Walking is often under-rated; it is the best and easiest form of exercise. The Surprising Shortcut to Better Health By TARA PARKER-POPE May 4, 2012 For more than a decade, Gretchen Reynolds has been writing about the science of health and fitness. Her weekly column, Phys Ed, is one of this paper’s most popular features, [...]
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[Ten years to develop the process? Maybe we could take some of the TSA money and instead put into the real terrorism of illness.] Scar Tissue Turned Into Heart Muscle Without Using Stem Cells ScienceDaily Apr. 26, 2012 Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have shown the ability to turn scar tissue that forms after [...]
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Death With Dignity: How Doctors Die Doctors die, too. And they don’t die like the rest of us. Jacob Sanders Utne Reader May 2012 Years ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopedist and a mentor of mine, found a lump in his stomach. He had a surgeon explore the area, and the diagnosis was pancreatic cancer. [...]
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Art therapy can help those in chronic pain September 17, 2010 Denise Dador LOS ANGELES (KABC) — There’s more to the healing arts than just medicine. Numerous studies show how creative expression through music, writing or art work can break the cycle of chronic pain. The topic was discussed at the For Grace’s 3rd Annual [...]
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Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt–marvelous error!– that a spring was breaking out in my heart. I said: Along which secret aqueduct, Oh water, are you coming to me? water of a new life that I have never drunk? Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt–marvelous error!– that I had a beehive [...]
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An important story to read: the misdiagnosis of (a woman’s) heart attack: Heartburn or a Heart Attack? When Carolyn Thomas went to the hospital for chest pain and nausea, doctors diagnosed acid reflux and sent her home — but she was really having a heart attack. Now this Canadian blogger is using her site to [...]
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Studies: Stem cells reverse heart damage (CNN) — On a June day in 2009, a 39-year-old man named Ken Milles lay on an exam table at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. A month earlier, he’d suffered a massive heart attack that destroyed nearly a third of his heart. “The most difficult part was the [...]
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