Vitamin C and bleeding

January 14, 2011

Dear Dr. Donohue — In 1970, when in college, I had a friend whobruised so badly that she looked like a battered woman. the doctorat the health care center told her to take vitamin C because itstrengthens cell walls. she did, and the bruising stopped. My father died of ischemic stroke and had suffered from [...]

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Attack suspect spotlights mental-health deficiencies

January 14, 2011

TUCSON, Ariz. — Jared Loughner had never been in major trouble with the law or overtly violent, but his behavior at his community college was so disturbing that campus police gave him and his parents an ultimatum: get a mental-health evaluation or don’t come back. Loughner went away but his deteriorating mental condition didn’t. About [...]

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Gwyneth Paltrow Compares Postpartum Depression to Being a Zombie

January 13, 2011

Gwyneth Paltrow has never tried to hide her experience with postpartum depression, but she recently opened up to Good Housekeeping with a brave honesty to bring more awareness to the disease. while her first pregnancy with daughter Apple was fine, it was after her son Moses was born in 2006 that she was hit hard [...]

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Dr. Gott: Weaning from Tramadol must be slow

January 13, 2011

Q) I took Tramadol for years for osteoarthritis pain and found if I were late for a dose, I would start getting flu-like symptoms. I was taking three 50-milligram doses a day. Finally, with my doctor’s help, I tapered off totally but began having awful nasal allergies and constant water running out of my head. [...]

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Steps to prevent rabies outlined

January 13, 2011

The death of an 18- year-old male from Maasin, Iloilo blamed on the rabies virus has renewed calls for a massive educational program, particularly in the rural areas to eradicate misplaced beliefs on the treatment of rabies. Ilonggo physician Dr. Elvin Tiangha gave valuable pointers on how to effectively prevent unnecessary loss of life of [...]

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Prostate Cancer Symptoms – Finding The Right Treatment For You

January 13, 2011

Men boast all the time been a lesser amount of apt headed for acquire remedial mind than women, markedly representing unimportant harms which time and again work for while admonition cryptogram representing a extra decided underlying illness. You may possibly boast prostate symptoms utterly at this moment with the intention of mimic prostate evil symptoms. [...]

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Death may be linked to San Pedro clinic

January 13, 2011

The family of one of about 2,300 patients who were notified that a San Pedro clinic unwittingly used contaminated needles to sedate patients contacted health officials Tuesday to report that the 76-year-old mother of two died from complications of hepatitis C. County health officials sent notification letters to patients who were treated at the private [...]

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E. coli Spinach Trial Set to Start

January 13, 2011

A lawsuit involving E. coli-tainted Dole baby spinach is set to start. Chelsey Macey, 26, said she ate the spinach over four years ago and that it allegedly led to a disabling case of post-infectious irritable bowl syndrome (IBS), wrote Deseret News. Macey’s attorneys argued that she is entitled to over $5 million in medical [...]

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…but what does the expert say?

January 13, 2011

You might think that yet another long-haul flight is the last thing the Strictly Come Dancing judge would want to take, given he has endured a weekly commute from London to Los Angeles over the past two months. As such he has clocked up a staggering 11,000 miles a week and a total of 768 [...]

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U.N. panel to search for cholera source

January 13, 2011

UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 17 (UPI) — the United Nations announced Friday the creation of an independent panel of scientific experts to explore the source of the cholera epidemic in Haiti. “We are calling for an international panel and we are in discussions with WHO (the U.N. World Health Organization) to find the best experts to [...]

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