The book - The Red Bodyguard: The Amazing Health Promoting Properties Of The Tomato - written by UK pharmacist Ron Levine with Science Writer Gerard Cheshire - is in my opinion the best read in...
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Hey...April Fools' Day is over and here comes another month. Hello, Spring! Done your spring cleaning already? Anyways...to start the month off, lemme answer the tag by Ruth of Allergizer. 1. Link...
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Today is St. Patrick's Day. According to Wikipedia: Saint Patrick's Day (Irish: Lá 'le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig), colloquially St. Paddy's Day or Paddy's Day, is an...
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Wow, can't believe the week and this month is over. It's not every year we get a 29th for February, so it seems today is really special. I know a couple of people whose birthdays fall on the...
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Liz of Healthbolt have raised a important issue about what doctors think about medical 'googlers'. Medical 'googler' is defined as a person who researches his/her symptoms, illness,...
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Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. You know how parties on this special end of the year celebration goes. Drinking, eating, smoking, dancing all night. Kissing your date, kissing strangers and stuff......
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The most common surgical procedure performed on males is circumcision. Previously conducted because of cultural and religious reasons, now medical evidence suggests that circumcision is medically...
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When I gave birth by c-section almost five years ago, my ob/gyne didn't ask which incision i would prefer: the bikini cut/horizontal cut (hip to hip cut) or the granny cut/vertical cut (pubic bone...
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To me it has always been old notion that it is healthy to eat fruit peels. In the case of grapes and apples, it is not a feat to eat the peels right away. Although there are individuals that...
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Admittedly, I am a bit giddy that the one sentence comment I made on the diabetes drug Avandia® issue got noticed by David Carr and made it to his New York Times article Call the Doctor. The said...
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by Gloria Gamat on April 29, 2007
Not according to me, but according to most physicians as revealed by the "2007 Obesity Report" from Epocrates, Inc.: 52 percent of physicians believe that more than half of their patients...
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According to new survey/study recently released by DrScore (a patient advocacy research group providing an online environment for patients to rate their doctors for free and to use the site to locate...
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Teenagers are now seeking surgical options to lose weight. In lieu of this, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) warns teenagers that liposuction and tummy tucks are inappropriate...
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by Gloria Gamat on March 29, 2007
Texas State has agreed to mandate the HPV vaccination. Florida however is still stalling on the matter, while the rest of the country has varying opinions. The global healthcare marketing research...
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Your Christmas checklist is probably fully ticked off at this time. Gifts, check. Christmas lunch/dinner menu, check. Sent Christmas cards, check. Parties RSVPd, check. You get the whole picture. But...
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by Gloria Gamat on November 14, 2006
Yes, botox injections over a weekend in Paris will be preferred by nearly 40% of women. The City of Light, the world's most romantic city and most popular travel destination - Paris- has met its...
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In an opinion letter recently issued by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) on the herbal alternatives for HRT (hormone-replacement therapy) concluded that not only are they...
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I'm not sure if readers of this blog have already guessed that I am based and born in the Philippines - a country in Asia where healthcare is expensive, and something that the government has very...
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A cataract is a clouding of the part of the eye, called the lens, which is normally transparent. When cataracts exist, the cloudiness interferes with the way that light passes through the lens to the...
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by kevin on September 07, 2005
MedPage today writes about the worthlessness of multivitamins in healthy adults: But for healthy adults, the jury is out. Whether a daily multivitamin provides any clinical benefit to the average...
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by kevin on August 26, 2005
A young boy has died after attempting intravenous chelation therapy for autism. Orac at Respectful Insolence opines on the case: Because there are no good studies that demonstrate its efficacy in...
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by kevin on August 26, 2005
A recent study in the Lancet has shot down this form of alternative treatment: The Lancet says the time for more studies is over and doctors should be bold and honest with patients about...
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