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Lansinoh Ventures Into Diaper Rash

A breastfeeding company - Lansinoh - has now ventured into diaper rash ointment for babies. The product is called Lansinoh Diaper Rash Ointment - an odorless formula that absorbs right into baby's skin without leaving goopy, clumpy, white residue. It washes right off parents' hands...

Data Robotics Introduces DroboPro Storage Device

Data Robotics, Inc. this week introduced DroboPro , an upgraded version of the company's Drobo storage product. "Start-up Data Robotics gained wide notoriety about 18 months ago when it unveiled the first-generation Drobo data storage appliance and its hot-swappable drives, vir...

Circus Dining Chair Giveaway winner

First, thanks for the kind words. Hayley is healing up well. She is off crutches, back in school and her stitches came out today. Circus Dining Chair- You'll go nuts for our nifty new chair, available only in the webkinzestore.com! We have a nifty new chair and there's excitement everyw...

Nanotubes with Stem Cells Accelerate Bone Growth

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 5176287 Researchers have discovered that using titanium oxide nanotube implants with stem cells can help accelerate bone growth and healing. During their research, the group of UC San Diego bioengineers and material science experts used a nano-bio techno...

The Game That Heals

Courtesy: Viet Nam Tourism Golf is a healing game, it turns out. That truth surprises me a bit because I know golf to be a game that also tears wounds deep into the psyche. But it heals, as well. Or perhaps I can best express it by saying that golf aids healing. Here's the story of a ...

Barack the Golfer

Courtesy: politicalbase.com Today was quite a day. The first African American sworn in as president of the United States is a truly momentous and historic moment. It signals an end to an enormous racial divide in America; African Americans need no longer be afraid to reach for the top...

Cure Diaper Rash and Other Baby Skin Issues With Penetrating Zinc of Epizyn

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 1175619 With babies on diapers, diaper rash and other irritating skin issues are always a problem. Now, Seagate Medical has launched Epizyn for Babies - a natural skin care topical for diaper rash and other baby skin problems. Consisting primarily o...

Heilung durch Unterdruck beschleunigt: neues Pflaster

Wissenschaftler haben ein neues Pflaster entwickelt, das sie vereinfachend als elektronisches Pflaster bezeichnen. Durch Unterdruck in rhythmischer Folge wird Gewebewachstum verstärkt angeregt und damit die Heilung beschleunigt. Mit einer speziellen Abdeckhaube versiegelt und schützt das bieg...

Diabetes and Your Pet

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Robert Kirk As World Diabetes Day approaches on November 14th, the leading pet health and Wellness site Webvet draws attention to the growing prevalence of the diabetes among cats and dogs. Incurable, but treatable, diabetes today affects approximately on...

Think Pink for October

Today kicks off Breast Cancer Awareness Month , so throughout October, I'm going to fit in pink as much as I can in relation to weddings. If you're getting married this month and one of your colors is pink in honor of the month, kudos for being aware of how many people this disease affects....

More on Latex and Nitrile Glove Allergies

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Jose Gil One of the most commented entries in this blog is that on nitrile allergies . Nitrile gloves are often regarded as alternative to latex rubber gloves because latex allergies is a big issue particularly in the healthcare industry. To date, as it was over ...

Cancer Patients Turn To 'Complementary Methods'

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Robert Kohlhuber The American Cancer Society 's survey study of cancer patients have revealed that as many as 61 percent of cancer patients use complementary therapies such as prayer, relaxation, meditation and massage largely influenced by sex, race...

Spinal Cord Stem Cells Identified

Stem cells within the spinal cord that could differentiate into more healing cells and fewer scarring cells following an injury, have been identified. The researchers at MIT and the Karolinska Institute found that neural stem cells in the adult spinal cord are limited to a layer of cube- or co...

Amber and Silver Jewelry

One of the newest jewelry trends is setting warm-colored gemstones in silver, rather than gold. Amber can range in color from dark brown to a light, almost clear, lemon yellow. Most amber that has been used in jewelry is from the region of the Baltic Sea or the Dominican Republic. Amber is one of ...

First Impressions : iS Clinical Super Serum

Testing skincare products is harder than you might think. In order to really give a product a fair review, you need to stick with it for at least 4 weeks. That said, I've been testing a new product, iS Clinical's Super Serum Advance , in my regime for about 2 weeks and so far, I'm...

Prolifique Designer Jewelry

Precious Metal Clay Artists and Jewelry Designers Prolifique is French for prolific, which means highly productive , and the Prolifique Girls certainly fit that definition. They have joined forces to make unique handcrafted fine silver jewelry with Precious Metal Clay, and have quickly create...

Turmeric, Diabetes and Obesity

Several times in this blog, I have mentioned turmeric (a common Asian spice) as a potential anti-diabetes - as suggested by various research findings. Now, here's another one that puts turmeric in the limelight: a research team from Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia University Medic...

Tiger Back On The Shelf

Courtesy: Getty Images The golf world is abuzz today with the news that Tiger Woods is done for the season. Woods announced today on his website that he was undergoing another surgery on his left knee - not for more arthroscopic work but to repair a tear in his anterior cruciate ligament wh...

Dressing Made of Silica Gel Fibers For Difficult Wounds

Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for silicate Research (ISC) in Würzburg, Germany have developed a new type of wound dressing that is made of silica gel fibers. © CoWg0eSm0o~!! The novel dressing will facilitate faster wound healing in difficult wounds such as skin burns and w...

Earth Cycles: A Pathway to Healing

What: Earth Cycles: A Pathway to Healing When: June 19 - 22, 2008 Where: Breckenridge, Colorado Sacred Tree - a center for holistic health care and medication - will launch a line of signature health and wellness retreats beginning with a summer solstice celebration, Earth Cycles: A Pathway to H...

ZFS Demo - Self Healing with ZFS

Another quick little demo showing the self healing feature with ZFS. In this demo you are quickly taken through how ZFS can recover from data corruption in mirrored volumes. The demo first starts by creating a storage pool comprised of two disks in a mirror, they take a quick look at that...

NFL Players Coming Back From Injury

© Jeffrey Beall With the NFL Draft over, the focus can return to action on the field. Many teams have mini-camps right around this time, in preparation for training camp to start in just under three months. Obviously, players get hurt in football. Let's take a look at some players and see ...

Stressed? Try Vanilla

© Ayala Moriel vanilla is originally from Mexico and was considered a delicacy among Aztec nobility. Today we use it for everything from candles to cooking to aromatherapy. It has an aroma proven to calm anxiety and relieve stress. And as it turns out, the scent helps in weight loss...

A break from doctors' offices, please

My daughter's stitches from hand surgery are coming out next week finally. We had a bulky dressing on for awhile but we are down to just regular bandaids at this point and we add padding for when she wants to play or has soccer practice. Her hands are still bruised from the surgery a...

McDreamy Beautyface

Gerade eben flattert mir die Mail in den virtuellen Postkasten mit der Nachricht: Patrick Dempsey, auch bekannt als Mc Dreamy aus der U.S.-Serie "Grey`s Anatomy" wird in Zukunft mit Avon zusammenarbeiten! Mit Patrick Dempsey wird avon in den USA noch in diesem Jahr einen Herren...

Makeshift BandAids

My hubby loves to cook, and sometimes he gets little cuts and nicks. Well, sitting around the table a few days ago with family, we got to talking about different home remedies and house maintenance tips, and we started swapping solutions for cuts. I heard a really good one that I thought I woul...

David Feherty's Healing Process

Courtesy: Golf.com I'm a big fan of David Feherty. I love his wry humor and his quick wit during his golf commentary. And for an ex-golfer, he's a pretty good actor in TV commercials, too! In short, the guy is just plain fun to listen to and watch. As many of us know, he was invo...

Raspberry Leaf Tea and Pregnancy

Raspberry leaf tea is a popular herbal remedy that is believed to help during labor, delivery and the healing period thereafter. There are indeed scientific studies that appears to back these claims, but the available data are not that solid. There are no clear guidelines regarding how much an...

Luxe Must - Acca Kappa Liquid Hand Wash

For a long time, my heart and my hand sink belonged to Molton Brown . The Fine Liquid Hand Wash in Naran Ji felt indulgent and smelled unbelievably wonderful. But my heart is a fickle creature and I have a new love these days. Meet Acca Kappa . This Italian brand's Liquid Hand Wash...

Copper, pretty and good for you!

I have always been a fan of copper jewelry . I love the color and I'm not just saying that because it matches my hair (ok, so maybe I am). Besides looking great, copper jewelry has some great healing benefits some of which include pain-relief and strengthening of the immune system. So besi...

TF2 to recieve new modes and more!

Team Fortress 2, VALVe's cartoon shooter is set to have a nice set of features added to it, including a brand new game mode. Titled Goldrush, and shipping with a new map, the mode will have one team escorting a minecart to the other team's base. The more players of the team that a...

Cranberry Juice Against UTI in Women

Cranberry juice is not just a mere folk remedy any longer. There has come scientific evidence that cranberry juice can relieve urinary tract infections (UTI) in women. Well, only women get UTI, so the men will not benefit from cranberry juice, at least not regarding UTI. Such were the find...

Deferoxamine Boosts Bone Repair

Researchers have discovered in an animal study that deferoxamine (trade name: Desferal), a drug used to treat iron toxicity, is able to boost bone healing and regrowth, and may be a potential lead compound for treating fractures, bone disease and other musculoskeletal disorders. In the study, ...

DiSpagna Jewelry Gets Creative with Cold Fusion Jewelry!

Gorgeous unique jewelry is always hard to find- sometimes it just pops up out of the blue and finds you- as did this gorgeous piece from Mathew DiSpagna , DiSpagna Designs LTD . According to DiSpagna, cold fusion isn't new but is an ancient technique. Cold fusion goes back as far as the...

Straighten Your Hair with Certified Organic Ingredients-Giveaway

Hair relaxers have come a long way since they were first introduced. Now, women who want sleek, straight locks don't have to endure dangerous chemicals to get the hair of their dreams. Creme of Nature recently introduced a relaxer containing certified organic ingredients : Creme of Nature N...

Is Cancer a Part of Your Life?

Meet other cancer survivors and people diagnosed with cancer on Cancer Match . Meet people all over the world who have cancer and find the support you need to get through it together. On Cancer Match you can begin to build your own network of people who all need support and start helping each o...

I'm bring turquoise back.

Or at least I hope to. I love turquoise jewelry. Remember when Cameron Diaz rocked out that stunning purple dress with the turquoise necklace that pretty much matched her eyes? So hot. Besides it's amazing color did you know it also has healing properties? It is known for healing the immune, res...

Historal Nutritional Supplement Against Allergies

Although I subscribe to the notion of natural healing and that there are indeed substances in our food and other natural sources with health benefits , I am skeptic of a lot of Dietary supplements in the market today with health claims. One reason is that a lot, if not most, dietary supple...

Picrorhiza kurrooa Phytochemical May Aid in Wound Healing

In a study published in the Journal Planta Medica , researchers report of a novel compound called Picroliv obtained from the roots of a plant Picrorhiza kurrooa which enhances the rate of wound healing by enhancing the restoration of the blood supply to the damaged tissue. Previous ...

Indeed, Laughter is a Good Medicine

Well actually, as the old saying goes: laughter is the best medicine. As proven by a study of UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and the nonprofit organization Rx Laughter. According to the said study, watching comedy shows helps children tolerate pain for longer periods of time...

Croton palanostigma Extract Shows Potent Antioxidant Properties

In the Journal of Inflammation, scientists report that Progrado®, an extract from a rainforest tree called Croton palanostigma, had remarkably potent antioxidant properties and prevented the destruction of human cartilage by enzymes called matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). According to the resear...

Art of Shaving For Women Has You Smelling Like a Rose!

The Art of Shaving is a well-known, highly respected, extremely upscale grooming line for men. They finally came out with a women's line that is similar to yet distinctly different from the men's line because women's shaving needs are different from men's and they aren't shav...

White Out Dark Circles and Fine Lines with Sircuit Natural Skincare!

Sircuit is an all natural skincare line tha is unique in that it takes the best of natural ingredients and gives them a spin in the chemistry lab to create potent skincare that will help optimize skin function and appearance. There are numerous products for all different skintypes but one product is...

Art of Shaving For Women Makes Shaving a Luxe Experience!

The Art of Shaving is a well-known, highly respected, extremely upscale grooming line for men. They finally came out with a women's line that is similar to yet distinctly different from the men's line because women's shaving needs are different from men's and they aren't shav...

Thom Fleming Skincare Launches at Silver Spoon Emmy Suite

Thom Fleming is a name you might not know - but you might recognize him through his association with celebrity and noted photographer the late Herb Ritts. Fleming was involved in photography and films and became interested in the affects and healing properties of Dead Sea elements when he was workin...

Adding Moxifloxacin to Antibiotic Combo, Speeds Up TB Treatment

The standard treatment for the highly contagious form of lung disease - tuberculosis - takes 6 months. Conventional TB Therapy prescribes a mix of antibiotics, typically four, given in view of a caregiver and taken together for six months. Commonly known by its acronym DOTS, short f...

Jewelry & Fashion Blogosphere 09/23/07

Beauty Snob discovers the ancient art of magnetic healing with diamonds! 55 Secret Street loves Beau Soleil's Eco Chic at Shop Bop . The Stiletto Jungle Girl Talk Panel names their 9 favorite lip balms for keeping your pout kissable all through fall. Bag Bliss loves the c...

Is Golf Clean?

Courtesy: garyplayer.com On the eve of the British Open in July, Gary Player claimed that a prominent touring pro told him that he used steroids and Player estimated that at least 10 other players were taking performance enhancing drugs, too. Less than a month later, an Italian golf...

Rock On With Love and Support

September is a great month. Fashion Week dominates my thoughts, visiting the suites at the US Open is nice, my birthday on Wed was even better - these are things that I think about in the midst of how well my Fall wardrobe will fair. But this time period also turns a lot of people's attention...

Placent'art et autres usages du placenta (2)

Chose promise, chose due.. après vous avoir parlé placent'art ou si vous préférez empreinte de placenta , je vais évoquer aujourd'hui d'autres utilisations possibles du placenta. Viviana le mentionnait dans son commentaire à l' article précédent , un certain nombre de parents ...

Umine Deckenprojektor für den Club oder das Schlafzimmer

Umine möchte mit Sicherheit eher in einem Schlaf- oder Wohnzimmer stehen und die vier verschiedenen Modi an die Decke strahlen, aber aus meiner Sicht ist das, wie Technoskop es schon erwähnte, eher unentspannt. Trotz dessen sehe ich in Umine ein schönes Gadget, im richtigen Raum, z.B.: der Chil...

Plastic - Heal Thyself!

A team at the University of Illinois have come up with a polymer that is developed using nanotechnology that can literally fill in its own cracks and tears. And no, they haven't exactly called it robotic plastic yet but that is what it sounds like to me. The plastic is virtually self-heal...

Skype Back Online

It apparently took two days, but Skype is now back online after having been down for most people for the better part of two days. Skype posted an explanation of what caused the outage. The statement, plus my analysis, after the jump.

A BRIGHT Idea: Gloji Water Brings You Healthful Drink from Tibet!

Tibet typically evokes scenes of exotic scenery, the Himalayas and the dalai lama . Now it will be known for more than just the sacred words of Buddhist monks- GLOJI! This healthy drink it anytime beverage has been used by sages, Buddhist monks and the people of Asia for generations. ...

Immunotherapy Against Hay Fever Prevents Asthma in Children

Although hay fever or pollen allergies can trigger asthma, not all patients who suffer from hay fever develop a chronic asthma. Likewise, not all asthma cases are due to allergies. However, a follow-up study to The Preventive Allergy Treatment (PAT) study showed that specific immunothera...

Blood-Powered Nanomachines

In a technological advance that brings man and machine closer to each other, Zhong Lin Wang and colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology have built a nanogenerator that uses supersonic vibrations in blood to generate electricity. The power density of the generators approaches 4 W/...

Faust Era Begins at Harvard

(Source: Harvard University) Drew Faust officially became Harvard's 28th president on July 1, succeeding Derek Bok, who was serving his second tenure as president, this time as interim. Faust really succeeds Larry Summers, the short-timer whose Presidency was marked by controversy an...

L7 Is OK

Courtesy: GolfPunkOnline Remember when Nike and Callaway introduced their square head drivers? The other equipment makers pooh-poohed them; one manufacturer said it would NEVER create a square headed driver. Never say "never" in business. At least two companies were well into R and D ...

Strong Latin American Presence At Munich's Filmfest "Muenchen 2007" - Info, Synopsis and Links

Munich's Filmfest - "Muenchen 2007" , Germany's largest summer film festival, begins next friday (June 22). Latin America is participating with many films from different countries. In the Visiones Latinoamericanas (Latin American Visions) section we find young, new di...

Remicade for Ulcerative Colitis

There are a number of medications available for ulcerative colitis, including prednisone and imuran. Remicade, according to PRNewswiew, has just been approved for pediatric Crohn's disease: REMICADE is the first and only biologic therapy approved in the EU for the treatment of pediatric CD, ...

Alleviating Sun Allergy Symptoms

In relation to my previous post on sun allergies , here are some products mentioned in the same article I referred to, which may be used to relieve sun allergy symptoms: Vitamin E accelerates wound healing and aids in the functioning of the immune system. Vitamin E can be taken internally...

Creosote Bush Compound: The Next Anti-Aging?

There might be hope for anti-aging compounds after all, according to University of Michigan researchers. A synthetic derivative of a pungent desert shrub is being tested in mice experiments to find out if certain chemicals (known to inhibit inflammation, cancer and other destructive processes)...

Arthritis Gene Therapy

Arthritis can be a painful and debilitating disease. Medical News Today tells us about a new method of treatment that might abolish the pain and joint destruction of arthritis: Early-stage research has found that a new gene therapy can nearly eliminate arthritis pain, and significantly reduce ...

Ginkgo Biloba and Pregnancy

If you're pregnant and taking the herb known as ginkgo Biloba, caution is urged. Alternative Healing Today warns: Ginkgo biloba pregnancy has been the subject of many controversial studies including the move to determine the effects of ginkgo biloba pregnancy. But for safety measure...

Nambudripad's Allergy Elimination Technique (NAET) on Pets

When it comes to alternative therapies, I'm mixed-up. While I strongly believe on the power of nutrition, certain herbal and dietary supplements , and to some extent, some traditional eastern practices like acupunture, there are healing approaches of which I am simply not fully convince...

Menopause and Your Sex Life

Some women believe that menopause signals the end of female sexuality. Belief Net Health tells us this isn't necessarily so: The reality is that the need for and capacity to have satisfying sexual relationships does not disappear as a natural or irreversible part of aging in women o...

Vikings wait pays off with healthy Adrian Peterson

courtesy VikingsUpdate.com On draft day, the Minnesota Vikings had to wait nearly two hours for their future to change. Now, with one report from a team physician, several NFL teams who selected ahead of the Vikings may be feeling pretty sad, while the Minnesota brass is feeling pretty darn ...

Wounds are Slow to Heal in Diabetics Because...

... endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) are decreased in the circulation and at wound sites in diabetics. Derived from the bone marrow, EPCs , which are essential for the formation of blood vessels and wound healing, would normally travel to sites of injury. Omaida Velazquez and colleagues fr...

Maggots Treat MRSA Infection, Foot Ulcers in Diabetics

Researchers at the University of Manchester are utilizing maggots to rid diabetic patients of MRSA and treat their foot ulcers . The research team led by Professor Andrew Boulton used green bottle fly larvae to treat 13 diabetic patients whose foot ulcers were contaminated with MRSA . ...

Transdermis™ Scar Therapy: All-Natural Emu Oil Reduces the Appearance of Surgical Scars

Compared to most widely-used scar treatment, an emu oil based treatment, Transdermis™ Scar Therapy demonstrated dramatic improvement in scar healing and appearance. Such were the findings of a first one of its kind study conducted by Jerome Chao, M.D., a nationally known Harvard, Columbia and ...