Allium Sativum or garlic rich with antioxidants that can enhance our immune system and also the heart. The active component is called allium and it is produced when the garlic is chopped, chewed, or bruised.
Apart from that, garlic is a powerful antibiotic and study also stated that it can reduce blood cholesterol level.
C’mon, let add some garlic into our meals!
I am taking an expectorant, a cough suppressant, an antibiotic, and an inhaler.
Yet I am still wheezing up a storm.
This cough has lasted over 2 weeks.
This bullshit needs to end.
But at least I spent my Thanksgiving with my grandparents. My grandfather was a surgeon, my nana is a nurse, and one of my aunts who was there is a doctor. So within 20 minutes of arriving, there were rummaging through drawers and cabinets looking for medicine to give me and calling the pharmacy for more. It’s great having relatives who can get you prescription drugs.
The night was terrible.
I suffered, couldn’t sleep.
The torture was incredible.
I had to bite my lips.
Oh yes! My dear sun!
At last, the day has come!
My dream is coming true.
The shop I’m walking to
Is quite near, but this way
Looks very long today.
Phew! I’m in, and now
I see the fruit I thought about
While suffering that night!
Pomegranate, you’ll help me fight,
And I know you’ll help me win.
I only need your skin.
The only remedy I trust.
It always heals one illness fast.
That’s why I shambled here:
You’ll kill this diarrhoea.
The other day, J. was discussing the recent flu vaccine with his cousin who said that “vaccines are not really necessary now, right? there’s not a lot of these diseases around anyway”.
Sarcastic analogy time!
You know, J. believes that proper sewerage systems are overrated and a waste of money. Look around you now. What is the incidence rate of cholera in Singapore? All these sewer systems can break down, burst open the road and cause road disruptions. They are a waste of taxpayers money. Sewerage systems bad.
End of analogy!
There’s this lack of realisation that the reason we enjoy this relatively pertussis, measles, polio and mumps free environment is a good public health system aided by the compulsory administration of the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella), polio and DPT (diphteria, pertussis, tetanus) vaccines. That vaccines were the reason for the eradication of smallpox. And that in areas in the world where vaccination rates have dropped below herd immunity levels, these diseases (except possibly smallpox) can make a comeback.
Next, there’s this lack of realisation that these diseases can cause serious health problems that outweigh the risks of vaccine reactions. This is thinking that needs to be adjusted.
All emotions have their roots in instincts,specifically Survival instinct.Emotions are natural expressions of the organism to protect itself.Bottling them up will result in physical problems,for instance when in anger or in a fighting mood more adrenalin is released and if it is not released it shall affect health.
Express your feelings and emotions.To avoid unpleasantness in life, express them in a way that is socially acceptable and at the same time give vent to your feelings.This needs training and practice. Channelize emotions, not suppress them.One simple way to give vent to your anger and frustration is to punch a soft pillow till your feeling subsides or jump in private with out clothes.Especially the second one seems to be funny, try it, you shall know.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) – Men who bottle up their anger at being unfairly treated at work are up to five times more likely to suffer a heart attack, or even die from one, than those who let their frustration show, a Swedish study has found.
The study by the Stress Research Institute of Stockholm University followed 2,755 employed men who had not suffered any heart attacks from 1992 to 2003.
At the end of the study, 47 participants had either suffered an attack, or died from heart disease, and many of those had been found to be “covertly coping” with unfair treatment at work.
“After adjustment for age, socioeconomic factors, risk behaviors, job strain and biological risk factors at baseline, there was a close-response relationship between covert coping and the risk of incident myocardial infarction or cardiac death,” the study’s authors wrote.
Covert coping was listed as “letting thing pass without saying anything” and “going away” despite feelings of being hard done by colleagues or bosses.
Men who often used these coping techniques had a two to fivefold higher risk of developing heart disease than those who were more confrontational at work, the study showed.
The researchers said they could not answer the question of what might be a particularly healthy coping strategy at work, but listed open coping behavior when experiencing unfair treatment or facing a conflict as “protesting directly,” “talking to the person right away,” “yelling at the person right away” or “speaking to the person later when things have calmed down.”
The study was published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5AN0J820091124
Hyptis crenata has been prescribed by Brazilian healers for millennia to treat ailments from headaches and stomach pain to fever and flu.
A team from the University of Newcastle found that when the mint was given in a dose similar to that prescribed by traditional Brazilian healers, the medicine was as effective at relieving pain as a synthetic aspirin-style drug.
Lead researcher Graciela Rocha is Brazilian and remembers being given the tea as a cure for every childhood illness. She said “It tastes more like sage, which is another member of the mint family. Not that nice really, but then medicine isn’t supposed to be nice, is it?”
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Total Available: $60 Million
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It’s nice to be around other ladies that are pregnant and due within a month or two of me. I love getting to chat with them and share stories without feeling like I’m getting advice. Not that I have anything against advice, exactly. Anyway, my friends are just so good at being able to chat about pregnancy and the life of being a mother to a toddler to where it is enjoyable. And one of the best parts being that they don’t project pregnancy symptoms onto themselves. Just one example, many women know that your belly can get itchy during pregnancy, but just because you’ve heard women talk about it or you’ve read it in a book doesn’t mean that you have to convince yourself that you are experiencing it too. There’s actually a lot I could list here, but I’ll stick with one.
I generally do not share much about Spencer’s birth story with other people. I don’t care to bring attention to myself like that. Besides when I say I had HELLP people want information on it since pretty much no one has heard of it and doesn’t it sound so dramatic to say “It’s when your liver swells to the point it could rupture and your blood pressure shoots up so high you’re at a huge risk for a stroke and your blood vessels constrict so tight that your blood cells are shredded like playdough in a spaghetti maker and your platelets drop so low that you could bleed to death easily.” Yeah, I thought that sounded dramatic too. Not my style.
Anyway, there’s another girl in my ward that had HELLP with her son, though it was not so severe and presented no complications for her other than being induced a week early. Thank goodness for her! She has been caught in the same situation Kevin and I were in, how will it affect the growth of their family? Is it worth risking again? She’s pretty interested in how things are going with the doctors and everything. I’m hoping things go well (duh, of course) so that she can have some peace of mind.
I also was speaking with another friend, her daughter is SO adorable, who is on zofran. She only needed it during her first trimester with Millie and is hoping it’s the same way this time. So far I have had to continue taking the pills, wishing I didn’t have to.
Speaking of zofran, I skipped a couple of doses the other day. BIG mistake! First, I got a headache. Not just like any old headache. This was a migraine type headache. Now, I know how to handle these things, I’ve had doctors trying to shove pills down my throat for migraines since I was 12. But this was one of the worst I’ve had, I think. And because I’d skipped my medicine I was nauseated so I couldn’t say it was from my head or from pregnancy. Because of it though, my gag reflex was so awful and every time I’d gag (for no apparent reason other than swallowing) it would feel like my head was going to split open. Once I got home, after Kevin convinced me to eat some toast before bed, I just wanted to go to sleep so I could sleep through the pain and not deal with it. Haha, yeah right! My head hurt so badly it actually woke me up twice that night. I’ve had some killer migraines, ones that have caused me to throw up before, but I’ve never had one wake me up because it hurt so badly. Reading up on the medication, there were several complaints about “zofran hangovers.” So now, when I go to the doctor next week I will have to ask her how to tell the difference between a zofran hangover and a HELLP/Pre-eclampsia headache. I don’t think I need to worry this early in my pregnancy but we’re trying not to take chances this time.
Also, when I understood that this medicine would be playing with the serotonin in my brain I was concerned about my mental health. Low serotonin levels produce insomnia, depression, food cravings, increased sensitivity to pain, aggressive behavior, and poor body-temperature regulations. It’s hard to say if I have experienced any of that or not. Pregnancy seems to do all those things, except the depression, I’m not really a depressed kind of person. The increased sensitivity to pain might explain why the headache hurt so badly. Better get off this stuff before I have this baby! My thermostat has pretty much always been broken, so I don’t know. Anyway, I haven’t had the blues like I was first concerned about so that’s good news.
Oh, and if you want to know about food cravings, I’ve only craved things I am not supposed to eat and so I haven’t. Sushi is the biggest craving so far, really. What I wouldn’t give for a table covered in dragon rolls, caterpillar rolls, mexican rolls, crunch rolls, and a great dollop of wasabi next to a pile of pickled ginger. Oh man, I miss my sushi! I can have veggie sushi, but I don’t know if I’d have the self control to just get veggie sushi so I’ve just stayed away. The second craving being corn dogs. A delicious corn dog dipped in ketchup and mustard. But, I’m trying to listen to the doctors orders and stay away from them. Sad. Otherwise it’s fried shrimp with cocktail sauce. My friend was going to take me to Red Lobster for their all-you-can-eat-any-way-you-like-it-shrimp, but we never made it down for it. Oh well, I don’t think I could eat my money’s worth anyway so it’s probably for the best.
Indian philosophy recognizes mind as an organ like other organs, but ranked Superior.Sri Krishna declares in the Bhagavad Gita-”I am Mind among organs”
Activity of the brain is mind;activity of the mind is intellect and Chitta is on a higher plane.
By controlling and channelizing Chitta any thing is possible(incidentally, nothing is Super natural according to Indian Philosophy,everything is Natural).
Yoga is built around this concept.We are what we think;we think because of what we eat.
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“Phantom” pain is like a ghost in the body — but it’s anything but imaginary. People who have had an arm or leg amputated can often still feel sensations of the missing limb, even though it’s no longer there. These sensations can be painful, and scientists are always looking for new ways to help relieve this phantom pain for amputees. Treatment often involves using mirrors to visually trick the person’s brain. The thinking is that, if a person can “see” his own body in a new way, his brain may stop sending pain messages.
In a new study, a team of neuroscientists have made another surprising discovery about amputees: They can be taught to mentally move their missing limbs in ways that are impossible in the real, physical world. It’s impossible for a person to bend his wrist down and then twist his hand around in a full circle.
Seven people who had had their arms amputated above the elbow participated in the experiment. After extensive mental training, four of the seven were able to feel the sensation of this impossible act, and describe it in detail.
“It is very surprising that anybody — amputees or not — can learn impossible movements just by thinking about it,” Henrik Ehrsson of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, told Science News. Ehrsson is a neuroscientist, which is a scientist who studies the brain and nervous system.
Although the study itself is interesting, it may be able to help people with other kinds of mental disorders. A person with anorexia nervosa, for example, loses her appetite and/or stops eating, sometimes with fatal results. People with anorexia are usually believed to have a distorted self-image and often see themselves in an extremely negative way. But people suffering from this condition may benefit from this new research, Lorimer Moseley of the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute in Randwick, Australia, told to Science News. Just as amputees imagined their phantom limbs could move in impossible ways, a person with anorexia may be able to change self-image by concentrating on a change to the body.
V.S. Ramachandran is a neuroscientist and the director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego. In his research, Ramachandran has shown that phantom pain can be reduced with the help of a mirror. The mirror is placed so that when the amputee looks in the mirror, it looks like he has both hands. As he looks at the reflection, he clenches and unclenches his one hand while—and it appears as though both hands and are clenching and unclenching. At the same time, he mentally clenches and unclenches his phantom hand. When he sees both hands unclenching, he feels pain lessen.
Ramachandran says his mirror therapy, as well as the new research, show that much is left to learn about how the brain perceives the body. “Body image turns out to be extraordinarily plastic,” Ramachandran told Science News. “We think of ourselves as stable people with a stable body image — but we can inhabit a body that cannot exist in the physical world.”
http://sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/49687/title/FOR_KIDS_New_twists_for_phantom_limbs
Today I had a appointment with an intake counselor here in Durham. When she started talking about Bipolar and Borderline Personality Disorder, I had to stop her before she got to far ahead of me. You see my memory fucking sucks and if I’m getting a lot of technical information, I won’t retain it. So I had to slow her down, tell her I needed the information in child language, and take notes.
When I asked her about the difference in the two, she informed me there were only three real differences.
1) Bipolar is a chemical in-balance of the brain, Borderline Personality Disorder is something you learn as you grow up, basically a life’s lesson taught by your family, friends, and yourself as you grow up.
2) Borderline Personality Disorder is primarily about relationships and how you perceive them, including how you feel about yourself. One minute your hot or on, the next minute your cold or off.
3) There is no medical treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder as their is with Bipolar, just learning to relive your life.
So according to the Licensed Clinical Counselor I spoke with today, those are the only 3 real differences between the 2. Well thank you very much for someone finally explaining it to me. My next step is an intensive 90 days of therapy. First 30 days I will go to 3 different counseling sessions a week, the next 30 days I will go to 2, then the last 30 days I will go once a week. Each week will be a mix of group therapy and individual therapy. Should I decide I want to go to just one or the other therapy I will be dropped from the program as both therapies are connected with the other. The therapy sessions are called, Triumph. What the hell it stands for, I have no clue. LOL.
I concerned about this, because the Counselor didn’t talk about sending me to Psych Counseling. She thinks the Triumph program will help me with my Bipolar in it’s own way. My concern is that the Borderline Personality Disorder will take over, leaving the Bipolar mistreated besides by the medications they will be putting me on December 10th. So I’m at a confusion point with my disease and my lifestyle traits. LOL. I think that is how I will refer to Borderline Personality Disorder from here on out, lifestyle traits, since thats all it really is.
I did shock the counselor as I recounted my life. She told me she has been bad, but never that much bad shit happening in one persons live and that person still being alive. She then said the one thing that drives me fucking nuts “you seem like a very strong girl”. Do they not see it’s all a big fake piece of existence? The hiding in a corner from the world? Help me damn it! I’m a little girl stuck inside a big girl’s body!
Some new developments in myself that I’m coming across. 1) I’m seeing hallucinations, 2) The self mutilating has increased 3) I’m hearing voices and things that aren’t there. Woo Hoo someone call me a funny farm wagon. LOL. Thats actually what I almost told the counselor today.
Lord help me, surely I’m not getting that bad after being so long without my medication or counseling.
Agamben wrote of the doctor who, terminally ill with leukemia, turns his body into a laboratory. This marks a certain extreme point in the production of the biopolitical body. But what are we to make of the plastic surgeon who operates on the mere surface of the body, and even their own body. Can we speak of a threshold beyond the threshold: of a space of pure surface, in which the involuted topology of the biopolitical body has been folded out again into a contact, essential and irreducible, with the values (metaphysical, spectacular, even ideological) that have always concealed its presence. Of course: the surface is just a surface. But doesn’t this surface already come from beyond the deepest depths?
The beauty of appearance resists the formation of the biopolitical body. The cosmetic surface of the body, as limit and boundary, is the zone of a coming-into-appearance that always transcends the structure of sovereign domination. Hannah Arendt, in the Human Condition, saw this clearly: the fateful turn of metaphysics was from the idea of beauty to the idea of the good. We cannot exactly follow her in a move that threatens to aestheticize politics, but there is this grain of truth. The superfluity of beauty resists the gesture by which power enforces itself through the production of depths. It is the anti-metaphysical moment of metaphysics: the surface of metaphysics that betrays its inner truth. There can be no return to the polis: but perhaps we can recognize in the everyday a residual space of appearance.
The plastic surgeon wants to operate on himself. This is impossible for every other surgeon. But for the plastic surgeon it is almost possible. The next best thing is to get a friend to do it: surgery, the most violent of interventions, becomes the gift of friendship.
A strange exchange. Politicians becoming doctors, doctors becoming politicians — this is the terrible story of the 20th century. But now doctors become friends…
The greatness of the modern television drama is this: the perfect fusion of kitsch sentimentality and macabre, Baroque, sophistication. If there were only aesthetic daring, the relentless exposure of nasty truth, it would be much more insipid, predictable, easy. The plastic surgeon — like the vampire, like the undertaker — is a a metaphor for this uncanny conjunction. The corpus, invoked in the first gestures of political modernity, becomes the beautiful corpse.
Is the camp the paradigm of biopolitical modernity? Or is it not, rather, Miami: the city overwhelmed with floods of every kind — of refugees, of drugs, of crime, and every sort of “contamination.” The city exposed: the city as the exposure and porosity of national boundaries. But also of savage beauty…
OMG! (to steal a phrase from those much younger than I), LOL. In fact, I can’t stop laughing. I have been looking at one of the areas of tort reform that is hotly contested in Michigan, and I came across this marvelous quote from George Bush, acting as President back in 2004:
“Too many OB/GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country.”–George Bush
Are you laughing too?? I am still laughing. I think it’s particularly accurate considering some of the things I have heard about the manner in which OB/GYN’s “practice” medicine, instituting their opinions and “care” when women are in their most vulnerable and passive positions and physical states. God, it doesn’t get really any better than that. I had been looking at articles about how medical malpractice lawsuits would influence tort reform, and I came across that quote that had to be shared.
Where was I? Oh yeah, talking about medical malpractice reform, but here is a good quote too:
In 2003, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies issued a devastating report detailing the scope and gravity of the safety of the U.S. health care system. Two studies showed that “at least 44,000 people, and perhaps as many as 98,000 people, die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors that could have been prevented.” As the New York Times’ David Leonhardt found in September 2009, “After reviewing thousands of patient records, medical researchers have estimated that only 2 to 3 percent of cases of medical negligence lead to a malpractice claim.” And as Tom Baker, director of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law and author of The Malpractice Myth, noted in August, the rate of claims is going down:
“We have approximately the same number of claims today as in the late 1980s. Think about that. The cost of health care has doubled since then. The number of medical encounters between doctors and patients has gone up — and research shows a more or less constant rate of errors per hospitalizations. That means we have a declining rate of lawsuits relative to numbers of injuries.”
So, while health care costs more, causes the same injuries and people go to the doctor more, lawsuits have gone down because of tort reforms designed to protect doctors at the expense of patient rights. That’s what I really wanted to get out when I found the quote about doctors and their loves. I guess I will just have to put this in another post. I am laughing to hard at George Bush.
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Today, I had to go see my ex-husband to beg him to go get my medications for me. Not a happy sight since we are divorced for his abusive behavior. But they are my heart medications so it was either go with out them or ask someone and I feel I’ve panhandled Larry and my Grandma enough to last them a year, if not more.
I want to self-mutilate so bad right now, but I know I have to fight the urge. After all, thats the whole reason why I’m at my mom’s house. I have been bad about it pone too many times and fear as often as the urge is coming on that one day I might just take it too far and slice through a major artery. How can one person have so much to live for and so little left for life? I ask myself this all the time and never can seem to find an answer.
My mouth and body are in manic mode, my head is in depressed mode, driving my mom nuts right now. LOL. Kinda like it since it means I’m up doing things even if I’m in a fog doing them. Today I worked on 2 wreaths to try to sell on ebay, made fudge mini cakes, peppermint fudge mini cakes, washed Tiger (my truck), cleaned moms house and did her laundry, put away her groceries, and made 4 shoe boxes full of christmas stuff for her church to give to this organization that donates them to children. All in All her church made a 100 boxes, I made a whole 4 of them. I’m proud of myself for getting up and doing things, but like I said I’ve been in a fog doing it.
I have been walking, but it doesnt work with me like the gym did. This time last year I was doing 7 days a week, 2 hours a day. I so wish I could get back into that. I was losing weight and my mind wasn’t as bad as it is this year. I was actually proud of myself. Another thing that has me down is no money. I want to add things to my blog and in order to do so, i have to buy the domain and set it up. Can’t do much without money and I’m seeing that. But at the same time, I can’t work, my mind is too fucked up right now to do anything like working. Plus my cuts don’t look good in my line of work where your dealing with the public so most employers won’t hire me anyway.
I fucking hate that I don’t know where I am anymore. I’m so tired, I’m waiting for sleep to come even though I won’t sleep. The last time I had a decent nights sleep was in Georgia a few weeks ago. I wish I had had more time to visit my dear friend longer……
Turns out the Republican National Committee’s Insurance plan covers abortion!
The memo said the RNC received a phone call from a reporter on Wednesday asking whether the RNC’s health care policy, through Cigna, covered elective abortions for employees. On Thursday, Politico.com published a report citing two sales agents for Cigna who said the RNC’s policy covered elective abortion.
The Cigna employees said the RNC didn’t choose to opt out of abortion coverage when given the opportunity, Politico.com reported.
Of course, now the RNC is rapidly changing their coverage plan. Sucks to be a female RNC employee today. But then, it probably always does, in one way or another. (Thanks, Jender-Mom!)
Anti depressants,mood elevators and sleeping tablets also affect the Brain,Heart and kidney.
Beware.
Story:
Needless use of anti-psychotic drugs is widespread in dementia care and contributes to the death of many patients, an official review suggests.
About 180,000 patients a year are given the drugs in care homes, hospitals and their own homes to manage aggression.
But the expert review – commissioned by ministers – said the treatment was unnecessary in nearly 150,000 cases and was linked to 1,800 deaths.
The government in England has agreed to take steps to reduce use of the drugs.
These include:
Improving access to other types of therapy, such as counselling
Better monitoring of prescribing practices
Guidance for families explaining what they can do if they are worried about drug use
Specialist training in dementia for health and social care staff
Appointment of a new national director for dementia to oversee the measures
The review – and the government pledge to take action – comes after long-running concerns about the use of anti-psychotic drugs.
Over the past 30 years, the NHS has increasingly turned to the treatment, which was originally aimed at people with schizophrenia, as it has struggled to cope with the rise in people with dementia.
‘Different mindset’
There are currently 700,000 people in the UK with the condition, but this is expected to rise to one million in the next 10 years because of the ageing population.
The review, led by King’s College London expert Professor Sube Banerjee, accepted that for some people anti-psychotic drugs would be necessary.
But it said they should be used only for a maximum of three months and when the person represented a risk to themselves or others.
Professor Banerjee estimated that of the 180,000 people given the drugs each year, only 36,000 benefited.
He said health and social care services needed to develop a “different mindset”.
Allan Trueman’s father “became a totally different person”
He believes if the steps the government has agreed to are followed, anti-psychotic drug use could be reduced by two-thirds within three years.
Care services minister Phil Hope agreed action was needed.
“We know there are situations where anti-psychotic drug use is necessary – we’re not calling for a ban, but we do want to see a significant reduction in use.”
Neil Hunt, chief executive of the Alzheimer’s Society, said the long-awaited review was a welcome recognition of the scale of the problem.
He added: “This goes beyond quality of care. It is a fundamental rights issue.
“Our members tell us of enormous worry and distress over what is happening to their loved ones.”
The Royal College of GPs – in most cases the drugs are prescribed by family doctors – admitted the situation was “unacceptable”.
President Dr Steve Field said: “People deserve much better.”
While the review was commissioned by the government in England, ministers elsewhere in the UK have agreed to study the recommendations.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8356423.stm
There have always been debates over the use of vitamin C in skin care products. It has always been in debate as some have the opinion that it is helpful while some says that it is harmful. Though different people have different experience and opinions about them yet the known facts of Vitamin C is a good one. It is an oxidant hence it have certain beneficial effects such as reversing the free radicals damage that is generally caused due to sun exposure. It is also the main component of collagen that provides the
The potential use of Vitamin C have shown to enhance the youthful appearance of the skin and is also found to prevent and even seen to resist reversing of existing damage and anti aging. Products containing pure form of vitamin C are generally acidic in nature that leads to the product having an exfoliating effect. This can be beneficial to someone when it is used properly. Not only these but it is also been found that Vitamin C is useful in repairing that is caused due to the use of overly harsh soaps and lotions.
There are negative sides of this Vitamin. It is generally an unstable compound in and of itself and if it is exposed to nature then gets oxidized and loses all the benefits that it contains. If someone uses a product containing oxidized Vitamin C then instead of repairing for the condition that it is being used for, it generally worsens the case. Thus to prevent all these risks of damage a newer form of it is used known as vitamin c derivative that is cheaper and more stable without any side effects.
Despite repeated warnings people still pop up anti-biotics at the drop of a hat.
Doctors who prescribe them immediately as soon as the patients come to them(this is a fact, at least in India),drug shops which issue them with out prescriptions and sales promotion by way of heavy advertising by Pharma companies are also equally responsible.
Story:
LONDON (Reuters) – Overuse of antibiotics in Europe is building widespread resistance and threatening to halt vital medical treatments such as hip replacements, intensive care for premature babies and cancer therapies, health experts say.
Dominique Monnet of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control’s (ECDC) scientific advice unit said the “whole span of modern medicine” is under threat because bugs are become resistant to antibiotics, rendering the drugs useless.
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE5A927820091110?feedType=nl&feedName=ushealth1100
A recent post at one of my favorite blogs, Bad Astronomy, linked me to another very good blog post at NeuroLogica, which went into detail about something a little bit disturbing: a provision being slipped into the Senate’s health reform bill by wingnut Senator Orrin Hatch, and co-sponsored by Senator John Kerry. What is this addition, you may ask?
It would prohibit insurers from discriminating against “religious and spiritual health care”, including prayer healing. (linky linky)
Yes, as if the Senate hadn’t done enough to totally mess up the drive for health care reform, we now have this steaming pile that would require insurance companies (some of which, as I understand it, would be subsidized by our tax dollars) to pay people to pray for you. The links I’ve posted above go into a better detail about what “prayer therapy” really is, and who the people behind it are, and I urge you to click them and learn more. However, I just thought I would share one point that really struck me.
Why would you pay someone to pray for you?
Last time I checked, it didn’t cost anything to say a prayer. As a materialist I believe that it’s all a bunch of baloney anyway, but even if I was a believer, it simply doesn’t make much sense to me that you and your family can pray your little hearts out, but God only responds to professional Prayerists. To be fair, I understand that the Christian Science prayer therapists who do this sort of thing charge a ridiculously low amount; about what it would cost to cover their gas & meals. However, the whole idea that God only listens to a small group of individuals who will gladly pray on your behalf for a nominal fee, or that you need to hire some sort of special trainer or coach to help you pray the correct way, is troubling to me. Even more troubling is the prospect that this could create a prayer industry, flush with professional prayer therapists who go around “speaking to God” on your behalf, charging off huge sums of money to your insurance company (which can’t legally deny their claim), and making a fortune while driving up insurance premiums for the rest of us.
Now, this is disregarding several other facts, such as: prayer therapy doesn’t work (and can even be dangerous), my tax dollars shouldn’t be spent financing your church, and it’s offensive and stupid for the government to elevate superstition to the level of science. But I imagine that even those who have religious faith would be a little suspicious of anyone asking them to pay for prayers.
Hopefully this gets weeded out.
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Senator Joe “Aetna” Lieberman doesn’t have a view. He just does what he is told by those who own him. He’s the biggest whore (no offense to actual sex workers) for insurance companies, to date he has received over 2.5 million dollars to continuously block a public health option.
Joe and his wife are major shills for the health insurance cabal. There is no need for debate, as far as they are concerned. They have made a huge pile of money from their health insurance buddies.
His wife works for insurance lobbying firms…think there’s a conflict of interest? ..Apparently Republicans & spineless Democrats don’t see one. Meanwhile 45,000 uninsured Americans die annually.
mobilizeforhealthcare.org
by Edmund Jenks | November 5, 2009″…Michele Bachmann’s message for conservatives traveling to Washington to attend her Capitol Hill “House Call” event today is simple: “Go into the Capitol and find members of Congress,” she told activists Wednesday night. “Don’t bring your pitchforks, bring your video cameras. And get them on record saying how they’re going to vote and why. And tell them, ‘Take your hands off my health care!’ “
Bachmann (R-Minn.) gave the marching orders on a conference call of top activists, many of whom planned to board buses in New Jersey and North Carolina this morning to attend the event that the congresswoman thought up last week. “Nothing is more influential than an eyeball-to-eyeball meeting between a freedom-loving constituent and a member of Congress,” she explained. “Nothing scares a member of Congress more than freedom-loving Americans.” …”
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/bachmann-house-call-delivers-viral-response-sick-govt
Battling Pelosicare; Update: Thousands descend on D.C., “You work for us!” By Michelle Malkin •“…Hey, Nancy, look out the window. You can see health care protesters from your House.
House Republicans are holding a 12-hour live online telecast today starting at 1pm Eastern to expose the perils and pitfalls of Pelosicare — and to spotlight the GOP alternative.
You can tune in here. Spread the word.
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Reminder: Rep. Michele Bachmann, Mark Levin, and Jon Voight will join other House Republicans and grass-roots activists from across the country on the Capitol steps at noon today to protest the Democrats’ government health care takeover plans. Be there in spirit for Operation Housecall by melting the phones today.
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The CBO has scored the GOP health care reform alternative:
House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) confirmed in a letter tonight that the Republican health care plan will lower health care premiums by up to 10 percent and reduce the deficit by $68 billion over 10 years without imposing tax increases on families and small businesses:
“When it comes to reforming health care, controlling skyrocketing costs is the American peoples’ top priority. Now CBO has confirmed that the Republican plan will lower health care costs for American families, and that’s good news for everyone struggling in today’s economy. The choice now could not be clearer: Speaker Pelosi’s plan raises costs. Our plan lowers them.
“Not only does the GOP plan lower health care costs, but it also increases access to quality care – including for those with pre-existing conditions – at a price our country can afford. The cost of the Speaker’s bill, now at $1.3 trillion and counting, is a debt that will be paid for by our kids and our grandkids. The American people deserve a better solution, and Republicans’ smart, fiscally-responsible plans give them exactly what they want.”
NOTE: In a letter delivered tonight, CBO estimated that the GOP health care plan would reduce average private health insurance premiums per enrollee in the United States relative to what they would be under current law. Specifically:
• For the small group market (generally businesses with 2 to 50 employees), the GOP plan would reduce premiums in 2016 for example by up to 10 percent.
• For the individual market, the GOP plan would reduce premiums in 2016 by up to eight percent.
• For the large group market, the GOP plan would reduce premiums in 2016 by up to three percent.
Now is the time to disabuse Nancy Pelosi of the delusional notion that she “won” election night. …”
http://michellemalkin.com/
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Essential oil history is really the history of plants and herbal medicine. As is the history of scents. Essential oils and scents are a part of herbal medicine.
All ancient cultures used aromatic substances and herbs for cooking, healing, scenting and praying. The earliest written herbal text is the “Pen Tsao” (Great Herbal – still in print) which was compiled by Shen Nung, an emperor, during the time of 1 000 to 700 B.C. In this work is listed more than 350 medicinal plants and remedies. Another great and ancient work of plants and medicine is the “Yellow Emperors Classic of Internal Medicine” also still in print. Acupuncture was already used at this time and has since then spread all over the world.
Aromatic substances also played an important role in the lives of the Sumerians who lived along the rivers of Eufrat and Tigris ca 4 000 B.C. From them documentation is found pertaining to the use of herbs for healing. The Babylonians and Assyrians left inscriptions of different laws among which there are instructions for the use of plants and spices in medicine. In Persia a clay-receptable was found that is believed to be a crude form of distillation-apparatus. It is dated to 2 500 B.C. Similar receptables are still used in the area for distillation purposes.
In India the medicine of Ayur Veda has existed in written form since 1 000 B.C. Ayur Veda has become an increasingly popular form of alternative medicine and can today be found all over the world.
In ancient Rome and Greece medicine developed into a science. Hippocrates (468-377 B.C), known as the father of medicine compiled scripts known as “Corpus Hippocraticum”. Pedanius Dioscorides wrote the classic “De Materia Medica” in the year 60 A.D. This work became the standard basic for medicine during the next 1 500 years. During this time the practice of medicine slowly started to divide into 2 routes;
There has been a lot of coverage lately about the new proposed health care plan. Many are split between the reform and some people just don’t understand. Do not be discouraged. If you are confused, it’s not your fault. There is a lot of clutter, misinformation and lies about the topic.
It is not as difficult to understand as one might assume. The coverage you are to expect in the future is basically determined by what coverage you have today. Here are the central points of the reform:
1.) Keep the coverage you have, but you will gain a lot more protection against dishonest practices of the private health insurance industry.
2.) Offer people who do not currently have an insurance plan the choice of either private health plans or a new plan which would be public, such as Medicare.
The new proposed reform would also allow individuals under the age of 27 to remain on their parent’s family health insurance policy–that is if they have one. If you are currently under the coverage of Medi-Cal or Medicare, the only thing that will change is that your Medicare drug coverage will improve and HMOs will no longer be able to take advantage of the elderly by charging them enormous amounts.
For those who are working for a big employer that wants to keep the same coverage they offer you now, not much will change except that you will get additional protection from the insurance agencies that sometimes try to take advantage of you (things like having a cap on the amounts of insurance company pays for your care in a year or lifetime).
There will also be something called an Insurance Exchange. This is where the government will be regulating health plan choices. Those who will have to go into the Insurance Exchange will most likely be those who are uninsured, work for a small employer or work for a large employer who decides not to offer insurance anymore. Insurers will no longer be able to turn anyone down for coverage for any reason, will not be able to put restrictions or exclusions on pre-existing conditions, will be limited to the amount you will have to pay out of pocket, will not be allowed to put a cap on how much they cover in a year or lifetime, and will not be able to drop your coverage. Also, if your income is lower than 300 to 400 percent of the poverty level, the government will reimburse you for the cost of premiums for the insurance you choose under the Exchange. Also, if you are currently being covered under government programs such as CHAMPUS, VA, the Indian Health Service, etc., you will still receive the same benefits.
Under the Insurance Exchange, people will have to choose from two types of coverage:
1.) Choose to join in one of the many private health plans offered
2.) Choose to join in the new public plan, such as Medicare
What this will do is create competition between the new public plan and the different private plans in the Exchange. This will in turn provide an incentive to reduce costs and improve the quality of care and patient satisfaction. There are many factors which will help Medicare (which is a government financed, single payer, public program) become efficient at providing medical care such as lower administrative costs (no marketing, profits, etc.). Cost in the private health plans are expected to decrease as competition with the public plan will increase. This is mainly due to the leveling of the rules and regulations under which insurance can be sold.
Many people see the new reform to be a government takeover of our health care system; however, no one will be forced into enrolling in any specific type of health insurance. People will still get their health care from private doctors and hospitals. The main reason for the reform is to give people more choices, increase competition to drive down cost, and to stop some insurance companies from taking advantage of people through dishonest practices. Anyone who wants to be enrolled in a single payer system, they are able to do so by selecting the public plan option. For those who want to be insured in the private sector, they can choose a private health plan. What more could anyone ask for? Now that you have an idea of how it would work, do you agree or disagree with the new plan? Comment on this article below to express your ideas.
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Today was my first day of ophthalmology posting for my electives.
Expectations :
1. Mostly cataract patients
2. Friendly and helpful consultant
3. Clerk and examine patient
Reality:
1. i was right.. 80% of patients came in because of cataract of various types (nuclear sclerosis, cortical, posterior subcapsular). Some had the cataract removed but came in for a check up on the IOL.
However, i did get to see some interesting cases that i did not have the opportunity to see in HTJ. I’ve got to see a case of vasculitis of retinal vessels, blow out fracture, macular haemorrhage, macular detachment, optic atrophy due to high myopia.
2. Yup he is friendly and helpful despite his very very busy clinic. I guess he didn’t even had the chance to eat a proper lunch. Only finish seeing patients around 230pm.
3. Nope, didn’t really get to do that. The clinic was too busy. Patients who had appointment at 1130 only go to see the doctor around 1pm. I did get to talk to the patients while the doctor is busy with phone calls and stuff.
Others : I’ve got to see some cool stuff that i didn’t have the chance to see in HTJ. I’ve got to see how a fluorosceine fundoscopy was performed. I’ve got to see ocular CT and also YAG laser treatment for a very hard and stubborn cataract.
I’ve got to see a referral letter by this doc who has MBBS, FRCSed Opth, M.Med, M.Surg!! Craazzzy stuff… Where did he get the time to study? Or is he a genius or something?
Well, all in all… Today’s experience was way more than I’ve expected. Hopefully that is the case for the rest of the posting.
