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Wilson’s disease - A rare kind of inherited disease 2008-03-04 03:13:24 Wilson’s disease
(WD) is a rare inherited
disorder in which excessive amounts of copper accumulate in the body. The buildup of copper leads to damage in the kidneys, brain, and eyes. Although copper accumulation begins at birth, symptoms of the disorder appear later in life. The most characteristic symptom of WD is the Kayser-Fleisher ring – a rusty brown ring around the cornea of the eye that can best be viewed using an ophthalmologist’s slit lamp. The primary consequence for most of those with WD is liver disease, appearing in late childhood or early adolescence as acute hepatitis, liver failure, or progressive chronic liver disease in the form of chronic active hepatitis or cirrhosis of the liver. In others, the first symptoms occur later in adulthood and most commonly include Read more:Wilson
KERALA AYURVEDIC MASSGE 2008-03-01 17:06:45 Kerala style of ayurvedic massage. It will give fresh life to you all body cells. It is best antiaging treatment. It may heal you joint and muscle pain.
Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma 2008-03-01 17:01:37 This journal is written for the non-Hodgkins lymphoma patient and provides a compelling amalgamation of inspirational stories. You will also find a news component which should be of some benefit to the non-Hodgkins lymphoma patient. read more | digg story
RHEUMATISM (Arthritis) - Ayurvedic treatment is the best remedy 2008-02-10 00:20:43 Rheumatism is a disease marked by inflammation and pain in joints and muscles, usually recurrent and often caused due to exposure to cold. It is at time associated with fever. It is not treated in time it may be affect with heart. In Ayurveda it is known as amavata. This disease is caused by production and circulation of a substance called ama in the body. This ama is produced by improper digestion as well as metabolism, and it gets lodged in joins etc. Treatment Method The suitable medicine for the treatment of this condition are Simhanada guggulu. The main ingredient of the medicine for this treatment is guggulu. The patients having constipative tendency Simhanada guggulu is more useful. For any other type of patients, Mahayogaraja guggulu is a better medicine. The dose of both of them Read more:Arthritis
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Smoking will lead to Gangrene 2008-02-01 17:37:32 Gangrene - Peripheral Vascular DiseaseGangrene is the death of tissue in part of the body.Gangrene can occur when a body part loses its blood supply. This may happen from, for example, injury or infection. You have a higher risk for gangrene if you have:Blood vessel disease (such as arteriosclerosis in your arms or legs) Diabetes A serious injury Surgery Immunosuppression (for example, from HIV or chemotherapy) Gangrene refers to the decay and death of tissue resulting from an interruption in blood flow to a certain area of your body. Some types of gangrene also involve a bacterial infection. Gangrene most commonly affects the extremities, including your toes, fingers and limbs, but can also occur in your muscles and internal organs.Treatment is usually surgical debridement and excision wi Read more:Smoking
BIRD FLU - Avian influenza - A widely spread viral rare diseases 2008-01-27 18:22:25 Avian influenza (AI) or Bird Flu is a viral disease that primarily effects fowl such as chickens, turkeys, guinea fowls, ducks, and other avian species. Fowl plague has been described as early as 1878 as a disease of chickens in Italy. In 1955 it was determined that it was one of the influenza viruses.There are three types of influenza, A, B and C. Only type A infects animals and only type A can cause a panepidemic. To date, all outbreaks of the highly pathogenic form have been from the H5N1 subtype. The flu is transmitted from bird to bird by direct contact with the discharge from infected birds, contaminated feed, water, cages, equipment, vehicles and clothing. Eggs from infected hens can break and contaminate incubators. Humans become infected after direct or indirect contact with infec
White House: Bird Flu Suspected in Michigan Geese 2008-01-27 18:16:09 "U.S. officials believe that wild geese in Michigan
may have been infected with a strain of the bird flu virus, but it is not thought to be a highly pathogenic strain and is one that has been seen previously in North America, the WhiteHouse
said on Monday."read more | digg story Read more:White House
The world’s smallest wearable cardiac monitor 2008-01-18 03:04:09 The world’s smallest wearable cardiac
monitor, a toffee-sized silicon locket, is almost ready at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B). While the tiny computer that can store a week’s electrocardiogram (ECG) data awaits a manufacturer, it is already in demand. IIT engineers borrow it, rig some adjustments and the locket meant to monitor a heart without hospital visits measures tremors in buildings instead.“I would be the first to buy one for my mother. The basic device is like plug-and-play,’’ said IIT’s professor Rakesh Lal, of the School of Bioscience and Bioengineering, who conceptualised the project with professor S. Mukherji. “There isn’t another product like the silicon locket,’’ Lal told HT from the University of California where he is a visiting fel
Quantum-Touch - A new alternative medicine 2008-01-11 06:02:06 Imagine a book written like an operator’s manual that enables an individual with no prior background or training in the health sciences to perform vital healing work on himself and others. Imagine being able to learn these vital skills in less time than it would take you to fly from upstate New York to Northern California. Imagine a book so valuable that it is endorsed by numerous healthcare practitioners, including medical doctors, chiropractors, physical therapists, nurses and a wide variety of bodyworkers.Quantum-Touch is such a book.Dr. Norman Shealy, M.D., founder of the American Holistic Medical Association and internationally renowned for his accomplishments in the field of alternative healing, wrote the forward, and cited Quantum-Touch as “the first technique that may truly all
PROGENITOR OF AYURVEDA - DHANVANTARI 2008-01-04 14:41:13 It is believed that Dhanvantri, the pioneer god of medicine, destroyer of senility, diseases and death descended to earth to teach mainly surgery along with other allied branches of medicine. One of the earliest and outstanding leaders of Indian culture in the field of medicine in general and surgery in particular was Dhanvantari. His personality and identity are shrouded in the mist of antiquity. Dhanvantari, the god incarnate of Lord Vishnu is a celebrated god surgeon, who comes out during the churning of the milk - ocean by demons and demi gods. He appeared with Amritakumbham (pot of nectar) in one hand and Ayurveda in the other. In Ayurveda, the Dhanvantari is described as the teacher of Sushruta (the renowned surgeon) and his other colleagues, viz., Anupadhenava, Aurabhra,
Breast Massage Technique 2007-11-23 19:54:03 This self breast massage technique is designed to move lymph out of the breast as an aid in woman's health. Reducing toxins from the breast tissues is believed to reduce breast cancer risk for cancers related to toxins. Read more:Breast
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Live Breast Examination - How to check your breasts 2007-11-23 19:53:22 Dr Chris Steele of www.thefamilygp.com demonstrates a breast examination on a live model. This shows how to check yourself for early signs of tumours, cysts and other symptoms of breast cancer. Read more:Breast
Tree like structure growing on human body due to Papilloma Virus 2007-11-22 11:11:10 An Indonesian fisherman who feared that he would be killed by tree-like growths covering his body has been given hope of recovery by an American doctor - and Vitamin A.Dede, now 35, baffled medical experts when warty "roots" began growing out of his arms and feet after he cut his knee in a teenage accident. The welts spread across his body unchecked and soon he was left unable to carry out everyday household tasks.Sacked from his job and deserted by his wife, Dede has been raising his two children - now in their late teens - in poverty, resigned to the fact that local doctors had no cure for his condition.To make ends meet he even joined a local "freak show", parading in front of a paying audience alongside victims of other peculiar diseases.Although supported by his extended family, he wa Read more:human
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Scientist found answers for the menace of drug-resistant diseases 2007-11-22 10:51:15 For more than 50 years antibiotics, such as penicillin, have been the ammunition in war against a rogues gallery of scourges from tonsillitis to typhoid fever. Recently, however, antibiotics have begun to lose their mojo.read more | digg story Read more:answers
A Cancer Cure Most Doctors Won't Tell You About 2007-11-13 09:48:39 During the early 1900's, Dr. William Coley re-discovered a cancer treatment that was surprisingly effective. By infecting tumors with common bacteria, Coley learned the body could be triggered to kill off cancerous tumors. Conventional modern medicine rarely employs Coley’s technique today for 1 reason: they still don't understand how it works.read more | digg story Read more:Cancer
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Looking for palliative care? 2007-10-27 00:21:26 What is palliative care?'Palliative Care', also called 'comfort care', is primarily directed at providing relief to a person having incurable illness through symptom management and pain management. The goal is not to cure, but to provide comfort and maintain the highest possible quality of life for as long as life remains. Well-rounded palliative care programs also address mental health and spiritual needs. The focus is not on death, but on compassionate specialized care for the living. Palliative care is well suited to an interdisciplinary team model that provides support for the whole person and those who are sharing the person's journey in love. For most patients, physical pain is only one of several symptoms. Relief of pain should therefore be seen as part of a comprehensive pattern of
Alternatives to CHEMOTHERAPY 2007-10-25 11:21:14 One of my friends forwarded this information. Not sure about the authenticity and validity of this information. But seems to be intresting. Please comment your views on this.CANCER AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHN HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY .Cancer Update from John Hopkins:1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a Read more:Alternatives
Women's Heart Attack Symptoms Different from Men's 2007-10-23 12:49:38 Research by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) indicates that women often experience new or different physical symptoms as long as a month or more before experiencing heart attacks. Among the 515 women studied, 95-percent said they knew their symptoms were new or different a month or more before experiencing their heart attack.read more | digg story Read more:Heart
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Shingles disease 2007-10-04 13:23:52 Shingles disease
can be a nasty illness that originates from the chicken pox virus. Article gives an easy to understand explanation of the diseaseread more | digg story
Panchakarma - A kerala style ayurvedic treatment 2007-09-07 10:22:23 Pizhichil, one of the purvakarmas.The Vedas revealed the truth that all the living and non-living things are a combination of pancha bhoota (prithvi, ap, thejas, vayu, akasa). Ayurveda also agrees with this principle. To regulate the living body easily, the acharyas concised the pancha bhootas into tridoshas (vata, pitta, kapha). These tridoshas are the basic pavement for all ayurvedic theories. Along with tridoshas, datusamjna, malasamjna are given to certain constituents for the functioning concept of living things. Datus and malas are controlled by doshas. Samyavastha (well-being) is the condition when the doshas are in their natural rhythm. When this rhythm is lost it is called vaishamya (disease). The former means order, the latter, disorder.Doshas cannot be identified separately in s
Scientists Find Virus Infection that Fights Brain Cancer 2008-03-19 21:33:49 "The brain cancers we look at are very nasty," said Anthony Van den Pol, a scientist at Yale University and a study author. "This virus is pretty good at killing all of the tumor cells."read more | digg story Read more:Brain
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Acute lymphocytic leukemia - symptoms and treatment 2008-03-27 12:29:25 Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) or acute lymphoblastic leukemia or acute childhood leukemia is the cancer that affects blood and bone marrow. Both children and adults get affected by this. The cancer affects a group of immature white blood cells called lymphocytes and spreads very fast. Patients usually becomes exposed to infection and bleeding. It spreads very fast but can be cured by medicine if detected early and treated well. Symptoms FeverLoss of appetiteWeaknessWeight lossFatigueUncontrolled bleedingPainless lumps in lymph nodesBone or joint painsPain below left ribs or spleen swellingHead acheVomitingRed spot on skinBlurred visionGiddiness and seizures. If the ALL is T-cell ALL it cause breathing problem, coughing, or swelling in head or arms. Cause Leukemia is caused by damage t Read more:symptoms
Tests for HIV infection | Aids: Symptoms, diagnosis, risk fa 2008-03-30 03:10:42 These tests use a small sample of blood taken from a vein in your arm to find out if you’ve been infected with HIV.The tests look for antibodies to HIV, not for HIV itself. HIV antibodies are made by B cells as your body tries to get rid of HIV.read more | digg story Read more:diagnosis
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Asthma alternative medicine -Bathini Fish - 2008 June 2008-03-30 02:55:21 HYDERABAD: It's that time of the year when thousands of asthmatics assemble here, open their mouths wide and gobble up a fish medicine that promises them a herbal cure!Being an alternative form of medicine, the fish medicine promoted by the Bathini Goud brothers, lacks scientific evidence till date to prove that it cures asthma or any respiratory diseases. "The Bathini family is giving the medicine free of cost and over the years nobody has complained of any complications, so why this controversy?" asked Dattatreya. Around 6,00,000 patients were given the medicine last year and the number is expected to go up to 7,00,000 this year, according to the family. But if one goes by the number of fish supplied by the fisheries department, about 2,00,000 people take the medicine every year. The res
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Treatment & Symptoms 2008-03-29 20:58:05 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig's disease affects motor neuron nerve cells in brain and spinal cord. Motor neurons slowly degenerates and die. Thus brain lose control of muscle movement and slowly the patient gets paralysed. Disease is usually found among men at the age of 40 to 60. SymptomsDifficulty to walk, write and talk. Then the patient gets paralysed slowly and later on completely. Respiratory failures are also seen which results in death of patient. Some develop depression and has problem with thinking and decision making also. CauseThere is no specific cause and it occures random. It is also said that the desease occurs due to defective functioning of genes producing SOD1enzyme. About 10% of the patients inherit the disease. Treatment
ALS does not have any treatm
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