medicine

Interesting article... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7768141.stm Anyone know anything more?

I have had no success to locate a thread on 23 and me. 23andme [ctrl, enter] (Newbie without permissions...) Hence I take the liberty to start a new one, and humbly apologize if there is one already. I read about it recently and had many objections, while at the same time marvelled at the...

Last year a previously healthy 20 yr old attending the same college as my son died of influenza (flu) when he got MRSA pneumonia with it. The CDC reported that after a couple years of sporadic cases, last year they saw a worrisome increase in MRSA pneumonia associated with influenza that was...

I received this email today: Dear [Ashles] As you may have seen in our newsletter, Sense About Science is putting together an online resource to highlight the support that evidence-based medicine enjoys in our society today. We feel the promotion of evidence based medicine has lost public...

A friend of mine has just been diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. She says me being a male; I will never be able to understand what she is going through. I have searched google but haven’t found much. From what I understand it is a primary ovarian condition and is characterized by the...

This memoir follows a brilliant young woman through the difficult decisions we all must make, career, love, education and family. Harriet knew from an early age that she wanted to be a doctor, at that time female doctors were not unknown, just rare. Rarer still were female Air Force doctors...

Physicians in the US is divided into two distinct branches, Allopaths and Osteopaths. Allopathic Doctors have the title MD(Medical Doctor) while Osteopaths have the title DO(Doctor of Osteopathy). MDs significantly outnumber DOs and now Naturopathic "Doctors" (NDs) are an addition to the whole...

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=299282509335931 The guy that designed the Canadian health care system is now advocating partial privatizing it to fix the problems.

I just came across this woo woo: http://www.energy-medicine.info/ I don't think it has been mentioned before on this forum. "Inergetix is the most complete system for sound energy, magnetic, electric, plasma and light energy treatment. Inergetix offers the only system that combines...

US doctors kill skin cancer with cloned T-cells This is incredible! And I'm sure it is just a start. Designer immune system cells, drugs, or nanotechnology, take your pick. Soon we'll just be injecting the designer cures into people and away they will go to destroy the targeted disease cells...

...Medicine 2.0.

I noticed a few people getting quite angry with Dr Malik for using the term 'Allopathy' to refer to conventional Western medicine, and so I thought I'd consult the dictionary: http://www.askoxford.com/results/?view=dict&freesearch=allopathy&branch=13842570&textsearchtype=exact (Emphasis mine)...

I have been having trouble with common warts on my hands for the past few years, and today visited a dermatoligist for topical treatment as I have many times. We've been trying a number of topical treatments with limited success, but incidentally the PA that has been treating me asked me if I...

From here: PhD girl is killed by Chinese treatment I'm not claiming that evidence based medicine is perfect and errors can't happen, but this here is the really scary part about these "traditional" remedies: (bolding mine) They couldn't even find out what ingredients and substances were in...

I think this falls under the "Medicine" category. In my 22 years on Earth, I have never had beer, wine, or alcohol of any type, with the only possible exception being cough medicine (and I am not certain about that). My parents do not drink, nor do my grandparents on either side. I am told...

My dog Mallory is having surgery next week to repair a partially torn cranial cruciate ligament (the equivalent to an ACL in humans). She's a border collie, so she kind of needs her knee. However, we are opting for the simpler graft surgery as opposed to the TPLO, which is normally done on...

Sadly a young man just died up at Western WA University of MRSA pneumonia. That is not the error I am ranting about but there are implications involved. A few weeks back my son got an antibiotic for acne, Doxycycline, at the university's student health clinic. He said it didn't seem to be...

To the people on the forum that know more about this than me. Despite the vagueness inherent in the claim, is there anything to the idea that you can "...boost the immune system?"

From this story, which I don't know how to permanently link to, about a man who survived a 47-story fall, the same fall killing his brother. A few choice excerpts: Do you suppose his wife credited the doctors? Sure, but apparently it wasn't entirely them.... Of course, the media reporting...

As a combined result of current pneumonia and a former injury, I am suffering from back pains. My doctor recommended that I use mustard plasters. Around this part of Europe, mustard plasters are like an old folk remedy. 20 years ago at least, in the Soviet times, everybody used them. I remember...

It seems that scientists have made embryonic stem cell equivalents created from adult human skin cells! http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/11/20/stem.cells.ap/index.html eta: time article http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1685965,00.html?cnn=yes

Before listening to the skeptics guide on the train this morning, I was listening to Radio 4. I loved the unapologetic nature of the chap from the lancet towards homeopathy. it's on listen again: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ "0713: The Faculty of Homeopathy, has accused the...

I have an old friend who told me recently that she wants to go into pharmacognozy. The way I understand it, this is essentially herbal medicine, but I don't really know enough about it to understand what it is. Does anybody know if this is woo or if it is real? Thanks!

It's flu shot time in the USA (and probably lots of other places), and a co-worker is claiming that flu shots are not necessary because if you get the flu you can just treat it with grapefruit seed extract. What little that I've been able to find about grapefruit seed extract, other than on...

70% of Saudi women do not report breast cancer until late stages due to the social stigma, and their fear of being referred to male doctors. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21455455/ To say that this pisses me off beyond words is an understatement. What the hell is the matter with people dying...

I scored hero points again. While distributing flyers for an upcomming garage sale with a friend I got to help a sweet old lady. I was putting the flyer on the door of a house when I heard, "Heeellp" from inside. I asked, "Are you all right? What's wrong?" and the voice replied, "I need...

Another thread was sidetracking, so I start this thread now. Medicine should be taught in schools. Drugs should no longer require a prescription. Why? Teaching medicine would help alleviate health costs and increase the health of a population. Free drug trade is a the only way to avoid the...

http://health.yahoo.com/experts/weilhealthyliving/1522/natural-blood-pressure-control snipped this beauty... If you have high blood pressure and have made and are maintaining these lifestyle changes, you might then try to cut down on your blood pressure medication. Do so gradually, and be sure...

A new article came out this week that found that side effects of herbal/natural products are significantly underreported. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070720115427.htm I also found a really cool paper free that details some interactions--more here (Why yes, I'm shamelessly...

Does a newborn baby have eyes that are the same size as his adult eyes? I know that mammilian babies have proportionally larger eyes than adults, but what of the common assertion that our eyes do not increase in size as we, as humans, mature?