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Seen that? - Acupuncture for Infertility
in Well Woman Blog, on November 14, 2009
...omised controlled trial - the gold standard of clinical trials - researchers in Germany divided 270 patients with a similar severity of tension headache into three groups. Over an eight week period on...
Big Tobacco extends its reach
in Sox First, on November 11, 2009
... cigarettes, is planning to buy a company that's stopping people from smoking. The manufacturer of cancer sticks is apparently in talks to buy Swedish maker of nicotine gum Niconovum AB. Now what cou...
Seen that? - 2005: A Year Of Diabetes Breakthroughs
in Daily Diabetic, on November 9, 2009
...e blessed to be living in a time of explosive research and developments, a time when scientists and patients alike are fighting to improve the lives of millions diagnosed with the disease. Nina Nazor,...
Seen that? - Portable dialysis machines on the horizon
in Straightfromthedoc, on November 9, 2009
...he exclusive provider of advanced sorbent hemodialysis products and services for treatment of patients with renal failure. "Our new approval further demonstrates that Renal Solutions is on the le...
Researchers Find Nanoparticles Can Damage Nearby DNA
in Nanotechbuzz, on November 7, 2009
...se
Researchers at the University of Bristol have found that nanoparticles being used to fight cancer can damage the DNA in nearby cells. Their research has been published in the current issue of...
Seen that? - Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy
in Well Woman Blog, on November 5, 2009
...rapy - despite the previously reported downsides (such as increased mortality and increased risk of cancer [...] Read More Hormone replacement therapy and hot flashes at Str...
Decrease Pain and Inflammation with Ingredients Found In Your Own Kitchen Cabinet
in Do you like to cook?, on November 2, 2009
...r-wider array of chronic illnesses such as hay fever, heart disease, depression, diabetes and colon cancer.
ChicagoHealers.com Practitioner, Dr. Steven Arculeo, DC, suggests cleaning up your kitc...
Seen that? - A Poor Diet While Pregnant Can Increase Child's Diabetes Risk
in Daily Diabetic, on October 31, 2009
...d today that breast milk may increase a child's obesity risk. Dr. Maria Weyermann of The German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg found that women who have high levels [...] Read More ...
Seen that? - Is there hope for female sexual dysfunction?
in Straightfromthedoc, on October 31, 2009
...male sexual arousal disorder (FSAD) in post-menopausal women. Phase IIa pilot studies involving 26 patients diagnosed with FSAD showed favorable results. Results showed that on a 14-item questionnaire...
Gene Therapy for Leber's Congenital Amaurosis (LCA)
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 26, 2009
...nherited retinal degenerative disease characterized by severe loss of vision at birth. Although the patients did not attain normal eyesight, half of them (six of 12) improved enough that they may no l...
Cell phones and brain cancer
in Sox First, on October 26, 2009
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And so the debate about cell phones and cancer is on again with the Daily Telegraph in Britain reporting that a 10 year investigation overseen by the World Health Organization (WHO) is set to...
Ambulances charge more for obese
in Sox First, on October 25, 2009
Another sign that the US health care system is truly screwed with reports that ambulances are jacking up fees to take the obese. The ambulance companies say transporting fat people costs 2.5 times more than normal, requiring extra people and special equipment. As a result, they've nearly d...
Seen that? - Should You Drink Coffee When You're Pregnant
in Well Woman Blog, on October 24, 2009
... For years coffee has received a lot of bad publicity. It was supposed to cause cancer, for one thing. Further research, however, suggests that it may, instead, prevent cancer. An ...
Using Nanotech to Detect Prostate Cancer
in Nanotechbuzz, on October 23, 2009
... that a nanoparticle-based assay is capable of detecting previously undetectable levels of prostate cancer.
"In an 18-patient study, the new method detected a protein specific to prostate canc...
Pink Power Moms and Bright Starts' Pretty in Pink Collection
in The Parenting Weblog, on October 22, 2009
... 2009 Pink Power Mom™ contest, Bright Starts™ honored eight mothers who have survived breast cancer and used their experience to make a difference in the lives of others who are also affected by th...
Seen that? - Pink Panther Cufflinks and many more
in Cool Picking, on October 21, 2009
...ual 2009 Pink Power Mom™ contest, Bright Starts™ honored eight mothers who have survived breast cancer and used their experience to make a difference in the lives of others who are also affected by th...
Aerosol Measles Vaccine
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 21, 2009
...htake. "This new method could potentially offer safer, more affordable and effective treatments to patients that need them the most."
Source ...
Ruta Pink Offers Free Mammograms in Puerto Rico
in Well Woman Blog, on October 7, 2009
...,000 mammograms. In addition to offering mammograms, the Ruta Pink program also offers free cancer prevention seminars to the general public, and offers contributions to the Susan G Komen Breast Canc...
Seen that? - A Diabetic With Olympic Courage
in Daily Diabetic, on October 2, 2009
...ive in helping diabetic neuropathy. An investigational injectable medication is being investigated: Patients are to test a trial treatment for diabetic nerve damage after promising studies on animals....
Seen that? - Do erectile dysfunction drugs cause blindness?
in Straightfromthedoc, on October 2, 2009
...ygen during a heart attack, which can result to significant damage to heart muscle and tissue. Most patients would require treatment after a heart attack to repair the damage and improve their chances...
Seen that? - Dumb blonde
in Are you a beauty?, on October 3, 2009
...and time again I have written about dangers of sun, but let me sum it up for you: sunrays can cause cancer, burns, skin dehydration and maybe most common of all: wrinkles (chances are that every heavi...
Toronto Researchers Design Cancer-Detecting Microchip
in Nanotechbuzz, on October 1, 2009
... have developed a microchip that can be used to determine the type and severity of a patient's cancer in under 30 minutes.
"By uniting DNA with miniaturized electronic chips, the team was a...
Pamper Yourself: Leave the Housechores to the Professionals!
in Well Woman Blog, on September 17, 2009
...and doing some relevant activities in lieu of tidying up. You know... like working on the cure for cancer, or on alleviating poverty among the developing countries. Hah.
Well, whatever it is that kee...
STOP Your Child’s Allergy Disease March without the OUCH!
in Allergies, on September 3, 2009
The following entry is contributed by Guest Blogger Stephen Hauer, Principal of DropYourAllergies.com a national, physician-based, patient-focused allergy services company offering environmental and food allergy testing, custom formulated immunotherapy vaccine (SLIT DROPS or traditional Injection...
Support A Celebration 4 Life™ Breast Cancer Awareness
in Well Woman Blog, on August 31, 2009
...In lieu of Breast Cancer Awareness Month coming up in October, we parents would be interested in A Celebration 4 Life™ - an organization that focuses on celebrating the life of a loved one who h...
Littman Bluetooth Stethoscope is the Tech I Expect my Doctor to Have
in The Gadgets Weblog, on August 28, 2009
... doctor to hear up to 38% better. It also has active noise amplification which will help with obese patients or with patients that have a feint heartbeat. These are the patients that that a doctor nee...
The Power of The Fetal Fibronectin Test
in Well Woman Blog, on August 27, 2009
... at St. Thomas' Hospital in London included nearly 100 clinically symptomatic and asymptomatic patients between 23 and 34 weeks gestation. After using the fFN test in both populations, clinicians ...
Alternative Medicine Reduces IVF Success Rates
in Next Nine Months, on August 20, 2009
...te is 30% lower among women who have used alternative medicine . Based on a study of more than 700 patients who had IVF treatments, they found that women who had first tried a combination of alternati...
Minimize infections at hospitals with RFID
in The RFID Weblog, on August 20, 2009
... common phenomenon in hospitals without creating any sort of rift between medical professionals or patients.
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votre ordinateur contre le cancer
in Business Computer Blog (FR), on août 17, 2009
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On peut être chef d'entreprise internaute et un généreux militant de la recherche anti-cancer ou de la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique. Surtout quand rendre service ne coûte pas gran...
Health care reform and a fat tax
in Sox First, on August 16, 2009
...chronic diseases, like diabetes, that are unusually costly. Other public-health scourges, like lung cancer, have tended to kill their victims quickly, which (in the most tragic possible way) holds dow...
MRI Can Be A Tool in The Diagnosis, Staging and Treatment Of Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on August 7, 2009
...l beta cells left would allow physicians to develop the most appropriate treatment plans for their patients. It would also allow them to respond, change or manipulate those treatment plans at any time...
Obama Healthy at 48 - Should We Follow His Lead?
in Straightfromthedoc, on August 6, 2009
... US President Barack Obama's smoking habit and his family's cancer history were cited as being the biggest (and only) health risks facing him prior to his presidential appointment. But now,...
Radiation Therapy at Childhood Increases Risk of Future Breast Cancer
in Well Woman Blog, on July 29, 2009
...f you'd had radiation therapy during your childhood, then you're risk of developing breast cancer in the future is increased .
Such were the findings recently reported at the Journal of C...
Summer Diabetes Management
in Daily Diabetic, on July 28, 2009
...t Tips
Marc Wolf - a registered pharmacist with more than 28 years of experience serving diabetic patients and founder and CEO of Diabetic Care Services - provides tips on protecting testing supplie...
Avandia, Under Fire Once More!
in Daily Diabetic, on July 27, 2009
...ted in risk of heart attacks , Avandia is facing another criticism:
liver failure and death in some patients.
Researchers from the activist group Public Citizen reported the said connection to Ava...
IVF Success Lies in the Genes
in Next Nine Months, on July 26, 2009
... answer may be found in your blood .
"We found that the gene expression profiles in blood of patients at the time of pituitary down-regulation showed interesting patterns of gene clustering. Ove...
Diabetes Awareness With John Ratzenberger and the WRI
in Daily Diabetic, on July 14, 2009
...lt-onset occurs later in life. Did you know that diabetes kills four times as many people as breast cancer and AIDS combined? Four times!! And costs $92 billion every single year in after-care costs s...
20 Cholesterol Regulating Genes Identified
in The Biotech Weblog, on July 8, 2009
...scover exactly how the novel genes regulate cholesterol levels inside cells, as well as looking at patients to determine whether these genes (or alterations in them) do constitute risk factors, and in...
Victoza® (liraglutide) Received EU Marketing Authorization
in Daily Diabetic, on July 6, 2009
...7 European Union member states for:
combination treatment with metformin or a sulphonylurea in patients with insufficient glycemic control despite maximal tolerated dose of monotherapy with metfor...
July is UV Safety Month: Protect and Repair Your Skin
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 5, 2009
... © pedrosimoes7
Besides sunburn, over time excess UV radiation can cause skin cancer, eye damage, immune system suppression, and premature aging. UV Safety Month was started to help individuals e...
Treatment For Gaucher Disease From Protalix
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 4, 2009
... to market as soon as possible. Through their clinical trials, there are currently a number Gaucher patients who have been successfully treated using Protalix's therapeutic proteins for over 2 yea...
AADE'sNew Blog: Diabetes Education Voices
in Daily Diabetic, on June 29, 2009
... www.diabeteseducationblog.org .
It's AADE's hope that the blog will continue to help patients develop healthy diabetes self-care behaviors and offer an educator's insight into healt...
3rd Party Blog
in Wangtam, on 2009-06-24
...lants May Control
• 4 portable app suites to power up your USB flash drive
• Ushahidi :: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information (FOSS)
• 美国13位知名科技公司CEO首份工作揭秘
• LEE IACOCCA UNVEILS LIMITED EDITION MU...
Omega-3 For Diabetics' Heart Health
in Daily Diabetic, on June 23, 2009
... omega-3 fatty acids (3 g/day) for 2 months decreases the production of homocysteine in diabetic patients, which can lead to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease," wrote the researchers fr...
Type 2 Diabetes Overtreatment, Is It Really Safe??
in Daily Diabetic, on June 22, 2009
... to assess the impact of changes in antihyperglycemic therapies on health outcomes in managed care patients with type 2 diabetes.
Specifically, we assessed the predictors of intensification of antih...
Social Entrepreneurhip at Stanford
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on June 21, 2009
...e for developing this product is now doing the field trials in India and has been fitted on over 40 patients to date. In late May, the Re:Motion team was a co-winner of the Stanford student entreprene...
Quadrivalent HPV Vaccine For Women Aged 24 to 45
in Well Woman Blog, on June 17, 2009
...isk for acquisition of HPV infections," write Nubia Muñoz, MD, from the National Institute of Cancer in Bogotá, Colombia, and colleagues. "We tested the safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy ...
Throwing the book at Madoff
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
...tirement, children's education and charitable contributions. My husband and I have both suvived cancer and now this huge occurrence of stress, aggravation & sadness ... Do your job properly, d...
Disney and toxic waste allegations
in Sox First, on June 15, 2009
...s that Walt Disney Company had for decades contaminated groundwater with toxic chemicals, including cancer-causing chromium 6. The allegations are contained in lawsuits filed against the company by re...
Victoza: New Diabetes Drug, Better Than Byetta?
in Daily Diabetic, on June 14, 2009
...increase insulin output in response to meals.
Byetta is a popular drug, and it's helped many patients. But liraglutide - soon to be called Victoza if approved by the FDA - works better, says Law...
Drug pushing Eli Lilly
in Sox First, on June 13, 2009
...eports that drug giant Eli Lilly pushed drugs for dementia, specifically zyprexa , on to elderly patients even though it knew the stuff didn't work. The evidence has come out in internal compan...
Swine flu and crime
in Sox First, on June 10, 2009
...ing into hospitals even when there's nothing wrong with them, sucking up limited resources from patients who are actually sick from the virus. As if that's not bad enough, there are reports ...
Antioxidant Vitamins Against Women's Cancer
in Well Woman Blog, on June 8, 2009
...ve validated in their studies that increased intake of antioxidant vitamins protect women against cancer.
for every 1,000 microgram increase per 1,000 kcal of diet of beta-carotene was associate...
OTC Prostate Cancer Test Kit in the Making
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 5, 2009
... Researchers are developing a diagnostic test for prostate cancer wherein gold nanoparticles screen for the same cancer-related protein marker that is screened for by the FDA-approved Prostate-Sp...
Self Foot Examination Against Needless Diabetic Amputations
in Daily Diabetic, on June 4, 2009
...ty of the diabetes crisis is illustrated by a trend he's seeing in his practice: more and more patients are undergoing highly preventable amputations due to complications from diabetes.
"The...
Bayer Diabetes Care Launched A1CNow® SELFCHECK For Home Use
in Daily Diabetic, on June 3, 2009
...ar is being managed.
With Bayer's A1CNow®SELFCHECK - which was recently cleared by the FDA - patients will be able to more closely watch their A1C level in between healthcare provider visits so t...
Obese Pregnant Women Should Not Gain Weight
in Next Nine Months, on May 31, 2009
...control group was 31 pounds, compared to 11 pounds in the study group. Twenty-three extremely obese patients lost weight during their pregnancy.
The findings showed that there were no fetal deaths an...
Triglycerides and Diabetic Neuropathy
in Daily Diabetic, on May 25, 2009
...rides (a known cardiovascular disease risk factor) can also be used to by doctors to predict which patients with diabetes are more likely to develop neuropathy.
In a study report now online in the jo...
Dana-Farber Researchers Create DNA Origami
in Nanotechbuzz, on May 22, 2009
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Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a technique for folding sheets of DNA, like origami, into multilayered objects. The research was published in the May 21 issue o...
OTC Prevacid®, Heartburn Medicine Now FDA-Approved
in Straightfromthedoc, on May 15, 2009
...More than 50 million Americans suffer from frequent heartburn, and nearly half-more than 21 million patients-utilize prescription-only Prevacid® to treat acid-related disorders.
The US FDA recentl...
Lung Cancer Susceptibility Gene Identified
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 2, 2009
... Researchers have identified a gene linked to increased lung cancer susceptibility and development . This gene, called RGS17, could result in a genetic predisposition to develop Lung cancer pa...
Flavanoid Apigenin Against Ovarian Cancer Risk
in Well Woman Blog, on April 30, 2009
... Flavonoid apigenin - found in celery, parsley and tomato sauce - may reduce the risk of ovarian cancer by 20 per cent, according to a new study from Harvard .
The increased intake of the said fl...
Pomegranate Juice Against Prostate Cancer Recurrence
in Straightfromthedoc, on April 29, 2009
... © quinn.anya
Men who have undergone prostate cancer treatment will benefit from pomegranate juice.
According to a new US study :
According to findings published in the Journal of Urology an...
Saliva Test: Non-invasive Method To Detect Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on April 28, 2009
...e searching for biomarkers that may indicate diabetes, doctors examined the saliva of 40 different patients. Through salivary analysis, they managed to devise a new "non-invasive" method for...
Walnuts May Help Fight Breast Cancer
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 27, 2009
...© tvol In an animal study, consumption of walnuts has been demonstrated to help ward off breast cancer in mice .
Researchers led by Elaine Hardman, a cell biologist at Marshall University Scho...
Louisiana Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Board Certified Interventional Pain Physicians -- Ensuring Patient Safety
in Straightfromthedoc, on April 22, 2009
...ican Society of Anesthesiology.
"The utmost concern of these organizations was the safety of patients. When these procedures were being performed by individuals with little or no formal trainin...
Tips for Accurate Blood Glucose Testing
in Daily Diabetic, on April 21, 2009
...evels.
Marc Wolf, a registered pharmacist with more than 28 years of experience serving diabetic patients and founder and CEO of Care Services, Inc. ( www.diabeticcareservices.com and www.diabetic...
The Power Of Two By Brian and Gerri Monaghan
in Straightfromthedoc, on April 20, 2009
...naghan's journey, told back and forth between them. They detail Brian's battle to fight his cancer - including eight and a half hours of brain surgery while awake, Gamma Knife radiosurgery and...
Robindira Unsworth Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on April 16, 2009
...e, and she chose to work in social services. Working with diverse populations such as AIDS dementia patients and adults with developmental disabilities, she learned to appreciate the strength, beauty,...
