Thank you, veterans

On this Veterans Day, thank you to all veterans for your service to the country. Share

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Health Information Exchange edges closer to a sustainable business model (transcript)

This is the transcript of yesterday’s podcast interview with Dr. Albert Tzeel of Humana. David E. Williams:����������� This is David Williams, co-founder of MedPharma Partners and author of the Health Business Blog.� I?m speaking today with Dr. Albert Tzeel, National Medical Director of HumanaOne in Wisconsin. He?s co-author of a study of the Wisconsin Health [...]

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Children born using IVF are likely taller

Children born using in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) are likely to be taller than their naturally conceived counterparts, New Zealand researchers have found.

The study by Auckland University's Liggins Institute found IVF children conceived from fresh, rather than frozen, embryos were about 2.6 centimetres (1.02 inches) taller than non-IVF children by the age of six.

The research, which examined about 200 children, found the height difference was statistically significant, even after adjusting for variables such as the parents' height.Liggins Institiute director Wayne Cutfield said the phenomenon was most striking in girls.


Cutfield said appeared IVF children from fresh embryos had a different hormone profile to regular children, which could promote growth.

This could be caused by the drugs mothers took to induce ovulation during the conception process or by the culture medium the embryos were developed in for 36 hours before being transferred to the womb, he said.

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How Congestion Can be Cured Naturally: 2

It is a good time for chest congestion. That is, a lot of people are suffering from it. If you are not interested in over the counter medications, there are plenty of natural remedies for this problem. For starters, herbal tea can be extremely helpful, especially if you inhale the steam. By adding apple cider [...]

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The Future of Health Care Reform: Health Wonk Review Raises Some Provocative Questions:

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Yogurt Review / Comparison (Gluten-Free): Voskos vs. Liberte

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Scabies

Definition An infestation by a tiny, eight-legged burrowing mite known as Sarcoptes scabies is called scabies. The scabies mite burrows into the skin and lays eggs which leads towards tiny blisters and bumps. This does not stop at this but causes intense itching in its existing area and the urge to scratch reaches at peak during night. The mite that causes scabies is invisible to the naked eye but can be seen with the help of microscope or magnifying glass. Scabies is contagious in nature and can spread itself quickly through the close physical contact of the healthy person with the infected one. Scabies�Causes The microscopic female mite called as [...]

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The Saucony Hattori: My Favorite Cross-training Shoe

There are few people more ill-suited for minimalist athletic shoes than I am. In fact, I couldn?t run more than three miles without severe knee and shin pain before I discovered the Saucony Hurricane, the only motion-control shoe that can stop my feet from turning outward when I run.

But, all my workout buds have minimalist footwear. And, yes, I?ve read ?Born to Run? and ?Chi Running? ? the minimalist runner?s gospels. So I decided to give it a try with the Saucony Hattori.

At 4.4 ounces, the Hattori is little more than a piece of treaded foam with some thin fabric on top. But the first thing you?ll notice about it is comfort. It molds to your foot. Also, while you?ll quickly be identified as a true fitness geek by anyone who knows running shoes, you won?t be instantly shunned as a freak in the way that the wiggly-toe Five Fingers wearers are.

During the minimalist revolution, there are a whole lot of people who strapped on shoes like the Hattori, took off for an ?easy? 5k run, and came up injured because suddenly all the padded sole that protected their joints and arches was gone. So that?s exactly what I didn?t do. Instead, I walked around in them for a few days ? at work, through my neighborhood, just like normal shoes ? and got used to them.

After a couple days and maybe eight miles of walking, I did Crossfit in them (think: high-intensity circuit training with a lot of free weights and calisthenics). Because they?re so thin, there?s a much more efficient power transfer for doing things like dead lifts, or even air squats. And, because your shock absorbers are gone, you?ll pay extra attention to your form when doing box jumps. After all, if you come down hard on a minimalist shoe, it?ll jar your whole body. Goodbye slop, hello control.

I should also mention that this is my favorite jump-rope shoe of all time. Not only are they light, but that extra clearance you gain with the slim soles makes it easy.

After about two weeks of walking around and doing Crossfit in my Hattoris, I tried running in them. It was a short run (a 400-meter warm-up), but I was thrilled with them. Again, if your form is bad, you?ll quickly feel it, so it?s actually very difficult to run poorly in Hattoris, unless you?re a masochist. Like with jumping rope, I was very light on my feet, and had silent, efficient footfalls.

I really don?t see myself running hard or long in Hattoris for quite some time, but I think it?s possible if I?m patient. Meanwhile, because of the efficiency and control that I?ve gained in the gym, the Hattori is easily my favorite cross-training shoe of all time.

-- Bryan Harris, Everyday Health SEO Editor

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Effort to Eliminate Waste Coming Soon

It?s not that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act doesn?t contain any provisions aimed at reducing the cost of medical care ? it?s that it doesn?t have enough of them. Still, what it has should be acknowledged. For example, Politico Pulse has reported that a unit of Health and Human Services will soon announce [...]

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Gluten-Free Diet for Stamina and Performance

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Interview on Super Human Radio

Today, I did an audio interview with Carl Lanore of Super Human Radio.  Carl seems like a sharp guy who focuses on physical fitness, nutrition, health and aging.  We talked mostly about food reward and body fatness-- I think it went well.  Carl went from obese to fit, and his fat loss experience lines up well with the food reward concept.  As he was losing fat rapidly, he told friends that he had "divorced from flavor", eating plain chicken, sweet potatoes and oatmeal, yet he grew to enjoy simple food over time.

The interview is here.  It also includes an interview of Dr. Matthew Andry about Dr. Loren Cordain's position on dairy; my interview starts at about 57 minutes.  Just to warn you, the website and podcast are both full of ads.

This post was written by Stephan Guyenet for Whole Health Source.

Source: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/07/interview-on-super-human-radio.html

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Lipitor: How Pfizer hopes to slow the decline

By all rights, Pfizer’s Lipitor revenues should drop like a stone once the drug loses US patent protection at the end of the month. And I think it’s likely that over time prescription Lipitor sales will whither away. Pfizer’s original plan was to replace Lipitor sales with those of torcetrapib, a new and improved drug [...]

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Keep it simple stupid: but not with Medicare

In today’s Wall Street Journal, John Goodman, National Center for Policy Analysis CEO suggests, Three Simple Ways Medicare Can Save Money. I only wish. His overarching plan is to “allow medical fees to be determined the way prices are determined everywhere else in our economy –in the marketplace.” His three specific starting points are: “Free-standing [...]

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Maybe Walmart should open a hospital instead

Kaiser Health News and NPR found a request for information letter from Walmart to prospective partners saying the retailer was seeking help to “dramatically … lower the cost of healthcare … by becoming the largest provider of primary healthcare services in the nation.” When asked, Walmart denied that it had such an objective. Walmart is [...]

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Costco Gluten-Free Bargains 2011 - Part 2

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Insurance Reform Goes Crazy

While the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) was rolling out a set of model laws for the states to consider in reforming their small group insurance laws, a handful of states decided to go much, much, further. The NAIC models were focused on keeping the market working while ensuring access to coverage and preventing [...]

Source: http://healthblog.ncpa.org/insurance-reform-goes-crazy/

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Number with High-Deductible Plans Triples

In 2011, 32% of companies with 500 or more employees offered high-deductible plans. That was up from 23% in 2010, according to�… the benefits consulting firm Mercer.� In all, 13% of insured employees in the survey were enrolled in such a plan this year, up from just 3% five years ago. Companies say the approach [...]

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Do teens really prefer phone calls?

From all I’ve seen and heard, text messaging and Facebook are a lot more effective ways to communicate with today’s teenagers compared to calling landlines and cellphones. So I was skeptical when I read in HealthCareIT News that Telephone beats social media for teen research participation. In the age of social media and text messaging, [...]

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Unintended consequences of changing the current 510K system for ?moderate risk? devices

This is a guest post from Rick Lifsitz, a colleague of mine from MedPharma Partners and a serial entrepreneur . On July 29 an expert panel assembled by the Institute of Medicine found that the current regulatory framework for ?substantially equivalent? devices (known as the FDA 510K process) was flawed and called for it to [...]

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Kaiser Health News posts 3-part series on children?s hospitals

The� Kaiser Health News (KHN) service is taking the place of newspapers, most of which no longer have the resources for in-depth reporting. This week KHN is running a three-part series entitled Building Ambitions: The Big Money World Of Kids Care. Today: Growing Size And Wealth Of Children’s Hospitals Fueling Questions About Spending Tomorrow: One [...]

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Are MD/MBAs real doctors?

A lot of my business school classmates had worked as engineers. They were drawn to the intellectual challenge and rigor of the engineering field and liked the relatively high salaries for engineering jobs coming out of college. But after a few short years working as engineers they realized the real decisions and the real money [...]

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Ancestral Health Symposium

Last weekend I attended the Ancestral Health Symposium at the University of California, Los Angeles, organized by Aaron Blaisdell, Brent Pottenger and Seth Roberts with help from many others.  It was a really great experience and I'm grateful to have been invited.  I was finally able to meet many of the people who I respect and admire, but knew only through the internet.  I'm not going to make a list because it would be too long, but if you take a look at the symposium schedule, I think you'll understand where I'm coming from.  I was also able to connect with a number of Whole Health Source readers, which was great.  I recognized some of them from the comments section.  Now I know it wasn't just my mom with 57 Google accounts.

The symposium was the first of its kind, and represented many facets of the ancestral health community, including "Paleolithic" diet and exercise patterns, low-carbohydrate diets, Weston Price-style diets, traditional health-nutrition researchers as well as other camps.  For the most part they coexisted peacefully and perhaps even learned a thing or two from one another. 

I was very impressed by the appearance of the attendees.  Young men and women were fit with glowing skin, and older attendees were energetic and aging gracefully.  It would be hard to come up with a better advertisement for ancestrally-oriented diets and lifestyles.  I saw a lot of people taking the stairs rather than the elevator.  I like to say I'll take the elevator/escalator when I'm dead.  I think integrating exercise into everyday life is healthy and efficient.  Escalators and elevators of course make sense for people with physical disabilities or heavy suitcases.

The first talk was by Dr. Boyd Eaton, considered by many to be the grandfather of the paleolithic diet concept.  I was very impressed by his composure, humility and compassionate attitude.  Half his talk was dedicated to environmental and social problems.  Dr. Staffan Lindeberg gave a talk titled "Food and Western Disease", which covered his paleolithic diet clinical trials as well as other evidence supporting ancestral diets.  I like Dr. Lindeberg's humble and skeptical style of reasoning.  I had the great pleasure of having dinner with Dr. Lindeberg and his wife, Dr. Eaton, Pedro Bastos, Dr. Lynda Frassetto, Dr. Guy-Andre Pelouze and his son Alexandre.  Pedro gave a very nice talk on the complexities of traditional and modern dairy.  The following night, I was able to connect with other writers I enjoy, including Chris Masterjohn, Melissa McEwen, John Durant, and Denise Minger. 

Dr. Pelouze is a french cardiovascular surgeon who strongly supports the food reward/palatability concept of obesity.  We had a conversation the evening before the conference, during which he basically made the same points I was going to make in my talk.  He is particularly familiar with the research of Dr. Michel Cabanac, who is central to the food reward idea.  He eats an interesting diet: mostly raw, omnivorous, and extremely simple.  If I understood correctly, he mostly eats raw meat, fish, fruit and vegetables with little or no preparation.  He sometimes cooks food if he wants to, but most of it is raw.  He believes simple, raw food allows the body's satiety systems to work more effectively.  He has been eating this way for more than twenty years, and his son was raised this way and is now about my age (if I recall correctly, Alexandre has a masters and is studying for an MD, and ultimately wants to become an MD/PhD).  Both of them look very good, are full of energy and have a remarkably positive mental state.  Alexandre told me that he never felt deprived growing up around other children who ate pastries, candy et cetera.  They woke up early and ran six miles before the conference began at 8 am. 

I gave my talk on Friday.  Giving a talk is not like writing a blog post-- it has to be much more cohesive and visually compelling.  I put a lot of work into it and it went really well.  Besides the heat I got from from Gary Taubes in the question and answer session, the response was very positive.  The talk, including the questions, will be freely available on the internet soon, as well as other talks from the symposium.  Some of it will be familiar to people who have read my body fat setpoint and food reward series, but it's a concise summary of the ideas and parts of it are new, so it will definitely be worthwhile to watch it.  

We have entered a new era of media communication.  Every time someone sneezed, it was live tweeted.  There are some good aspects to it-- it democratizes information by making it more accessible.  On the other hand, it's sometimes low quality information that contains inaccurate accounts and quotes that are subsequently recirculated. 

It was a great conference and I hope it was the first of many.

This post was written by Stephan Guyenet for Whole Health Source.

Source: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/08/ancestral-health-symposium.html

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PPACA: 2 or 3 possible end games

Ezra Klein’s Washington Post column reports three possible outcomes for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) from a speech by public opinion scholar Lawrence Jacobs. In order of likelihood they are: Resistance: like Social Security, which was fought over for years before becoming generally accepted Repeal: where the law is overturned under a [...]

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6 Good habits for a healthy living

Here are simple ways to help improve your health and your life: Do yoga every morning Yoga will help you with the stress you encounter everyday at home, at work, and your daily dealings. Do some seven minutes of yoga poses and this will help rejuvenate your day. It helps keep the muscles and joints [...]

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The Specifics Behind the Fartlek Workout

Most people who exercise on a regular basis have heard of interval training and the positive impacts it can have on the body; however, not many people have heard of the fartlek workout. Although these two terms are closely related, most people probably just throw away the fartlek training workout as something with a funny [...]

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Malpractice defense: Shoulder Dystocia / Erb?s Palsy Injury

In addition to my consulting work and writing the Health Business Blog, I?m chairman of the board of Advanced Practice Strategies (APS), a medical risk management firm that provides litigation support for malpractice defense and an eLearning curriculum focused on enhancing patient safety. To learn more contact: Timothy Croke, Director of Demonstrative Evidence Group. tcroke@aps-web.com [...]

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Off-label drug promotion and the First Amendment

Doctors can and often do prescribe medications for different purposes than what the FDA has approved them for. But drug companies face tight restrictions on communicating with physicians about these so-called “off-label” uses. If the pharmaceutical industry has its way, those restrictions may soon ease. Such a change would be healthy overall. Drugs undergo clinical [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

We’re taking a long weekend for the Thanksgiving holiday and will be back on Monday, November 28!

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Straight talk about medical malpractice reform

I smiled when I read that some physicians were taking the case for medical malpractice reform to the congressional super committee that is charged with cutting the federal deficit. It’s emblematic of what cynics might expect of the committee –that at best it will be able to agree on exciting sounding ideas that turn out [...]

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Saucony?s Celliant Suit Soothes Sore Muscles

?But really, it?s a recovery suit that Saucony gave me. It?s got this stuff called Celliant in it, and it reflects the photons??

This is what you might very well say to your friends as they look at you dumbstruck for lounging around in a racing-striped black unitard. They?d probably laugh less if you said ?I?m now a masked vigilante.?

Really, I get it. It seemed nuts to me too. Had Saucony not been the company whose shoes enabled me to start running again, I would?ve written this off to snake oil. But Saucony gear almost never fails for me.  I figured I owed it to them to have an open mind to their recovery suit, right?

Aaaand? the suit really works. Seriously. I?m more shocked than you are.

I?m not even willing to admit that it?s because of the space-aged material. I can?t tell if it makes me strangely warm because it?s inducing a sort of self-perpetuated light therapy, or because it?s made from polyester.  I don?t know if my muscles are getting fixed faster because of the Celliant, the compression, or something else.

But, the bottom line is, I recover faster when I wear the Saucony AMP PRO 2 recovery suit after a hard workout.

I was so unprepared to believe that I tried it twice.

Last Tuesday, I ran a sprint drill. I haven?t run sprints since I was maybe 20. I had my friend Courtney with me to help coach my form. But still, we ran 3-4 miles of intermittent sprints. It was a sure recipe for shin splints, cramped calves, aching thighs and the worst-case scenario: reigniting nerve-shattering knee pain. So, I slept in the suit and hoped for the best.

The best happened. The next day I had nothing but a tiny twinge in my right thigh. I was almost completely recovered.

I refused to believe it. I figured that I must not have worked as hard as I thought. So, on Saturday, I hit up the Run A Muck Festival, a 5k mud run with obstacles, boulders, and water. I went as hard as I could in the race (I wore Saucony Razors, by the way ? great for bouncing off rocks. Would you believe I can swim well in them?), and I did not wear the suit that night. By Sunday, my legs were stiff and wracked with pain. I didn?t want to get out of bed, much less walk around, with this kind of conditioning pain.

So I put on Saucony?s recovery suit. Usually, if you?re this beat up after a race, you?re stiff and sore at least through the next two days. But after lounging in the suit for three hours, I felt limber again and the pain subsided to a dull ache. I could literally feel the thing working. I was almost recovered by bedtime, and that has never happened to me before, at least not without a masseuse involved.The down side: It is warm, so you might need to crank the AC a little when you wear it. Also, you step in through the shoulders, so there is no fly, adding an extra step to a 3 a.m. bathroom break.

Whether you?re a casual athlete like me, or training for something that makes mortals tremble, you should at least try some of Saucony?s forthcoming Celliant-based products and see if they help you as much as they help me.

Bryan Harris, Everyday Health Fitness Blogger

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Individual mandate: Did Democrats miss their chance to avoid court challenges?

California Healthline has a good roundup of the implications of the recent court ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including a look back on what could have been done differently and a look forward to the Supreme Court. The article’s author, Daniel Diamond includes a link to my prediction that we could [...]

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Gluten-Free Product Review: Not Nuts! Seed and Fruit Mix by Enjoy Life

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Early signs of dementia

The early stages of Alzheimer's and other causes of dementia can be difficult to spot, but there are some signs that be useful in spotting the disease.

Early signs of Alzheimer's include:

Regularly misplacing everyday items, or putting things in odd places, and then forgetting or even denying having done.

Problems with everyday tasks like preparing a meal, putting it on the table, but forgetting to eat it and then preparing it all over again.


General disorientation, such as failing to recognize familiar streets and frequently becoming confused about the time of the day.

Diminished judgment, like dressing inappropriately for the weather or being unaware of dangerous situations.

Mood or behavioral problems which may resemble depression - usually a mixture of agitation, irritability, apathy and lack of care with personal hygiene.

Early signs of vascular dementia are similar, but the decline can happen in distinct steps rather than gradually.

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Source: http://www.aboutthehealth.com/2010/09/early-signs-of-dementia.html

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Does Social Security Want More People to Be Disabled?

Some doctors have complained to the Social Security inspector general that they have been pressured to change their medical opinions to conform to targets or goals set by SSA officials, and they feared they would be fired if they resisted? The inspector general?discovered a doctor in the Alabama disability determination office who approved between 80 [...]

Source: http://healthblog.ncpa.org/does-social-security-want-more-people-to-be-disabled/

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Miscarriage pregnancy-best is conceive soon

Women who conceive within six months after a miscarriage have a better chance of a healthy pregnancy without complications compared to women who wait longer, according to a study .They are less likely to have another miscarriage, and are also less likely to experience a cesarean section, deliver prematurely or have low-birth weight babies, the study showed.

The findings, published in the British Medical Journal , are likely to be controversial.The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that women who experience a miscarriage should wait at least six months before getting pregnant again, and other medical authorities suggest holding off even longer.

To get a clearer picture, researchers led by Sohinee Bhattacharya at the Aberdeen Maternity Hospital in Scotland reviewed the medical histories of more than 30,000 women in Scotland who had a miscarriage in their first pregnancy and then became pregnant again between 1981 and 2000.

"Our research shows that women who conceive within six months of an initial miscarriage have the best reproductive outcomes and the lowest complication rates in a subsequent pregnancy," they concluded.

Source: http://www.aboutthehealth.com/2010/08/miscarriage-pregnancy-best-is-conceive.html

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Grand Rounds Meaningful Use of ACO edition

Welcome to the latest edition of the Grand Rounds blog carnival, the weekly roundup of medical blog posts! The Blog That Ate Manhattan kicks us off with the Meaningful Use Song, surely the most antic entry I’ve ever hosted. Can’t beat the zippy refrain “I am the model user of an EMR that’s meaningful.” CMS [...]

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Individual mandate: Can PPACA survive without it?

Ever since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was passed, opponents have looked for ways to overturn it in the court of law and the court of public opinion. They’ve had reasonable success in both arenas, using opposition to the individual mandate to buy health insurance as Exhibit A. Ironically, President Obama wasn’t [...]

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Complications,difficult labour in pregnancy-chance post-natal depression

A new study by Dutch researchers has found that women who have complications in pregnancy or a difficult labor stand a much greater chance of having post-natal depression than those who do not.

Post-natal depression occurs most often in the first three months after delivery and can range from mild symptoms - sometimes called the ?baby blues? - to clinically diagnosed post-natal depression.Women who are not diagnosed early enough can end up suffering for many months or even years.

The analysis of data from almost 5,000 women also revealed that one complication raises the chance of depression but this increases even further if more than one thing goes wrong.The researchers found that women admitted to hospital during their pregnancy had more than twice the risk of post-natal depression as those who stayed out of hospital until delivery time.

Meanwhile, women with pre-eclampsia (linked to high blood pressure) were also more than twice as likely to suffer, the researchers found.

Source: http://www.aboutthehealth.com/2010/08/complicationsdifficult-labour-in.html

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Does Bedside Manner Matter?

The Trend: Many medical schools are weeding out candidates who communicate poorly. And now, to become licensed physicians, medical students must pass a ?clinical skills? exam assessing, among other proficiencies, how well they acknowledge patient concerns, ask about feelings and show empathy. The Evidence: ?studies suggest that extroverts, when grouped together, competed excessively and undermined [...]

Source: http://healthblog.ncpa.org/does-bedside-manner-matter/

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Straight talk about medical malpractice reform

I smiled when I read that some physicians were taking the case for medical malpractice reform to the congressional super committee that is charged with cutting the federal deficit. It’s emblematic of what cynics might expect of the committee –that at best it will be able to agree on exciting sounding ideas that turn out [...]

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Massachusetts: Land of affordable health insurance

The Commonwealth Fund just released a sobering analysis (State Trends in Premiums and Deductibles, 2003?2010: The Need for Action to Address Rising Costs) revealing that total premiums for family coverage increased 50 percent over the past seven years, with big increases in every state. It probably won’t surprise you that insurance costs in Massachusetts are [...]

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Complications,difficult labour in pregnancy-chance post-natal depression

A new study by Dutch researchers has found that women who have complications in pregnancy or a difficult labor stand a much greater chance of having post-natal depression than those who do not.

Post-natal depression occurs most often in the first three months after delivery and can range from mild symptoms - sometimes called the ?baby blues? - to clinically diagnosed post-natal depression.Women who are not diagnosed early enough can end up suffering for many months or even years.

The analysis of data from almost 5,000 women also revealed that one complication raises the chance of depression but this increases even further if more than one thing goes wrong.The researchers found that women admitted to hospital during their pregnancy had more than twice the risk of post-natal depression as those who stayed out of hospital until delivery time.

Meanwhile, women with pre-eclampsia (linked to high blood pressure) were also more than twice as likely to suffer, the researchers found.

Source: http://www.aboutthehealth.com/2010/08/complicationsdifficult-labour-in.html

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Fish oil good against diabetes

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered why eating fish may be a great idea to ward off chronic inflammation and insulin resistance.

Jerrold Olefsky and colleagues identified a key receptor on macrophages abundantly found in obese body fat. Obesity and diabetes are closely correlated. The scientists say omega-3 fatty acids activate this macrophage receptor, resulting in broad anti-inflammatory effects and improved systemic insulin sensitivity.

Obese fat tissue contains lots of these macrophages producing lots of cytokines, which cause inflammation and rising insulin resistance.Olefsky and colleagues eventually narrowed their focus to a G-protein receptor called GPR120, which is found only on pro-inflammatory macrophages in mature fat cells. When the receptor is exposed to omega-3 fatty acids, it is activated and generates a strong anti-inflammatory effect.

"The omega-3 fatty acids switch on the receptor, killing the inflammatory response," said Olefsky

"Our work shows how fish oils safely do this, and suggests a possible way to treating the serious problems of inflammation in obesity and in conditions like diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease through simple dietary supplementation.

However, it's not clear how much fish oil constitutes a safe, effective dose. If too high, it could up the risk of to increased risk of bleeding and stroke in some people.

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Source: http://www.aboutthehealth.com/2010/09/fish-oil-good-against-diabetes.html

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Scabies

Definition An infestation by a tiny, eight-legged burrowing mite known as Sarcoptes scabies is called scabies. The scabies mite burrows into the skin and lays eggs which leads towards tiny blisters and bumps. This does not stop at this but causes intense itching in its existing area and the urge to scratch reaches at peak during night. The mite that causes scabies is invisible to the naked eye but can be seen with the help of microscope or magnifying glass. Scabies is contagious in nature and can spread itself quickly through the close physical contact of the healthy person with the infected one. Scabies�Causes The microscopic female mite called as [...]

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Food Palatability and Body Fatness: Clues from Alliesthesia

Part I: Is there a Ponderostat?

Some of the most important experiments for understanding the role of food palatability/reward in body fatness were performed by Dr. Michel Cabanac and collaborators in the 1970s (hat tip to Dr. Seth Roberts for the references).� In my recent food reward series (1), I referenced but did not discuss Dr. Cabanac's work because I felt it would have taken too long to describe.� However, I included two of his studies in my Ancestral Health Symposium talk, and I think they're worth discussing in more detail here.

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This post was written by Stephan Guyenet for Whole Health Source.

Source: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/08/food-palatability-and-body-fatness.html

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PPACA: 2 or 3 possible end games

Ezra Klein’s Washington Post column reports three possible outcomes for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) from a speech by public opinion scholar Lawrence Jacobs. In order of likelihood they are: Resistance: like Social Security, which was fought over for years before becoming generally accepted Repeal: where the law is overturned under a [...]

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The Longest You?ve Waited in Line for Something

On Fridays, I post a series of unrelated questions meant to spark conversation in the comments. Answer one, answer all, respond to someone else’s reply, whatever you want. On to this week’s topics of discussion… Gemenacom / Shutterstock.com 1. In Miss Cellania’s Weird Week in Review today, she mentioned that people have been lined up [...]

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Health Care Reform Developments

Some quick tidbits and news items concerning health care reform you hopefully find useful ? or at least interesting: Judge Upholds PPACA: This time the plaintiffs claimed the individual mandate provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act violated their religious freedom. They also argued the financial penalties were too severe. U.S. District Judge [...]

Source: http://alankatz.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/health-care-reform-developments/

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The Top Two Abdominal Exercises for Women

Anyone who cares about what they look like these days should be interested in having other people admire their beautiful abs.� Both men and women should consider the toughest ab exercises they can find because those will be the ones that are most effective on their abdominal region. Although some of the abdominal exercises for [...]

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A Roadmap to Obesity

In this post, I'll explain my current understanding of the factors that promote obesity in humans. �

Heritability

To a large degree, obesity is a heritable condition.� Various studies indicate that roughly two-thirds of the differences in body fatness between individuals is explained by heredity*, although estimates vary greatly (1).� However, we also know that obesity is not genetically determined, because in the US, the obesity rate has more than doubled in the last 30 years, consistent with what has happened to many other cultures (2).� How do we reconcile these two facts?� By understanding that genetic variability determines the degree of susceptibility to obesity-promoting factors.� In other words, in a natural environment with a natural diet, nearly everyone would be relatively lean, but when obesity-promoting factors are introduced, genetic makeup determines how resistant each person will be to fat gain.� As with the diseases of civilization, obesity is caused by a mismatch between our genetic heritage and our current environment.� This idea received experimental support from an interesting recent study (3).

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This post was written by Stephan Guyenet for Whole Health Source.

Source: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/08/roadmap-to-obesity.html

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Gluten-Free Diet for Stamina and Performance

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Weight training exercises

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Effort to Eliminate Waste Coming Soon

It?s not that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act doesn?t contain any provisions aimed at reducing the cost of medical care ? it?s that it doesn?t have enough of them. Still, what it has should be acknowledged. For example, Politico Pulse has reported that a unit of Health and Human Services will soon announce [...]

Source: http://alankatz.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/effort-to-eliminate-waste-coming-soon/

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Breathing Techniques for Running ? Optimize your Efforts

Though running is such an excellent exercise for fitness and great health, many of us may be chary of using running as a workout. One of the reasons for this could be incorrect or ineffective breathing techniques for running, which can stymie plans to use running as a fitness program. If you find that you [...]

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Tim Burton Perplexed That He Didn?t Already Write Miss Peregrine?s Home for Peculiar Children

It goes without saying that we?re super excited for longtime flosser Ransom Riggs and the folks over at Quirk Books. Miss Peregrine?s Home for Peculiar Children is racking up the honors and accolades like Michael Phelps at the Beijing Olympics. It?s been on the New York Times Best Seller List for 22 weeks. CNN said [...]

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Health eVillages: mHealth tools for underserved regions worldwide (podcast)

Physicians Interactive Holdings and the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights have launched Health eVillages, a consortium that has so far brought mobile medical tools to Kenya, Uganda, Haiti, and the US Gulf Coast. In this podcast interview, Health eVillages co-founder Donato Tramuto discusses the inspiration for the initiative and describes how [...]

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Gluten-Free Recipe: Poblano Pepper stuffed with Chicken and Smoked Gouda

Source: http://gluten-free-blog.blogspot.com/2011/04/gluten-free-recipe-poblano-pepper.html

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The Case for the Food Reward Hypothesis of Obesity, Part I

Introduction

When you want to investigate something using the scientific method, first you create a model that you hope describes a natural phenomenon-- this is called a hypothesis.� Then you go about testing that model against reality, under controlled conditions, to see if it has any predictive power.� There is rarely a single experiment, or single study, that can demonstrate that a hypothesis is correct.� Most important hypotheses require many mutually buttressing lines of evidence from multiple research groups before they're widely accepted.� Although it's not necessary, understanding the mechanism by which an effect occurs, and having that mechanism be consistent with the hypothesis, adds substantially to the case.

With that in mind, this post will go into greater detail on the evidence supporting food reward and palatability as major factors in the regulation of food intake and body fatness.� There is a large amount of supportive evidence at this point, which is rapidly expanding due to the efforts of many brilliant researchers, however for the sake of clarity and brevity, so far I've only given a "tip of the iceberg" view of it.� But there are two types of people who want more detail: (1) the skeptics, and (2) scientifically inclined people who want mechanism.� This post is for them.� It will get technical at times, as there is no other way to convey the material effectively.

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This post was written by Stephan Guyenet for Whole Health Source.

Source: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/10/case-for-food-reward-hypothesis-of.html

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On Tour Now: The Balancing Act at the Center of Reform

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The World?s Longest Christmas Card Exchange

The Purse is infamous in our family. A couple (ahem, maybe a few) decades ago, my grandma bought my mother a handbag. The Purse in question had the appearance of denim but was plastic-y to the touch. It came with a matching wallet. My mom apparently opened the gift and had a pretty good laugh, [...]

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Seed Oils and Body Fatness-- A Problematic Revisit

Anthony Colpo recently posted a discussion of one of my older posts on seed oils and body fat gain (1), which reminded me that I need to revisit the idea.� As my knowledge of obesity and metabolism has expanded, I feel the evidence behind the hypothesis that seed oils (corn, soybean, etc.) promote obesity due to their linoleic acid (omega-6 fat) content has largely collapsed.

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This post was written by Stephan Guyenet for Whole Health Source.

Source: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/08/seed-oils-and-body-fatness-problematic.html

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Kaiser Health News Explains HSAs

In an article ostensibly designed to answer frequently asked consumer questions about Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), Kaiser Health News has this to say: ?HSAs can be confusing.? ?HSAs have two basic elements: A tax-preferred savings account?and a high deductible health insurance plan…any adult with a high-deductible health plan and no other form of health care [...]

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Why medical cost growth may be underestimated

Medicare is the leading cause of the federal government’s poor budget prognosis. More seniors, higher utilization, new products and services, longer lives and a decline in the number of working age people paying into the system all add up to big trouble. But two article I saw in today’s Wall Street Journal made me realize [...]

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Estrogen therapy increased risk of developing kidney stones

A new report has suggested that the use of estrogen therapy is associated with an increased risk of developing kidney stones in postmenopausal women. Using data from the national Women's Health Initiative study, Naim M. Maalouf, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, examined data from two trials.

10,739 postmenopausal women with hysterectomy who received either an estrogen-only treatment or matching placebo and 16,608 postmenopausal women without hysterectomy who received either an estrogen plus progesterone treatment or matching placebo. Data were collected for an average of 7.1 years in the estrogen-only trial and 5.6 years for the estrogen plus progestin trial.


A total of 335 cases of kidney stones were reported in the active treatment groups, while 284 cases occurred in the placebo groups. The beginning demographic characteristics and risk factors for kidney stones were similar in the two groups.

Estrogen therapy was associated with a significant increase in risk of kidney stones. The corresponding annualized incidence rate per 10,000 women per year was 39 in the treatment group and 34 in the placebo group.

Source: http://www.aboutthehealth.com/2010/10/estrogen-therapy-increased-risk-of.html

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Costco Gluten-Free Bargains 2011 - Part 1

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Extending the frontiers: working despite Alzheimer?s and campus smoking bans

When I was growing up in the 1970s I complained to my mother that I didn’t like cigarette smoke. She told me to get used to it because the major decisions were made in smoke-filled rooms and I wouldn’t want to be left out. Cigarette packs already had the Surgeon General’s warning on them, but [...]

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Should You Try a Barefoot Running Technique?

The barefoot running technique seems to be the latest fitness fad to take hold around the country. Running barefoot or using some kind of barefoot shoes is argued by many as a better way to give your body the level of fitness it needs on a daily basis. Many naturalists argue that you need to [...]

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Does High Circulating Insulin Drive Body Fat Accumulation? Answers from Genetically Modified Mice

The house mouse Mus musculus is an incredible research tool in the biomedical sciences, due to its ease of care and its ability to be genetically manipulated.� Although mice aren't humans, they resemble us closely in many ways, including how insulin signaling works.� Genetic manipulation of mice allows researchers to identify biological mechanisms and cause-effect relationships in a very precise manner.� One way of doing this is to create "knockout" mice that lack a specific gene, in an attempt to determine that gene's importance in a particular process.� Another way is to create transgenic mice that express a gene of interest, often modified in some way.� A third method is to use an extraordinary (but now common) tool called "Cre-lox" recombination (1), which allows us to delete or add a single gene in a specific tissue or cell type.�

Studying the relationship between obesity and insulin resistance is challenging, because the two typically travel together, confounding efforts to determine which is the cause and which is the effect of the other (or neither).� Some have proposed the hypothesis that high levels of circulating insulin promote body fat accumulation*.� To truly address this question, we need to consider targeted experiments that increase circulating insulin over long periods of time without altering a number of other factors throughout the body.� This is where mice come in.� Scientists are able to perform precise genetic interventions in mice that increase circulating insulin over a long period of time.� These mice should gain fat mass if the hypothesis is correct.�

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Source: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/11/does-high-circulating-insulin-drive.html

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6 Tips and Tricks for Kids Healthy Eating

It is never too early to develop a kids healthy eating plan ? it can start as soon as a child is old enough for solids and can continue, hopefully, right through life.� Getting kids to eat healthy is easier said than done, of course, with the amount of media exposure and seductive advertizing that [...]

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Breastfeeding can burn up to 500 calories a day

Breastfeeding can burn up to 500 calories a day, according to a recent New York State Department of Health campaign.

As per the campaign and a recent study published in the American Journal of Medicine, this weight-loss boost can translate into other health benefits including a reduced risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.

The New York DOH launched the 1.6 million dollars public health education campaign last week to educate new mothers on the health benefits of breast-feeding, reports the New York Daily News. At least 75 pc of babies today are breast-fed for some period of time compared with 60 pc 15 years ago, according to the U.S. News and World Report.

While the physicians behind the campaign say new mothers should continue to breast-feed for a year or longer, many choose not to nurse beyond six months, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Source: http://www.aboutthehealth.com/2010/09/breastfeeding-can-burn-up-to-500.html

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CareEdge: a patient-centered approach to cancer diagnosis and treatment planning (podcast)

An initial diagnosis of cancer is enough bad news for anyone, but unfortunately it often also comes along with being thrown into an oncology diagnosis and treatment environment that is a lot less patient centered than one might expect. Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) has recognized the challenges cancer patients face and is positioning [...]

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In CLASS Act Demise, Wake-Up Call For Action in Long-Term Care Crisis

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Acupuncture not good in stroke recovery

Acupuncture is often used to supplement traditional stroke rehabilitation, although its effectiveness is uncertain.

This study, perhaps the most comprehensive to date as it includes trials published in English language and Asian journals, was a systematic review conducted by researchers in South Korea and the United Kingdom.They included 10 studies (out of a potential 664) with a total of 711 patients who had had strokes.

"Few randomized, sham-controlled trials have tested the effectiveness of acupuncture during stroke rehabilitation," wrote Dr. Edzard Ernst, Peninsula Medical School, Exeter, England with coauthors."The majority of the existing studies do not suggest that acupuncture is effective," he said.

They note that the only two studies showing positive effect were highly biased and had poor reporting which made them less reliable that the others included. The evidence from rigorous studies testing the effectiveness of acupuncture during stroke rehabilitation is negative."

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Source: http://www.aboutthehealth.com/2010/09/acupuncture-not-good-in-stroke-recovery.html

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Laparoscopic hysterectomy: A surgeon makes the case (transcript)

This is the transcript of my recent podcast interview on minimally invasive hysterectomy. David E. Williams:����������� This is David Williams, co-founder of MedPharma Partners and author of the Health Business Blog.� I?m speaking today with Dr. Bob Darrow.� He?s an OB/Gyn in Dallas, Texas.� He?s at Presbyterian Hospital and is on staff at the University [...]

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Straight talk about medical malpractice reform

I smiled when I read that some physicians were taking the case for medical malpractice reform to the congressional super committee that is charged with cutting the federal deficit. It’s emblematic of what cynics might expect of the committee –that at best it will be able to agree on exciting sounding ideas that turn out [...]

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Costco Gluten-Free Bargains 2011 - Part 1

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How Congestion Can be Cured Naturally: 1

The weather is changing.� That has a lot of people getting sick. They might just get little colds, but those are still awfully unpleasant, especially as the weather starts to get warmer. So let’s take a look at some natural ways you can get rid of your chest congestion!

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Rerun: Narrow networks. Nice idea but no panacea

I?m taking a break from blogging this week so am rerunning some favorite posts from 2010. Please visit the original post to comment. In Health Insurers Get Tough on Hospital Prices, the Wall Street Journal reports that health plans and employers are using narrower provider networks to negotiate lower prices with hospitals. The idea is [...]

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CareEdge: a patient-centered approach to cancer diagnosis and treatment planning (podcast)

An initial diagnosis of cancer is enough bad news for anyone, but unfortunately it often also comes along with being thrown into an oncology diagnosis and treatment environment that is a lot less patient centered than one might expect. Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) has recognized the challenges cancer patients face and is positioning [...]

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Nurse care lines: Wait a minute, I thought you were the expert?

My Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts card has a “Blue Care Line” phone number on the back. I’d never used it until recently but in the past couple weeks have had the occasion to call it twice. It’s a good service, which connects fairly quickly to an RN, who then uses a protocol driven [...]

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Happy Columbus Day

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Do These Bite Sized Drops Make Bad Breath Stop?

When an Everyday Health editor received a ?crazy amount? of Binaca breath drops, she sent out a mass email for everyone to share. I grabbed a couple, but since I?ve never had a problem with bad breath, I waited until I ate a lamb gyro, complete with tomatoes, sweet peppers, and onions to try them.

Binaca claims that these re-launched breath drops will kill bad breath-causing germs instantly. Immediately, I imagined the blue liquid spreading in my mouth like soldiers and eradicating any traces of halitosis. (Have you ever seen those mouthwash commercials?)

But, then reality hit and nothing felt killed. After a lifetime of using mouthwash, I expected the Binaca drops to deliver that familiar burn, and I felt cheated when that didn?t happen. The peppermint-flavored drops tasted more sweet then bitter, but after about two minutes, that fresh-breath feeling was gone. It was as if I never even tried them in the first place.  

When my (brave) friends checked my breath, they agreed: these drops didn?t deliver. ?At least the bottle?s cute,? I thought. (If anything, the size makes them convenient. At about two inches tall with the width of an index finger, these drops easily fit in my coin purse.)

But in the world of halitosis, cute doesn?t cut it.

The drops are available in Walgreens nationwide, so if you?d still like to give them a try, impulse-shop to your heart?s content.

-- Alysha Reid

Source: http://www.everydayhealth.com/blogs/health-beauty-reviews/do-these-bite-sized-drops-make-bad-breath-stop

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Miscarriage pregnancy-best is conceive soon

Women who conceive within six months after a miscarriage have a better chance of a healthy pregnancy without complications compared to women who wait longer, according to a study .They are less likely to have another miscarriage, and are also less likely to experience a cesarean section, deliver prematurely or have low-birth weight babies, the study showed.

The findings, published in the British Medical Journal , are likely to be controversial.The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that women who experience a miscarriage should wait at least six months before getting pregnant again, and other medical authorities suggest holding off even longer.

To get a clearer picture, researchers led by Sohinee Bhattacharya at the Aberdeen Maternity Hospital in Scotland reviewed the medical histories of more than 30,000 women in Scotland who had a miscarriage in their first pregnancy and then became pregnant again between 1981 and 2000.

"Our research shows that women who conceive within six months of an initial miscarriage have the best reproductive outcomes and the lowest complication rates in a subsequent pregnancy," they concluded.

Source: http://www.aboutthehealth.com/2010/08/miscarriage-pregnancy-best-is-conceive.html

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