disease

I tend to trust mainstream medicine too much. I have to admit it was mainstream medicine that is going to help me deal with this immune disease, but it also took me not just nodding my head at the doctors office. Anyway, my latest about how being a skeptic lead to an earlier diagnosis than I...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125090339313750961.html Worrisome, it sounds.

Reading an interesting book "Ghost Map" by STeven Johnson. it's all about how a scientist and a minster figured out that cholera was caused by bad water, and not bad air. The book talks about how in Western Society early "civilized' man needed to be able to drink alcohol to survive. Water...

So SCIENCE is saying that addiction is a disease, thanks to phychologists. Frankly this is absolute rubbish. First of all, I have been an "addict" and although I have overcome alcoholism and drug abuse, I still demonstrate an "addictive personality." I even used to buy in to the whole...

Could we cure cancer in 20 years? Heart Disease? Stroke? How much would it cost to do so? What do you think, what do our best estimates from science and history indicate?

Zimbawe's Mugabe calls homosexality a "white disease." New anti-gay laws started http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/07/071706zimbabwe.htm Sad.

Blood types, MMR Vaccine and disease associations ? Does anyone on this forum know anything of certain blood groups being linked with diseases ? A friend told me that her father has a very rare blood type (AB- ?) that is supposedly worth a fortune. She then asked her mum what type she was, her...

Example: Huntington's disease is a devastating brain disorder wich leads to death 10-20 years after its onset. Currently there is no available cure or prevention but there is a definitive test that can tell you whether you are going to develop the disease or not. Would you want to be tested for...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4898488.stm

Apparently the combination of tenofovir and emtricitabine has shown promise in monkey tests, and now they are extending the tests to humans. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12039614/ Since we talking about the subject, is there a direct refutation to Janine Roberts' papers "HIVGate" and "AIDSgate"...

I ran across someone arguing that you won't see any more diseases cured because there's no money in it for the drug companies. I can cite smallpox, polio, etc., as things that have been mostly eradicated, but it's tough to come up with anything that's been cured recently. I'm sure that lots of...

I've often wondered this. Given where most people tend to keep their cash (coins, banknotes) i.e. in pockets where there might be other unsavoury things like handkerchiefs, wouldn't you think that this might represent the ideal spreader-of-disease ? Has anyone ever conducted research into what...

I have a friend here that has had Graves Disease and is considering an eye operation. She has had no other related operation. Medication has been effective and to me her eyes look fine although she assures me that they were not. Now I'm no doctor and I'm not ignorant either, but this one has...

Major stem cell breakthrough on brain disease A SAFE treatment for Parkinson’s disease sufferers could be available in as little as three years following new research into stem cell therapy. Scientists at the world-renowned Roslin Institute, near Edinburgh, have managed for the first time to...

See here a debate on the topic "Is Depression a Disease?" Interesting debate. http://www.szasz.com/isdepressionadiseasetranscript.pdf What do you think ?

Some time ago, Barb (Barbrae) said that the one thing she really wanted to hear was that real medicine had actually cured any diseases. Just a few diseases really curable, that was all. Obviously, having your life saved by insulin doesn't count, because the disease is only "suppressed". Or...

http://www.yourdiseaserisk.harvard.edu/ An interactive tool to estimate your risk of five diseases: cancer, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis and stroke.

I have a nephew who had Legg-Perhtes disease. When he was about 6 years, he started having pains in his legs, and he was diagnosed to have Legg-Perthes disease. This disease consists of a malforming of the hip, which some children can outgrow and become healthy again. His treatment consisted...

Doctors' ties may store bacteria BTW, my exaggerated thread title was the actual headline for this story over on WebIndia123.com.

Same garbage, different country.

My father-in-law is dying of lung cancer. As the disease progresses and the tumours on his lungs grow, his coughing and breathing gets worse. We are under no illusions as to the outcome. Sigh. His specialist nurse told my wife, Lynn, that a fan circulating the air in his bedroom at night might...

They've covered this topic quite a bit on NPR over the last week, including the Science Friday show. Recent studies have indicated some new information on the cholesterol/heart attack connection, it's treatment, and the effects of the new statin-type drugs. Seems the previous model was that...