It was just recently announced that Benlysta, a lupus drug, was approved by the FDA, making it the first lupus drug approved by the group in 50 years. But is there anything else we could do for lupus ?
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FDA Approves Lupus Drug Without Proven Benefits
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011How You Can Cure ” The Incurable Headache”
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
Have you ever suffered from a headache? If yes, then you know how uncomfortable it could be. Headaches can paralyze you for days, weeks and even months! Headaches can make your life miserable. But despite the fact that more than 10 million Americans suffer from headaches, traditional medicine cannot really offer a cure. Because the most common approach is simply giving a pill to treat the symptoms, it looks like we might be doomed to a lifetime of Excedrin and days lost. Is there anything else that can be done ?
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Gluten , The Untold KILLER In Your Cereal
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
Did you know that heart disease is the #1 killer in the U.S.? Cancer is number two. That means that you have a 34 percent chance of dying of heart problems, and a 22 percent chance of dying from cancer. This is despite all advances in medicine, a huge pharmaceutical industry, scientists and the Internet. Why can’t we beat these two monsters that continue to take our lives? It remained a puzzle until now.
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Bargain Shopping For A Doctor
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
A recent article published on AOL discussed the new trend of pricing out doctors and services before heading out to get a procedure done. Several companies have recently been created to help patients become consumers instead when it comes to where they will get procedures done.
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Do Not Buy Any Supplements Before You Read This!
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
We assume that because something claims to be all natural, that it is. We also assume that there is a higher level of safety in something that is natural, as opposed to something man-made. Maybe it’s a vitamin, or a supplement, even foods. But make sure you always look deeper, and before you start taking anything, you should consult your doctor.
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Summer Vacation Can Be Hazardous To Your Health
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
The lazy days of summer are soon upon us. Time for barbecues and sunshine, long days and relaxing, family vacations and the outdoors. But with each of these summer necessities, there are plenty of dangers right under your nose. It’s important to be aware of what you are doing, what you are eating and your surroundings, to make sure that you protect yourself and your family this season.
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Do not buy your groceries or supplements until you read this!
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Even though government experts consider some low-level radiation exposure like x-rays, cat scans, mammograms, etc, as safe, new data suggests that it may not be true (1). This is especially important now, when we are all exposed to low dose radiation from Japan’s nuclear power plant disaster. But why is low-dose radiation is considered dangerous in the first place?
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Do We Need Another Diabetes Drug?
Friday, May 27th, 2011
A recent announcement by Pharmaceutical giant Roche that they will launch their new diabetic drug Taspoglutide is supposed to be their blockbuster move. Another diabetic drug?Does this one do anything different for us than the others on the market?
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Sick Children Should Not Be a Way of Life
Friday, May 27th, 2011
Recent studies show that depression, anxiety disorders and other mental illnesses, as well as high blood pressure is on the rise for teens. That’s an awful truth. There are some obvious universals here:
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Can Botox Really Limit Our Emotions?
Friday, May 27th, 2011
A recent article on WebMD highlighted a study where one doctor says he found that not being able to express emotion, may actually impact the emotion. He did this by studying people who had Botox injections and Joshua Ian David, PhD was out to prove that not being able to express actually takes away from the emotional experience.
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Too Much Salt Where We Can’t See It
Friday, May 27th, 2011
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention says that even though Americans should only be eating one teaspoon of salt a day, only one of ten of us actually keep to those guidelines. Those at risk are supposed to have even less, 2/3 of a teaspoon, and oddly enough, even less of them, one out of 18, keep to that goal.
Disrupting A Good Night’s Sleep Can Wreak Havoc On Your Life
Friday, April 29th, 2011
Does it matter when you sleep, if you get your required eight hours of sleep? What about people who work at night? Do they function as well as people who work during the day and sleep at night?
I don’t think so. Nature intended us to rise and go to sleep with the sun. We are supposed to use the night hours for relaxation. But for many people society dictates different lifestyle. Many careers, from bus drivers to doctors, can require that you get your zzzzz’s when most of us aren’t sleeping.
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Late Warnings on Prescription Drugs
Friday, April 29th, 2011
It takes quite a while for drugs to be approved by FDA. We are made to feel safe with years of clinical trials and information being published. Even safer when we watch TV ads which loudly proclaim all of the side effects of the medication we are about to be prescribed. But the truth is, that most testing is done by the manufacturers of the drugs and so most information is published by them. There is, however a rising number of cases where discovered negative effects were kept quiet and unpublished for consumers.
The most recent FDA warning about a drug called Lamictal came last week. While used to treat seizures in kids, it can cause aseptic meningitis, a possibly fatal condition.
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Radiation: how you can protect yourself
Friday, April 15th, 2011
Radiation is like an assassin. Even though you cannot smell, see or touch it, you can get sick quite quickly and, if it comes to the worst – die. There is no need to be exposed much: a singe body cell damaged by radiation is capable of causing cancer.
Why is it that we seem to be so helpless in front of this monster? Is there really nothing we can do to protect ourselves?
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Why Buy Organic Now?
Friday, April 1st, 2011
The economy is terrible. We are all afraid to lose our jobs, our homes, our way of life. Many of us have given up our morning lattes, at least, or maybe took a vacation closer to home. One thing that we all tend to do when we’re worried about money? We compromise on what we eat. We don’t eat out as often: great! We watch our portions and don’t buy junk: fantastic! We buy leaner cuts of meat and give up organics: STOP RIGHT THERE!
Are processed foods real food?
Friday, April 1st, 2011
American companies are making it easier and easier for us to get our vegetables, so how come we aren’t eating them? You can get your salad in a bag, your carrots come pre-washed (even though you should wash them again anyway), and your vegetables ready-to-steam. In fact, ready to eat vegetables are a $3 billion dollar a year industry! So, why do we not eat our greens?
How to lower your cholesterol and prevent heart attacks naturally!
Friday, April 1st, 2011
Your heart is the most important organ of the body because it supplies oxygen and other nutrients to the rest of our . Without the heart working – life is impossible. Therefore it’s so important to keep your heart healthy. However this is not so easy, because coronary artery disease, caused by heart blood vessels clogging, is the number one killer in the US. Why? Because it causes heart attacks as well as heart failure and sudden cardiac death.
When statins were invented including blockbuster Lipitor, some scientists claimed, that by the year 2000 heart attacks would disappear. But it didn’t happen. Why not? Continue reading “How to lower your cholesterol and prevent heart attacks naturally!” »
Sugar, Milk and Carbohydrates: Your enemy in the battle against acne?
Friday, March 18th, 2011
Are you suffering from acne? You certainly are not alone. Millions of people suffer from acne and those people have spent billions of dollars fueling the anti-acne industry seeking a cure for their problematic skin. Unfortunately, acne products, especially prescription antibiotics and creams often come with awful side effects (Accutane has been found to cause birth defects). Even more so disenchanting is that the treatments don’t always work and if they do, it’s temporary. Those afflicted with acne vary in extremes from those that have just a pesky zit to having debilitating acne. Unfortunately with a condition that afflicts so many and is so prevalent, a definitive causality of acne has not yet been established in medical literature.(1) What we do know is that there are many treatments available for acne, but there is no cure because we don’t know fully what actually causes acne. Continue reading “Sugar, Milk and Carbohydrates: Your enemy in the battle against acne?” »
Inept Trials and Tainted Studies: Living With a Disease While Waiting for A Cure
Friday, March 18th, 2011
According to statistics, 1500 people die every day in the United States from cancer. Shocking statistic? Sure. But how long have these people lived with the disease, how long did they know about it? What kind of treatment did they receive? What kind of treatment could they have received if it was not held up in one study after another?
Carcinogens Found in Gulf Water Are Only A Small Sign Of Toxins in All Water
Friday, March 18th, 2011
There doesn’t need to be a toxic oil spill in your backyard in order for your water to be poisoned. The truth is that much of our water is poisoned already. So, a recent article in the Huffington post that showed that there were high levels of carcinogens found in water in the Gulf, isn’t that surprising.
The reasons for that are simple:…
- There was a major oil spill that will affect water, wildlife and people for decades to come,
- And all water is toxic to levels that it shouldn’t be…everywhere!(1) Continue reading “Carcinogens Found in Gulf Water Are Only A Small Sign Of Toxins in All Water” »
Weight Loss Surgery Can Be Crippling For Teens
Friday, February 18th, 2011
A recent article stated that weight loss surgery has been found to be more effective in teens than dieting ( http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/303/6/519 ). It is studies and articles like these that may be destroying childrens’ health. This kind of study demonstrates that any information can be manipulated to get the results that researcher’s want.
Teenagers getting liposuction or gastric bypass surgery? Do you think that is really necessary at such a young age, without truly knowing the results? Does it sound like a travesty to you? Continue reading “Weight Loss Surgery Can Be Crippling For Teens” »
Heart Stents Are Not More Effective Than Traditional Treatment
Friday, February 18th, 2011
We expect that when something new about modern medicine is discovered, we will find the best course of action and treatment, and as a society, will move towards that, but it is proven time and time again how that theory can be completely wrong.
The “Courage” Study in 2007 was supposed to change the way that cardiologists functioned. Basically, it found that a generic group of drugs yielded the same results as a $15,000 heart stent procedure. And this was supposed to change everything. Doctors would start realizing that this was the right way to go, and not put their patients through procedure of questionable value. But that did not happen.
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