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Healthcare-associated infections
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a global crisis. Recognizing the rapid growth in cases of infection like MRSA and ventilator-associated pneumonia being picked up in hospitals, Kimblery-Clark Healthcare has put together a website called ...
Doctors Don’t Always Know Best: The Rise of e-Patients Offers a New Prescription for Resounding Health
While politicians and lobbyists argue about who gets health care and who pays for it, people still get sick. An increasingly restless, assertive and sophisticated group of internet-enabled e-patients, is taking matters into their own hands and becomi...
Ice cream may target the brain before your hips
DALLAS — Sept. 14, 2009 — Blame your brain for sabotaging your efforts to get back on track after splurging on an extra scoop of ice cream or that second burger during Friday night’s football game. Findings from a new UT Southwestern Medical Ce...
Dealing with Alzheimer’s Disease
By Jacob Franek By now, everyone is familiar with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), a progressive disease of the brain that causes thinking and memory to become seriously impaired. However, despite the awareness of Alzheimer’s, the disease is still a lit...
Do You Have Computer Vision Syndrome?
by Hillary Rubin Do your eyes every feel really tired? Perhaps they sting? If you experience eye strain and eye fatigue when you are in front of a computer – you may be experiencing Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS). Well over 70 per cent of aroun...
Defeating Cancer: An advance of paramount importance to health reform
Julian Lieb, M.D Prostaglandins are tiny molecules regulating the chemistry of every cell, including those subserving mood, and those subserving immune function. When brain cells produce excessive concentrations of prostaglandins, they depress mood a...
Mal de Debarquement Syndrome
by Jane H. I am merely trying to raise awareness of a misunderstood and often misdiagnosed health condition called, rather grandly, Mal de Debarquement Syndrome (MdDS for short) If I may I will explain more. Basically, with this condition it is an im...
The future belongs to young people …
Contributed to Health Blogs by Abhishek Shah and it is we who will be affected most by the decisions we take today on AIDS/HIV epidemic, climate change, food, energy, environmental degradation, economic stability and the continuing challenge of world...
Laws allow substitution of generic drugs without patient knowledge
According to a report published at MSNBC.com, Some pharmacists legally switch a drug prescribed by a doctor in a common practice called therapeutic substitution. The new drug is in the same class as the old and treats the same condition, but it’...
Are Medical Residents Worked Too Hard?
Some experts say medical residents are tasked to the point of exhaustion, putting patient safety at risk. Others say the training makes them better doctors, even when they’re tired read more | digg story...
The Physiology of Pressure: How Your Body Reacts to Stress
Regardless of the cause, stress sets in motion certain automatic changes in the body that are designed to give it a quick burst of energy. The pattern of changes has been called the “fight-or-flight” response because it most likely evolv...
How can I avoid getting swine flu during this pandemic?
According to every news report I’ve seen on television or read on the web, the best thing we can do to help us avoid getting the swine flu (H1N1 flu) is to wash our hands! We need to become a nation of handwashers. Just use soap and water a...
Beating diabetes: Some do, but are they cured?
Diabetics..who manage to turn things around, getting their blood sugar under control, either escaping the need for drugs or improving enough to quit taking them, are drawing keen interest from the medical community… “technically, you coul...
1 in 5 Americans is Postponing Health Care
20% of Americans say they have delayed or postponed medical care, mostly doctor visits, citing cost as the main reason, according to a survey released by Thomson Reuters. read more | digg story...
U.S. Food Safety No Longer Improving, Data Show
Across a range of different food-borne illnesses, there has been no statistically significant change over the past three years in the share of the nation’s population that has been severely sickened by food. read more | digg story...
Want to Live Longer? Stop Worrying
If you want to live to a hundred, you’d better lighten up. Children of centenarians—who usually inherit both longevity and personality traits from their parents—are on average more outgoing, agreeable, and less neurotic, according to a new ...
Doctor in Training May Have Exposed Hundreds to Tuberculosis
A Northwestern University doctor-in-training potentially exposed hundreds of patients, including infants, at three Chicago-area hospitals to tuberculosis in what is being called an unusual case of a medical-care provider putting patients’ healt...
New measurement standard for vitamin D may lead to better bone health
Monday, March 30, 2009 SALT LAKE CITY — In a development that could help improve the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis, rickets, and other bone diseases, government chemists are reporting an advance in developing an accurate, reliable set of...
Imaging Pinpoints Brain Regions That ‘See The Future’
Human memory, the ability to recall vivid mental images of past experiences, has been studied extensively for more than a hundred years. But until recently, there’s been surprisingly little research into cognitive processes underlying another f...
A New Approach to Designing the AIDS Vaccine
A group of researchers at Rockefeller University in New York City have abandoned the as yet fruitless search for a magic bullet to vaccinate for AIDS and instead try to mimic the body’s natural, if rare, and more diffuse defense against the HIV...
9 Foods To Eat For A Killer Immunity
While an all-around diet is the key to stronger immunity, these particular immune system-boosting foods and ingredients can keep you in fighting condition. (Click on “Print this” to view all on a single page) read more | digg story...
Young People’s Health Significantly Worse Than 10 Years Ago
Young adults today aren’t any healthier than 10 to 15 years ago, and in some cases — obesity, for one — they are significantly less so, says a federal report on the nation’s health released Wednesday read more | digg story...
Eating Your Veggies: Not As Good For You?
According to a new study, the nutritional content of fruits and vegetables has been in decline for the past 50 years, even as crop yields have surged. read more | digg story...
Cancer Miracles
A cancer patient, given just months to live, stages a miraculous recovery. Doctors dismiss it as a fluke. Yet the mystery may offer crucial clues to fighting cancer. read more | digg story...
Is WebMD Turning Us Into Hypochondriacs?
I’m overstressed, overweight, losing my hearing and not sleeping enough. Even worse, I have a low IQ and my “real” age (taking into account my bad habits and so on) is 10 years older than my actual age.Who needs doctors anymore? We&...
Apple juice could guard against Alzheimer’s Disease.
Research has found that consuming two glasses of apple juice a day could delay the onset of the brain disorder, which affects more than 400,000 people in the UK. Scientists made the discovery through laboratory tests on mice, which showed that those ...
ABC News: Meth May be Making a Comeback
After a dramatic decline over several years, the availability of methamphetamine — a highly addictive stimulant “cooked” with chemicals from over-the-counter cold medications — began to creep up in 2008. The reversal, reported...
Trials for Parents Who Chose Faith Over Medicine
Kara Neumann, 11, had grown so weak that she could not walk or speak. Her parents, who believe that God alone has the ability to heal the sick, prayed for her recovery but did not take her to a doctor. read more | digg story...
Measles Can Kill Prostate Cancer!
A new study has found that certain measles virus vaccine strain derivatives, including a strain known as MV-CEA, may prove to be an effective treatment for patients with advanced prostate cancer. The findings show that this type of treatment, called ...
5 Dangerous Drug Combinations You Need to Avoid
Note to seniors (and anyone else) mixing prescriptions with painkillers and/or their favorite dietary supplements: Don’t do it until you check with your doctor to make sure they don’t interact to cause you harm. A new study published toda...
