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 'chicken pox'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:20:18 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3467710&cid=t_116015_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Ffeel%2Fself-help-test-drive-my-holosync-semi-solution%2F photo: Thinkstock This is the final post in a four-part series by contributor Carole Braden about her experiences with meditation CDs from Centerpointe Research Institute. Click to read parts one, two, and three of her series. How many Awakening Prologue listens does it take before you lasso your ultimate life? I couldn’t say. I’ve mainlined my Centerpointe sound files for an hour nearly every morning for exactly ten months. And while the effort has not brought me an all-new existence – or a gurgling set of twins in pink and blue Pampers – I do feel it’s helped push me through some productive, if not always enjoyable, phases. There was what I’ll call my “WTF?” period, during which I experienced vivid and often unsettling dreams about fictional cat fights among girlfriends a... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3467710 Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:04:45 +0100 3467710 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3412411&cid=t_116015_139_f&fid=38879&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.rawvoice.com%2Fpmn_twiv%2Fwww.twiv.tv%2FTWiV075.mp3 Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Matthew Frieman Vincent, Alan, and Matt review contamination of Rotarix with circovirus DNA, antigenic similarity between 1918 and 2009 H1N1 influenza, a collection of rabies reports, and chicken pox mistaken for smallpox in Uganda. This episode is sponsored by Data Robotics Inc. Use the promotion code VINCENT to receive $50 off a Drobo or $100 off a Drobo S. Win a free Drobo S! Contest rules here. Download TWiV #75 (57 MB .mp3, 79 minutes) Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, or by email. Links for this episode: Contamination of Rotarix vaccine with porcine circovirus 1 DNA Beak and feather disease circovirus (BFDV) threatens parrots Antigenic similarity between 1918 and 2009 H1N1 influenza Presumptive ab... virology blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3412411 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:19:43 +0100 3412411 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3331374&cid=t_116015_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2FioZ4FjkrpO8%2F Shingles, herpes zoster, is a painful infection caused by the chicken pox virus. Only people who have had chicken pox earlier in life can develop shingles. The virus remains dormant in your body and, for some some people for some reason, it activates again and causes shingles. The rash and pain of shingles follows along a nerve line along your body. The most common examples are along your face, up to your eye, from your midback around to your shoulder, or along your beltline from midback around to the front. Last year, we wrote about having shingles could mean an increased risk of having a stroke later on (Higher Stroke Risk 1 Year After Shingles), particularly if you had ocular shingles, shingles that affected your eye. Ocular shingles appears to affect about 10 to 20% of those who develo... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3331374 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:40:11 +0100 3331374 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3142499&cid=t_116015_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blisstree.com%2Fhealthbolt%2Fduh-study-no-chicken-pox-vaccine-means%2F It’s Duh Study time here at Healthbolt. Guess what? If a parent chooses not to vaccinate their child against chicken pox (varicella), then that child has a higher chance of getting the disease. Really! Can you believe it? A study was done and actually published in the journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Researchers looked at 133 children who had been diagnosed with the chicken pox during a 10-year period, after the vaccine was made available. Each of the 133 children was matched with four randomly picked children, same age and sex, who did not have chicken pox. These children may or may not have been vaccinated. The researchers compared how many children were not vaccinated in both groups. Of the 133 children who did have the chicken pox, seven (5%) did not rece... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3142499 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:06:12 +0100 3142499 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2876116&cid=t_116015_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2FrLKNBHdzkeI%2F Shingles (herpes zoster) is a painful viral infection that is caused by the chicken pox virus that remains dormant in your body for many years. Anyone who has had the chicken pox could, at some time, develop shingles. The rash caused by the shingles follows along a nerve line in the body, so you could have it along the belt line, but only on one side, for example. Some people have it on the face and near the eye – again only on one side – while others may have it around their ear. The blisters vary from being very painful to being very itchy and, at the same time, you feel tired and sick from the virus. All in all, it’s a very unpleasant illness. After the shingles rash has healed, many people develop something called post herpetic neuralgia, which is nerve pain that is f... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2876116 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:57:32 +0100 2876116 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2570650&cid=t_116015_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2FuhdRflPcIDs%2F Years ago, there were mothers who would throw chicken pox parties. If they found that one of their friends had chicken pox in the house, they’d deliberately expose them to the virus so they could control (so to speak) when their children would get sick. I think the idea seemed to make sense to some people, but the idea of deliberately exposing children to illness that could develop into something quite serious, seems a bit misguided. Now that the chicken pox has a vaccine, the chicken pox parties seem to be on the wain. But now, there’s a new type of party that’s making its rounds: the H1N1 party. That’s right, some parents are deliberately exposing their children to the H1N1 virus, the so-called swine flu, in the hopes that they make their children resistant to it ... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2570650 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:30:18 +0100 2570650 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1750503&cid=t_116015_136_f&fid=36162&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myelomablog.com%2F2008%2F08%2F31%2Fshingles%2F No, I don’t have shingles again, but I noticed that it’s one of the biggest searches that brings people here. To skip to posts that mention shingles, click here. I’ve had shingles three times. The very first time, I had no clue what it was. Each time thereafter I did.  There have been clear signs that I was going to have a case. In advance of the rash, I felt generally unwell. My most recent outbreak was on the left side of my head, and was preceded by an earache, headache and sore throat just on that side.  Each time, the skin in the area where the rash would soon appear was extremely sensitive and sometimes felt almost as a burning sensation, but very mild. Once the rash appears, there can be itching and sharp stinging. Sometimes the stinging is enough to make me say ... beth's myeloma blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1750503 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:33:25 +0100 1750503 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1472744&cid=t_116015_117_f&fid=36026&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fzimney%2Fshingles-reduce-your-risk-with-vaccination%2F Shingles is a painful rash caused by the same virus that causes chicken pox, and there are about 1 million episodes of it in the United States every year. If you’ve ever had chicken pox, you are at risk for developing shingles – and your risk increases with age, especially over the age of 50 and increasing thereafter. Recently issued guidelines are now recommending immunization for all individuals over the age of 60 with a vaccine designed to prevent shingles, even if they’ve previously had an episode of shingles and even if they have a chronic medical illness. The vaccine has been available in the United States since May of 2006 and is called Zostavax. It is made using the same virus that’s in the chicken pox vaccine, which is routinely given to children and has been in use since ... Dr. Z's Medical Report blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1472744 Tue, 27 May 2008 20:11:07 +0100 1472744 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=579299&cid=t_116015_87_f&fid=34867&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thediabetesblog.com%2F2007%2F04%2F30%2Frats-its-a-virus%2F Filed under: Type 1, Childhood, Lifestyle, Drugs, ResearchNo kidding! The rats are leading researchers to triggering events causing diabetes. The new findings suggest that there is, indeed, a genetic susceptibility to diabetes, but that the precipitating event is a viral infection. The virus in question is the Ljungan virus. Previous reports indicate that infections with the Ljungan virus can induce diabetes in laboratory rats, and that the diabetes can be reversed if the animals are treated with antiviral drugs before the destruction of insulin-secreting islet cells becomes widespread. I'm not sure how everybody else out there got their D-card. My diagnosing event happened shortly after I had the chicken pox, back in '85. The childhood christening event apparently left me out in the cold ... The Diabetes Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=579299 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:00:00 +0100 579299