Archive for November, 2008

Doctors don’t know why my legs are getting bigger

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

By Monica Cafferky
Doctors can’t tell Mandy Sellars why her legs keep expanding – all they say is that her only option is a drastic amputation. She travelled to the US for a new TV show in search of an alternative…
It’s not easy being Mandy Sellars. She has hugely outsized legs that make having a normal [...]

Meet Millie, 7, who still smiles despite disease so rare it affects just FOUR people worldwide

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

By Daily Mail Reporter
Brave Millie Smith can still break into a beaming smile despite suffering from a medical condition which is so rare that it has no name and affects just four people in the world.
She was diagnosed at 16 months when tests revealed she had strands missing from her eighth chromosome.
The condition has [...]

Pig organs: Ready for humans at last?

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

Double lung transplant surgery, carried out in 2007? at the Department of thoracic surgery, Foch hospital, Suresnes, France (Image: Foch/Phanie/Rex Features)
IN THE not too distant future, a person in need of a heart transplant could be offered a pig’s organ. That’s the hope of a group [...]

Vitamin D Insufficiency Linked to Parkinson’s Disease

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

by: Reuben Chow, citizen journalist
(NaturalNews) Vitamin D, also called the sunshine vitamin, has already been shown in studies to be important for a healthy immune system, preventing and even reversing cancer, as well as strong bones; it has also been linked to lower incidences of depression as well as diseases such as diabetes, heart disease [...]

A New Face for A.D.H.D., and a Debate

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

By TARA PARKER-POPE
When pediatricians diagnose attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, they often ask their patients whether they know anybody else with the problem.
These days, children are likely to reply with a household name: Michael Phelps, the Olympic superstar, who is emerging as an inspirational role model among parents and children whose lives are affected by attention [...]

Research on mice links fast food to Alzheimer’s

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

LONDON (Reuters) – Mice fed junk food for nine months showed signs of developing the abnormal brain tangles strongly associated with Alzheimer’s disease, a Swedish researcher said on Friday.
The findings, which come from a series of published papers by a researcher at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet, show how a diet rich in fat, sugar and cholesterol [...]

Selenium may slow march of AIDS

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

Contact: Amitabh Avasthi
axa47@psu.edu
814-865-9481
Penn State
Increasing the production of naturally occurring proteins that contain selenium in human blood cells slows down multiplication of the AIDS virus, according to biochemists.
“We have found that increasing the expression of proteins that contain selenium negatively affects the replication of HIV,” said K. Sandeep Prabhu, Penn State assistant professor of immunology and [...]

10 Ways to Save Money on Health Costs During the Recession

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

By Scott Mowbray

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Whatever the prospects for health-care reform, the sick economy is going to put lots of pressure on Americans. Unemployment will be up, the number of uninsured will rise, companies will surely cut health benefits to employees, and all this stress will be, well, unhealthy.
Although there is some evidence that recessions can actually improve [...]

Let’s Talk About Sex

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

By Sally Wadyka for MSN Health & Fitness

 

If you’re like most guys, you probably think you already know everything there is to know about sex. But it’s what you don’t know—or don’t bother to ask—that could hurt you. We’re not talking about satisfying your partner (although that’s important too!), but about issues that impact both [...]

24 Ways to Brighten Your Morning

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

The Wake-Up Routine
The morning is probably no one’s favorite part of the day, particularly if you stayed up the night before to watch Leno or Jaws for the seventeenth time. Remember: Stress and anxiety wreak havoc on your immunity. Enter your day happy and relaxed, and you greatly increase your chances of a healthy, productive [...]