What an interesting report! Although the United States spends more on health care, the results are not coming through. IMHO it could have something to do with a need for including holistic medicine in the health care system. Health is also about the whole person. However, a few American hospitals are enlarging their scope to [...]
A six-year-old boy with 15 fingers and 16 toes has undergone surgery to remove his extra digits. The unnamed Chinese child had four fingers on one hand and three on the other fused together. He now has ten fingers and ten toes following a six-and-a-half hour operation at a hospital in Shenyang, Liaoning, to remove [...]
Is this the kind of innovation that American health care needs? – Small study demonstrates possibilities of reducing unnecessary MRI tests and improving safety September 18, 2009-In a small “proof of principle” study, stroke researchers at Johns Hopkins and the University of Illinois have found that a simple, one-minute eye movement exam performed at the [...]
Scientists are developing an electronic ‘sex chip’ that works by stimulating the pleasure centres in the brain. The technology, which creates tiny shocks deep in the brain, has already been used in America to treat Parkinson’s disease. Now researchers are focusing on the orbitofrontal cortex, which is associated with feelings of pleasure caused by eating [...]
What are you visioning for your health? Medical records embedded in your arm. Is this the future of health? Read on.. Microsoft wants to get under your skin HealthVault links up with VeriMed RFID chips Bill Ray / The Register | December 15, 2008 Microsoft’s HealthVault, the medical records database, is to be integrated with [...]
Study Suggests Some Cancers May Go Away November 25, 2008, New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/health/25breast.html Cancer researchers have known for years that it was possible in rare cases for some cancers to go away on their own. There were occasional instances of melanomas and kidney cancers that just vanished. And neuroblastoma, a very rare childhood tumor, [...]
Diverticulitis is an inflammatory condition of diverticulosis. Diverticulosis is the condition of pouches, like outcroppings, developing usually in the lower portion of the large intestine also known as the sigmoid colon. The inflammatory condition may produce abdominal pain. Pain in the lower left abdominal quadrant is suggestive of diverticulitis. Who Gets Diverticulosis? The condition is [...]
A novel high blood pressure drug has been approved by the FDA. It is injectable. It may be useful as as an acute hypertensive treatment as drug studies suggest. “Novel” and new drugs may rouse cheers in stockholders but the public continues to be one huge test market with those injured deemed “acceptable risks.” Doctors [...]
Apparently the experts are at odds with one another, but have come to some agreement regarding assessing the risk of future heart problems developing in children who take stimulant drugs. Pediatricians don’t consider it necessary for heart screenings for children prescribed stimulant drugs. The American Heart Association initially recommended heart screening for children taking stimulant [...]
Centers for Disease Control Gardasil reporting, here A Homeopathic Perspective, here Gardasil Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine On June 8, 2006, the FDA licensed Gardasil®, the first vaccine developed to prevent cervical cancer caused by certain kinds of human papillomavirus (HPV). Since then, more than 12 million doses of Gardasil vaccine have been distributed. In 2006, [...]
