Showing posts with label cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cancer. Show all posts

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Hugo Chavez Back in Cuba for Medical Treatment | Synopsis

Hugo Chavez Back in Cuba for Medical Treatment

Keynote: Gimme My Damn Data
Keynote: Gimme My Damn Data by Medicine 2.0
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In a written request to the legislature, Chavez said doctors recommended sessions of hyperbaric oxygen treatment to continue strengthening his health. Chavez has said that tests earlier this year showed he was cancer-free. Medical experts say treatment in a hyperbaric chamber can help cancer patients recover from damage to nerves or muscles that can be caused by radiation therapy.

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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Crazy new risks in your cosmetics | Essentials

Crazy new risks in your cosmetics

Hormone Therapy and Dementia | Brain Blogger
Hormone Therapy and Dementia | Brain Blogger by brain_blogger
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Beauty junkies, check your cosmetics: Using beauty products that contain phthalates might be putting you at risk for early-onset menopause, according to a new study from researchers at Washington University in St. Louis. Researchers examined National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data and determined that women with the highest level of phthalates in their systems reported experiencing menopause 2. 3 years earlier. “Phthalates can disrupt your hormonal makeup,” says Dr. Laura Corio, an obstetrician at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.   Once in your system, phthalates can mimic and chemically change hormones in your body. For example, when phthalates mimic estrogen (which helps regularize your period), it confuses your body and results in a lack of real estrogen. This can cause irregular periods—one of the first signs of menopause, Corio says. (Phthalates aren’t the only chemical to blame.

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Dr. Laura Corio

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-0.113273“Phthalates can disrupt your hormonal makeup,” says Dr. Laura Corio, ...
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Thursday, February 14, 2013

One out of 12 stroke survivors contemplates suicide | Synopsis

One out of 12 stroke survivors contemplates suicide

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Suicide Graffiti. by hyekab25
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Stroke survivors can face many challenges as they recover. Now, a new federal survey is showing that one out of every 12 stroke survivors has contemplated suicide or thought that he or she would be better off dead. That's more common than what's seen in people with other health problems such as heart attacks or cancer, and it suggests that depression after stroke is more serious than many had realized. 12 Photos 10 deadly myths about stroke "It was surprising" and shows a need for more treatment, said the study's leader, Dr. Amytis Towfighi of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. "When patients have their depression treated they're more motivated to take their medication, do therapy and live a full life." The study was discussed Thursday at an American Stroke Association conference in Honolulu.

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Dr. Amytis Towfighi

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0.093404"It's not necessarily active suicidal thoughts with a plan, but perhaps wishing you hadn't survived the event," Towfighi explained. ...
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Dr. Brian Silver

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-0.365404"It's not necessarily the reaction to the disease ... it's also the disease itself that is causing the depression," by releasing harmful chemicals that can trigger it, he said. ...
0"puts a number on it" and shows the need to watch for and treat it, Silver said. ...
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Thursday, January 3, 2013

Study Results Linking Diet Soda To Cancer Fall Into The 'Gray Zone' Of Science | Reduction

Study Results Linking Diet Soda To Cancer Fall Into The 'Gray Zone' Of Science

Blame Drew's Cancer Blowout
Blame Drew's Cancer Blowout by allaboutgeorge
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The co-author of a controversial study on diet soda's link to blood cancers says his results fall into a gray zone between a clear relationship and no relationship at all. The co-author of a controversial study on diet soda's link to blood cancers says his results fall into a gray zone between a clear relationship and no relationship at all. The study by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital found some correlation between aspartame, the most widely used artificial sweetener in diet soda, and an increased risk of leukemia and Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and other rare blood-related cancers. And early in the week, the public relations department at Brigham and Women's Hospital sent a press release to reporters exaggerating that correlation.

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Walter Willett

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0.321652Willett calls them part of "the natural process of science."
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Brigham

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Aubrey

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Willet

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HealthCondition: cancer

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Organization: Women's Hospital

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Sunday, December 23, 2012

Ore. girl, 7, is medical marijuana patient | Essentials

Ore. girl, 7, is medical marijuana patient

Children Sleeping in Mulberry Street (Street Arabs in Sleeping Quarters), New York, NY, USA, c.1889. (Colorized).
Children Sleeping in Mulberry Street (Street Arabs in Sleeping Quarters), New York, NY, USA, c.1889. (Colorized). by Kelly Short6
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PORTLAND, Ore. - A 7-year-old girl suffering from leukemia has become one of Oregon's youngest medical marijuana patients. Mykayla Comstock's mother credits the drug with helping put the cancer into remission. But her father, worried about the effects of the drug on her brain development, alerted child welfare officials to the treatment. Mykayla was diagnosed with leukemia last spring and the marijuana eases the effects of chemotherapy, according to her mother.  The girl takes a gram of cannabis oil daily, The Oregonian reported.

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Mykayla Comstock

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Mykayla

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