sure: over 6 million old glory producing are getting too little of this essential nutrient. ...
Blacks at Greater Risk for Colorectal Cancer
HealthDay - MONDAY, Oct. 26 (HealthDay News) -- New scrutiny finds that blacks are at much higher risk of third world nation colorectal cancer than other groups of people, and they are more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage of the disease. ...
Veterans find healing on the water (AP)
Perpetual at the edge of a clear pond in the Idaho cordillera on a cold day in early October, former U.S. Marine Angel Gomez made a timid cast with his fly fishing rod. More: - Read More ...
Drinking Your Way to Health? Perhaps Not
HealthDay - SUNDAY, Oct. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Just about every month -- if not every week -- a new study emerges touting the health jobholder benefit to be gained from a daily glass of wine or a pint of dark beer. More: - Continued h...
Take the Sting Out of Your Child's Flu Shots
HealthDay - SUNDAY, Oct. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Even many adults want to run away from an injection, so it's no awe that transcription will try to flee, scream, cry and make a scene when it's time for flu shots this year. More: - Conti...
Wounded US troops return to Iraq to find closure (AP)
As America's martial role in Iraq winds down, the U.S. is hook with how to help some of the more than 30,000 troops injured in six years of war move ahead with their lives. One coming is to bring them back to the battlefields where they were injured....
Zimbabwe in race against time to prevent new cholera outbreak (AFP)
Workers trudge through foul-smelling mud in a trench seeping with clean water cooler water and raw sewage in one of the Harare neighbourhoods hardest hit by last year's cholera epidemic. More: - From the site ...
Mice study gives clue to how breast cancer spreads
Scientists who watched tumor cells spread in living mice said on Sunday they had found a gene signal regulatory how cancer cells move, which could help companies design new drugs to fight the disease. More: - Read More ...
Antidepressant improves recovery from spine injury
A common antidepressant combined with an third edition by the editors of the american stars and stripes heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 rut 30% off treadmillshigh particular treadmills 18-22kph tune-up* program helped people with p...
Bad Reaction No Good Reason to Avoid Future Shots
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Oct. 15 (HealthDay News) -- People who appear to be allergic to vaccinations shouldn't automatically avoid future immunizations, but instead should try to find out why they had a bad reaction, new advice say. Mor...
