Every year there is some sort of sickness that spreads around trying to infect everyone in its path. The stomach flu is the weapon of choice for the New Year and there may be an easy way for you to stay as far away from it as possible. Studies have shown that the stomach flu is passed around between people through contact of items that people commonly share.
Paul Karason is living proof that certain medicines have dramatic side effects. Fourteen years ago Karason had a bad form of dermatitis that caused him to have swollen, red, and itchy skin. He heard that treating it with colloidal silver – which is a medicine that is made when silver is extracted from the metal – would help and it did. Unfortuanately it also managed to turn his skin a deep gray blue color.
We have all been told that acupuncture works wonders for the body, but most of us don’t believe it. Of course who in their right mind would want needles placed into their body. And when I saw needles I mean many not just one. But new studies show us that acupuncture could be just the thing you need to relieve that chronic back pain.
Surgeons are taking more risks and discovering new ways of performing more advanced, but safer operations to perform on people. One of the first that we have heard of was performed in Australia. The Australian patient was awake and talking to his doctors while they were performing a life-saving procedure on his brain.
Heart related problems are something that people keep an eye on the most. There are so many things that can give you heart problems, but it isn’t too often that you hear about medicine causing that problem. Two leading diabetes drugs seem to be a problem and are being pulled from the market.
As medical correspondent Dr. Emily Senay explained on The Early Show Wednesday, the drug that’s received the most attention is Avandia, which is prescribed for people suffering from type 2 diabetes. It’s one of a class of drugs intended to improve the body’s ability to use insulin to regulate blood sugar levels.
Medical scientists have been working on a cure for cancer for many years, but have been unsuccessfull. They have discovered different treatments, most of which are painful for the patient. Chemotherapy is a common treatment, which requires the patient to endure hair loss and pain after they are exposed to radiation. The radiation is used to kill the cancer cells.
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama did not come to Portsmouth Tuesday to dictate how he thought the health care system should be changed, but rather to listen to opinions. Asking more questions than his audience, the Illinois Democrat and presidential hopeful heard dozens of stories from Seacoast voters on how the current employer-based system has failed them. The 100 people in attendance, ranging from divorced moms to health care providers, also offered suggestions on how to improve the system.
The U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke have decided to launch a large-scale clinical trial to study and see whether or not the nutritional supplement creatine will be able to slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease. The double-blind, placebo-controlled study will be conducted at 51 medical centers in the United States and in Canada, and will include 1,720 people with early-stage Parkinson’s disease.
Federal drug regulators are carefully studying common children’s cold and cough medicines because they beleive that they have not been studied enough before being given to children. One of the top Food and Drug Administration officials, Dr. Charles J. Ganley, stated that the agency is “revisiting the risks and benefits of the use of these drugs in children,”. They are concentrating more on what effect it has on children who are 2 and under.
When people are trying to lose weight they will usually try anything that they can. Unfortunately some people do not always read all of the things that they can about what they are trying at the time. It is always important that before you try anything you study up on it and make sure that it is something that will not hurt you in the long run. Right now there is a question about whether or not substituting trans fat is a good thing to do.