If your knee or hip aches, and chondroitin helps relieve your pain, then researchers in Bern, Switzerland want to sell you some swampland in Florida. Get out your checkbook! Either that, or thank your imagination. A report being issued in the Annals of Internal Medicine today, and reported at WebMD, describes a meta-analysis* of 20 […]
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He’s been developing it on the kinda-sorta QT for a couple of years now….. Steve Case, formerly of AOL and looking for something to do with his millions has decided to join the foray into healthcare, but with a new twist. He’s taking it to the public sector to create profit centers based on advertising
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He’s been developing it on the kinda-sorta QT for a couple of years now….. Steve Case, formerly of AOL and looking for something to do with his millions has decided to join the foray into healthcare, but with a new twist. He’s taking it to the public sector to create profit centers based on advertising
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Yesterday I watched a vignette on the Today Show about the health and healing benefits of laughter. Here’s a link. Meredith Viera talked to a gentleman who teaches “laughter yoga” — a way of using laughter as exercise, I guess. They discussed studies that have shown that laughter, regardless of whether it is genuine or
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As I’ve found more and more great blogs for patients who want to be empowered, I’ve run out of space to include them at right! Sooo……. I’ve moved them to a new page called “Patient-Focused Blogosphere” — check it out! If you have a blog that you’d like to include, I’d be glad to review.
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The stories people share with me about their experiences with the medical world would make your toenails curl. Unfortunately, in the world I live in, I rarely hear the good stories. The stories are usually sad and frightening tales, those that leave me thinking, “there but for the grace of God….” Many patients blog, using
A PhD in Patientology ~ thanks to Tiffany Read More »
All it took was a good sneeze. It was the sneeze that started a string of events and ended up making for good research. While reading the newspaper Monday night — yup — I sneezed. My nose started to bleed which, when the heat is turned on in the house, happens on occasion. It usually
Emergency! The Nose Knows Read More »
Yesterday my family convened around the Easter Dinner table for our usual holiday meal craziness. We are blessed because most of us live within a two hour drive, so we can get together for holidays or for fun, but not feel like we’re making an extended stay out of it. And we are blessed because
Medical Family History: Get It Down Before They’re Gone! Read More »
