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Aspirin kills 400% more people than H1N1 swine fluEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(NaturalNews) The CDC now reports that nearly 4,000 Americans have been killed by H1N1 swine flu. This number is supposed to sound big and scary, motivating millions of people to go out and pay good money to be injected with untested, unproven H1N1 vaccines. But let's put the number in perspective: Did you know that more than four times as many people are killed each year by common NSAID painkillers like aspirin?The July 1998 issue of The American Journal of Medicine explains it as follows:"Conservative calculations estimate that approximately 107,000 patients are hospitalized annually for nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory dr...
Source: NaturalNews.com - November 20, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news

Study reveals significant limitations to ultrasound diagnosis among obese pregnant womenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ultrasound performed in the second trimester of pregnancy on obese mothers is less likely to detect structural anomalies or other markers of chromosomal disease in the developing fetus, said a consortium of researchers led by one from Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears in the current issue of the journal Prenatal Diagnosis . "The incidence of obesity in pregnancy has steadily increased over the past two decades. Interestingly, multiple population studies have demonstrated that obese women are more likely to have babies affected by neural tube (failure of the brain, spinal cord and/or their coverings t...
Source: Baylor College of Medicine News - November 18, 2009 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Comparing Two Surgical Strategies For Infant Heart DefectEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Infants born with a severely underdeveloped heart are more likely to survive to their first birthday when treated with a new shunt procedure - yet it may not be the safest surgery long term, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2009. Babies born with a critically underdeveloped left side of their hearts require three surgeries to correct the problem. (Source: Cardiovascular / Cardiology News From Medical News Today)
Source: Cardiovascular / Cardiology News From Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Cardiology Tags: Cardiovascular / Cardiology Source Type: news

Heart Transplants: A Brief HistoryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Twenty-five years after Baby Fae's death following the world's first animal-to-human infant heart transplant, TIME looks back at the history of the procedure (Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories)
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - November 16, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: info

Falluja's babies: The difficulties of pinning the blameEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
War's effects on health can be much harder to identify than death and horrendous physical injuries. The US department of veterans affairs recently accepted that Vietnam war veterans may have developed B cell leukaemias, Parkinson's disease and ischemic heart disease as a result of exposure to a blend of herbicides known as Agent Orange, a defoliating agent sprayed by US warplanes to deprive their enemies of cover.Similarly, ionising radiation from the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 led to medical complications such as cancers, nausea, hair loss, bleeding into the skin, inflammation of the mouth and ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 13, 2009 Category: Science Authors: Denis Campbell Tags: Iraq Medical research Science The Guardian News World news Source Type: news

Double Aortic Arch with Dominant Left Arch and Right Ligamentum ArteriosumEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This case report describes a rare example of double aortic arch with a dominant left aortic arch, patent minor right aortic arch, left descending aorta, and right ligamentum arteriosum causing tracheobronchial compression in a twin baby girl with DiGeorge syndrome. She also had large right subclavian artery arising from right-sided diverticulum of Kommerell, aplastic thymus, T cell lymphopenia with normal immunoglobulin, hypocalcemia, and hypomagnesemia. The diverticulum of Kommerell was resected and minor right aortic arch, right ligamentum arteriosum, and right subclavian artery were divided through right posterolateral ...
Source: Congenital Heart Disease - November 13, 2009 Category: Cardiology Authors: Syed Faisal Hashmi, Mohammad Hanif, Sanjay Maroo, JCS Pollock Tags: CASE REPORTS Source Type: journals

People entering their 60s may have more disabilities today than in prior generationsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In a development that could have significant ramifications for the nation's health care system, Baby Boomers may well be entering their 60s suffering far more disabilities than their counterparts did in previous generations, according to a new UCLA study. The findings, researchers say, may be due in part to changing American demographics. In the study, which will be published in the January 2010 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, researchers from the division of geriatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA found that the cohort of individuals b...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - November 12, 2009 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: organizations

Generalized pustular psoriasis of pregnancy successfully treated with cyclosporineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Hazarika DebeekaIndian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology, and Leprology 2009 75(6):638-638Two multigravidae aged 27 and 29 years, with previous uneventful pregnancies, second being psoriatic, reported at 24 and 28 weeks of pregnancies, with generalized pustular lesions. Laboratory findings, including serum calcium were normal. Ultrasonography showed normal fetal growth. Histopathology confirmed pustular psoriasis. Patients were put on cyclosporine 3 mg/ kg weight/ day after failure of an initial systemic steroid. Blood pressure, pulse, and fetal heart sounds were recorded every 12 hours, and ultrasonography and blood par...
Source: Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology - November 12, 2009 Category: Dermatology Authors: Hazarika Debeeka Source Type: journals

Reversing Tied Tubes: Sixth Year AnniversaryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal patient shares her story on tubal reversal surgery. "It's hard to believe it has been six years since I had my tubal reversal. Thanks to Dr. Berger and his wonderful staff we have been able to add 5 tubal reversal babies to our family. We cannot thank you enough for the great work your team does. You perform miracles everyday. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts." Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center is a unique surgical facility dedicated to reversing tubal blockage. We offer the most successful sterilization reversal surgery and our pregnancy statistics are supported by many submitted pregna...
Source: Tubal Ligation Reversal News - November 12, 2009 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: organizations

Baby Kaylee's father pleads guilty to reduced chargesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Jason Wallace, the father at the centre of a heart transplant drama involving his infant daughter Kaylee, has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from an aggravated assault and robbery. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - November 11, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Healthy Babies by the NumbersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
When a fetus is smaller than expected for the number of weeks of pregnancy, due to associated problems like a poorly developed heart, health concerns as severe as brain damage can result. The condition, known as Intra-uterine growth restriction (IUGR), prompts doctors to use ultrasound to track a baby's health and determine the best time for delivery. But these measurements are often incomplete, and obstetricians have had to rely on educated guesses about the strength of a fetus's circulatory system........ (Source: Medicineworld.org: New Article Alert)
Source: Medicineworld.org: New Article Alert - November 11, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: info

Losing my baby broke my heart - but saved my lifeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
How a cruel miscarriage revealed Penelope had a cancer that kills thousands of women every year. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 10, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Home foetal heart monitors 'risk'Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion This article discusses the authors’ experiences and concerns about the use of home foetal heart monitors. As the article only describes a single case that brought the issue to the authors’ attention, it is not clear how often problems such as these have occurred. It is also not clear to what extent websites offering these devices warn of their limitations, or what information is given with the devices. As the authors note, it is not possible to say if the foetus could have been saved if the mother had gone to hospital when she first felt its movements change. It is also not possible to tell when the foetus d...
Source: NHS News Feed - November 9, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pregnancy/child Source Type: news

The right place to deliver: home or hospital?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It's a heated argument, and neither side has conclusive evidence. So how to decide? All three of my children were delivered in a hospital under an obstetrician's care. Fetal monitors tracked the babies' heart rates, and an EKG machine measured mine. When it came to discomfort, I opted out and embraced every pain-relieving intervention that was offered. For me, each of the experiences was blissful -- pain-free deliveries with beautiful, healthy outcomes: Kira, Jamie and Clay. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

'Don't rely on at-home foetal heart monitors', doctors warn after expectant mother who used one has a stillbirthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The warning follows reports that a 34-year-old lost her unborn baby after an at-home monitor lulled her into a false sense of security. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 6, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Domestic use of foetal heart monitors putting babies at riskEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
• Expectant mothers should not rely on devices• Inexperienced users often hear their own heartbeatFoetal heart monitors, which growing numbers of expectant parents use at home to listen to their unborn child's heartbeat, are potentially dangerous to the mother and baby's health, doctors warn today.The devices are routinely used in hospitals by doctors and midwives to assess a baby's health in utero. They have also become increasingly popular in recent years among parents, some of whom rent one or buy one from high street shops or chemists for use at home.But doctors writing in the British Medical Journal warn that pare...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 6, 2009 Category: Science Authors: Denis Campbell Tags: Pregnancy Health Children Parents and parenting Society UK news Life and style Science Reproduction Medical research The Guardian Source Type: news

Domestic foetal heart monitors put babies at riskEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
• Expectant mothers should not rely on devices• Inexperienced users often hear their own heartbeatFoetal heart monitors, which growing numbers of expectant parents use at home to listen to their unborn child's heartbeat, are potentially dangerous to the mother and baby's health, doctors warn today.The devices are routinely used in hospitals by doctors and midwives to assess a baby's health in utero. They have also become increasingly popular in recent years among parents, some of whom rent one or buy one from high street shops or chemists for use at home.But doctors writing in the British Medical Journal warn that pare...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 6, 2009 Category: Science Authors: Denis Campbell Tags: Pregnancy Health Children Parents and parenting Society UK news Life and style Science Reproduction Medical research The Guardian Source Type: news

Pregnant With Tubal Reversal BabyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This is a heart warming story told by Erin K. about being pregnant with her tubal reversal baby and what made her decide to have her tubes untied by Dr. Berger at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center. (Source: Tubal Ligation Reversal News)
Source: Tubal Ligation Reversal News - November 6, 2009 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: organizations

Listening to Baby's Heart at Home May Be Misleading (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Expectant mothers may enjoy listening to their unborn babies' heartbeats, but they shouldn't rely on home fetal heart monitors to provide an accurate picture of fetal health, researchers say. (Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN)
Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN - November 5, 2009 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news

The Sneaky Ways Your Mother Shaped YouEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Everybody has a nickname for their mother. Maybe they're not comfortable with the traditional Mom label. Case in point: In one of my favorite movies, "Mermaids," Winona Ryder's character calls her mother Mrs. Flax. She takes the professional-relationship route. My sister, Janelle, and I call our mother Ms. Bear. She's always been Ms. Bear. I'm not even sure when the nickname came into existence. I suppose it morphed out of the childhood image of my mother rising from her bed chambers. Every morning since I was 10 years old, the scene played out the same way. I'd hear a faint creak of a bed, hear loud foot...
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - November 3, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Melissa Blake Tags: Child Development Parenting Relationships Resilience Self-Help apron bed chambers bonding bringing home case in point cleavers creak daughters disability electronics shop family feminists flax janelle knee cap mothe Source Type: consumer

An experimental heart valve saves a child with H1N1Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Wall Street Journal features a story about a Children’s Hospital Boston patient with congenital heart disease who was stricken with H1N1 and required a new heart valve. Because the boy was too sick to undergo open-heart surgery, James Lock, MD, led a team that implanted the new valve using a catheter. Lock and Peter Laussen, MD, chief of cardiovascular critical care at Children’s, talk about how H1N1 presents a serious problem for children with heart disease. Last week, a multicenter study led by Children’s reported good preliminary results in 30 patients receiving this catheter-implanted valve, which...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - November 3, 2009 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Erin Graham Tags: H1N1 (swine flu) Source Type: organizations

Get Your Dirty, Sexy Plastic Off My Food and Water!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
First it was just bottled water in those bisphenol A (BPA) plastic bottles. We were told not to drink water that "smelled like plastic" or that had sat in sun-warmed bottles. They told us that the BPA in hard plastics could cause prostate and breast cancers, diabetes and heart disease, as well as reproductive problems. BPA is everywhere: baby bottles, toys, and packaging for some microwaveable foods. So now we use BPA-free bottles, toys, and nuke our food in glass containers. That's good! But what if your food is already tainted with BPA plastic? Well, next time you look into a can of beans, soup, tomatoes, or baby formul...
Source: About.com Breast Cancer - November 3, 2009 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: consumer

The sex life of seahorsesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The mating habits of these bizarrely beautiful creatures are fascinating – they are the only species in which males truly become pregnant. We reveal the secrets of the sea bed, plus how to keep seahorses as petsIn pictures: The secret life of seahorsesPeer at a seahorse, briefly hold one up to the light, and you will see a most unlikely creature; something you would hardly believe was real were it not lying there in the palm of your hand. Should we presume these odd-looking creatures were designed by a mischievous god who had some time on her hands? Rummaging through a box labelled "spare parts", she ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 2, 2009 Category: Science Tags: Marine life Environment Science Reproduction Zoology Animal behaviour The Guardian Features Source Type: news

Delivering a Baby: Commercial Surrogacy in IndiaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
What's it like to grow a baby in your body for nine months, feel it start to move and kick, give birth, and watch as the newborn is whisked away to the waiting arms of its...mother?Media descriptions of commercial surrogacy (1, 2, 3, 4) tend to focus far more on the lives and feelings of the "contracting parents" than on those of the surrogates. Typically the stories discuss the despair associated with infertility, the hopes aroused by the prospect of a genetically related child, the anxieties of "outsourcing" the gestation of the child, and the joys of "taking delivery" of the baby. The surrogates usually figure briefly a...
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - October 29, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marcy Darnovsky, Ph.D. Tags: Gender Morality Parenting Social Life american prospect anxieties arlie hochschild caesarean section commercial surrogacy difficult questions emotional attachment emotional labor fertility clinic gallop genetics gestation g Source Type: consumer

Our Miracle Tubal Reversal Baby is Here!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A patient of Dr. Berger posts on the Tubal Reversal Message Board, "Just a note to say that we have truly been blessed! On Friday October 23rd Madeline Grace Thomas made her GRAND entrance into the world and is the joy of our lives! Words cannot explain the deep gratitude our family has for Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center, Dr. Berger and staff for their part in making our dreams comes true. We PRAISE the Lord above most of all for our precious miracle baby, without HIS WILL and grace our Madeline would not be here. He has blessed Dr. Berger with a gift to restore women of their fertility and for that we are thankful. Our...
Source: Tubal Ligation Reversal News - October 29, 2009 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: organizations

Seeking sight: A novel surgey saves one baby’s visionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
After her daughter was born with a non-cancerous tumor obstructing her left eye, Katie Lane spent an afternoon lurching around her Waltham home, her hand blocking one eye, imagining life with monocular vision. With 20/20 eyesight, neither she nor her husband, Dan, even owned reading glasses. Now they were faced with the possibility that their daughter would be partially blind. Little Kyleigh’s right eye was perfect: pale blue and brimming with mischief. But much of her left eye was covered by a choristoma, a tumor made up of normal tissue that formed in the wrong spot. After spending five days in the Neonatal Intensive C...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - October 28, 2009 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Melissa Jeltsen Tags: All posts artifical cornea choristoma cornea surgery corneal transplant eye patch eye surgery ophthalmology vision Source Type: organizations

Left ventricular assist devices: psychosocial challenges in the elderly.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As the baby boom generation ages, the number of people with heart failure is expected to rise exponentially. A rapid increase in the demand for heart transplants will result in an increased use of left ventricular assist devices. This case illustrates the challenges facing transplant teams in evaluating elderly heart failure patients as candidates for assist devices. The critical elements of a psychosocial assessment are described. PMID: 19853075 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery)
Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - October 27, 2009 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Marcus P Tags: Ann Thorac Surg Source Type: journals

Pregnancy alert for diabeticsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WOMEN WITH type I diabetes should avoid pregnancy until their sugar levels are under control. That’s according to the author of a new study showing that for women with type I diabetes, poor control of sugar levels during pregnancy is linked with an increased risk of heart anomalies in the developing baby. (Source: The Irish Times - Health)
Source: The Irish Times - Health - October 27, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Don't Retire, Keep Working To Stay HealthierEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study supported much earlier studies, such as a study at a major hospital in 1920 that showed that people who worked after retirement lived longer and a Yale University study published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine, that showed being laid off or fired close to retirement or old age had a devastating effect on an individual's health, with particular reference to stroke. The American Geriatrics Society reported that people over age 65 who worked as volunteers had half the death risk of those who did not.The benefits of continuing to work, other than financial resources, are social interaction, and oppor...
Source: Psychology Today Work Center - October 24, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ray B. Williams Tags: Work aarp age sex american journal of industrial medicine baby boomers cancer lung functional decline great depression health health researchers high blood pressure journal of occupational health journal of occupational health psyc Source Type: consumer

A vaccine for anxiety? The real reason why drug companies are pushing more vaccinesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(NaturalNews) There's a new vaccine for nicotine addiction, and another one for drug addiction. There's an AIDS vaccines (which doesn't work) and a vaccine for cervical cancer that's been approved for use on boys (boys don't have a cervix). Through the pharmaceutical industry, the big push for vaccines is on!But why, exactly? Is there suddenly a new rash of epidemic disease requiring vaccine treatments? No, not really. What's new is the way Big Pharma is latching on to these diseases as new opportunities to sell more drugs.There's a huge shift underway from drugs designed for sick people to a whole new class of drugs manuf...
Source: NaturalNews.com - October 23, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news

[Seminar] Tetralogy of FallotEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Tetralogy of Fallot is the most common form of cyanotic congenital heart disease, and one of the first to be successfully repaired by congenital heart surgeons. Since the first procedures in the 1950s, advances in the diagnosis, perioperative and surgical treatment, and postoperative care have been such that almost all those born with tetralogy of Fallot can now expect to survive to adulthood. The startling improvement in outcomes for babies born with congenital heart disease in general—and for those with tetralogy of Fallot in particular—is one of the success stories of modern medicine. Indeed, in many countries adult...
Source: LANCET - October 22, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Christian Apitz, Gary D Webb, Andrew N Redington Tags: Seminar Source Type: journals

Left Ventricular Assist Devices: Psychosocial Challenges in the Elderly [CASE REPORTS]Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As the baby boom generation ages, the number of people with heart failure is expected to rise exponentially. A rapid increase in the demand for heart transplants will result in an increased use of left ventricular assist devices. This case illustrates the challenges facing transplant teams in evaluating elderly heart failure patients as candidates for assist devices. The critical elements of a psychosocial assessment are described. (Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery)
Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - October 22, 2009 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Marcus, P. Tags: Mechanical Circulatory Assistance CASE REPORTS Source Type: journals

Flow-cycled versus time-cycled sIPPV in preterm babies with RDS: a breath-to-breath randomised cross-over trialEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: FC-sIPPV may safely result in a better patient ventilator synchrony. Inspiratory time usually set in neonatal critical care is higher than that decided by the baby during spontaneous effort. This should be considered when establishing time-cycled ventilation. (Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition)
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition - October 21, 2009 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: De Luca, D, Conti, G, Piastra, M, Paolillo, P M Tags: Child health, Neonatal and paediatric intensive care, Neonatal health, Neonatal intensive care Original articles Source Type: journals

Antidepressants and depression may both harm a fetusEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A US jury has said an antidepressant caused heart defects in a fetus – but leaving depression untreated can be bad news for mothers and babies alike (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - October 21, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals

Can Children be Shared?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In Lorrie Moore's brilliant new novel, A Gate at the Stairs, several women become emotionally attached to one hapless toddler as they each take their turn in a round-robin of care. The list includes the baby's biological mother, followed by the teenaged daughter of the baby's initial foster mother (the adolescent bonds with the infant and is the child's first parent substitute). Then there's the baby's adoptive mother-- a sophisticated restaurant chef named Sarah Brink--followed by Sarah Brink's college-aged nanny, and the novel's quirky, punny narrator,Tassie. If you're having trouble keeping all these female characters s...
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - October 20, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Susan Pinker Tags: Relationships adoption adoptive mother arlie attachment babies biological mother blankies emotional attachment empathy foster care foster mother Lorrie Moore mammalian evolution Martin Seligman mother and baby new novel p Source Type: consumer

One mother’s story: How strep throat attacked my child’s brainEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Maura Heckmann and her son, Chris Eleven-year-old Chris Heckmann was healthy and in good spirits when his mother, Maura, left him with friends for the night. But when she returned, 24 hours later, her son was unrecognizable. Stricken with paranoia, he refused to eat and paced around the family room, fear in his eyes. At first, doctors thought Chris had obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). But he was ultimately diagnosed with PANDAS, a controversial neuropsychiatric disorder thought to be related to routine childhood strep infections. Here, Maura tells the story of her son’s rapid decent into illness, and his road to re...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - October 20, 2009 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Kristin Cantu Tags: All posts mental illness OCD PANDAS strep throat Source Type: organizations

Omega-3s beat depressionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(NaturalNews) You're probably already aware of the benefits of omega-3 fatty acids on cardiovascular health, but did you know that omega-3s are also extremely beneficial for moods and cognitive function? In fact, there's a tremendous amount of good evidence demonstrating that omega-3 fatty acids can help enhance brain function and prevent depression.Below, we present a collection of supporting quotes and testimonials from authors and researchers in the natural health field. You'll find more of these quotes on NaturalPedia, the free online encyclopedia of natural health knowledge: www.NaturalPedia.comOmega-3s and depression...
Source: NaturalNews.com - October 20, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news

Coming soon: the bionic pensionersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Generation set to live to 100 will benefit from from £50m bio-technology research projectExpect not only a ripe old age but a fit old age, scientists said yesterday at the launch of a research initiative on replacing worn-out body parts and allowing everyone to be as active in their second half-century as they were in their first.More than half of all babies born today in rich nations will live to be 100, according to research published recently in the Lancet. But as joints begin to crumble, arteries fur up and teeth fall out, the prospect may not always be a happy one.At the University of Leeds, the country's biggest bio...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 20, 2009 Category: Science Authors: Sarah Boseley Tags: Older people Health Society Research Science University of Leeds Higher education UK news guardian.co.uk Source Type: news

In utero learning – the new trend of “smart baby” productsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
“Smart baby” products for infants and have been on the market for years. Now, gadgets geared toward babies who aren’t even born yet are popping up on the market. Could these new “prenatal learning systems” produce a smarter, more alert, calmer – all around better baby? We checked in with David Bickham, PhD, staff scientist at Children’s Hospital Boston’s Center on Media and Child Health, about the trend. Here’s what he has to say. Let’s start with what we know about how babies learn after they’re born. Very young children (up to age 2) are unlikely to learn ...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - October 19, 2009 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Erin Graham Tags: All posts baby einstein fetus learning prenatal learning smart baby Source Type: organizations

Children’s heart team back in GhanaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Mark Scheurer, MD, evaluates a child during a pre-surgical clinic in Ghana For two years, a team of surgeons, physicians, nurses and volunteers has been going to the West African nation of Ghana to operate on and care for children with heart conditions that would otherwise go untreated. The team started a blog in March 2008 so others could follow them on their adventure and have updated it each time they’ve visited since. They’re there now and are blogging about the children they’re seeing, the challenges they’re facing and the work they had to do to get the whole operation up and running. Keep an eye on the blog ...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - October 15, 2009 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Matt Cyr Tags: All posts cardiac surgery Cardiology Ghana Source Type: organizations

US jury rules on SeroxatEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
• British maker of Seroxat told to pay £1.6m damages• GlaxoSmithKline denies drug harms foetusesA family has been awarded $2.5m (£1.6m) in damages after a jury in Philadelphia decided that the British-made antidepressant Seroxat was responsible for their three-year-old son's heart defects.GlaxoSmithKline, the British manufacturer of Seroxat, known as Paxil in the US, said it would appeal against the verdict. Although drug regulators in the US and UK warned in 2005 that Seroxat could be linked to heart defects, GSK does not accept its drug is the cause.Thousands of women worldwide have taken antidepressants such as Se...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 14, 2009 Category: Science Authors: Sarah Boseley Tags: Health GlaxoSmithKline Drugs Depression in adults Pregnancy UK news Business Society United States World news Science Life and style The Guardian Source Type: news

Flu vaccines revealed as the greatest quackery ever pushed in the history of medicineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(NaturalNews) Prepare to have your world rocked. What you're about to read here will leave you astonished, inspired and outraged all at the same time. You're about to be treated to some little-known information demonstrating why seasonal flu vaccines are utterly worthless and why their continued promotion is based entirely on fabricated studies and medical mythology.If the whole world knew what you're about to read here, the vaccine industry would collapse overnight.This information comes to you courtesy of a brilliant article published in The Atlantic (November 2009). The article, written by Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Le...
Source: NaturalNews.com - October 14, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news

Pregnant women who thrown temper tantrums put babies at risk of heart problemsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Women who throw temper tantrums during pregnancy are putting their unborn children at increased risk of heart problems. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 11, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Bogus Science: Medical "Fact" About Aging Brains Shrinking is WrongEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(NaturalNews) As people age, the chance of dementia rises. The most dreaded form of this memory robbing condition is Alzheimer's disease (AD). Already the seventh-leading cause of death in the U.S., the incidence of Alzheimer's is expected to soar as the huge Baby Boomer generation ages. According to the National Institute on Aging, as Alzheimer's progresses, the brain shrinks. So it is not a comforting thought to know that science has long stated aging brains shrink as we grow older, even if you don't have AD. Having a brain that is going to atrophy with the passing years seems to indicate that some mental decline must be...
Source: NaturalNews.com - October 10, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news

Garlic is natural medicine for treating high blood pressureEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(NaturalNews) Garlic is one of the most amazing medicinal herbs on the planet. It has been among my top-recommended healing foods and medicines for years. Most people know garlic as being anti-cancer. Others recognize its ability to naturally lower high cholesterol. But did you know that garlic also helps normalize high blood pressure?Here, we present a collection of powerful quotes about garlic and high blood pressure, documented in some of the best health books ever written. Enjoy this collection of knowledge!Garlic vs. high blood pressureOnions have similar characteristics and are often used in combination with garlic. ...
Source: NaturalNews.com - October 8, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news

One patient’s story: in utero heart surgery saves a babyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The first thing you notice about Ann Louise Atherton (her real name is Hazel, but everyone calls her Ann Louise) is her eyes: playful, brilliant blue and sparkling with humor. When she throws a toy and you pick it up, she beams, knowing she’s hooked you into playing fetch. Sitting in her Princess stroller and playing with her mother’s iPhone, a small catheter tube by her hip is the only sign of the risky, life-saving heart surgery that Ann Louise went through before she was even born. Early in her pregnancy, Mary Beth Atherton and her husband, Andrew, learned that Ann Louise’s still-developing heart was showing signs...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - October 7, 2009 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Steve Coldwell Tags: All posts One parent's story congential heart defect critical aortic stenosis heart repair in utero surgery Source Type: organizations

South Africa: Wind-Up Heart Monitor LaudedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Wind-up radio company Freeplay Energy has won the prestigious Danish Index design award for its wind-up foetal heart monitor, a device that can be used in clinics without electricity to help save unborn babies who are running dangerously short of oxygen during birth. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 7, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news

A Tubal Reversal MiracleEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A patient of Dr. Berger writes a testimonial announcing the birth of her tubal reversal baby: "My husband and I would just like to thank you again for performing our tubal reversal. We had our baby girl eight weeks early due to her having a heart condition that caused her heart rate to go too high, but she is doing great and will be home soon. Her name is Nevaeh Grace. She was born September 6, 2009. Here is a picture of her. We had our tubal reversal surgery December 31st 2008 and found out we were pregnant on February 13th 2009. You did a great job and we hope to bring our little Berger miracle to see you soon." - Keith ...
Source: Tubal Ligation Reversal News - October 7, 2009 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: organizations

What Parents Need to Know About PotEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The recent flurry of findings on marijuana's health risks may have baby boomers wondering, "How can that be?" Chances of getting into legal trouble aside, is it possible their kids might be in danger of heart or mental health issues when they themselves... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - October 5, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news