New Research: Possible Blood Test For Postpartum Depression

August 23, 2010

As with most forms of depression, there are no blood tests to confirm Postpartum Depression for new moms.  Ilona S. Yim, PhD, from University of California, lead research out of University of California that may someday be able to help new moms predict whether they are at risk for Postpartum Depression with a simple blood [...]

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Hand-foot-and-mouth disease in children and young adults

August 23, 2010

Hand- foot-and-mouth disease is only a human disease, and should not be confused by foot and mouth disease that affects cattle, sheep and swine.  The diseases are not related.  Humans do not get the animal disease, and animals do not get the human disease. Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is a viral disease that affect mostly children and [...]

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Concern over town’s obese mums-to-be (From The Bolton News)

August 23, 2010

Concern over town’s obese mums-to-be 9:10am Monday 16th August 2010 Print Email Share THE number of pregnant women in Bolton who are dangerously overweight and putting their unborn babies at risk is on the rise. Now health chiefs are looking into how they can get more pregnant women to exercise to tackle what they say [...]

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Scientists ‘one step closer’ to predictive blood test for TB

August 23, 2010

London, Aug 19 : Scientists have said that they are ‘one step closer’ towards a predictive blood test for tuberculosis. A DNA fingerprint in the blood could identify which carriers of TB will go on to get symptoms and spread the infection. the test could mean earlier diagnosis and treatment of the lung disease, potentially [...]

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Lyme disease found in larger area of Mass.

August 23, 2010

BOSTON—Public health officials say more Massachusetts residents are being diagnosed with Lyme disease, and many of them are picking up the tick-borne ailment in areas of the state where it was relatively rare a decade ago. State Department of Public Health figures show that the disease, once most common on Cape Cod and the Islands, [...]

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What are the symptoms of Chrons disease and Ulcerative Colitis?

August 23, 2010

Something isnt right with me lately, (this is my symptoms) I have abdominal pain for 1 month now in the same area (lower right side) and pale yellow diarreah that is sometimes once a day to ten times a day…I am constantly tired and in pain.. they ruled out appendicitis, cysts, a hernia, and bowel [...]

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Chaos rising (From The Northern Echo)

August 23, 2010

Chaos rising 12:06pm Wednesday 4th August 2010 Print Email Share Comments(0) Roaches on the railways, malaria in the snow and the Bishop Auckland head known for his wit and wonderful voice. STARTING from scratch – and in a church magazine, so it must be true – the Messenger, the mag of St Margaret’s in Brookfield, [...]

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Lung cancer symptoms or other disease of lungs??

August 23, 2010

Spitting out blood…lung cancer?? Also my right side…ribs…front to back…have been feeling numb with bone pain in my ribs for the last two weeks and this morning i woke up and spitt out a huge blob of blood. getting migraines out of the blue…fatigue, and my arms and legs will go numb also… anyone have [...]

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Cannabis May Ease Parkinson’s Symptoms

August 23, 2010

Nearly half of Parkinson’s disease patients who have tried marijuana say the drug helped relieve their symptoms, according to a survey of patients with the degenerative neurological disorder. Dr. Evzin Ruzicka, an attending neurologist at Charles University in Prague in the Czech Republic, reported the findings here at the Movement Disorders Society’s Seventh International Congress [...]

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Fosters.com – Dover NH, Rochester NH, Portsmouth NH, Laconia NH, Sanford ME

August 23, 2010

I am an infectious disease physician and have been practicing in the Seacoast area for 20 years. I have seen and treated a large number of patients with Lyme disease. I feel comfortable that the scientific guidelines as published by my professional society, Infectious Diseases Society of America, and very recently revalidated, are medically sound [...]

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