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Placebo effect or placebo response is a phenomenon of fake treatment which brings improvement in patient’s condition because the patient believes or expects that the treatment will be helpful.
These fake treatments include the substances like sugar, salt, saline etc in the form of tablet, capsule or injection and purely a psychological treatment. Watch this funny video which visualises the strange power of placebo effect.
http://funnyandspicy.com/strange-powers-of-placebo-effect-the-most-alternate-medicinePlacebo effect or placebo response is a phenomenon of fake treatment which brings... more
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A tiny, remote Ecuadorian village has had a rough lot, you might think. They're dwarfs, descended from a lineage of Portuguese and Spanish Sephardic Jews, coerced into Christian conversion and then persecuted by the Inquisition. The upshot? They don't get cancer or diabetes. They're afflicted with what's known as Laron syndrome—the genetic mutation responsible for their tiny size (below 3.5 feet, on average). But this same mutation also robs the villagers of a cellular receptor responsible for pumping out growth hormone—and it's this robbery, the New York Times reports, that simultaneously makes them immune to both cancer and diabetes. After 24 years of study by an Ecuadorian doctor, the 99 tracked villagers came down with startlingly few cases of either ailment. "I discovered the population in 1987," explains Dr. Guevara-Aguirre. "In 1994, I noticed these patients were not having cancer compared with their relatives." The obvious effect of growth hormone deficiency is—yes-not growing. That's why they're dwarves. But their cells have superpowers.
Superpower cells
When researchers applied a genetic serum derived from the Laron villagers to cells in a petri dish, they observed two incredible effects—it acted as a shield against artificial damage. And when damage did occur, the the cells self-destructed—heading off the proliferation of faulty cells that leads to the growth of cancer.So what does this mean for the rest of us? Great things, maybe. Lowered levels of growth hormone could be the key to longer life—mice bred by Ohio University have similarly impaired receptors are living 40% longer than their peers. In fact, the oldest mouse in scientific history nearly reached five years—and had a defective growth hormone gene, just like the Ecuadorian villagers.Now, mice are mice. And we're not mice. But the more we understand about our bodies and why they (inevitably) break, the more we can do to stop it. Or at least slow it. My only question is...if I am going to have to shrink to 3.5ft where can I get good fitting skinny jeans...
Source: http://uk.gizmodo.com/5762524/ecuadorian-genetic-mutants-are-immune-to-cancer
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X-ray device zaps deep cancers in 15 minutes
16:33 10 February 2011
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Life
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Catherine de Lange, reporter
A super-accurate radiotherapy device that can target tumours deep inside the body is now bringing new hope to UK cancer patients.
Radiosurgery is a non-invasive cancer treatment in which targeted radiation beams are used to destroy or shrink tumours. But the Novalis Tx device tailors these beams to match the exact shape, size and position of a tumour in the body. This means that a more intense beam can be used without causing damage to surrounding tissue. The device can also manoeuvre the beams to reach tumours deep inside the body, such as in the spinal cord, which were previously inaccessible.X-ray device zaps deep cancers in 15 minutes
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All growth oriented products are good for the health of the manufacturers.
None of the vitamin pills are effective .
Only way to supplement Vitamin loss is to eat the vegetables/foods that contain the vitamins.
It is also a fact that if a pill for a particular deficiency is taken, it is ejected in stools.
For instance if you take iron tablets you will find your stools greenish, which is iron being thrown out.
if you tale B Complex, it gets thrown out in urine, which will be yellow.
Medicine is driven by Drug Companies and crooked Doctors..
http://ramanan50.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/vitamin-pills-unnecessary-researchers/All growth oriented products are good for the health of the manufacturers.
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Dr Jean Colombera, Green party deputy, has begun a campaign to get cannabis legalised for use in medicene in Luxembourg after discovering that it can be used to treat tumours.
Colombera, a well-known supporter of the use of the cannabis plant in medicine, said that he and his research team are able to prove that the hemp extract, derived from a type of non-active hemp grown in Luxembourg, can help to dissolve brain tumour cells.
http://www.station.lu/?p=edito&a=external&id=107231Dr Jean Colombera, Green party deputy, has begun a campaign to get cannabis legalised... more
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Journey of Hope With Rodney Mathers (34) What if "Bi-Polar Disorder" and "Social Anxiety" were terms simply made up by big pharmaceutical companies to sell billions of dollars worth of prescriptions per year? That is exactly the claim made by Rodney's guest this week in his new book. His arguments are compelling and can be heard on this week's edition of Journey of Hope With Rodney Mathers.Journey of Hope With Rodney Mathers (34) What if "Bi-Polar Disorder" and... more
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Us e of hormones ans birth control pills that affect the hormones are the primary causes and use of these is dangerous for health.Us e of hormones ans birth control pills that affect the hormones are the primary... more
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by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger
Flickr user DonkeyHotey, via Creative CommonsWith millions of Americans out of work, House Republicans are focusing in on real priorities: decimating private abortion coverage and crippling public funding for abortion, as Jessica Arons reports in RH Reality Check.
In AlterNet, Amanda Marcotte notes that the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, or H.R. 3, also redefines rape as “forcible rape” in order to determine whether a patient is eligible for a Medicaid-funded abortion. Under the Hyde Amendment, government-funded insurance programs can only cover abortions in cases of rape and incest, or to save the life of the mother. Note that the term “forcible rape” is legally meaningless. Supporters of the bill just want to go on the record as saying that a poor 13-year-old girl pregnant by a 30-year-old should be forced to give birth.
Feminist blogger Sady Doyle has launched a twitter campaign against the bill under the hashtag #dearjohn, a reference to Speaker John Boehner (R-OH). Tweet to let him know how you feel about a bill that discriminates against 70% of rape victims because their rapes weren’t violent enough for @johnboehner, append the hashtag #dearjohn.
Everybody chill out
A federal judge in Florida ruled the entire Affordable Care Act unconstitutional on Monday. However, as political scientist and court watcher Scott Lemieux explains at TAPPED, the ruling is not necessarily a death blow to health care reform:
[T]his ruling is less important than the controversy it will generate might suggest. Many cornerstone programs of the New Deal were held unconstitutional by lower courts before being upheld by the Supreme Court. This ruling tells us nothing we didn’t already know: There is a faction of conservative judges who believe the individual mandate is unconstitutional. Unless this view has the support of five members of the Supreme Court — which I still consider very unlikely — it won’t matter; Vinson’s reasoning would have a much greater impact if adopted by the Court, but for this reason it is even less likely to be adopted by higher courts.
In a follow-up post, Lemieux explains the shaky legal reasoning behind Judge Robert Vinson’s decision. The judge asserts bizarrely that being uninsured has no effect on interstate commerce. That premise is objectively false. Health insurers operate across state lines and the size and composition of their risk pools directly affects their business.
Given the glaring factual inaccuracies, Judge Vinson’s decision may be overturned by a higher court before it gets to the Supreme Court.
Scamming Medicare
Terry J. Allen of In These Times win’s the headline of the week award for an article entitled “Urology’s Golden Revenue Stream.” She reports that increasing numbers of urologists are investing millions on machines to irradiate prostate cancer in the office. The doctors can bill Medicare up to $40,000 per treatment, but they have to use the machines a lot to recoup the initial investment. So what does this mean for patients? Allen explains:
Rather than accessing centralized equipment and sharing costs, physicians are concentrating their own profits by buying expensive in-practice technologies that pay off only if regularly used. One result is overtreatment, which is driving up health care costs, exposing patients to unnecessary radiation and surgeries, and is frequently no better than cheaper approaches.
One third of Medicare patients with prostate cancer undergo the expensive IMRT therapy, as the procedure is known. In 2008, Medicare shelled out over a billion dollars on a treatment that has not shown to be any better for patients than less expensive therapies.
Obstetric fistula in the developing world
Reproductive Health Reality Check is running a special series on the human rights implications of obstetric fistula. Fistula is a devastating complication of unrelieved obstructed labor in which the baby’s head gets stuck in the birth canal and presses against the soft tissues of the pelvis. If labor goes on long enough, the pressure will starve the pelvic tissues of blood, and they will die, creating a hole between the vagina and the bladder, and/or between the vagina and the rectum. Fistula patients face lifelong incontinence, chronic pain, and social ostracism.
The condition is virtually unknown in the developed world, where women with obstructed labor have access to cesarean delivery. However, an estimated 2 million women, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, have untreated fistulas with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 new cases occurring each year. Without reconstructive surgery, these women will be incontinent for life.
Sarah Omega, a fistula survivor from Kenya, tells her story. Omega sustained a fistula when she delivered her first child at the age of 19. She suffered for 12 years before she finally obtained the surgery she needed. As Agnes Odhiambo explains in another installment in the series, fistula is a symptom of a dysfunctional health care system. Women suffer needlessly because they can’t get access to quality health care.
The most likely victims of fistula are the most vulnerable members of their respective communities. Early childbearing increases a woman’s risk of fistula. Pregnant rape victims may face even greater barriers to a safe delivery, thanks to the social stigma that accrues to victims of sexual violence in many societies. (Not to mention any names, House Republicans…)
Preventing and repairing obstetric fistula is a major human rights issue. The U.S. should make this effort a high priority for foreign aid.
This post features links to the best independent, progressive reporting about health care by members of The Media Consortium. It is free to reprint. Visit the Pulse for a complete list of articles on health care reform, or follow us on Twitter. And for the best progressive reporting on critical economy, environment, health care and immigration issues, check out The Audit, The Mulch, and The Diaspora. This is a project of The Media Consortium, a network of leading independent media outlets.by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger
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Click the link to get the VaccinationCouncil.org Special Report released by NaturalNews.
The report contains useful information on the fact vaccinations have never been proven safe or effective, the profit motive behind Big Pharm’s vaccine push, why vaccinated children have far worse health outcomes than unvaccinated children, and more.
http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/Click the link to get the VaccinationCouncil.org Special Report released by... more
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Human Bacteria In The Production Of Human Cancer
A Short Report With Photographic Evidence
© 2011 Alan Cantwell MD
One of the most remarkable medical findings in the new 21st century is the recognition that 90% of the cells that make up our body are not human cells. On the contrary, most of our cells are the trillions of microbial cells (primarily bacteria) that inhabit our bodies and share our lives. According to microbiologist Brett Finlay: "We really are a superorganism. From the moment we are born until we die, we live in a symbiotic relationship with our microbes."
The National Institutes of Health has launched a $115-million Human Microbiome Project to identify, analyze and catalog the hundreds of microbial species residing in or on the human body. Modelled after the Human Genome Project, which decoded most of the human genes in the 1990s, the goal of the microbiome project is to determine which microbes are harmful and to figure out ways to prevent or treat diseases they cause.
continued @ http://www.rense.com/general92/cantw.htmHuman Bacteria In The Production Of Human Cancer
A Short Report With Photographic... more
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Many people have been warned by their doctors that the primary cause of heart disease is an elevated level of cholesterol. Some call this a myth. I call it a lie! Find out the real causes of heart disease, and how to prevent heart attacks and stroke.Many people have been warned by their doctors that the primary cause of heart disease... more
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To rebuild damaged parts of a human body from scratch is a dream that has long fired human imagination, from Mary Shelley's Doctor Frankenstein to modern day surgeons.
Link : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110118092140.htmTo rebuild damaged parts of a human body from scratch is a dream that has long fired... more
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Latest Complete News Updates Today The Extenze results it provides are important. Normally males get Extenze because of its terrific effects concerning better ejaculation, larger penis size, superior erection, and so forth.Latest Complete News Updates Today The Extenze results it provides are important.... more
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Doctors have to take decisions under stress, though not apparent.
A doctor when performing his first surgery /first case will tell you that.
Over a period of time and practice, the stress is not visible;but it remains underneath.
A doctor is also a human being with his share of problems professionally and personally.
Fair percentage of Doctors work longer hours either because of their commitment or for financial reasons.
http://ramanan50.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/doctors-need-sleep/Doctors have to take decisions under stress, though not apparent.
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Recently Complete News Updates Ms. Brandi Favre has been arrested in connection with a meth lab bust. The arrest of Vikings quarterback Brett Favre's sister during a drug raid in southern Mississippi isn't the first time she's been in trouble with the law.Recently Complete News Updates Ms. Brandi Favre has been arrested in connection with a... more
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(B.J. Steed, KTHV)
(Little Rock, AR) — Activists and a handful of lawmakers hope to push a four page bill through the House legalizing medicinal marijuana by the end of the session.
Arkansas legislators could soon be faced with yet another bill that could change Arkansas law as we know it. The Arkansas Medicinal Cannabis Act of 2011, would allow patients to grow and use cannabis for medical purposes.
But would not intend to change current laws governing duty of care owed to others which means people would be held responsible for choices like operating a vehicle.
“We’re the natural state. This is a natural medication,” says supporter Robert Reed.(B.J. Steed, KTHV)
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Latest Complete News Updates Today Up to a million people may have been affected by contaminated water at Camp Lejeune Marine Base in Jacksonville, NC. No one would mistake the football gridiron for a combat zone...Latest Complete News Updates Today Up to a million people may have been affected by... more
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