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Medication – Prescription Drugs-Health Issues
Looking for folks who are the same medication as you and what they think of it. Exercise, diet ideas. Remember we are not giving professional advice, and you should consult your doctor regarding any and all health issues you may be concerned with.
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I use insulin 4 times a day on a sliding scale. Even though the VA provies me with the insulin and it is calculated by using the sliding scale as a guideline they gave me 50 test strips to last 90 days. In other words they want me to guess 7 out of 8 injections. Is it just me or is there something wrong with this picture? The label tells me to test once every two days. God help us.... My other problem is I was turned down by a Diabetes Study because they did not like the looks of the EKG they took. Any suggestions on how to get an EKG at VA. Maybe I should go to ER and tell them I am having a heart attack?
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Here's an e-mail from a Low Carb diet study that I participate in. Gives some useful information. nuts.pdf
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Ankylosing spondylitis What is ankylosing spondylitis? Ankylosing spondylitis is a form of arthritis that primarily affects the spine. This chronic disorder is characterized by back pain and stiffness that typically appear in adolescence or early adulthood. As the disorder progresses, back movement can become limited if the bones of the spine (vertebrae) fuse together. Joint stiffness or loss of mobility is called ankylosis. The earliest symptoms of this disorder result from inflammation of the joints between the base of the spine (the sacrum) and the hipbones (the ilia). These joints are called sacroiliac joints, and inflammation in this region is known as sacroil…
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Drug Screening Study Suggests New Treatments for Alzheimer's: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Drug Screening Study Suggests New Treatments for Alzheimer's For release: Monday, September 26, 2005 While several treatments are currently available for Alzheimer's disease (AD), none of them can slow or halt the course of this devastating disorder. In a new study, researchers have now identified three compounds that inhibit an enzyme believed to be involved in the process that leads to AD. This discovery may lead to new treatments that can stop the disease process in its tracks. "Because of recent advances in understanding Alzheimer's…
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http://www.ptsdalliance.org/resources.html
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amnesic syndrome, amnestic syndrome, amnestic-confabulatory syndrome, a mental disorder characterized by impaired memory with anterograde and sometimes retrograde amnesia in a normal state of consciousness; i.e., the syndrome does not include the impaired memory seen in dementia or delirium. There may be disorientation, confabulation, and lack of insight into the memory deficit. The most common cause is thiamine deficiency from chronic alcohol abuse (Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome), but it may also result from any pathological process causing bilateral damage to parts of the medial temporal lobe or diencephalon, such as the hippocampal formations, mammillary bodies, or…
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Du Testing
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Depleted uranium tests for US troops returning from Iraq By Andrew Buncombe in Washington 09/28/05 "The Independent" -- -- US troops returning from Iraq are for the first time to be offered state-of-the-art radiation testing to check for contamination from depleted uranium - a controversial substance linked by some to cancer and birth defects. Campaigners say the Pentagon refuses to take seriously the issue of poisoning from depleted uranium (DU) and offers only the most basic checks, and only when it is specifically asked for. But state legislators across the US are pushing ahead with laws that will provide their National Guard troops access to the most sophi…
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Fwd: [msvets] Ailing Veterans Blame Their Ms On Gulf War
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fwd: Subject: [MSVETS] Ailing Veterans Blame their MS on Gulf War Wednesday, September 28, 2005 Ailing veterans blame their MS on Gulf War Their mission now is to spread the word about other illnesses By MIKE BARBER SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER On a morning at Westlake Center, they were a couple of wives and moms spending quality time downtown, meeting at a coffee shop to catch up on their lives. Yet Julie Mock, 38, of Woodinville and Elizabeth Burris, 50, of Tacoma are also sisters-in-arms, exposed accidentally to deadly nerve gases. As veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf War, they are among perhaps 450 men and women across the cou…
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Apparent Cause —Neglected Cure Garth Nicolson, Ph.D., and his wife, Nancy Nicolson, Ph.D., initially conducted research into Gulf War Illness at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas in Houston. There, the Nicolsons isolated an apparent cause of sick veterans’ symptoms in a possible component of a Saddam biological cocktail — the microorganism known as Mycoplasma fermentans incognitus (MFI), which can cause protracted illness and a lingering death. The Nicolsons’ studies have shown that approximately 40 percent of veterans complaining of Gulf War Illness symptoms have mycoplasma in their bodies. And roughly 80 percent of those have the rare MF…
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Index To Drug-specific Information
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FDA/Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Index to Drug-Specific Information Information for a drug will be in one of three different formats: Patient Information Sheet (with and without FDA Alerts) Consumer Information Sheet (for drugs approved since 1998. These will all be eventually converted to Patient Information Sheets) Drug Information Page (may include a Patient or Consumer Information Sheet, approval information, FDA press releases, questions and answers about a drug, and other related information) http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/DrugSafety/DrugIndex.htm
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The Food Pyramid Controversy: What Shape Should Your Diet Take? By Lisa Chippendale Infoaging Correspondent Until a decade ago, nutrition for most Americans was synonymous with the USDA's four official food groups: meat, dairy, fruits and vegetables, and grain. Then, in 1992, the food groups took on a new form: the now-familiar Food Guide Pyramid, with a base of carbohydrates, topped by increasingly smaller levels of fruits and vegetables, protein sources and dairy, and finally fats, oils, and sweets. One would think that government advocacy of a diet based mostly on carbohydrates, fruits, and vegetables would have led to a new era of American healthiness. That …
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..on your life expectancy, with evaluation and tips by an MD. Try it out/ I came out as 90.1 years, so I'll reach my goal of seeing my youngest graduate. You might also want to visit the Home page of this site, as it gives very good advice on obtaining and evaluating health resources on the Internet. http://www.healthcompass.org/internal_page...FTOKEN=21728714 or http://tinyurl.com/adj9r
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