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ASSISTED SUICIDE 'OUT OF CONTROL' IN NETHERLANDS
Post Date: 2014-10-04 08:36:42 by Ada
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The number of mentally ill people who have been killed through euthanasia in the Netherlands has trebled in a single year, according to new figures. The Daily Mail reports that in 2012, 14 people with "severe psychiatric problems" were killed by lethal injection, a figure that rose to 42 in 2013. There had also been a 15 percent overall rise in assisted dying over the past year, with the number of cases increasing from 4,188 to 4,829. Deaths from euthanasia have risen by a total of 151 percent in a period of just seven years, with most cases involving cancer sufferers. However, there were also 97 people who were killed by their doctors because they had dementia. The figures do ...
5 Heart Rate Myths Debunked
Post Date: 2014-10-04 07:45:16 by Tatarewicz
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Most of the time, you’re probably blissfully unaware of your heart's ceaseless activity -- nearly 100,000 beats per day, or about 37 million beats per year and 3 billion in an average lifetime. But not always. Maybe your pulse suddenly races for no apparent reason. Maybe your heart throbs. Maybe it flutters or seems to skip a beat. When it does, you wonder: Is this normal? Guard Your Heart Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of U.S. men and women. Get information to protect your heart's health. 12 Heart Symptoms Not to Ignore Learn the possible signs of heart trouble and what to do about them. Heart Attacks Hit Middle-Aged Women The risk is rising. Learn why and what to do ...
HIV's origins traced to Kinshasa in 1920s
Post Date: 2014-10-04 06:36:34 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo... Washington (AFP) - A new genetic history of HIV shows how the pandemic almost certainly took root in the 1920s in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, researchers said Thursday. Assisted by train transport and the sex trade, the virus that causes AIDS then spread across the continent and eventually the world, infecting some 75 million people and killing 36 million of them. An international team of researchers reconstructed the genetic history of the HIV-1 group M pandemic, and found that the common ancestor of group M is "highly likely" to have emerged in Kinshasa around 1920. While various strains of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have jumped from ...
Drug-Induced Liver Injury: What You Need to Know
Post Date: 2014-10-04 04:20:39 by Tatarewicz
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The liver is the principal site of the body's drug metabolism, so it isn't surprising that drug-induced liver injury (DILI) can occur. However, despite the common use of medications in today's society, DILI develops in only a small number of patients -- approximately 1 in 10,000 to 19 in 100,000 people are affected.[1] Antibiotics are a common cause of DILI in all age groups and are the drugs most frequently associated with childhood liver injury. Acetaminophen is a common cause of acute liver injury in adults. The American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) has recently published guidelines for the diagnosis and management of DILI.[2] The guidelines point out the importance ...
Multiple Sclerosis: New Treatments, Tough Decisions
Post Date: 2014-10-04 01:56:58 by Tatarewicz
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Andrew N. Wilner, MD: I am Dr Andrew Wilner, and I am here today with Dr Stephen Krieger, Assistant Professor of Neurology and Director of the Neurology Resident Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. Dr Wilner: Today, we will discuss several key studies from among the roughly 1000 presentations at this meeting. Dr Krieger, which ones are the most important for clinicians? Dr Krieger: This has been a very busy conference, as you said. Roughly 9000 people were here for those 1000 presentations. When we look at what will be applicable in the near future for those of us taking care of people with multiple sclerosis (MS), several ...
The 'Opt Out' nation: Why uninsured Americans decided to pass on Obamacare
Post Date: 2014-10-03 18:41:36 by Ada
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When the federal health insurance marketplace officially debuted this time last year, Marta Hardy, 60, felt just one emotion: relief. At the time, Hardy, who lives in Lakeland, Ga., had gone nearly four years without insurance. She had a decent-paying job working full-time at a small manufacturing plant, but the company didn’t offer health plans. Her husband was already retired and could take advantage of Medicare. That left Hardy, who was recently diagnosed with thyroid disease and takes medication for high blood pressure, entering her 60s with no safety net. .Marta Hardy, 61, pictured here with her husband, decided to forgo Obamacare coverage when she realized it would be cheaper ...
The Most Effective Colloidal Silver - Garry Gordon MD
Post Date: 2014-10-03 16:04:19 by christine
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Dont drink the (warm) water, study says
Post Date: 2014-10-03 07:44:05 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Americans can take a warning from a University of Florida study of bottled water in China ─ don’t drink the liquid if you’ve left it somewhere warm for a long time. Plastic water bottles are made from polyethylene terephthalate. When heated, the material releases the chemicals antimony and bisphenol A, commonly called BPA. While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has said BPA is not a major concern at low levels found in beverage containers, it continues to study the chemical’s impacts. Some health officials, including those at the Mayo Clinic, say the chemical can cause negative effects on children’s health. And antimony is considered a ...
Alter your lifestyle to naturally shrink blood pressure
Post Date: 2014-10-03 06:36:40 by Tatarewicz
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alter-your-lifestyle-to-naturally-shrink-blood-pressure_300In my previous article I explored the circumstances that lead to essential hypertension (high blood pressure), including problems with the thyroid, insulin, aldosterone and cortisol. Physical and emotional stresses quite dramatically contribute to hypertension. In this article you’ll learn strategies to lower stress, along with other blood pressure-reducing lifestyle interventions. Mind over pressure As you now know from my other report, the smooth muscle tone or tightness of arterial blood vessels increases when you get angry, scared or stressed. Conversely, the nerves to your arterial wall muscles relax when you lower ...
Woman saves three relatives from Ebola
Post Date: 2014-10-03 00:16:06 by PnbC
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CNN) -- It can be exhausting nursing a child through a nasty bout with the flu, so imagine how 22-year-old Fatu Kekula felt nursing her entire family through Ebola. Her father. Her mother. Her sister. Her cousin. Fatu took care of them all, single-handedly feeding them, cleaning them and giving them medications.And she did so with remarkable success. Three out of her four patients survived. That's a 25% death rate -- considerably better than the estimated Ebola death rate of 70%.Fatu stayed healthy, which is noteworthy considering that more than 300 health care workers have become infected with Ebola, and she didn't even have personal protection equipment -- those white space suits ...
Stop the Ebola Myths
Post Date: 2014-10-02 22:03:01 by Katniss
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What you need to know most about this outbreak… From the public's perspective, the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa is very frightening and tragic. However, the reality for people living in the US is far less dramatic than what has been portrayed in books and movies. Unfortunately, some fundamental misunderstandings about the current outbreak of this illness still persist. To cut through the hype that's now spreading about Ebola, Bottom Line/Health spoke with one of the world's leading infectious disease experts, William Schaffner, MD. Click for Full Text!
Heart health
Post Date: 2014-10-02 07:20:07 by Tatarewicz
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Bring up heart disease, and most people think of a heart attack. But there are many conditions that can undermine the heart's ability to do its job. These include coronary artery disease, cardiomyopathy, arrhythmia, and heart failure. Keep reading to find out what these disorders do to the body and how to recognize the warning signs. Every year, more than 1 million Americans have a heart attack -- a sudden interruption in the heart's blood supply. This happens when there is a blockage in the coronary arteries, the vessels that carry blood to the heart muscle. When blood flow is blocked, heart muscle can be damaged very quickly and die. Prompt emergency treatments have reduced the ...
Drugs Not Always Best for Mild High Blood Pressure?
Post Date: 2014-10-02 04:56:27 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape Sept. 24, 2014 -- Treating mild high blood pressure with drugs has unclear benefit and adds steep sums to national health care expenses, experts write in an article published online Sept. 14 in BMJ. If you learn you have mild high blood pressure (also called mild hypertension), ask your doctor what healthy lifestyle changes you can make. Doctors, in turn, shouldn't "pull the trigger too quickly" on prescribing medication, senior author Vikas Saini, MD, tells Medscape Medical News. Saini is a lecturer at Harvard Medical School. Evidence of Benefit Unclear Saini outlines three main reasons for this argument. First, there is no clear evidence that treating mild ...
Decreased ability to identify odors can predict death: Olfactory dysfunction is a harbinger of mortality
Post Date: 2014-10-02 02:20:32 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: For older adults, being unable to identify scents is a strong predictor of death within five years, according to a study published October 1, 2014, in the journal PLOS ONE. Thirty-nine percent of study subjects who failed a simple smelling test died during that period, compared to 19 percent of those with moderate smell loss and just 10 percent of those with a healthy sense of smell. The hazards of smell loss were "strikingly robust," the researchers note, above and beyond most chronic diseases. Olfactory dysfunction was better at predicting mortality than a diagnosis of heart failure, cancer or lung disease. Only severe liver damage was a more powerful predictor ...
Multiple Sclerosis and the Microbiome: What's the Connection?
Post Date: 2014-10-01 23:49:55 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape... Editor's Note: While onsite at the Joint 2014 Americas Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis/European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ACTRIMS/ECTRIMS) conference in Boston, Massachusetts, Medscape spoke with Sushrut Jangi, MD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital, about the possible link between our gastrointestinal microbiome and multiple sclerosis (MS). Medscape: Your study looked at the potential relationship between gastrointestinal flora and MS. What were the objectives of your study? Dr Jangi: In many autoimmune diseases there has been a lot of recent interest in trying to determine how what we eat, how the kind of ...
Officials: Second person being monitored for Ebola
Post Date: 2014-10-01 22:06:18 by Buzzard
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Health officials are closely monitoring a possible second Ebola patient who had close contact with the first person to be diagnosed in the U.S., the director of Dallas County's health department said Wednesday. All who have been in close contact with the man officially diagnosed are being monitored as a precaution, Zachary Thompson, director of Dallas County Health and Human Services, said in a morning interview with WFAA-TV, Dallas-Fort Worth. "Let me be real frank to the Dallas County residents: The fact that we have one confirmed case, there may be another case that is a close associate with this particular patient," he said. "So this is real. There should be a ...
Ebola - What You're Not Being Told
Post Date: 2014-10-01 20:15:20 by christine
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Blood Pressure Conspiracy Exposed...
Post Date: 2014-10-01 16:24:25 by BTP Holdings
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EBOLA IN AMERICA: THE CONFIRMED CASE IN DALLAS, TEXAS COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING
Post Date: 2014-10-01 06:54:58 by Ada
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The day that many of us hoped would never arrive is here Ebola In America: The Confirmed Case In Dallas, Texas Could Change Everything Image Credits: Thomas W. Geisbert, Boston University School of Medicine The day that many of us hoped would never arrive is here. Ebola has come to America. Air travel between the United States and the countries of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone should have been totally shut down except for absolutely essential personnel but it wasn’t. And now our nation may end up paying a great price as a result. On Tuesday, the CDC announced that there is a confirmed case of Ebola in Dallas, Texas. We know that this individual is a male and that he traveled by ...
Quest continues for peanut that won't cause allergic reactionScienceDaily...
Post Date: 2014-10-01 03:08:59 by Tatarewicz
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A University of Florida scientist has moved one step closer to his goal of eliminating 99.9 percent of peanut allergens by removing 80 percent of them in whole peanuts. Scientists must eliminate peanut allergens below a certain threshold for patients to be safe, said Wade Yang, an assistant professor in food science and human nutrition and member of UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. If Yang can cut the allergens from 150 milligrams of protein per peanut to below 1.5 milligrams, 95 percent of those with peanut allergies would be safe. It’s challenging to eliminate all peanut allergens, he said, because doing so may risk destroying peanuts’ texture, color, ...
Ebola World Tour 2014 comes to Dallas, TX!!
Post Date: 2014-09-30 17:35:11 by X-15
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DALLAS — A patient in a Dallas hospital has been confirmed to have the deadly Ebola virus, News 8 has learned. That person has been held in "strict isolation" at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas as he or she was evaluated for possible exposure to the virus. This is the first case of Ebola confirmed in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control will hold a news conference at 4:30 p.m. in Atlanta regarding the diagnosis. The CDC will decide whether it is necessary to move the patient to another facility. There are five medical facilities in the U.S. that have high level isolation facilities. The CDC will also investigate how many people the patient has had ...
Oatmeal: Ultimate Survival Food?
Post Date: 2014-09-30 17:14:52 by BTP Holdings
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Oatmeal: Ultimate Survival Food? By Hector on September 25, 2012 oatmeal-ultimate-survival-food There are all kinds of survival foods out there designed to last a long time and provide optimum nutrition while being lightweight and small enough to carry in a a backpack. There are canned goods, dehydrated foods, freeze dried foods, organic foods, and even food in liquid form. Each of these survival foods has its benefits and its own set of nutritional values. With all the new, high-tech survival food that’s out there today, it’s easy to forget that there are healthy, long-lasting survival foods that have been around for years. In fact, you might have some of them in your pantry ...
Time Might Be 'Essential Ingredient' in Healthier Eating: Study
Post Date: 2014-09-30 04:14:59 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape... NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who spend more time preparing and cooking meals are more likely to have healthier diets, says a new study. Those who spent the least time on food preparation also spent the most money on food away from home and were more likely to eat at fast food restaurants, the authors found. "We've known for a long time that cooking and being able to prepare your own food is associated with eating a healthier diet and it sort of just make sense, but there actually isn't much research in the area" Pablo Monsivais told Reuters Health. Monsivais, from the Center for Diet and Activity Research at the University of Cambridge in the UK, led ...
China tests stem-cell therapy for heart disease
Post Date: 2014-09-29 23:40:56 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Sept. 29 (Xinhuanet) -- Monday marks World Heart Day. One of the most serious conditions is Chronic Heart Disease. It has no cure to date - but in China, scientists are hoping to find one, using stem-cell technology. Up to ten new trial sites are being set up to test the use of stem-cell therapy in treating the disease. Shen Ruijiang developed chronic heart disease five years ago. After surgery and a series of prescription drugs, dangerous side effects set in. "The side effects are heavy. They can cause diabetes. I had to have a kidney transplant, so now I need to be more careful in treating my heart condition," Heart disease patient Shen Ruijiang said. While ...
Wisconsin Man Suffers 100 Unwanted Orgasms A Day
Post Date: 2014-09-29 19:52:23 by christine
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What might seem like the gift that keeps on giving to some has been a non-stop nightmare for a Wisconsin man who suffers up to 100 unwanted orgasms every day. “There’s nothing pleasurable about it, because even though it might physically feel good, the whole time inside your mind, you’re completely disgusted by what’s going on,” said Dale Decker, who suffers from Persistent Genital Arousal Syndrome, an uncontrollable condition that causes spontaneous and persistent orgasms unrelated to any physical stimulus or feelings of sexual arousal. Barcroft Media reports Decker, 37, of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, is the first man to speak publicly about the condition, which he ...
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