What are the basic signs/symptoms of anorexia? should i tell anyone? im afarid of getting in trouble!?

January 24, 2011

does anyone out there no the basic signs/symtoms of anorexia? If you do please tell me! I think i might be startin to be a victom! Im really scared and im olny 11 and im already droping a lot of weight! (my mom says im really skinny i think that im totally huge!!!) 1. well, [...]

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Parkinson’s Disease Protein Impedes Nerve Signaling Long Before Brain Cells Die

January 24, 2011

Parkinson’s disease patients have not benefited from any new type of standard treatment in decades. even so, there have been important discoveries about the disease that may lead to whole new treatment strategies. Researchers at UCSF, working with nerve cells grown in the lab and with mice, now have discovered an important role for the [...]

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Doc: Mums with post-natal blues can harm babies

January 24, 2011

PETALING JAYA: In severe cases of post-natal depression, mothers harm themselves and their babies, said a consultant psychiatrist. Prof Dr Hussain Habil said it had also come to his notice that some very disturbed mothers had even tried to flush their newborns down the toilet. He said such examples depict a serious situation when women [...]

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Pink defends her latest controversial music video clip

January 24, 2011

PINK has defended her controversial new video which depicts drug use, self-mutilation and a suicide scene. The clip for F***kin’ Perfect was released today, with a censored version to air on Australian TV this weekend. It opens with a sex scene and later shows the visibly pregnant Pink singing as footage of a girl being [...]

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Symptoms of Hepatitis C?

January 24, 2011

I have a friend who has been diagnosed with Hepatitis C. She is having a lot of pain in the area of her liver as well as having "lumps" on the back of her neck. She has been waiting for three weeks for the viral load panel (?) to come back before they discuss treatments. [...]

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So I have prostatitis, what can I do before seeing a doctor.?

January 24, 2011

So I am conviced I have prostatitis. I have been off any hormonal supplements I have been taking and been supplementing in saw palmetto pygmeium, green tea and pumpkin seed extract as I am aware of their prostate healthy properties. I will try my best to see a doc next week at a walk in [...]

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Googling Symptoms: How It Can Help Patients and Doctors

January 24, 2011

The medical intern started her presentation with an eye roll. “The patient in Room 3 had some blood in the toilet bowl this morning and is here with a pile of Internet printouts listing all the crazy things she thinks she might have.” The intern continued, “I think she has a hemorrhoid.” “Another case of [...]

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Is it possible depression is one of the causes of Alzheimer's/dementia?

January 24, 2011

I'm just wondering cuz several of my clients who have Alzheimer's/dementia have lost their spouses and/or children not long before they started showing symptoms and had to be placed in a home. Some people I have seen who already had it declined rapidly after losing a loved one. The connection between depression and memory loss [...]

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Princeton Union Eagle – Hammer experiences Christmas miracle

January 24, 2011

By Joel Stottrup most have heard of the two-minute warning, and a story or two about Christmas miracles. Both phrases now apply to Jamie Hammer, a woman with Princeton connections who received a transplant of a set of lungs four days before Christmas 2010, at the University of Minnesota, Fairview in Minneapolis. Hammer, 31, had [...]

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What are the symptoms of ovarian cysts?

January 24, 2011

I have never had ovarian cysts, and I don't have medical insurance to go get it checked out if there is no reason to worry. I had a UTI recently and don't know if maybe it is connected. I have a sharp pain that comes and goes in the left side of my lower abdomen. [...]

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