Diseases

Hippocratic Oath- Does Your Doctor Know It?

Posted on October 25, 2008. Filed under: Diseases, Society, health, medicine | Tags: , , , , , , , |

A guide to the Hippocratic Oath

By Dr Daniel Sokol
Medical ethicist

Hippocrates: the father of modern medicine?

When I asked my medical students to name famous doctors in the history of medicine, their first answer was Harold Shipman, the GP who murdered hundreds of patients.
I nearly swallowed my tongue.
Their second answer was House, [...]

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Does Splenda Make You Fat? It may according to……..

Posted on October 20, 2008. Filed under: Diet and Nutrition, Diseases, Wellness, health | Tags: , , , , , , , , |

(NaturalNews) James Turner, chairman of Citizens for Health, an international non-profit consumer health education group, declares in a press release that he is shocked and outraged after reading a report of the findings of a Duke University study that link the use of the artificial sweetener known as Splenda to weight gain and other health [...]

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High-Priced Chemotherapy Treatments Bankrupting Families for a Few Months of Low-Quality “Life”

Posted on October 20, 2008. Filed under: Diseases, health, medicine | Tags: , , , , , , |

(NaturalNews) The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) will soon encourage doctors to discuss the financial costs of chemotherapy as one of the side effects that patients should consider in deciding which treatment to proceed with, or whether to use treatment at all.
Many cancer patients know that they cannot be cured, but use drugs to [...]

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Live to be 120

Posted on October 6, 2008. Filed under: Alternative, Diseases, Society, Survival, Wellness, health | Tags: , , , , , , |

I came across an interesting info and   I wanted to share it!
“If you  had a 1 in 100 chance of winning the lottery, you would be optimistic about winning and would play every week.

If I told you that you had  1 in 4 chance of dying from cancer  or a 1 in 4 chance [...]

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Role for Mailmen in Case of Anthrax Attack

Posted on October 1, 2008. Filed under: Diseases, Drugs, Politics and Medicine, Society, Survival, Wellness, health | Tags: , , , , , , , , |

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 1, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — If there ever is another anthrax attack, a letter carrier may deliver antibiotics to those who might be infected.
Federal health officials are beginning a project in Minneapolis-St. Paul to let letter carriers stockpile personal supplies of emergency antibiotics so they are protected and ready to deliver [...]

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