MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'affected'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:58:00 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3563961&cid=t_435254_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fexamine-a-hand-foreshadow-a-future%2F2010.05.14 Back to the subject at hand. To those who are relatively new to this blog, one of the most popular…uh…tolerated series of posts has been my series on the physical exam. If you haven’t done so already, you may want to go back and read the posts to get in the proper mindset (or destroy enough brain cells). Astute readers will note that doctors are not the only professionals to examine the hand. Long before we knew anything about carpal tunnel syndrome or the thenar eminence, we had Madam Linda and her cohorts looking at the hand for signs of what the future will bring for the individual that happens to be connected to the hand in question. Just as stars and planets can have a peculiar interest as to whether a person will run into money, the lines on a person’s hand can foreshadow a ... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3563961 Fri, 14 May 2010 12:00:05 +0100 3563961 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3133713&cid=t_435254_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayhealth.com%2Fblog%2Ftrevis-life-with-multiple-sclerosis-ms%2Fholiday-blog-contest-winner-how-ms-has-affected-my-family%2F Today’s holiday guest blog comes to us from Airial of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. We had more submissions to this topic than any of our others which I’ll admit surprised me a bit.  Maybe it’s because this is a place where many of us take time to be alone with our thoughts and others who may share them…or at least have experienced many of them firsthand.  It was very difficult to choose which one of these entries to publish.  Perhaps we should somehow make all submitted entries to this contest available on Everyday Health because I think we could all benefit from them. Airial writes as to how MS has affected her family at its very inception…or, in this case it’s very conception. How MS Has Affected My Family by Arial Sillanpaa It was a chilly New England Tuesday when I was dia... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3133713 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:02:29 +0100 3133713 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2699809&cid=t_435254_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2F6PvCOl2D3Xc%2F It’s tough enough for a family to have someone suffer from a genetic disorder but to have three in the family is just heart-breaking. And that’s what the Shaffer family from Oregon is going through as their three young sons are treated for a rare genetic condition that affect the nervous systems (video). Two 8-year old twins and their younger brother have leukodystrophies (adrenoleukodystrophy or ALD), a disorder that causes damage to the membrane (myelin sheath) that surrounds nerve cells in the brain. Adrenoleukodystrophy is commonly inherited as an X-linked (or sex-linked) trait, as the gene is located on the X-chromosome and passed from mother to her children. If the mother is a carrier (say XX for one abnormal allele), then she will pass that defective gene to all her sons (XY).... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2699809 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:33:18 +0100 2699809 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=721314&cid=t_435254_87_f&fid=34867&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thediabetesblog.com%2F2007%2F07%2F09%2Flilly-for-life-awards%2F Filed under: Type 1, Childhood, Lifestyle, Drugs, Opinion, SupportEli Lilly has an award they give to people who have been diabetic for 25, 50 and 75 years. They call it the Lilly for Life Award. The award recognizes people who have been enslaved to the exorbitant expenses of diabetes management, in addition to the other schedules of daily life. Endearing isn't it? The award is a significant token of Lilly's appreciation for all you have endured and sacrificed. Lilly awards people who have used insulin for 25 years with the monetary equivalent of what your diabetes management has cost. All your copays for each bottle of insulin, each box of syringes, each blood sugar testing strip, and your ability to adapt to the ever-changing technology of diabetes care (I swear, it says that in block le... The Diabetes Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=721314 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:00:00 +0100 721314