2011-03-30T08:36:14+0000">March 30, 2011 – 8:36 am
It’s only in the last decade or so that doctors have come to accept that ADHD is not just a childhood problem. In fact, until recently, most studies and most physicians did not followADHD sufferers beyond adolescence. As a result, there have been very few long-term followup studies. And as with any scientific investigation, the [...]
2011-03-26T08:35:32+0000">March 26, 2011 – 8:35 am
BDD can also cause anger. Anger has many sources: frustration over looking abnormal, not being able to improve one’s appearance or stop it from further deteriorating, lack of control over the perceived defect, or a belief that others are being rejecting or mocking the defect. “I get angry because it isn’t fair that I’m the [...]
2011-03-16T08:34:54+0000">March 16, 2011 – 8:34 am
If, like most of us, you take regular showers, make them cold ones and don’t linger under the spray of water for more than a couple of minutes. After your shower, shut the bathroom door tightly and put on the extractor fan or open the window. This is the message coming from recent research on [...]
2011-02-20T08:34:18+0000">February 20, 2011 – 8:34 am
No one ever sees themselves during a seizure. Even if you have epilepsy yourself, you may never have seen anyone else have a seizure. Videorecording can be helpful if one of your main worries about having a seizure is what you look like, how you appear to onlookers and what they think of you. People [...]
2011-02-13T08:33:41+0000">February 13, 2011 – 8:33 am
Actually, most people with a diabetic problem are discovered before the disease produces marked symptoms. Doctors in routine examinations of any type check at least the urine for excess sugar, and many times they also do screening tests on the blood to detect diabetes. In particular, if a person goes to a doctor with symptoms [...]
2011-02-06T08:33:04+0000">February 6, 2011 – 8:33 am
For several good reasons, it is advisable to have no woollen clothing immediately against the skin. Woollen underclothing in particular, because of its close fit and close weave, has a markedly depressant effect upon skin activity. It forms a barrier to the escape of perspiration and to the access of fresh air. (In our practices, [...]
2011-01-18T08:32:28+0000">January 18, 2011 – 8:32 am
Sunlight causes cancer of the skin. Fortunately, the evidence suggests that we can cope with this tact quite easily without retiring to darkened rooms for most of our lives. In discussing this matter it is important to distinguish between two quite different types of skin cancer. The first kind is the common cancers of skin [...]
2011-01-12T08:31:48+0000">January 12, 2011 – 8:31 am
RA can prod-ice breathing discomfort in two ways. The first occurs when the joints between the collar bones (clavicles) and chest bone (sternum) develop arthritis. In this situation, which about 30 percent of people with RA develops, pain can occur when deep breaths are taken or when the shoulders are moved. The condition improves with [...]
2011-01-06T08:31:13+0000">January 6, 2011 – 8:31 am
In addition to all the handmade love gifts that decorate every inch of my Joy Room, I get a lot of poems and sayings from our SPATULA family. One I especially like is called “Home Rules.” It was taken from a church bulletin and the original source is unknown to me. If you sleep on [...]
2010-12-26T08:30:39+0000">December 26, 2010 – 8:30 am
Infection and inflammation of the meninges. Many forms of meningitis are known, depending on the infecting germ, the portion of the meninges that is involved and the pathological condition that develops. Most common is cerebrospinal meningitis which occurs in epidemic form, and which is due to a special germ that attacks the meninges. The symptoms [...]