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Nine Steps to A More Effective Visit With Your Doctor - - Winifred Bragg MD
These nine steps should help make your next visit with your doctor more effective and efficient. Health care is undergoing major changes, and doctors are challenged to see more patients and to complete more paperwork in the same amount of time. Therefore, patients today must be armed with... Submitted 183 days 20 hours ago.

Four Steps to Enhance Communication with Your Physician - - Winifred Bragg MD
Do you sometimes feel like you could have learned more about your condition, but you were afraid to ask? Good communication is the key to successful relationships, and is essential to maintaining a good relationship with your doctor. By bringing the appropriate information to your follow-up visit... Submitted 183 days 20 hours ago.

How to Avoid Back Surgery:Three Options to Effectively Treat Spinal Stenosis  - - Winifred Bragg MD
Hundreds of thousands of back surgeries are performed every year in the US. However, if you struggle with Spinal Stenosis, you may find relief and avoid surgery. Spinal stenosis usually occurs after the age of 50. It is a narrowing of areas in the lumbar (back) or cervical (neck) spine, which... Submitted 183 days 20 hours ago.

Despicable – How Long Are We Going to Sit By and Do Nothing? - - Patricia Johnson
Following my visit with my doctor, who advised me my new pill would be ‘cheap' because the generic has been approved, the nurse gave me a brightly colored case that you can insert in your purse to hold makeup, or anything else you so desire. The case had several items enclosed, a CD... Submitted 240 days 21 hours ago.

Hypnosis and Alien Abduction Memories - - Paul Schroeder
Alien Abduction Memories Surface Under Medical Hypnosis Relaxation techniques slowly bought him to an altered state; under hypnosis, a series of subconscious motor reflexes, a twitch of a different finger cemented a conversation with the body, not the mind; the thumb, indicated "Yes", the... Submitted 332 days 19 hours ago.

Rural Hospitals and the Purpose they Serve - - Rose-Marie Chaperon
Rural hospitals play an important role in sustaining the economic health of their host communities through employment of local residents and provision of one of the basic community services that is crucial to attract and retain other employers. In today’s economic downfall there are many... Submitted 353 days 5 hours ago.

The Nuisance Disease Which Ultimately Saved Untold Thousands Of Lives - Joel Hendon
We have been fortunate to live during an era of exploding scientific and medical advances. Those of us who have lived for some four score years have actually seen the development of many advances which appeared almost miraculous. As knowledge multiplied and was compiled, trial instrumentation... Submitted 355 days 1 hour ago.

Chemicals and Additives and Diseases, Oh My - - Grace O'Malley
It often crosses my mind that in today's society there are very few people we know (including ourselves) that have not been diagnosed with one condition or another. Whether it be a physical or mental malady or both, many doctors are treating people for problems that 50, 40 or even 10 years ago no... Submitted 1 year 147 days ago.

FDA Approved Drugs Anyone? - - Grace O'Malley
Do you ever wonder why our over the counter drugs are packaged the way they are? You have to practically blast the cap off an aspirin bottle and use gardening shears to take the protective skin off a cold medicine. Years ago some sick individuals found a way to taint the packaging and cause... Submitted 1 year 175 days ago.

Hospital Care by Hospitalists - Joel Hirschhorn
There is a kind of physician that you most likely have never heard of. If you end up in a hospital, however, you may for the first time encounter a rapidly expanding new breed of doctor called a hospitalist. One major reason why there is this new medical specialty is that doctors can make a... Submitted 1 year 204 days ago.

A look at Drug Advertisement - Rose-Marie Chaperon
One definition of advertising is bringing a product or service to the attention of potential and current customers. Advertising is focused on one particular product or service. Thus, an advertising plan for one product might be very different from that for another product. Advertising is... Submitted 1 year 266 days ago.

Happy Pills That Enliven Even The Most Sullen And The Most Gloomy - - Christofer French
Singin About The Blues, Feeling Blue and Really Being Darned Blue The challenge of being human puts us right in front of feelings that we would call depressive, sad, melancholy or withdrawn, hopelessness, helpessness, despair, sorrow, sadness. There is a whole musical genre called " The... Submitted 1 year 284 days ago.

World's First Full Face Transplant Successful - Jennifer Stewart
Five years ago a Spanish farmer accidentally shot himself in the face, destroying that part of it below the eye sockets. Strangely, the man retained his eyes and eyesight, but nine surgeries later he could still only receive nourishment through a feeding tube and breathe with the help of a... Submitted 1 year 293 days ago.

This Little Piggy Went To Market - Susan Bourdeau
Have you ever had to go on steroids? Not the crazy 'I have to build more muscles and impress you with my back acne' kind, but the kind the actual doctor prescribes for conditions like psoriasis or whatever. I have, and this is my story. My week started relatively normal, albeit the dread that... Submitted 1 year 300 days ago.

Time to Listen to Patients - Joel Hirschhorn
It sounds beyond belief, but the big world of physicians, pharmaceutical companies, research institutions and government regulatory agencies have never created a system to seriously collect information from patients taking new medicines. What the whole health care system needs to learn is what... Submitted 1 year 303 days ago.

Pharmeceutical Pillage - Joel Hirschhorn
Business ethics has become an oxymoron. Wall Street bonuses were up 17 percent to over $20 billion in 2009, the year taxpayers bailed out the financial sector after its meltdown. So, everyone has many reasons to hate the banking and financial sectors that dumped our economy, and the general... Submitted 1 year 352 days ago.

Guns Versus Obesity - Ieuan Dolby
I certainly don't want to be the preacher or the wag! I am simply another human being going about his business in order to provide for his family! As the Croatian second engineer talked I realised that perhaps my shades and tinted aspect does not help me to see much at all! He talked of... Submitted 2 years 8 days ago.

Are Older Adults More Susceptible to Seasonal Flu? - Carolyn Tytler
Each year, 90% of flu-related deaths and more than half of flu-related hospitalizations occur in people age 65 and older. It is not necessarily that seniors are more susceptible to the virus than younger people, but they are more likely to develop serious or life-threatening complications. ... Submitted 2 years 38 days ago.

Healthcare Debate: A Schoolyard Brawl - - Missing Link
It is an interesting feature of the current health care debate that what we are actually debating is so ill-defined by both sides. Oh, both Democrats and Republicans both agree that health care needs a makeover, but that's about all they seem to have in common on the issue. Or do they? From where... Submitted 2 years 185 days ago.

Drugged by Drug Companies - Joel Hirschhorn
Nothing is more revealing of the commercial crassness and insanity of American society than the bombardment of consumers by commercials and advertisements for prescription drugs. Few people may remember that for a very long time there were no such pitches for prescription drugs and people relied... Submitted 2 years 191 days ago.

Bogus Beliefs - Homeopathy - Ben Morrish
Over a decade ago I had homeopathic treatment for a skin condition I have psoriasis, which causes patches of skin cells to multiply too fast, leading to the formation of thick, reddish scales, bits of which tend to dry out and flake off. Not very pleasant really. I tried... Submitted 2 years 219 days ago.

Friends for Life - Joel Hirschhorn
Doctors, pharmaceuticals, medical procedures, hospitals, healthy diets, herbal supplements, regular physical activity and self-help books are used to stay alive and well. But something else is incredibly effective. Focus on this research finding for a few minutes: Women without close friends were... Submitted 2 years 248 days ago.

Medical Marvels---The Face Transplant - Sandra E. Graham
Ten years ago a beautiful nine-year-old girl in India was pulled by her hair braid into a glass-cutting machine. Her entire face was amputated before the machine could be shut down and the little girl removed. She arrived at the hospital barely clinging to life with her face in a plastic bag.... Submitted 2 years 280 days ago.

Find Out How Laughter, Scientifically, Is Truly a Medicine for You - - Steve Kovacs
At a recent meeting of the American College of Cardiology, Michael Miller, M.D., of the University of Maryland reported that in a study of 20 healthy people, provoking laughter did as much good for their arteries as aerobic activity. Wow! The famous and hilarious comedian, Groucho Marx once said... Submitted 2 years 291 days ago.

Taking Medication Doesn't Mean You're Crazy - Ryan Stroud
When I was younger, around the age of five, I can remember standing on a chair in time-out and screaming at everyone. I was mad I was there, it wasn't my fault. The teachers and the other kids where out to get me. As I grew older, they were still out to get me. Everyone; and I really do mean... Submitted 2 years 295 days ago.