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Medscape Top Complaints Posted on Doc-Rating Websites
Post Date: 2014-02-21 00:03:23 by Tatarewicz
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Patients Take Their Complaints Online Although medical expertise and quality of care may be central to the patient experience, they take a back seat when it comes to online reviews of physicians. Patients posting negative reviews on rating sites, such as Vitals, RateMDs, and Yelp, are often more vocal about the "softer" side of medicine than they are about clinical matters. Their complaints can sully even the most polished reputation. Today's patients are asserting themselves. They come into the physician's office armed with data and diagnoses gleaned from the Internet, and ask-your-doctor-or-pharmacist advertising. They ask questions. They're encouraged to be ...
What is HDL and LDL?
Post Date: 2014-02-20 22:20:19 by Tatarewicz
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What’s in your wallet? My wallet is the happy home to a torn $5 bill, lint, a well-used business card from Lorenzo Oss-Cech (lawyer), my driver’s license with a photo that would terrify small children and most pterodactyls, a ticket stub for Monster Truck Rally, a photo of Raminator (the bestest truck of all), Donna Summers Fan Club membership, plastic, a receipt for a Raminator T-shirt and in a wee clear packet, tucked away near the lint, I keep some pills. Emergency pills just in case I happen upon a heart attack or a stroke, mine included. What is in that packet is a trade secret but I will reveal that, of the three emergency pills I carry at all times, one of them is a ...
NICU: Probiotics Reduce NEC, Should Be Routine, Experts Say
Post Date: 2014-02-20 04:18:59 by Tatarewicz
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Incorporating probiotics into the standard of care for preterm infants of less than 32 weeks' gestation may help significantly reduce the incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), according to an article published online January 9 in the Journal of Pediatrics. Annie Janvier, MD, from the Sainte Justine University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and colleagues compared outcomes for 294 infants in the Sainte Justine neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) who received probiotics during a 17-month study period, starting in August 2011, with outcomes for 317 infants admitted to the NICU from January through May 2011, before the regular use of probiotics. The NICU began ...
Antidepressant may help relieve agitation in patients with Alzheimer's disease
Post Date: 2014-02-18 22:00:37 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Antidepressant drug citalopram could help significantly relieve agitation in patients with Alzheimer's disease, but at the cost of slightly decreasing cognitive function and increasing heart attack risk, according to results of a clinical trial released Tuesday. However, the drug, sold under the brand names Celexa and Cipramil and also available as a generic medication, might be safer than antipsychotic drugs currently used to treat the condition, according to the study led by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers that included seven other academic medical centers in the United States and Canada. Antipsychotics are often used as first-line medications for ...
Chemist gets U.S. patent for solution to antibiotic resistance problem
Post Date: 2014-02-18 01:52:20 by Tatarewicz
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A chemist based at the University of Copenhagen has just taken out a patent for a drug that can make previously multidrug-resistant bacteria once again responsive to antibiotics. Jørn Bolstad Christensen and his colleagues hope that the substance will soon be able to tackle the tremendous problems associated with multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). But first, they need to find investors interested in getting the substance onto the market. Before the development of penicillin, people dropped like flies in response to minor infections: in the lungs, in small cuts. Even pimples could grow to boils that killed. But one of the main killers prior to the discovery of antibiotics ...
Researchers identify first biological marker for major depression
Post Date: 2014-02-17 21:10:52 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- British researchers said Monday they have identified the first biomarker, or a biological signpost, for major depression, a breakthrough they believe could help identify boys in particular at greatest risk of developing the illness. The study, published in the U.S. journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found teenage boys who show a combination of depressive symptoms and elevated levels of the stress hormone cortisol are up to 14 times more likely to develop major depression than those who show neither trait. Major, or clinical, depression is a debilitating mental health problem that will affect one in six people at some point in their ...
Who Will Hire the Hangman?
Post Date: 2014-02-17 08:05:09 by Ada
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Why should the dying have all the best deaths? Fatal illness is not the only form of terrible human suffering: on the contrary, the briefest of reflection should be enough to convince anyone that such suffering is widespread and often long- lasting. Surely it is discriminatory to offer advantages, such as the right to easeful death, to one group of people but not to another? Please share this article by using the link below. When you cut and paste an article, Taki's Magazine misses out on traffic, and our writers don't get paid for their work. Email editors@takimag.com to buy additional rights. http://takimag.com/article/who_will_hire_the_hangman_theodore_dalrymple/print#ix z ...
CRYSTAL-AF: Monitor Detects AF in Cryptogenic Stroke
Post Date: 2014-02-16 04:55:11 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape... An implanted cardiac monitor was much more effective at picking up atrial fibrillation (AF) than standard monitoring in patients with cryptogenic stroke in the CRYSTAL-AF trial. Because AF is one of the most important risk factors for stroke and the risk can be reduced greatly with anticoagulation therapy, such monitoring could bring about a significant reduction in recurrent stroke rates, researchers say. Presenting the trial here at the American Stroke Association's (ASA's) International Stroke Conference (ISC) 2014, Richard A. Bernstein, MD, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, pointed out that approximately 30% of strokes ...
Over 5,000 Cubans receOive stem cell treatment: expert
Post Date: 2014-02-16 01:54:07 by Tatarewicz
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HAVANA, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- More than 5,000 patients have received stem cell treatment in Cuba since that procedure was introduced in 2004, a medical expert said Saturday. Doctor Porfirio Hernandez, research vice director at the Hematology and Immunology Institute in Cuba, said in an official media outlet that the stem cell treatment method has been implemented in 13 of the entire 15 provinces of the island country. As a widely acknowledged pioneer of this practice in Cuba, Hernandez indicated that more than 60 percent of patients receiving this treatment had suffered from severe ischemia at lower limbs and other blood vessel related ailments. The therapy has also been used to reduce ...
Vitamin C could reduce risk of stroke: study
Post Date: 2014-02-15 00:00:06 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Eating foods that contain vitamin C, such as oranges, papaya, peppers, broccoli and strawberries, may reduce your risk of stroke, a new study has found. The study, to be presented at the American Academy of Neurology 's annual meeting in Philadelphia later this year, involved 65 people who had experienced an intracerebral hemorrhagic stroke, or a blood vessel rupture inside the brain, as well as 65 healthy people. Participants were tested for the levels of vitamin C in their blood in order to investigate the relationship between the vitamin and hemorrhagic stroke, which is less common than ischemic stroke, but is more often deadly. Overall, 41 ...
Trials and Fibrillations with Dr John Mandrola Heart Rhythm Society's Choosing Wisely List Disappoints
Post Date: 2014-02-13 05:50:30 by Tatarewicz
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Part 1: Grading the Recommendations The Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) waited a long time to introduce its Choosing Wisely list of "Five Things Physicians and Patients Should Question" [1] . The Choosing Wisely campaign began in 2009 when the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation invited medical societies to own their role as "stewards of finite healthcare resources." At the time of this writing, 50 medical societies have already contributed lists. The optimist in me had hoped that the delay meant HRS leadership was working hard at designing a meaningful and robust list. A recent New England Journal of Medicine Perspective piece made it clear that while ...
Back-to-back grassroots victories from Food Babe, Health Ranger rock the world of corporate food
Post Date: 2014-02-12 06:42:55 by BTP Holdings
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Back-to-back grassroots victories from Food Babe, Health Ranger rock the world of corporate food Wednesday, February 12, 2014 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...) (NaturalNews) If Food Babe were an Olympic gymnast, she would have just pulled off a high-speed triple back somersault with a perfect landing and a unanimous "10" score. From the once-humble site known as www.FoodBabe.com, Vani Hari has attracted a massive consumer following, daily mainstream media attention and fast-rising notoriety for convincing really big food corporations to change their ways for the better. Last week she was declared the victor on the two-year effort ...
Nutritional supplement improves cognitive performance in older adults, study
Post Date: 2014-02-12 06:38:23 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... A neuroscientist and gerontologist team up to investigate the effects of a antioxidant-rich nutritional supplement on the mental performance of older adults without impaired memory. An initial clinical trial indicates that the supplement, including blueberries and green tea extracts, improves cognitive processing speeds. University of South Florida researchers Paula Bickford, PhD, and Brent Small, PhD, teamed up to investigate the effects of a USF-developed, antioxidant-rich nutritional supplement on the cognitive performance of older adults. Credit: University of South Florida [Click to enlarge image] Declines in the underlying brain skills needed to think, remember and ...
8 Surprisingly Simple Ways to Detoxify
Post Date: 2014-02-11 12:42:24 by Horse
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Given what we are now exposed to through our food, air, and water, detoxification has become a modern-day necessity. Without the daily activation of ancient, effective physiological pathways designed to remove naturally occurring environmental and toxins or manmade chemical toxicants, we are bound to get sick. So, what are some simple, effective ways we rid our body of its daily toxic burden? 1) Pop a Probiotic: Of course, you don't have to 'pop a pill' to get a probiotic. In fact, it is preferred you ingest either a cultured food (e.g. kombucha, yogurt (preferably non-cow's milk based), cultured veggies, etc.) or eat more raw fruits and vegetables grown in truly healthy ...
Testosterone Therapy builds muscle but doubles heart attack risk
Post Date: 2014-02-11 05:45:34 by Tatarewicz
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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 29, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Testosterone therapy -- widely advertised as a way to help men improve a low sex drive and reclaim diminished energy -- might raise the risk of heart attack, according to new research. The increased risk was found in men younger than 65 with a history of heart disease, and in older men even if they didn't have a history of the disease. In both groups, heart attack risk doubled in the 90 days after the men began testosterone therapy, said researcher William Finkle, CEO of Consolidated Research, in Los Angeles. "It was more or less the same increase in risk," Finkle said. Testosterone therapy typically is given in gel, patch or ...
Tracey Halvorsen Turns Tail, But That Won’t Stop Baltimore (Or Something) Breaking Her Heart
Post Date: 2014-02-10 13:06:43 by Gentile Defense League
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It’s becoming one of the more amusing rituals of American political life: a naïve white liberal Notices (or even implies) the Hatefact that crime is disproportionately black and is instantly lynched by his/ her own kind. Last year, it was Philadelphia Magazine’s Robert Huber, whose Being White in Philly cover story actually caused the black mayor of the city, Michael Nutter, to write to the Philadelphia Human Rights Commission demanding action be taken. This year, it’s Tracey Halvorsen, a white Baltimore woman who just published an article [Baltimore City, You're Breaking My Heart| This is why people leave, Medium.com, February 7, 2014] in which she went to the very ...
The Healing Powers of Vinegar
Post Date: 2014-02-10 08:33:25 by BTP Holdings
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Avoiding your dentist can save your life
Post Date: 2014-02-10 08:26:04 by BTP Holdings
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Avoiding your dentist can save your life Monday, February 10, 2014 by: Michelle Goldstein (NaturalNews) The standard practice of dentistry is dangerous to American health. The American Dental Association continues to maintain that mercury fillings and root canals are safe dental procedures, in spite of the overwhelming evidence against these practices. Routine high speed drilling saves dentists time, but also unwittingly destroys teeth, requiring root canals to save them. The fluoride treatments and fluoridated toothpaste recommended to "protect" teeth, actually harm teeth and health. The fact that a nutrient dense, high fat soluble vitamin diet can prevent cavities and avoid ...
Foods helping women stay young
Post Date: 2014-02-09 03:42:37 by Tatarewicz
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Lemon, apricot, grapefruit, cherry, pomegrante, carrot, olive, cucumber,grape.
US farmers, food interests unite against GMO labeling
Post Date: 2014-02-08 06:56:09 by Tatarewicz
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A label on a bag of popcorn indicates it is a non-GMO food product, in Los Angeles, California, October 19, 2012 Washington (AFP) - US farmers joined with the food industry Thursday to launch a united front against labeling of genetically modified products, amid mounting consumer pressure and an ongoing trade dispute with China. More than half of US states introduced bills aimed at requiring GMO labeling last year, in a country where 80 percent of the food contains ingredients that were made with genetically modified organisms. While only two states have passed such measures, and none have yet implemented any labeling requirements, farmers are concerned about the prospect. "If ...
Flu death toll climbs to 33 in Oklahoma
Post Date: 2014-02-07 20:44:19 by Tatarewicz
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hHOUSTON, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Health officials in the U.S. state of Oklahoma said Thursday that at least 33 people have died from influenza virus this season, local media reported. State Health Department announced the tally Thursday, saying eight additional flu deaths have been confirmed this past week, making the death toll to 33, local media NewsOK reported. Additionally, 72 Oklahomans were confirmed this past week to have been hospitalized from the flu. A total of 975 residents have been hospitalized with the flu since the season started in late September, according to the State Health Department. Quite a few U.S. states including Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas have been hit by ...
Obamacare Harms America's Workforce
Post Date: 2014-02-06 03:01:50 by Stephen Lendman
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Obamacare Harms America's Workforce by Stephen Lendman Obamacare scams consumers. It's a ripoff. It's a corporate designed scheme. It's smoke and mirrors deception. It's rife with disturbing inequities. It makes a dysfunctional system worse. It enriches insurers, drug companies and large hospital chains. It's fast food healthcare. It rations it. It leaves millions uninsured. Millions more are way underinsured. It's outrageously expensive. It's double the cost of other developed countries. It makes healthcare more than ever unaffordable. Millions of households have to pay 40% or more out-of-pocket. It's for co-pays and deductibles. It's on top of ...
Anti-cold foods
Post Date: 2014-02-02 23:55:32 by Tatarewicz
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Garlic, green tea, strawberry, lean meat, chicken soup, honey,hot peppers.
Understanding the benefits of natural olive oil
Post Date: 2014-02-01 23:01:33 by BTP Holdings
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Understanding the benefits of natural olive oil Friday, January 31, 2014 by: Sandeep Godiyal Tags: olive oil, healthy oils, dietary fats (NaturalNews) Everyone knows that natural and organic foods are far more healthier than their processed counterparts. Unfortunately, many people don't take to heart this valuable piece of information, and they continue to consume food products that are completely unhealthy for them. In doing this, they often develop a wide array of preventable health conditions. The road to getting healthier can begin today, and it can start by incorporating natural olive oil into one's diet. In fact, let's go ahead and take a quick look at five healthy ...
Semen is 'good for women's health and helps fight depression'
Post Date: 2014-02-01 19:12:05 by X-15
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Oral sex is good for women's health and makes you feel happier, according to a study which studied the effects of semen's 'mood-altering chemicals'. The State University of New York study - which scientists carried out via survey rather than through practical experiment - compared the sex lives of 293 females to their mental health. It follows research which shows that seminal fluid contains chemicals that elevate mood, increase affection, induce sleep and also contain at least three anti-depressants. The researchers also claim that women who have regular unprotected sex are less depressed and perform better on cognitive tests. Semen contains another of chemicals along ...
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