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Thursday, May 2nd, 2013Cardiovascular stents help keep blood passage ways flow freely in the heart area and help prevent heart and cardiovascular diseases. Quite often if you have had a heart attack or are at a high risk for one, you’ll need to have this surgery done. Surgeries that involve coronary stents are one of the coolest for a [...]
Circuit Training Workouts for Women
Tuesday, February 26th, 2013Learning the technique of circuit training is learning how to combine exercises of both vigour & cardio building movements which create a continual workout. Circuit training routines would alternate in-between cardio & strength-training moves & their placement done one after the other with least resting in-between. A crucial aspect to bear in mind in circuit training workouts are to incorporate a [...]
I Never Buy Retail Medical Services, and You Shouldn’t, Either
Monday, February 11th, 2013Medicine is continuing to grapple with the so-called ‘retail clinics’ located in some of the finest drug stores on American soil. The ‘minute clinics’ in CVS stores have apparently done pretty well; and, unsurprisingly, Wal-Mart has entered into this market. I suppose I don’t blame them; they have always done well marketing to the low end [...]
How to Avoid the Flu (As Best You Can)
Friday, January 18th, 2013The dreaded flu season is here, and marked by the persistent coughing you typically hear in public places. Perhaps you’ve caught the sniffles yourself or have noticed people strolling around with surgical masks on. Since the flu is one of the last things you want in the dead of the winter, there are some things [...]
Metal Magnets in the Medical World
Friday, January 4th, 2013The issue of magnets and health reared its head again. Nikken, a company that makes wellness, nutritional, and magnets that have some sort of medical uses has been getting some news about new health benefits of their products. But why is it that this stuff keeps hold of consumer’s attentions? And why do some physicians [...]
Hyperekplexia, Part 2
Friday, December 21st, 2012Now that I’ve given you a case study or two, let me give you some really geeky science and dig into the molecular aspects of being “jumped,” at least if you’re an inbred French-Canadian lumberjack. First a little electrophysiological exercise: on a piece of paper draw a straight vertical line top to bottom, doesn’t matter how long. Without lifting [...]
Hyperekplexia, Part 1
Monday, December 10th, 2012Once upon a time, neurologists went out into the field to do their work. Nowadays, they can sit in their offices and evaluate people sent to them by worried doctors and relatives, which means they see a lot of elderly folks in various stages of dementia/Alzheimer’s. But back in the days of Old School Neurology, [...]
Trypanophobia
Tuesday, November 6th, 2012Just about everyone has a phobia, I’d guess. Phobias usually come from a traumatic experience in a person’s past, or as a learned behavior. This was apparently the case for my mother, and she very nearly passed it on to me, as I observed her panic whenever a spider bigger than a ‘money’ spider would [...]
Why Broccoli is Good for Gut Wrenching Pain
Monday, October 15th, 2012Today’s brief science blurb is going to be on the digestive system and its toxins. I’m going to leave discussions on the colon aside for the moment. Why? Because your colon is amazingly good at Not Being Poisoned. The fact that colon cancer is on the rise might appear to make your colon weak and vulnerable, [...]
Back Pain? Get a Physician to Help
Thursday, September 27th, 2012As a long-term sufferer of lower-back pain due to herniated disks and arthritis I often have sleep-disturbed days and nights due to the discomfort. I know it could be said that my back pain could be alleviated by weight loss. This is however a vicious circle as I cannot lose weight so easily due to [...]
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