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http://www.yaxleygazette.com/pets/going-on-holiday-with-your-dog/ | 2018-11-21T01:50:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039746926.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20181121011923-20181121033923-00207.warc.gz | 0.960537 | 700 | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-47__0__40635417 | en | The weather is warming up and not long until many Brits go on holiday. More and more people are also including their four-legged friend – well why not, they’re part of the family after all and it’s far easier to take them with you these days!
We think it’s great for you to take your dog on holiday and as Vets we can offer you lots of advice about travel safety and disease awareness. There’s a lot of coverage in the media at the moment about dog illnesses. Sadly, it’s true to say that more relaxed pet passport rules and the ease of canine travel, has meant diseases usually not seen, or rarely seen in the UK, are rearing their ugly heads. There are five particular diseases you should be aware of – Lyme disease, babesiosis, lungworm, Alabama rot and seasonal canine illness. All of these diseases are serious and potentially life threatening for your dog. Thankfully, we live in a relatively low risk area for these diseases, but if you are travelling with your dog, either in the UK or into Europe, the risk increases.
Both Lyme disease and babesiosis are carried by ticks. Ticks are a bloodsucking, parasitic arachnid. They live in woodland and long grasses, waiting for a host to brush past. Once onboard, they embed themselves into the skin and feed on the animal’s blood, growing up to 600 times their original size in doing so. They can cause irritation, infection, abscesses and more dangerously – transmit disease. You can dramatically lower the risk of these diseases by checking your dog after walks for ticks (especially after walking in wooded or long grass areas) and keep up-to date with prescription-strength tick treatments. It is worth noting that Lyme disease can transmit to people too!
Lungworm is transmitted by slugs and snails – an odd thing to eat you would think, but as a dog owner, you know they could eat anything! Lungworm is a preventable disease, all it requires is an effective, monthly worming tablet. (Although we also recommend discouraging the consumption of slugs and snails!).
Things are a little more complicated when it comes to Alabama rot and seasonal canine illness. They are relatively new diseases to our shores, first noted in 2012 and 2009 respectively. Alabama rot, as the name suggests, was first found in Alabama (USA), and causes skin lesions and kidney failure.
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(SCI) causes dogs to become very ill, very quickly (usually within 72 hours of visiting woodland) with sickness, diarrhoea, and lethargy. Most cases of SCI are seen from August to November (hence the name). Unfortunately, the cause of these diseases is unknown and research is ongoing. Without a known cause, it is difficult to give advice on how to prevent disease, instead we advise that if you see any signs, you seek immediate veterinary treatment for your pet.
Find out more about these diseases online: theveterinaryexpert.com or pethealthinfo.org.uk or aht.org.uk
Next issue, we’ll give you tips and advice about travelling safely with your pet in the
UK and abroad.
For more information, please speak to Cromwell Vets or call 01487 800199. 24hr Emergency Service: 01480 52222 | medical |
https://saplingrecruitment.co.uk/home/ | 2021-10-23T19:56:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585768.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20211023193319-20211023223319-00719.warc.gz | 0.908306 | 172 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__235368860 | en | Welcome to Sapling Recruitment
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http://cervicaltractiondevice.org/blog/relieving-neck-pain-with-a-neck-traction-device/ | 2017-04-29T01:42:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123172.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00370-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.963732 | 609 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__170341315 | en | Relieving Neck Pain with a Neck Traction Device
Arguably, the greatest cause of neck pain is improper body posture. Our bodies, especially pain in our body, are highly dependent on our posture throughout the day and how we hold ourselves up. Our spine is meant to be straight and kept in a vertical line. Therefore, when we deviate from this, i.e. sitting with a poor form with your back arched, you can cause a lot of pain in both your neck and back. Furthermore, many years of bad posture can lead to more pervasive pain problems.
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There are many different neck traction methods and different ones may be used depending on the level of pain as well as the type of pain. There are different kinds of neck pain and the root of the problem is the first issue that needs to be fixed. If you have problems with neck curvature (there should be 40 to 60 degree of curvature in your neck), you will want to use a cervical traction method that fixes neck curvature. If you have mild neck tightness, you would benefit from a neck stretching traction device.
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Nevertheless before purchasing a neck traction device, make sure you consult with your doctor. Your doctor may put you on a neck treatment program that does not involve a neck traction device or may recommend a particular kind of traction device for your needs. You need to make sure you always follow your doctor’s advice. | medical |
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However, curcumin is poorly absorbed into your bloodstream. In order to experience the full effects of curcumin, its bioavailability (the rate at which your body absorbs a substance) needs to improve.
In addition, animal and cellular studies suggest that curcumin may block the action of free radicals and may stimulate the action of other antioxidants. Further clinical studies are needed in humans to confirm these benefits.
Arthritis is a common disorder characterized by joint inflammation. Many studies show that curcumin can help treat symptoms of arthritis and is, in some cases, more effective than anti-inflammatory drugs.
Inflammatory cytokines were also measured in the above study. Mean serum IL-1β (p = 0.042), IL-4 (p = 0.008), and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) (p = 0.01) were found to be significantly reduced by curcumin therapy. In contrast, no significant difference was observed in the concentrations of IL-2, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, interferon gamma(IFNγ), epidermal growth factor (EGF), and MCP-1. The authors suggest that the findings indicate that curcumin may exert immunomodulatory effects via altering the circulating concentrations of IL-1β, IL-4, and VEGF .
Another study examined whether supplementation with curcumin and Boswellia serrata (BSE) gum resin for three months could affect plasma levels of markers of oxidative stress, inflammation, and glycation in 47 male healthy master cyclists. All subjects were instructed to follow a Mediterranean diet with 22 subjects receiving a placebo and 25 receiving 50 mg of turmeric, corresponding to 10 mg of curcumin, as well as 140 mg of Boswellia extract, corresponding to 105 mg of Boswellia acid for 12 weeks. There was a positive effect observed on glycoxidation and lipid peroxidation in healthy male master athletes . This study indicates the potential for combining curcumin with other agents to achieve health benefits.
In a similar randomized placebo-controlled single-blind pilot trial, 20 male healthy, moderately active volunteers were randomized to receive either 1 g curcumin twice daily (200 mg curcumin twice a day ) or a placebo 48 h prior to and 24 h after a downhill running test. Subjects in the curcumin group reported significantly less pain in the right and left anterior thigh. Significantly fewer subjects in the curcumin group had MRI evidence of muscle injury in the posterior or medial compartment of both thighs. Increases in markers of muscle damage and inflammation tended to be lower in the curcumin group, but significant differences were only observed for interleukin-8 at 2 h after exercise. No differences in markers of oxidative stress and muscle histology were observed. These results further support that curcumin may be beneficial to attenuate exercise-induced muscle soreness (DOMS) .
A study by Delecroix et al. offers further support. They reported that 2 g of curcumin and 20 g of piperine supplementation can help offset some of the physiological markers of muscle soreness after an intense workout in elite rugby players .
In the U.S., turmeric is best known as a spice. It's one of the main components of curry powder. In India and other parts of Asia, turmeric is used to treat many health conditions. It is believed to have anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and perhaps even anticancer properties.
Curcumin, a substance in turmeric, may help to reduce inflammation. Several studies suggest that it might ease symptoms of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, like pain and inflammation. Other compounds in turmeric might also be medicinal.
In lab tests, curcumin seems to block the growth of certain kinds of tumors. One study showed that turmeric extract containing curcumin could -- in some cases -- stabilize colorectal cancer that wasn't helped by other treatments. But more research is needed.
Other preliminary lab studies suggest that curcumin or turmeric might protect against types of colitis, stomach ulcers, and high cholesterol. Based on studies, turmeric and curcumin might also help treat upset stomach, diabetes, depression, HIV, uveitis, and viral infections.
One animal study found that rats who received turmeric extracts enriched with curcumin-like curcuminoids had preserved bone mass, whereas those who had a lower amount of added curcuminoids showed no effect (30).
The terms "turmeric" and "curcumin" are often used interchangeably but are technically different. Turmeric is a plant that belongs to the ginger family, while curcumin is the natural compound found in turmeric and that's responsible for many of its health benefits and therapeutic effects. So when you hear about turmeric's health benefits, you are really hearing about the advantages of curcumin within the turmeric plant.
Daily JW, Yang M, Park S. Efficacy of turmeric extracts and curcumin for alleviating the symptoms of joint arthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials. J Med Food. 2016;19(8):717-729. doi:10.1089/jmf.2016.3705
Calderón-Pérez L, Llauradó E, Companys J, et al. Acute effects of turmeric extracts on knee joint pain: a pilot, randomized controlled trial. J Med Food. 2021;24(4):436-440. doi:10.1089/jmf.2020.0074
Cox KHM, White DJ, Pipingas A, Poorun K, Scholey A. Further evidence of benefits to mood and working memory from lipidated curcumin in healthy older people: A 12-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled, partial replication study. Nutrients. 2020;12(6):1678. doi:10.3390/nu12061678
In one study of patients with ulcerative colitis, those who took 2 grams of curcumin a day along with prescription medication were more likely to stay in remission than those who took the medicine alone.
Turmeric has also deep roots in both Chinese traditional medicine and Ayurveda for treating arthritis. Research suggests that taking turmeric extract could potentially reduce pain from osteoarthritis, though further study is still needed.
Another study followed 121 people who had coronary artery bypass surgery. A few days before and after the surgery, the group that took 4 grams of curcumin a day saw a 65% decreased risk of having a heart attack in the hospital.
Turmeric also may be helpful when used along with medication for managing cholesterol levels. Research shows that curcumin is safe and may protect those at risk for heart disease by lowering certain levels of cholesterol, though more study is needed to look at how much and what type is effective.
If you have depression, the protein known as brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is reduced and your hippocampus, which helps with learning and memory, starts to shrink. A study shows that curcumin can boost BDNF levels and may reverse changes.
While the risk of side effects is low and drug interactions are unlikely, stop taking turmeric if you notice ill effects. Turmeric may cause bloating, and there is a theoretical concern that it may interact with blood-clotting medications. Also avoid it if you have gallbladder disease.
Curcumin, found in turmeric, is what gives turmeric its lovely color. There is some amazing research available on curcumin. This special hand-picked variety is very potent with curcumin levels occurring naturally at 4-5%.
To make turmeric spice, the fresh turmeric rhizomes are boiled down and then dried in ovens. Once dried, it is ground down into a fine powder. Turmeric spice is easily identifiable for its distinctive orange-yellow color and mustard-like aroma. In fact, turmeric spice is often used in mustard condiments, as well.
There are several research studies currently being carried out looking at the anti-inflammatory role of curcumin. These will hopefully provide more insight into the benefit of curcumin in adults with dementia.
Another chemical in turmeric that has been studied in the lab is turmerone. In animal studies, turmerone has been shown to stimulate stem cells to make new brain cells, something that could in theory help with neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer's disease.
So the levels of turmeric you would need to consume, to match the levels that cells were exposed to in test tube experiments, would be exceptionally high. It also makes developing drugs based on turmeric activity very difficult.
With evidence from laboratory studies suggesting that it could be beneficial, it is worth further exploring the effects of turmeric and curcumin to see if it could lead to the development of new treatments.
Curcumin is a beneficial natural compound found in turmeric root, responsible for giving the spice its distinctive yellow color. Long used in traditional Ayurvedic herbal remedies, curcumin can provide healthy inflammatory support and antioxidant support to encourage comfortable joint movement and organ health.*
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Curcumin is the natural active compound in turmeric root, an herb used in traditional Asian medicine and cooking for thousands of years. It is one of the most extensively researched natural medicines of the modern age, with over 3000 published studies investigating its potential benefits for heart health, joint health, brain health, and more.
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https://drsoos.com/primary-care/new-and-expectant-parents/ | 2019-07-17T22:27:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525414.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20190717221901-20190718003901-00125.warc.gz | 0.957379 | 329 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__188912464 | en | Dr. Soos Pediatrics is more than just a doctor’s office. We are dedicated to being your partner in your child’s health, from birth to adulthood. We’ll work with you even before your child is born, meeting with you or your obstetrician, taking care of your newborn in the hospital after his or her birth, and establishing a safe, dependable, trusted medical home for your child from the very beginning.
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https://pricetoday.com.pk/news/samsung-galaxy-watch-6-and-5-to-introduce-sleep-apnea-detection/ | 2023-11-30T03:39:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100164.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130031610-20231130061610-00896.warc.gz | 0.920267 | 446 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__32592735 | en | Samsung is set to introduce a sleep apnea detection feature to its Galaxy Watch 5 and Galaxy Watch 6 series in South Korea early next year. This move comes after the company received approval for the feature from Korea's Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS), categorizing it as Software as a Medical Device (SaMD). The sleep apnea detection feature will be accessible through the Samsung Health Monitor app.
This technology aims to address the serious health issue of sleep apnea, a condition where individuals temporarily stop breathing while asleep, leading to decreased blood oxygen levels. Left untreated, sleep apnea can result in various health complications, including heart disorders, cognitive issues, hypertension, and even strokes.
The sleep apnea detection feature works by analyzing data from the blood oxygen sensor (SpO2) present in the Galaxy Watch 5 and Galaxy Watch 6. The Samsung Health Monitor app will assess how blood oxygen levels change during episodes of apnea or hypopnea. It will then provide users with an estimated Apnea-Hypopnea Index (AHI) score.
To ensure accurate detection, the feature requires at least two sleep cycles of more than four hours each. This will allow users to identify potential sleep apnea symptoms early and seek appropriate medical assistance before their condition deteriorates.
Sleep apnea is a significant concern in South Korea, where it is estimated that 1-2 million people may be affected by the condition. Alarmingly, about 75% of those individuals remain undiagnosed, highlighting the importance of accessible and accurate detection methods.
Samsung's endeavor to incorporate sleep apnea detection into its wearable technology aligns with its broader commitment to developing innovative health-focused technologies. By allowing users to proactively monitor their health, the company aims to empower individuals to better understand and manage their well-being, including sleep-related issues.
Hon Pak, Head of the Digital Health Team at Samsung MX, expressed the company's expectations that this feature will enhance users' ability to detect related symptoms early, facilitating more convenient and accessible health management. Samsung Electronics plans to continue its efforts in pioneering technologies that contribute to a comprehensive understanding and proactive management of health, particularly in the context of sleep-related conditions. | medical |
https://www.alexmo-cosmetics.de/LiftoninZ-Xpert_1 | 2020-02-17T18:47:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875143079.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20200217175826-20200217205826-00081.warc.gz | 0.904517 | 234 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__117555974 | en | INCI: Bulbine Frutescens Leaf Juice, Sodium Benzoate, Potassium Sorbate, Citric Acid
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https://cannabates.com/product/mighty-vaporizer-patient-top-choice/ | 2021-10-28T13:31:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323588341.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20211028131628-20211028161628-00168.warc.gz | 0.917064 | 384 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__246059800 | en | Portable dry herb vaporizers allow you to enjoy all the therapeutic benefits of the plant without combusting the plant material. There are a variety of devices across the internet. The Mighty Vaporizer is one of our top picks for inhalation devices based on the users need and experience. Regina has assisted countless medical marijuana patients in finding the right device for their routine. The Mighty never disappoints!
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Only about 10-15% of the dietary iron is absorbed but the rate of absorption increases if the body’s supply is diminished or the body’s need increase (for example, during pregnancy). This balance is upset in case of individuals with iron-deficiency anemia…iron loss or low dietary intake overtakes the rate of absorption, thus one becomes iron deficient. When anemia sets in a person tends to feel extremely tired & cold, they may experience headaches, and they look pale.
Conversely, if the body’s iron stores are filled up the less iron is absorbed. If iron is left free to roam (in the case of non-absorption) it becomes a powerful oxidant that can initiate free radical reactions and cause damage to the body’s cells! Elevated iron stores may thus be related to the development of cardiovascular disease.
So how much iron does a person need? For men and for women past the age of 51…8 mg. For women of childbearing age…18 mg. For women in their 2nd & 3rd trimesters of pregnancy…30 mg. Adult men very rarely experience iron-deficiency anemia. Relying on foods to meet your iron need is best as the iron from foods is better absorbed than that of iron supplements.
Heme & Nonheme Foods
Iron occurs in two forms in food…heme, which is found in meat…and nonheme, which is found in plants & some meats. Heme iron is much more readily absorbed than nonheme iron but when the two are consumed together the absorption of nonheme iron is increased. Eating foods rich in Vitamin C can also triple the amount of iron absorbed from nonheme foods. So, if you’re eating a nonheme source such as spinach…eat a food rich in Vitamin C with it (e.g., citrus fruits).
What Not to Eat
Some substances can impair iron absorption. For example, the calcium and phosphorus in milk, the tannins in tea & coffee, and the phytates that accompany fiber in whole-grain cereals.
Iron Rich Food Sources
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A Note to Vegetarians/Vegans: If you’re not a fan of meat or you are a vegetarian/vegan it is not impossible to obtain iron in your diet! Always make sure to pair your iron-rich, nonheme foods with a good source of Vitamin C. For example, top a spinach salad with sunflower seeds, edamame, and mandarin orange slices. | medical |
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Our technology is sourced from all over the world and is operated by university trained orthoptists who have extensive experience.
The IOL Master 700 is a machine used to take measurements of the eye before cataract surgery to determine the intraocular lens suited to the individual. It uses SWEPT Source Biometry® to take 2,000 scans of the eye per second to ensure that measurements are accurate and repeatable.
The complex scan measures the length of the eye, the curvature of the cornea, the depth of the anterior chamber and other measurements neededto ensure accurate calculation of the intraocular lens.
High quality, detailed imaging of the retinal surface and blood vessel layers is critical to enable accurate diagnoses and management of many retinal diseases.
Our doctors are able to take outstanding images and conduct indepth analysis and measurements using high-end software to not only aid in the diagnosis and management of eye diease but also to use in patient education.
Collecting and monitoring high quality images over time, in conjunction with other technologies such as OCT can enable subtle changes to be observed early, allowing for timely treatment which in turn preserves vision.
Using high-definition OCT equipment in our clinic, our ophthalmologists are able to identify tiny abnormalities within retinal layers that would otherwise be impossible to see using traditional retinal imaging. OCT is also used to track the progress of diseases such as macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and other disorders of the macula and retina. | medical |
https://kaarokarungi.com/news/national/experts-stress-the-importance-of-hiv-self-testing-kits-in-ugandas-hiv-eradication-efforts/ | 2024-02-27T10:34:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474674.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227085429-20240227115429-00850.warc.gz | 0.938882 | 472 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__171748427 | en | Recent statistics from the Uganda Aids Commission reveal that Uganda has seen 52,000 new HIV infections in the current year. With Fort Portal and Mbarara cities leading in HIV/AIDS prevalence, particularly among teenage girls and older men, there’s growing concern about the progress toward the goal of ending HIV by 2030.
The Human Immune deficiency Virus (HIV) remains a significant global public health threat, especially in Uganda, where the prevalence rate is 5.8% among the 15-49 age group. Prevention strategies such as treatment as prevention, safer sex, and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) are considered essential, but accessible testing is a critical component often overlooked.
Despite progress in enhancing access to HIV services, HIV testing among young people in Uganda falls below the target. Adolescents, especially those aged 10-19, constitute a growing proportion of people living with HIV globally, emphasizing the need for increased awareness and testing.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended HIV self-testing (HIVST) as an innovative strategy to address the testing gap and reach UNAIDS targets to end HIV by 2030. HIVST, facilitated by oral self-testing kits, offers a private, non-invasive, and convenient method for individuals to determine their HIV status.
Research shows that in 2019, an estimated 480 million HIV tests were conducted globally, yet 19% of People Living with HIV (PLHIV) remain undiagnosed. Oral self-testing kits, such as the OraQuick HIV self-testing kit, contribute significantly to early detection and timely interventions in the fight against HIV.
By eliminating the need for blood samples, oral test kits reduce barriers to testing, encourage more people to take control of their health, and align with global efforts to achieve the UNAIDS 95–95–95 target. The simplicity and accessibility of oral test kits make them instrumental in promoting HIV testing, overcoming barriers, and contributing to global efforts to control and end the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
As World AIDS Day was marked on December 1, experts emphasize the importance of exploring new and innovative approaches to make oral HIV self-testing kits more readily available, affordable, and accessible. This, they believe, will play a pivotal role in achieving the goal of ending HIV by 2030. | medical |
https://ryansquest.org/about-dmd/ | 2024-04-13T18:04:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816832.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413180040-20240413210040-00830.warc.gz | 0.933975 | 325 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__142896836 | en | Understand Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a devastating and progressive muscle disorder that only affects boys, causing a loss of both muscle function and independence. DMD affects approximately 1 out every 3500 boys born worldwide. It is the most common, lethal genetic disorder diagnosed during early childhood. Nearly all boys with DMD die by their late teens or early 20s from respiratory and/or cardiac complications.
Facts about DMD
- DMD has a 100% fatality rate.
- DMD is typically diagnosed in boys between the ages of 3 and 7.
- Boys with DMD generally lose their ability to walk between the ages of 8 and 12.
- DMD affects boys from ever ethnicity and geographic location.
- Approximately 20,000 boys worldwide are born with DMD every year.
- There is no way to stop the progression of DMD.
- To date, there is no cure.
What causes DMD?
A child diagnosed with DMD is not able to produce a protein called dystrophin.
Dystrophin, which is one of the largest genes found to date, acts as the glue that holds muscles together by maintaining the structure of muscle cells. Without dystrophin, muscles are not able to operate properly and will eventually suffer progressive damage.
For a thorough explanation about Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and research updates, please visit Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy, an organization that supports through research advocacy, education, and compassion. | medical |
https://www.drjspaulding.com/pageNum/2/blog.html | 2019-02-23T08:44:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550249495888.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20190223082039-20190223104039-00426.warc.gz | 0.946811 | 2,584 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__71457690 | en | If you had chicken pox as a child, you're at higher risk for a painful viral infection later in life called shingles. Besides a painful skin rash and other symptoms that can develop, shingles could also affect your dental care.
About 90% of children contract chicken pox, a disease caused by the varicella zoster virus (VZV), which usually clears up on its own. But later in life, usually after age 50, about a quarter to a third of chicken pox patients will develop shingles.
The onset of shingles usually produces an itching or burning sensation on the skin that's either numb or overly sensitive to the touch. A red rash may ensue with crusty lesions, accompanied sometimes by pain, fever and fatigue. The rash often forms a belt-like or striped pattern along one side of the face or body.
For most patients this painful rash is the extent of their symptoms. But women who are pregnant, patients undergoing cancer treatment or people with compromised immune systems are at risk for more serious complications if they contract the disease. It's important for these at-risk patients to obtain a vaccination, as well as avoid contact with anyone with shingles.
Which brings us to your dental care: in its early stages shingles can be contagious, the virus passing to others through skin contact or by airborne respiratory secretions. That's why it's important if you're currently experiencing a shingles episode that you let us know before undergoing any kind of dental work. Even a routine teeth cleaning with an ultrasonic device could disrupt the virus and increase the chances of it spreading to someone else. We may need to postpone dental work until the virus is under control.
Antiviral drugs like acyclovir or famciclovir are highly effective in bringing the disease under control, especially if treatment starts within three days of the onset of symptoms. And don't forget the shingles vaccination: the U.S. Center for Disease Control recommends it for anyone 60 or older regardless of a past history with chicken pox.
See your physician as soon as possible if you begin to notice symptoms. Don't let shingles interfere with your life — or your dental care.
Whether she’s singing, dancing or acting, Jennifer Lopez is a performer who is known for giving it all she’s got. But during one show, Lopez recently admitted, she gave a bit more then she had planned.
“I chipped my tooth on stage,” she told interviewers from Entertainment Tonight, “and had to finish the show….I went back thinking ‘Can I finish the show like this?’”
With that unlucky break, J-Lo joins a growing list of superstar singers—including Taylor Swift and Michael Buble—who have something in common: All have chipped their teeth on microphones while giving a performance.
But it’s not just celebs who have accidental dental trouble. Chips are among the most common dental injuries—and the front teeth, due to their position, are particularly susceptible. Unfortunately, they are also the most visible. But there are also a number of good ways to repair chipped, cracked or broken teeth short of replacing them.
For minor to moderate chips, cosmetic bonding might be recommended. In this method, special high-tech resins, in shades that match your natural teeth, are applied to the tooth’s surface. Layers of resin, cured with a special light, will often restore the tooth to good appearance. Best of all, the whole process can often be done in just one visit to the dental office, and the results can last for several years.
For a more permanent repair—or if the damage is more extensive—dental veneers may be another option. Veneers are wafer-thin shells that cover the entire front surface of one or more teeth. Strong, durable and natural-looking, they can be used to repair moderate chips, cracks or irregularities. They can also help you get a “red-carpet” smile: brilliant white teeth with perfectly even spacing. That’s why veneers are so popular among Hollywood celebs—even those who haven’t chipped their teeth!
Fortunately, even if the tooth is extensively damaged, it’s usually possible to restore it with a crown (cap), a bridge—or a dental implant, today’s gold standard for whole-tooth replacement. But in many cases, a less complex type of restoration will do the trick.
Which tooth restoration method did J-Lo choose? She didn’t say—but luckily for her adoring fans, after the microphone mishap she went right back up on stage and finished the show.
If you have a chipped tooth but you need to make the show go on, please contact us or schedule an appointment for a consultation. You can also learn more by reading the Dear Doctor magazine articles “Artistic Repair of Chipped Teeth With Composite Resin” and “Porcelain Veneers.”
Around 20 million people—mostly women after menopause—take medication to slow the progress of osteoporosis, a debilitating disease that weakens bones. But although effective, some osteoporosis drugs could pose dental issues related to the jawbones.
Osteoporosis causes the natural spaces that lie between the mineral content of bone to grow larger over time. This makes the bone weaker and unable to withstand forces it once could, which significantly increases the risk of fracture. A number of drugs have been developed over time that stop or slow this disease process.
Two of the most prominent osteoporosis drugs are alendronate, known also by its trade name Fosamax, and denosumab or Prolia. While originating from different drug families, alendronate and denosumab work in a similar way by destroying specialized bone cells called osteoclasts that break down worn out bone and help dissolve it. By reducing the number of these cells, more of the older bone that would have been phased out lasts longer.
In actuality this only offers a short-term benefit in controlling osteoporosis. The older bone isn’t renewed but only preserved, and will eventually become fragile and more prone to fracture. After several years the tide turns negatively for the bone’s overall health. It’s also possible, although rare, that the bone simply dies in a condition called osteonecrosis.
The jawbones are especially susceptible to osteonecrosis. Forces generated by chewing normally help stimulate jawbone growth, but the medications in question can inhibit that stimulus. As a result the jawbone can diminish and weaken, making eventual tooth loss a real possibility.
Osteonecrosis is most often triggered by trauma or invasive dental procedures like tooth extractions or oral surgery. For this reason if you’re taking either alendronate and denosumab and are about to undergo a dental procedure other than routine cleaning, filling or crown-work, you should speak to your physician about suspending your medication temporarily. Dentists often recommend a suspension of three to nine months before the procedure and three months afterward.
Some research indicates this won’t worsen your osteoporosis symptoms, especially if you substitute another treatment or fortify your skeletal system with calcium and vitamin D supplements. But taking this temporary measure could help protect your teeth in the long run.
If you would like more information on the effect of osteoporosis treatment on dental health, please contact us or schedule an appointment for a consultation. You can also learn more about this topic by reading the Dear Doctor magazine article “Osteoporosis Drugs & Dental Treatment.”
For over half a century, dentists have promoted a proven strategy for sound dental health. Not only is this strategy effective, it’s simple too: brush and floss every day, and visit your dentist at least twice a year or as soon as you see a problem.
Unfortunately, this strategy isn’t resonating well with people between the ages of 18 and 34, known more commonly as the “millennials.” A recent survey of 2,000 members of this age bracket found a startling number: over one-third didn’t brush their teeth as often as recommended, some going as long as two days between brushings. About the same number also reported fear of dental visits. Given all that, the next statistic isn’t surprising: tooth decay affects one in three people in the millennial age group.
This isn’t to pick on millennials, but to point out that good oral hygiene naturally leads to good oral health, regardless of age, gender or ethnicity. Here’s more about the dental care basics for better health.
Brush twice, floss once daily. The American Dental Association (ADA) recommends a thorough brushing with toothpaste containing fluoride twice a day. You also shouldn’t neglect a once a day flossing between teeth to remove plaque from areas brushing can’t effectively reach. Keeping plaque accumulation to a minimum is the best way to prevent diseases like tooth decay or periodontal (gum) disease.
Visit your dentist at least twice a year. Dental visits every six months (or more if your dentist recommends it) accomplish two things: a professional dental cleaning removes any buildup of plaque and tartar (calcified plaque) missed by daily hygiene. It also allows your dentist to inspect your teeth and gums for any signs of disease that may require treatment.
See your Dentist ASAP if you notice problems. You should also see your dentist sooner if you notice anything abnormal like unusual spotting on the teeth, tooth pain or sensitivity, or swollen, reddened or bleeding gums. These are all signs of disease, and the sooner it’s treated the less chance your teeth and gums will suffer serious harm.
Like other age groups, millennials know the importance of a healthy smile, not only for social and career interaction, but also for their own personal well-being. Sticking to a regular dental care program is the primary way to keep that healthy smile.
For over a century dentists treated tooth decay by removing both diseased portions of the tooth and healthy structure deemed at risk for future decay. In the 1970s, though, a new approach emerged, known as Minimally Invasive Dentistry (MID). This practice protocol attempts to preserve as much of the healthy structure as possible.
Before MID, dentists followed a decay treatment protocol developed in the 19th Century. A part of this became known as extension for prevention calling for dentists to remove healthy structure considered vulnerable to decay. Besides reducing the tooth's volume, this practice also resulted in, by today's standards, larger than necessary fillings.
It was thought that removing this additional material would make it easier to clean bacterial plaque, the source of decay, but later, research showed the practice couldn't guarantee the teeth wouldn't be reinfected.
Since then we've learned a lot more about teeth and have developed new ways to detect decay at earlier stages. X-ray imaging, for example, has transitioned largely from film to digital technology, providing more detailed images at greater magnification. This, along with laser fluorescence and infrared cameras, has made it easier to detect the first tiny stages of decay.
We can also limit tooth decay damage by boosting enamel strength with fluoride applications and sealants or reducing decay-causing bacteria with anti-bacterial rinses. We've also seen advancement in techniques like air abrasion that remove decayed tooth material while leaving more healthy structure intact better than using a traditional dental drill.
Restoring teeth after treatment has also improved. While dental metal amalgam is still used for some fillings, the main choice is now composite resin. These new tooth-colored dental materials require less tooth preparation (and thus less material loss) and bond well to the remaining structure, resulting in a stronger tooth.
Following a MID protocol leads to less intervention and less time in the dentist's chair. It also means preserving more of a natural tooth, an important aim in promoting long-lasting dental health.
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https://uoftmedicalgenomics.home.blog/2022/05/05/neurodevelopmental-disorders-where-does-my-child-fall-on-the-spectrum/ | 2023-06-03T08:11:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224649177.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230603064842-20230603094842-00367.warc.gz | 0.942817 | 2,636 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__114716045 | en | University of Toronto researcher, Dr. Lucy Osborne, aims to discover novel genetic factors contributing to the wide spectrum of phenotypes observed in cognitive disorders. She strives to help families better predict the clinical implications of such complex conditions.
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Identifying the correct diagnosis for a child’s underlying behavioural and learning disabilities is challenging since the same symptoms can be caused by a number of disorders. Therefore, when the pieces of the puzzle finally begin to form a picture, parents start to experience an immense sense of relief when placing a concrete label on their child’s symptoms. A diagnosis, however, may often serve as a double-edged sword when it comes to neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs).
NDDs are a group of complex conditions that affect brain development and growth, impairing several cognitive and behavioural features such as learning, self-discipline, language, and social communication1. Common NDDs include conditions such as intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Signs and symptoms appear early in childhood development and can fall within a wide spectrum, ranging from mild to severe phenotypes1. Pinpointing the correct diagnosis is particularly challenging since symptoms often overlap and co-occur amongst different NDDs. Consequently, therapeutic interventions should be tailored to the specific NDD and its characteristic features. Therefore, an official diagnosis can offer parents a tremendous wave of comfort and ease. However, the battle does not end here, since the large spectrum of phenotypes adds a layer of uncertainty to managing this diagnosis.
Toronto-based researcher, Dr. Lucy Osborne, hopes to help parents get some of the answers they are looking for. Dr. Osborne is a principal investigator and professor at the University of Toronto in the Departments of Medicine and Molecular Genetics. She also holds the title of Canada Research Chair in Genetics of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Her work largely focuses on two rare NDDs, Williams-Beuren syndrome (WS) and 7q11.23 duplication syndrome (Dup7). WS and Dup7 are caused by the reciprocal deletion and duplication of the same ~25 genes on human chromosome 7, respectively (Fig 1)2. Deletions and duplications are structural genetic changes called copy number variants (CNVs) that lead to the loss and gain of genetic material3. Studying reciprocal CNVs of the same genetic segment offers Dr. Osborne a golden opportunity to evaluate how the copy number of a gene may impact neuronal development.
“A small set of genes can have such a huge impact on cognition and behaviour,” Dr. Osborne answers when asked what fascinates her about the two NDDs she studies. “It really changes how somebody appears and sees the world.”
WS and Dup7 are distinct disorders with overlapping and opposing phenotypes (Fig 2), likely attributed to the varying copy number of some of the genes in the 7q11.23 critical genetic region2. While unique in their own ways, both of these NDDs are associated with a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations. “A syndrome is not written in stone. You have a list of phenotypes spread across all the people you see, and very few have all of those symptoms, but the question is why,” says Dr. Osborne. She revealed that the greatest challenge is having no way of predicting the extent of a child’s disability despite reaching a final diagnosis. “Parents want to make some sort of plan or have some expectation about what that diagnosis is going to mean, but there is huge variation,” says Dr. Osborne. “We have no predictors right now and that is [a huge burden] for families.”
Interestingly, two children with the same CNV and diagnosis may fall on opposite ends of a phenotypic spectrum. Dr. Osborne aims to unravel what might be contributing to this widespread continuum to find some predictors for families. In a recent collaborative study with SickKids genetic scientist Dr. Ryan Yuen, the two research groups investigated why some individuals with Dup7 have an additional ASD diagnosis. “Anecdotally, a lot of the [Dup7] kids coming into our study already had a diagnosis with autism, but most of them did not have autism,” Dr. Osborne explained. By virtue of their separation anxiety and shy nature, those kids got labeled and lumped in with other ASD children without going through a formal diagnostic test. However, after putting them through the proper assessment, it was identified that most of the Dup7 kids were misdiagnosed, rather only ~20% of them had an additional clinical ASD diagnosis5. Notably, 20% appears as a striking increase when compared to the general population’s ASD prevalence rate of ~1.5%6. Therefore, Dr. Osborne wondered, “could they (Dup7 kids with ASD) have a ‘second hit’ layered on top of this one CNV that pushes them over the edge that the others do not?”
Unlike monogenic diseases that are caused by a single gene, complex disorders have an array of different variants (mutations) and environmental factors contributing to the disease outcome. Thus, Drs. Osborne and Yuen hypothesized that Dup7 children diagnosed with ASD are likely to carry additional rare damaging variants in ASD-relevant genes. These additional variants are known as genetic modifiers, which suppress or enhance the phenotype of the primary disease-causing gene7. Typically, the more additional variants or ‘hits’, the more severe the phenotype8. This is known as the ‘multiple hit model’, which contributes to the wide variability and overlap in symptoms observed in individuals with NDDs2,8.
To test their hypothesis, they performed whole-genome sequencing (WGS) on twenty Dup7 individuals, half of whom had an ASD diagnosis. WGS is a tool that reads the entire DNA sequence of an individual, which they used to look for second hits across the genome that may be contributing to the ASD phenotype. Unfortunately, they did not identify any variants that could explain the ASD diagnosis9. Surprised by this analysis, Dr. Osborne states, “It wasn’t as simple as that. It wasn’t the CNV and one additional hit that will push you towards autism. It’s more complicated than that”. She explains that rather than one large second hit, there may be a collection of smaller hits with smaller impacts that ultimately add up.
This concept can be visualized as a cup with two thresholds, one for Dup7 filled about halfway, and one for the ASD phenotype bordering the top of the cup (Fig 3)2. Dr. Osborne describes that on their own, modifier genes with small effects are not enough to fill up the cup and push you over either threshold. However, for those with Dup7, their cups are already half full and have surpassed the first threshold. Therefore, Dr. Osborne presumes that unlike in typically developing children, these additional small modifiers may be the distinguishing factors that push the kids with Dup7 and ASD, over the edge (Fig 3, Threshold B).
Even though they failed to identify a clear correlation between having a second hit and an ASD diagnosis, it does not mean these hits are not present. Dr. Osborne explains that the smaller hits are much more difficult to find. In fact, the effects of genetic modifiers are becoming more apparent in complex diseases, including NDDs, and will likely become a major focus of genomics research moving forward.
When asked whether the lack of association with ASD was discouraging, Dr. Osborne said, “No, not really. You ask questions and do not know what answer you will get”. In fact, the team discovered a phenotypic association when shifting their focus towards examining Dup7 as a whole, rather than splitting the children into groups based on ASD diagnosis. They successfully found that some rare variants correlate to various clinical phenotypic measures, such as intellectual ability and adaptive behavior9. This finding could lead to the future development of polygenic risk scores for Dup7. Polygenic risk scores estimate an individual’s relative risk of developing a disease by calculating the weighted sum of all genetic and environmental contributors10. This cumulative measure can hold predictive value in estimating severity in such phenotypic features. In the case of Dup7, polygenic risk scores can estimate an individual’s level of cognition and aspects of behaviour. Ideally, this information could help inform families about whether their child will be shy, socially independent, communicative, and what their intellectual abilities may look like in the future. “Being able to place your child at one extreme or the other would be valuable,” Dr. Osborne explains. This study “gives us hope that there will be other measures that we will be able to find” to further increase the predictive value of these symptoms.
The degree of success attained in identifying such predictors sparked a similar study in children with WS. Dr. Osborne shared that they are in the process of examining whole genomes of ~250 WS children for potential correlations between rare variants and scores measuring cognitive abilities, patterns in social behavior, as well as cardiovascular outcomes. Like Dup7, Dr. Osborne hopes this research brings them one step closer to finding enough predictors to develop polygenic risk scores for WS as well. Identifying an individual’s relative risk can allow for the introduction of personalized therapeutic interventions early on in life, such as speech therapy or cardiovascular monitoring. While these scores hold some predictive power, they should always be taken with a grain of salt, as they should not be used for diagnosis.
Despite not finding the associations they were looking for with ASD, Drs. Osborne and Yuen did find associations with phenotypic measures that may explain some of the variation observed with NDDs. Shifting gears when studying complex disorders is often needed as many different genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors contribute to the overall clinical manifestation of a disease. “Don’t be afraid to tackle something that is complex,” says Dr. Osborne. “You can still find answers for things even if you know it’s going to be complicated, and it really does take teamwork.” Dr. Osborne shares that while the research field was previously quite competitive, the scientific community is beginning to realize that there is large value in collaborating and integrating patient data. Examining syndromes from different angles will give you a more comprehensive insight into NDDs, ultimately granting families more certainty when planning and investing in their child’s future.
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The weekend of May 18, we were in the hospital for a two-day orientation on natural birth techniques. We learned how to incorporate water, stability balls and breathing into the labor process. We watched videos of natural births. We dabbled in conversations about dilation and timing the drive to the hospital and mood lighting. During the tour, we saw the rooms that we’d be in if we chose to stick with the Birth Place, and the traditional labor and delivery rooms where things were less “sway and breath” and more “give me the f*cking epidural.”
We saw the big double doors that would swing open in the event of an emergency.
“Moms, you’ll be rushed into this operation room where we can remove a baby in less than 10 minutes. Dads, you’ll have to wait outside,” the nurse explained as we looked through the small square windows at the bright fluorescent lighting that was the exact opposite of what I outlined in my birth plan. I’m all about low lighting anyway, but this would especially apply to any situation where I’m to be laying spread eagle with no clothes on.
Ain’t nobody looking for fluorescent lighting in THAT scenario.
The tour ended with a walk through the NICU (Newborn Intensive Care Unit). It was a heartbreaking scene that made all us expectant moms hold our breath and silently pray that we wouldn’t need to be there again. At this point in my pregnancy, I had no reason to believe that I would be. I was 34 weeks along and passed every prenatal appointment with flying colors. My pants still fit, my baby was growing perfectly, and I was in a great mood. I’d just retired from teaching three hours worth of spin classes every week. Aside from some swelling feet, I had little to be concerned about.
One thing that was highlighted over and over in the orientation was the idea that if ever we felt that something wasn’t quite right, we should always call our doctors. There were no stupid concerns, no dumb questions.
On Monday, May 20, I woke up feeling like something wasn’t right. I had a lot of clear liquid between my thighs that was unlike anything else I’d experienced yet. It was like water, but I felt it was too soon for it to be THAT water, and I wasn’t sure what it could have been otherwise. I had chest pains that seemed like heartburn, but weren’t going away when I took heartburn medications. And even after eating a yogurt and having a glass of juice, I didn’t feel my baby moving. That wasn’t normal. I called the doctor’s office to describe everything and they made arrangements for me to come in that morning.
In the doctor’s office, I was hooked up to a fetal monitor that measures the baby’s heart rate and my contractions. These were just small contractions that weren’t of the “active labor” variety, but going on nonetheless. It was news to me, I hadn’t felt any contractions in my pregnancy at that point. Then the nurse gave me a clicker and told me to click the button every time I felt the baby kick. Over the course of forty minutes, I clicked it only twice. I had my urine tested and blood drawn, and the end result of that visit was that the doctor wanted me to head to the hospital for extended monitoring.
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The plan was that I would be back under the monitors again until 3:00PM that afternoon, when the 24-urine catch would be completed and they could test it. So we grabbed a few things to keep us occupied for a “long day” and headed back to the hospital where I was ordered into a gown and given a Hep Lock. I have a REALLY big phobia of veins, and was really queasy at the thought of this tube structure being inserted into my hand and left there for “whatever” for any length of time. Little did I know, the Hep Lock would be the least of my worries in the near future. To better tolerate the invasive wad on my hand, I asked the nurse to cover it completely with tape so I could not see it. And I named it “Charlie.” I proceeded to hold that forearm in a straight position like a robot so not to bend Charlie around in positions that would flex or stretch my veins.
Being in the hospital from 4:00AM til 3:00PM means meeting a parade of new nurses with every shift change. I did my best to convince every single one of them to remove the Hep Lock seeing as how the only thing I was really doing all day was peeing into a giant cup and getting my blood pressure taken every hour. Nobody would take Charlie out though. He had to stay there “just in case.” Meh.
At 3:00PM, the urine catch was complete and the nurse said she thought it looked good enough for me to be discharged home. She had been dipping test strips into my urine all day and found nothing of concern. Sure enough, the doc was just entering the room to tell me the results were good, when the fetal monitor alerted the nurse that the baby’s heart rate had dipped. Nobody was certain if it was actually the baby’s heart rate dipping, or if the monitor had momentarily picked up my heart rate instead of his. Whatever the case, it was certain that the mood changed in that room. I locked eyes with my husband, and tried to focus on him through the chaos.
A team of nurses rushed in and the light banter that had been going on was replaced with doctor lingo going back and forth around the room as Charlie was hooked up to an IV, my underwear were stripped off, and the doctor’s hand went whoosh into me, followed by the words, “Two centimeters.”Come again? The day before I was zero centimeters dilated. Now I was two?
Needless to say, between the dilation and fetal monitor meltdown, I was not released from the hospital that afternoon. Things got a little bit crazy from that point on. We ended up spending the night on Tuesday, and a whole bunch of “fun” was ordered for me.
“Order” is a term that I learned to hate while staying in the hospital because it usually translated to, “a request for someone to come in the room and stab you with something.” Before this week, “order” was what you did to get Chardonnay or burritos to appear in front of you. “Order” was a way to get shoes in the mail from Zappos. “Order” was not about making a fist while a giant rubber band cut off the circulation in your arm.
By Wednesday, May 22, my blood pressure and lab work was good enough that the doctor ruled out preeclampsia, and the fetal monitoring showed no more abnormalities with the baby’s heart rate. The silver lining for Wednesday was a) ruling out my chest pain as a cardiac condition, b) ruling out my chest pain as a gall bladder condition, and c) having a full-fledged sonogram of the baby to determine if his motor skills and development were on track (they were). I don’t know what I would have done without my husband in the hospital with me for all these tests. Though most of them were just precautionary, I knew better than to think that everything would be okay anymore. For twenty-four hours I’d been poked, prodded, lubed up, checked out and woken up for various tests. Eye contact and hand-holding with Krispin were necessary, simple pleasures that helped me to leap-frog from one scary, crappy moment to the next.
We had two sonograms of the Little Man that day. In the first one, he was happily sucking his thumb. In the second, he had his foot in his mouth. The nurse said those were good signs, because the “sucking” action was an advanced skill for that age. I felt my motherly pride kick in when she said that, and in a weird “foreshadowing way,” felt relieved that if he were to come out early, he would be okay because he was doing so well with his growth in the womb.
We were released that night, and I was “ordered” a follow-up appointment with my doctor in the regular office on Friday morning. Thursday, May 23, I went back to work as usual. Co-workers asked how I was feeling, and I told them I felt good and was happy that I didn’t have preeclampsia, and that I would be sitting at my desk with my legs crossed for the rest of my pregnancy so that my baby would stay put until he was full term.
Thursday night, I didn’t sleep. The heartburn struck again and we tried several things to relieve it. Heartburn medicines didn’t seem to do anything, but Greek yogurt took the edge off. Krispin started a food diary for me, jotting down the time I was eating and what every item was. We were determined to pinpoint the source of the problem. I had three Greek yogurts that night, and I’m not sure if it actually relieved the pain or if it was a placebo effect — but I went with it. I slept on the couch for a precious hour with my body propped up at a ninety-degree angle, waiting for dawn to break so I could just be awake and feel normal about it. At 7:00AM on Friday morning, May 24, I got myself into the shower and focused on having a normal day. I had a client meeting at 9:30AM, after which I would leave work to go to my follow-up doctor’s appointment. Since the heartburn was feeling better, I was anticipating a brief visit — bang out a good blood pressure, pee in a cup, and get on with Memorial Day weekend. I was thinking it would be a good night to go catch a movie — The Great Gatsby, or maybe the new Star Trek.
I got to the doctor’s office at 11:00AM, with a freshly printed Birth Plan in hand. One of the prerequisites for the Birth Place was to draft such a plan and review it with the doctor prior to submitting it to the hospital. I also had a food log that Kris wrote down. Since I was expecting a ho-hum appointment, I told my husband to stay at work and that I could go on my own. I was called back to the exam room to get my blood pressure taken, and knew within about 30 seconds that things were going to be crazy again. And that I wished Krispin was with me after all. As soon as my blood pressure registered on the device the nurse’s face twisted into a “holy sh*t” expression and she immediately said she would redo it because it was so high. In an effort to calm myself, I explained that I’d literally just run from work to the appointment, and from my car into the office not 20 minutes ago. Plus, I’d forgotten the folder with the Birth Plan and the food log in it, so I had to quickly run back out to the car to grab it before I was called back to the exam room.
See? There was a perfectly fine explanation for my astronomical blood pressure.
She took it again in 10 minutes, and I was still high. This is when I felt my face getting scrunchy and my eyes burning. Normally, Kris would be with me and be able to quash these seeds of emotion before they became visible to the outside world, but as I was alone this time, I did a piss poor job of holding back the tears. I was brought back to a little room where a fetal monitor was set up — gear that I was overly familiar with at this point having just spent a few days attached to it in the hospital. Once again, I was told to click a button every time I felt any movement in my belly. As tears streamed down my face, the nurse assured me that everything was okay.
This was just a fetal monitor! No big deal. I don’t think she realized what I’d gone through in the past few days, and that to me, it was obvious my “ho-hum” appointment was sprouting red flags like dandelions in a summer lawn.
She offered me a juice to ease my fears, which I gulped down in a fury to inspire the fetal movement I so desperately hoped to feel this time around on the monitor. Luckily, over the course of 30 minutes, my Little Man was kicking up a storm as if to say, “See Mom? I got your back. I’m doing well in here, don’t worry.” I breathed a sigh of relief as I continued clicking and clicking through the session. “Take my blood pressure now, “ I thought to myself. “Now, I am calm.”
After another 15 minutes, the nurse returned and took my blood pressure again. “Lower than before, but still high,” she said. Then she ran her fingers over my swollen feet and the concerned look on her face told me that we were not out of the woods on this, not even close. “I’m going to have Dr. Bowen see you now,” she said.
Dr. Bowen was one of my favorite people in the practice, and the doctor that discharged me from the hospital the day before. He said my son looked strong and that everything was going to be okay with my baby. He had the demeanor of Mr. Rogers and the most soothing voice in the whole world as he described medical situations. When he arrived in the room with his stethoscope and blood pressure cuff, he was all business that morning.
At this point, I could do nothing to stop the building deluge of tears that were forming behind my face. They were streaming down my cheeks when he came into the exam room and he said nothing soothing, no reassuring words, no “it will be okay.” He did the blood pressure twice, and told me that I needed to get to the hospital again for monitoring, that the numbers just weren’t going in my favor.
I left the office sobbing, and called my husband. In short bursts of speaking, I explained that we had to go back to St. Joe’s for more monitoring. He came home to get me, and we packed a bag. This time, we brought a few more things — power cords for the iPad, our own toothbrushes, a change of clothes, etc. I was prepared for an overnight stay, but didn’t think it would come to that. I certainly wasn’t packing as if our baby would be arriving in a few hours.
In my mind, we were still going to see The Great Gatsby later.
Things changed quickly once we arrived to the hospital. The blood that was drawn at the doctor’s office earlier was evaluated and a doctor came into the labor and delivery room I was assigned to. Based on my blood work, they determined that I had HELLP Syndrome. HELLP is a life-threatening pregnancy complication usually considered to be a variant of preeclampsia. HELLP stands for H (hemolysis, the breaking down of the red blood cells), EL (elevated liver enzymes), and LP (low platelet count). Looking at websites with information on the disease, I can see how the week’s worth of symptoms and monitoring FINALLY gave the doctors a clue as to what was going on with me. While HELLP shares some of the symptoms of preeclampsia (protein in the urine and high blood pressure), it doesn’t have to include those and can be present even when urine and blood pressure are okay. So when the doctors were monitoring me for preeclampsia and thinking that I was improving as my urine and blood pressure got better, I was actually getting worse with HELLP and part of the key to my diagnosis was the ongoing chest pain which was never heartburn, but my liver being inflamed. Chest tenderness, pain in my right upper quadrant and shoulder pain while breathing deeply were all HELLP symptoms and all things that I was experiencing and believing to be some combination of heartburn or the baby taking up so much room within my petite frame that I was having trouble breathing because my diaphragm was being pressed.
We were all wrong, but Friday morning the pieces came together.
The doctor stood before me and outlined the options, with the caveat that once another set of results came in, she might make a call on what would happen based on my current platelet count. As it stood in that moment, not 10 minutes after I arrived to the hospital to get a new Hep Lock inserted into my already Hep-Lock bruised hand, we were having our baby. The plan was to induce me, but if the blood work wasn’t great, I would get a C-Section. Neither option thrilled me. I was still nervous about having the baby so early, but I could tell that the situation was dire enough that we didn’t have a choice. While the baby was absolutely fine, it was me — my body — that was not fine.
In the five minutes or so of sitting in shock over the idea that we were having the baby more than a month early, I thought about the irony of my friends and family reassuring me of my ability to experience birth because of my years of endurance training.
I’m not going to lie — I had visions of my baby breezing through the birth canal on or about June 30, sliding into the doc’s hands as he crowned in the aero position. I’d been healthy and active throughout my pregnancy. I ate the right things. I did the right things. His head was already down and in position. I completed orientation and had a birth plan all typed up, proofread and printed up for the big day! I couldn’t help but think that my body was letting me down in this moment, that if I didn’t get my baby out of me quickly, I would be putting him in danger because my blood wouldn’t be able to clot once the labor started and the delivery occurred.
How could my body make it through three Ironman races, but shut down before my first birth? It was a jarring feeling for me.
The doctor returned, and the mood changed yet again. “The number isn’t what I was hoping for,” she said, in reference to my platelet count. The new option — the only option — was an emergency C-Section. A normal platelet count is 150. Mine was at 50, and rapidly declining. They start to worry with anything lower than 80.
What happened next seems like a blur. A lot of people came into the room. My parents hadn’t arrived to the hospital yet, so it was just me and my husband and a lot of medical folks. I was being hooked to an IV of magnesium which I kept confusing with an IV of “magma.” Might as well have been, it made my whole body burn as if there was fire in my veins.
The anesthesia guy came bedside and proceeded to give me the spiel on signing the consent form, which boiled down to “you might die, now sign this.” On the other side of my bed was my husband who was trying desperately to make the situation feel less scary than it was. Just before I was whisked away, he reminded me that this is how we do things…fast, crazy, out-of-the-ordinary. A true statement for the couple that got engaged, married, bought a house and became pregnant all within about a year and a half. The idea made me smile — our crazy life together was just proceeding in a normal fashion. Our son wasn’t going to be a June baby, he was going to be May baby. And while I’d been joking throughout the pregnancy that I’d be happy if he came a little early (because I would prefer a Gemini to a Cancer for optimal mother/son relationship potential), I didn’t want him to be five weeks early. June 21 was the cutoff for Gemini…but my Little Man was comin’ right now, and it was time for mommy to buck up and get to the OR without being a Sally about it.
One of the nurses, Laurie, made the experience much more calming for me. She had the quintessential nurse vibe. A pleasing tone, just the right amount of fact and detail when she explained what was about to happen to me and why, and a happy confidence that things would be okay no matter what she was talking about with me. This was all very important as we bonded over the next few days. She gave me a catheter, a sponge bath, and took a lot of blood. She was with me for the surgery from start to finish. I couldn’t imagine her ever using profanity, which is why I was embarrassed to learn that the first words out of my mouth as I came to from the anesthesia were “my uterus feels like a f*cking Jack-O-Lantern.” But what are you going to do? It was an apt description when I felt like the incision was a smile that was being burned into my flesh with a blowtorch.
I was told that Emmett was screaming when they took him out of me, and Kris got to see him within minutes of the procedure. Then he was taken to the NICU. I was relieved that things were okay, but sad that the expectation was for him to be in the hospital for the next four to five weeks.
By the time I saw him, I was happily hooked up to a morphine drip and thankful that I hadn’t died during the C-Section. My throat felt sore from being intubated, but other than that it was as if I’d gone from the conversation about being induced to the baby being in my arms. Not exactly the natural birth experience we had hoped for, but it really didn’t matter to me how Emmett got here as long as he was healthy. And despite the IV and leads that were attached to him when he was placed in my arms for the first time, he was just that — perfectly healthy.
It was tough to see my baby with a big splint on his arm and the same little Hep Lock in his hand that I had in mine. The beautiful thing about babies is that they don’t have all the mental baggage and negative associations that we adults form as we go through life. I looked at Emmett with cords and lights fastened to his body and told myself that these were just his superhero accessories — the little red light on his foot that detected how much oxygen was in his blood was just a sign that he was thriving. The leads were just picking up numerical representations to show the world what his spirit was made of. When I held him in the NICU, I tuned out the sounds of beeping monitors and alarms all around me and pretended instead that we were in an arcade. My Emmett wasn’t a baby that was sick in the NICU, he was my little fighter and he was acing the game of “premature baby” despite all the odds.
While I was falling in love with my baby for the first time, it felt like I was falling in love with my husband all over again. Like any couple, we have our share of stupid fights and nitpick each other over annoying habits. It’s funny how having a premature baby in the NICU can change all of that. Krispin dropped everything to care for me. Wheeling me to and from the NICU to feed Emmett, wiping away the ever-flowing batch of tears that seemed to generate out of nowhere thanks to zero sleep, crazy hormones and the fear that our situation would worsen before it would improve. And waiting on me without question. During the week we were in the hospital he happily got his hands on whatever snacks I wanted, kept my Nalgene bottle filled with water and ice, made sure I was comfortable in every possible way, and even made a few trips out to our house so he could get things in order before our eventual return home. All of that aside, I have to confess that watching my husband become a dad also had a profound effect on me. There’s just something about seeing our soft, new baby nestled against the tough exterior of my man. I know that he will be there for him in every possible way from here on out, just like he’s been here for me. Emmett has an amazing dad, I have an amazing husband. The Dolbears would get through this.
All through my pregnancy, people told me that I was an Ironman…I HAD this. But the real Ironman is my son. He’s the one that rolled with the punches on “race day” and crossed the finish line successfully despite the obstacles. Mom’s low platelets and all. Can’t stop my Little Man.
And he had already won more than just my heart along the way — the NICU nurses were quite fond of him. He was getting a reputation for exceeding expectations as they finally decided after four days (not weeks) that he was okay enough to be released from the NICU and move into the normal post-partum delivery room with me, though he’d still have to be under the blue lights for jaundice and have a monitor hooked up to alert us of any abnormalities in his breathing patterns.
I’ll never complain about the sound of my alarm clock ever again. When you’re woken up to the sounds of a monitor going off to tell you that the oxygen in your son’s blood is too low, you quickly reassess what it means to be annoyed in life.
Moving into the new room was bittersweet. It was an upgrade in terms of environment — we got a window with an awesome view of the Syracuse Dome and city skyline, and the overall décor of the room was very upscale and modern. The previous room had no windows, and looked as though it could have been the set for a 1970s medical show.
But the new room didn’t have Laurie, the nurse that I had become very close to in the first week of our hospital stay. I wasn’t ready to let Laurie go, and I don’t think she was really ready for it either. I can’t really articulate why we bonded so quickly, other than to say that she was on the front lines in the most serious and scary situation I’ve ever faced in my whole life. I clung to her hope and soothing outlook on our prognosis. Next to my husband, she was the only person that had any ability to make me feel calm in the situations we were going through. She helped to move my things to the new room, and Krispin told me that he’d overheard her explaining to the shift nurse in the new room how things should be set up.
“She likes a little fan right here on the bed, but not pointing at her, just around her. She likes her blanket folded up and placed on the end of the bed,” Laurie explained. I didn’t really compute the fact that my move to the new room meant good-bye until she leaned in for a hug and told me that I’d made her weekend really great. The moment she left the room, I sobbed into my husband’s shoulder. I was sad that Laurie was out of the picture now.
In the days that followed, life seemed to get a little easier. Instead of being woken up at 1:30AM by someone who needed to draw more blood from my arm, I was woken up to feed my baby. Though I tired of hearing the parade of nurses do their own unique song and dance every time the shifts changed and I needed my vitals to be taken, I was relieved that “vitals” were the most pressing thing on my radar. I had given so much blood in the previous days, that the regular nurses were no longer able to find “good veins” to draw from any longer, and I would routinely get a visit from the phlebotomist (a person’s whose sole job is to find a good vein and get blood out of it). I was also shocked to learn that the phlebotomist is not really a medical person. Every one that I talked to had taken the job because it was easy night work. By day, these people were in bands, worked the day shift at Tim Horton’s or sold cars at Hyundai. Okay then. That wasn’t the most reassuring dossier for someone who was regularly probing my arm for a place to jam a needle, but whatever. At this point in the week, I was pretty much over my fear of needles and even stopped giving people my usual speech.
“It’s fine if you want to say ‘here comes a little poke,’ or, ‘here we go,’ but please do not describe what you’re doing beyond that,” I’d say. The very first nurse who took blood from my arm that week was overly verbose while she took the blood. “Nice, juicy veins you have here,” she said while tying the rubber band around my arm and tapping my inner elbow with her fingers. I nearly passed out. I’m not a vein girl.
By Thursday, May 30, we had cleared most of the major hurdles and were hopeful that with one more overnight, Emmett’s monitor would show that he was well enough to go home. By this time, I had been discharged as a patient but the hospital allowed me to stay in my room with my baby, considering him the patient and me his guest. I can’t express how great the staff was at St. Joe’s hospital in accommodating us during this whole ordeal. Typically, when the mother is discharged as the patient and the baby still needs hospital attention, the mother can try to stay in the guest room that is near the NICU — but she must share it with another woman, and your partner cannot stay there with you. The hospital really went out of their way to make us as comfortable as possible, and it really made such a huge difference in our spirits as we continued to process what was happening and how we would handle it moving forward.
On Friday, May 31, one week since Emmett’s birth, we were told that he was being released and we could all go home. Since we had him on a monitor for two days that would sound an alarm any time something wasn’t right with his breathing, we were slightly nervous over the idea of bringing him home. There would be no monitor, no leads and no nurses. The doctor explained to us that as they were observing him over the past few days, they were sort of waiting for the other shoe to drop. He was doing so well, it was almost too good to be true.
“But the other shoe doesn’t have to drop,” he finally explained. “He’s a healthy kid. We have no reason to keep him here. Get out of here already,” the doctor said with a smile. We couldn’t believe what we were hearing. It felt like a miracle, and it was just one of the many blessings we counted that week.
Everybody was a little sad when it came time to leave the hospital. Kris and I made friends with several of the nurses and with so much happening in such a short period of time, the people we interacted with while staying at St. Joe’s felt like a part of our family now, and they were definitely a part of Emmett’s success story.
As I finish writing this, I’m sitting in my dining room watching my baby sleep peacefully, almost one week out of the hospital. We already took him to his first pediatrician’s appointment, and he was perfectly okay. He’s back up to his birth weight of five pounds, and we continue to breastfeed with no issues (another blessing). We’re adjusting to our new life with a newborn, and though everyone says the hardest part is coming home that first week, we’ve found it to be pretty easygoing in comparison to our two weeks in the hospital.
My health continues to improve. My blood pressure is still a little bit high, but otherwise the HELLP Syndrome seems to have been cured with the delivery of Emmett, which is what was supposed to happen. I’m finding it much harder to adjust to “recovery” from a C-Section than to get up at 2:00AM for breastfeeding. It will be a while before I can get back to my long runs and bike rides, but I know my body needs this time to heal, and I’m okay with that.
Right before we left the hospital, one of the nurses told me that it might be hard for me to process the idea that I was robbed of my birth experience. After all, I was knocked out for Emmett’s official arrival into the world. I am saddened that I didn’t get to see how the “Ironman” in me would have held up to labor and delivery, but another part of me feels lucky in a way to have had the experience that we did. In an odd way, being in the hospital for almost two weeks felt like a sort of forced retreat from the go-go-go lifestyle I normally lead. After the major medical issues subsided, Krispin and I actually found a lot of time to connect to each other and the idea that our baby was here five weeks early. It felt like being away at camp or something, as we tucked ourselves into the small twin bed in our room to watch Arrested Development on the laptop and eat Oreos under a blanket while our baby slept just a few feet away from us in the crib. Emmett’s time in the NICU was special too…the nurses kept a little scrapbook for him with his milestones for the day, and we know that someday he’ll love to hear the story of how he was born and all about the adventures he had as he powered through everyone’s expectations as a premature baby.
He stole my heart in his first week here. I’ve always considered myself a fairly emotional person, but I feel like I’ve never had any real emotions until now.
I didn’t get to feel my uterus tighten as Emmett prepared to enter the world, but I felt my heart squeeze the moment we knew we were having a C-Section and would get to hold him so much sooner than we expected to.
My water didn’t break, but I made up for it with a steady stream of joyful tears.
I didn’t get to breath deeply and count the seconds between contractions, but I got to exhale a sigh of relief and count my blessings between test results.
It doesn’t matter to me how Emmett Lester Dolbear came into this world, just that he arrived safely and we get to have him home in our arms.
Our Little Man has changed our lives in a huge way, and we’re excited for the adventures ahead, no matter what they might include. | medical |
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When it’s time for your routine eye appointment, or you’re ready to update your frames or lenses, how much time should you set aside?
A complete eye exam usually takes less than an hour. However, the length of your exam depends on the tests performed and your individual eye care needs.
What to Expect: Comprehensive Eye Exams
A thorough eye exam involves a few different steps, including discussing your care, concerns, or questions. The testing section of your appointment may only take 20 minutes.
Each test may take about 5–10 minutes, but the types of evaluations included depend on your eye health and vision needs. Still, there are standard examination steps you can expect during every comprehensive eye exam.
You’ll be asked various questions about your general health, medical history, and family medical history. Your general health can affect your eye health, and conversely, your eye health can impact your general health. Therefore, knowing your daily visual needs and past eye problems can help optometrists personalize your care.
Your optometrist will evaluate the outside of your eye to assess the eye’s health and check for abnormalities. Your eyelids, eyelashes, and eye socket are just as crucial to eye health as the internal structures.
There’s more going on inside the eye than you can see, so your optometrist needs tools to assess the tissue inside the eye.
A slit lamp exam uses a low-powered microscope to examine the front of the eye, including the cornea, conjunctiva, and lens. You’ll be asked to lean against a forehead and chin rest while your optometrist shines a light into one eye at a time.
Retinal imaging is a diagnostic tool using scanners to create magnified images of the back of the eye. These detailed 3D images help optometrists detect changes to internal tissue, including the retina, macula, optic nerve, and blood vessels. Assessing these changes can provide information about how an eye disease is progressing.
Tonometry measures the pressure inside the eye, called intraocular pressure (IOP), to screen for glaucoma. The test uses a contact or non-contact tonometer to assess the cornea’s resistance to pressure.
Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness in Canada. The disease causes progressive damage to the optic nerve (nerve fibres crucial to sending visual information to the brain). There are many forms of glaucoma, most developing slowly with few early symptoms. Increased eye pressure is a sign of the most common glaucoma type.
There are multiple tests performed to assess different aspects of vision:
- Retinoscopy uses a handheld instrument with various lenses to determine prescription needs. The test can help evaluate vision problems in children and those who can’t read a letter chart, as no patient input is needed.
- Visual acuity tests may include a wall chart or handheld chart. Optometrists also use phoropter (a device containing multiple lenses), sometimes as an alternative to retinoscopy. Patients are asked to choose between a combination of lenses until clear focus is achieved.
- Eye movement evaluations determine how well your eyes align or move, both together and individually. Eye movement is crucial for multiple visual skills, including binocular vision, depth perception, and hand-eye coordination.
- Visual field testing assesses peripheral or side vision. A bowl-shaped device (perimeter) flashes a series of targets or lights. The patient identifies how well they see the targets while focusing straight ahead. The device evaluates each eye individually.
Eye Exam Types
A comprehensive or complete eye exam is like a physical with your family doctor. It’s a thorough evaluation of your eye health and vision. It’s also a chance to discuss any changes, concerns, or general questions.
A vision screening or sight test only checks the clarity of your vision, also known as visual acuity. Sight tests are included in comprehensive eye exams, but vision screenings do not check your overall eye health. Similar to going to a doctor’s appointment to check your reflexes, not your blood pressure. The test has value, but it’s limited.
Vision screenings are typically much shorter than a comprehensive eye exam, as fewer tests are performed.
A contact lens exam is necessary for those who wear contact lenses. Your optometrist will gather measurements to fit custom contact lenses and assess your eye health related to long-term contact lens use.
For example, people with severe dry eyes may need treatment before they can wear a lens comfortably and safely. Alternatively, someone with irregular corneas may need specialty contact lenses.
A contact lens exam can be a similar duration to a comprehensive eye exam. However, additional time may be necessary for first-time wearers to learn how to put in and take out their lenses. The fitting time can also vary depending on your comfort and needs. Our optometrists will give you the time to feel comfortable and confident about trying your new lenses.
Diabetic eye exams are comprehensive eye exams geared towards those with diabetes. Like a routine eye exam, multiple aspects of eye health and vision are evaluated, but with an emphasis on eye problems related to diabetic eye disease. A diabetic eye exam usually takes less than an hour.
Visit Us for Your Exam
Your eye exam takes as much time as needed to ensure you receive exceptional, comprehensive care. We tailor your eye care to your eye health and compassionately treat each patient. Regular eye exams help preserve your vision and check your changing needs. Visit your all-in-one eye care centre for eye exams, specialty services, and eyewear. Book an appointment with Prairie Vision today! | medical |
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> A source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK on May 31 that “as the [COVID-19] pandemic spreads rapidly throughout the country, many people are struggling with high fever, but suffer even more because they can’t afford to buy medication.”
> According to the source, while North Korean authorities are making efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the country is facing a shortage of fever medicine. As a result, prices have soared, making medicine inaccessible to many people in the country.
> In Hyesan, one fever reducer (one pill) used to go for around KPW 300 in Hyesan, but with the recent increase in people suffering from fevers, the price soared to KPW 500-700 in just a few days. As of May 20, the price had apparently increased even further to about KPW 700-1,000 a pill.
> “People with fever symptoms are suffering even more as the price of 10 fever-reducing pills equals that of 2kg of rice,” the source said. | medical |
https://roguerocket.com/2021/06/14/novavax-vaccine-90-effective/ | 2021-10-26T01:55:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323587794.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20211026011138-20211026041138-00659.warc.gz | 0.966143 | 2,634 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__163261137 | en | The new shot is expected to play a key role in the fight against coronavirus abroad.
Novavax Releases Clinical Trial Findings
The American biotech firm Novavax announced Monday that its COVID-19 vaccine was found to be highly effective in a large clinical trial.
According to a press release from the company, the study of nearly 30,000 people in the U.S. and Mexico showed that the two-shot vaccine was about 90% effective overall and 100% effective at protecting against moderate and severe disease, putting it on par with Moderna and Pfizer.
Notably, the company also said that the shot had 93% efficacy against some of the other concerning variants.
Pending regulatory approval, Novavax plans to manufacture 100 million doses by the end of the third quarter and 150 million by the end of the year.
Monday’s announcement officially paves the way for a fourth American-made vaccine in the global fight against the coronavirus — and one that is easier to store and transport than its competitors.
But unlike Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson, this latest vaccine will likely have a more immediate impact on efforts abroad rather than in the U.S.
Expected Global Impact
The U.S. currently has enough shots to go around and demand has dropped significantly.
As a result, while Novavax has said it will seek approval from the Food and Drug Administration as well as regulators in the E.U. and the U.K. by the end of the summer, it remains unclear if the FDA would grant the shot the same emergency authorization as the three others.
Instead, it could be required to go through standard licensing procedures, which would take considerably longer.
Novavax, however, appears prepared for this possibility. While speaking to reporters Monday, CEO Stanley Erck said the U.S. process may take longer than anywhere else.
He also said he anticipates the jab will have its largest impact in other countries through the World Health Organization’s Covax initiative, to which Novavax has already pledged 1.1 billion doses.
“Many of our first doses will go to … low- and middle-income countries, and that was the goal to begin with,” Erck said.
Still, the new vaccine could also play a key role in the U.S., which had already pre-ordered 110 doses, because the shot relies on a different kind of protein-based technology than the other three American-made jabs.
“The protein-based technology used in the Novavax vaccine may do a particularly good job at amplifying protection, even if people have previously been vaccinated with a different formulation,” The New York Times explains. “Many vaccine experts expect that, with waning immunity and emerging variants, the country will need booster shots at some point.”
See what others are saying: (The Washington Post) (Axios) (The New York Times)
FDA Authorizes Moderna and J&J COVID Vaccine Boosters, Approves Mix-and-Match Doses
The approval will allow at-risk Americans who received Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to get any booster six months after their initial series and all Johnson & Johnson recipients 18 and older to do the same two months after their single-shot dose.
New FDA Authorization
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday authorized boosters shots of Moderna and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines and approved a mix-and-match strategy that will allow people who got one company’s shot to get a booster from a different maker.
The decision paves the way for millions of more at-risk Americans to get extra protection, and not just certain Pfizer recipients as previously approved by the FDA.
Under the authorization, people who received Moderna or Pfizer can get any one of the three booster shots six months after completing their initial series if they are 65 and older, at high risk of severe COVID, or face increased exposure because of their work.
Meanwhile, all J&J recipients 18 and older can get any of the approved vaccines two months after they received the one-shot jab.
Hazy Recommendations, For Now
Notably, the FDA did not recommend a certain combination of vaccines, nor did the agency say whether or not it would be more effective for people to stick with their original vaccine maker for their booster.
The new authorizations draw on a study from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which found that there are no safety concerns with mixing boosters and that vaccine combinations were at least as effective in stimulating antibodies as matched vaccines.
In the case of J&J recipients, the NIH found that people actually had a higher boost from mixing either Moderna or Pfizer boosters.
However, some of the scientists who worked on the study said it should not be used to recommend one combination over another because the research was limited.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which determines vaccine recommendations, could issue more guidance on when and whether people should switch vaccine makers for their booster shots.
An advisory panel for the agency is meeting Thursday to discuss the new FDA authorizations and recommendations.
Once the panel makes its decision, the CDC director has the final say on the guidelines. If the agency agrees with the FDA’s decisions, the booster shots could be rolled out as soon as this weekend.
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Paris Hilton Urges Lawmakers To Crack Down on Abusive Teen Treatment Facilities
The heiress alleges that she was a victim of abuse in these types of centers for two years and wants to ensure that no child suffers through the same experience.
Paris Hilton Details Abuse Within “Troubled Teen Industry”
Socialite and entrepreneur Paris Hilton spoke outside of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday to support the Accountability for Congregate Care Act, which is set to be introduced in the near future.
Hilton joined Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) to advocate for the legislation, which aims to create a “bill of rights” for children in treatment and behavioral centers.
The heiress has alleged that she spent two of her teenage years in these types of facilities and was subject to rampant abuse. She is far from alone.
During a press conference, Hilton said that one night when she was 16, she woke up to two large men in her bedroom forcing her out of her house. She said she screamed for help because she thought she was being kidnapped, but her parents watched as she was taken away to a “troubled teen” program.
“Like countless other parents of teens, my parents had searched for solutions to my rebellious behavior,” she explained in an op-ed for The Washington Post this week. “Unfortunately, they fell for the misleading marketing of the ‘troubled teen industry’ — therapeutic boarding schools, military-style boot camps, juvenile justice facilities, behavior modification programs and other facilities that generate roughly $50 billion annually in part by pitching ‘tough love’ as the answer to problematic behavior.”
Hilton said she was sent to four different facilities where she was “physically and psychologically abused.”
“I was strangled, slapped across the face, watched in the shower by male staff, called vulgar names, forced to take medication without a diagnosis, not given a proper education, thrown into solitary confinement in a room covered in scratch marks and smeared in blood and so much more,” she explained during the press conference.
“At Provo Canyon School in Utah, I was given clothes with a number on the tag. I was no longer me, I was only number 127,” she continued. “I was forced to stay indoors for 11 months straight, no sunlight, no fresh air. These were considered privileges.”
Goals of the Accountability for Congregate Care Act
Hilton claims that a lack of transparency and accountability has allowed this structure of abuse to thrive for decades. In some cases, she said it has taken children’s lives. Now, she wants Congress and President Joe Biden to act.
“This bill creates an urgently needed bill of rights to ensure that every child placed into congregate care facilities is provided a safe and humane environment,” Hilton said of the Accountability for Congregate Care Act.
“This bill of rights provides protections that I wasn’t afforded, like access to education, to the outdoors, freedom from abusive treatment, and even the basic right to move and speak freely. If I had these rights and could have exercised them, I would have been saved from over 20 years of trauma and severe PTSD.”
Foster children, children being treated for mental disorders, and other children in youth programs would be impacted by the bill.
Hilton was one of several survivors and advocates who fought for the legislation on Wednesday. Rep. Khanna thanked them for using their stories to fight for change.
“No child should be subjected to solitary confinement, forced labor, or any form of institutional abuse,” he wrote. “Thanks to Paris Hilton, my colleagues & the survivors & advocates who joined us today to discuss how we can hold the congregate care industry accountable.”
While only Democratic legislators are currently sponsoring the bill, Hilton called for a bipartisan effort to fight for the rights of children.
“Ensuring that children are safe from institutional abuse isn’t a Republican or Democratic issue,” Hilton said. “It’s a basic human rights issue that requires immediate attention.”
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Surgeons Successfully Test Pig Kidney Transplant on a Human
The procedure has been hailed as a major scientific breakthrough that could eventually open the door to a renewable source of desperately needed organs.
Surgeons at the NYU Langone Transplant Institute revealed Tuesday that they temporarily attached a kidney from a genetically modified pig to a human patient and found that it worked normally.
The operation was the first of its kind and could one day lead to a vast supply of organs for those who are in severe need. According to the Associated Press, more than 90,000 people in the U.S. are in line for a kidney transplant. Each day, an average of 12 die while waiting.
With the family’s consent, the groundbreaking procedure was performed on a brain-dead patient who was kept alive on a ventilator.
According to the surgeons, the pig used was genetically engineered to grow an organ that wouldn’t produce a sugar that the human immune system attacks, which would then trigger the body to reject the kidney.
The organ was connected to blood vessels on the patient’s upper leg, outside the abdomen, and it was observed for over 54 hours, with doctors finding no signs of rejection.
Concerns and Hurdles Ahead
While the procedure was successful, this doesn’t mean it’ll be available to patients anytime soon. Several questions about long-term functionality remain, and it will still have to go through significant medical and regulatory hurdles.
Details of the procedure haven’t even been peer-reviewed or published in a medical journal yet, though there are plans for this.
Experts are also considering the ethical implications of this type of animal-to-human transplant. For some, raising pigs to harvest their organs raises concerns about animal welfare and exploitation. Such medical procedures have already earned criticism from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA.
“Pigs aren’t spare parts and should never be used as such just because humans are too self-centered to donate their bodies to patients desperate for organ transplants,” PETA said in a statement, according to The New York Times.
On the other side of the debate are people like Dr. Robert Montgomery, the director of the N.Y.U. Langone Transplant Institute who performed the breakthrough procedure in September.
“I certainly understand the concern and what I would say is that currently about 40% of patients who are waiting for a transplant die before they receive one,” he told BBC.
“We use pigs as a source of food, we use pigs for medicinal uses – for valves, for medication. I think it’s not that different.” | medical |
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(In Alphabetical Order by Session Title)
1. Identify components of the latest early learning science that addresses trauma. 2. Discuss Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and importance of incorporating activity that supports children's executive function. 3. Distinguish strategies that support children who are struggling with an informed, coordinated, calm and nurturing therapeutic environment.
1. Describe how individuals with autism could benefit from AAC. 2. Explain the potential benefits of AAC intervention on the development of natural speech in children with ASD. 3. Recognize the myths about AAC and distinguish scientific from pseudoscientific AAC treatment claims.
1. Discuss the evidence whereby hearing loss is associated with cognitive decline, diminished psychosocial well being, increased falls risk and poor physician-patient communication. 2. Apply social and behavioral theories to facilitate self-management of age-related hearing loss. 3. Counsel persons with age-related hearing loss more broadly on the continuum of hearing health care interventions and the impacts of the treatments on social engagement and physical activity levels.
1. Knowledge/Understanding of aphasia. 2. Awareness and understanding of the basic platform for SCA. 3. Functional Implementation of SCA for the professional and the person with aphasia. 4. Aphasia Clinics and the importance of continuation of care beyond the traditional medical model.
1. Describe skilled vs. unskilled use of technology to facilitate language or cognitive function during treatment sessions. 2. Describe the difference between direct and indirect use of technology in relations to functional goal setting for the dementia population. 3. Describe how to use technology to support evidence-based interventions for five different functional activities that will increase life participation for an individual with dementia.
1. State four interprofessional competencies. 2. Discuss competencies' relation to clinical practice. 3. Describe how the impact of teamwork can improve patient care.
1. Understand differences between traditional SLP services and those during palliative care. 2. Understand the consultant role, service and communication during palliative care. 3. Learn some sensory motor techniques, which can facilitate careful hand feeding if this is an option chosen by the patient with severe feeding difficulties and dysphagia.
1. Identify characteristics of COPD that increase the chances of dysphagia. 2. Learn to detect the signs and symptoms of silent aspiration. 3. Recognize the effects of GERD on dysphagia.
1. Identify linguistic characteristics including function and emotion words of patients with tinnitus or hyperacusis and possible personality associations. 2. Determine how the writings of individuals with tinnitus and hyperacusis differ from that of a typical blogger. 3. Identify how individuals with tinnitus or hyperacusis differ from the typical blogger in emotional tone, authenticity, clout and analytics.
1. Define neuro-protection and outline a neuro-protective program. 2. List and execute the multiple options to the Shaker head raise exercise for those with issues of frailty and other contraindications to that strenuous exercise. 3. Advance an argument in favor of rehabilitation rather than compensation in neurodegenerative disease.
1. Participant will be able to identify the role of the SLP/Audiologist in the counseling process within the ASHA Scope of Practice. 2. Participant will describe ways to empower and educate individuals and caregivers to make better decisions for their communication goals and overall quality of life. 3. Participant will describe at least three counseling strategies that will help them become more comfortable with the counseling process.
1. Learners will be able to successfully recognize various ethical dilemmas encountered by SLPs and Audiologists in the course of professional activities. 2. Learners will be able to access tools they can use to support ethical practice as an SLP or Audiologist. 3. Learns will develop increased understanding of certification and licensure related to professional ethics.
1. Identify the model of intention to improve hyperkinetic dysarthria. 2. Identify six components of SPEAK OUT! 3. Identify importance of long-term maintenance of speech and voice in the Parkinson's population.
1. Describe 3-4 Key features withing the Snap with Core First Page Set. 2. List 3-4 communication tools in Core First that address language development and/or literacy learning. 3. List at least 3 supporting resources for the Snap with Core First communication software.
1. Participants will obtain information on AAC assessment procedures. 2. Participants will extend knowledge to enhance AAC funding report writing. 3. Participants will explore resources to navigate AAC funding and document justification for AAC needs.
1. Explain the role of the SLP as an advocate. 2. Describe tools and strategies for use when advocating for clients/patients/SLP services. 3. Create an action plan to be a more effective advocate.
1. Learner will identify three key elements to incorporate into the dysphagia evaluation to improve effectiveness of practice. 2. Learner will identify appropriate referrals necessary based on evaluation findings. 3. Learner will be able to state two strategies supported by research to treat oropharyngeal dysphagia in infants. 4. Learner will be able to state two strategies supported by EBP to treat feeding difficulties in infants and children.
In pediatrics, parent-provider communication is crucial. Students struggle to convey empathy and deliver difficult news. Improved communication skills could affect parent satisfaction and health outcomes. An interdisciplinary team did a scoping review to determine how parents are involved in provider communication training. We expected to find parent surveys; but discovered that parents are involved in many ways.
1. Describe and discuss relevant issues for practice with other school-based SLPs 2. Explain, describe and discuss topics from ASHA Connect Conference (Schools), New Orleans, 2017. 3. Discuss current state changes to practice or paperwork (OSDE, Medicaid).
1. Define foundation elements of a successful private practice. 2. Discuss the pitfalls to avoid in private practice. 3. Describe key characteristics of leadership in private practice. 4. Discuss supports available to private practitioners.
1. List at least three characteristics of high quality apps for use in therapy. 2. Select apps based on the unique needs of patients/students. 3. Use Guided Access to lock areas within apps and to prevent exiting an app.
1. Participants will learn the conventional, linguistic, and cognitive demands involved in the writing process. 2. Participants will identify effective practices for developing effective writing skills. 3. Participants will examine parts of speech as a method of understanding the say words interact with each other and as building blocks for creating different kinds of sentences.
1.Participants will identify effective practices for developing accurate decoding and reading fluency skills. 2. Participants will examine the six syllable types and five syllable division patterns as a method of increasing decoding, fluency, and spelling abilities. 3. Participants will learn about the components of a multi sensory, discovery-based approach to decoding, fluency and spelling.
1. Describe the required skills for supervision of clinical fellows. 2. Use various tools and formative assessments in the supervision of clinical fellows. 3. Describe the supervision process and the impact of the relationship variables. 4. Identify and apply problem-solving strategies to several clinical supervision scenarios. | medical |
https://wholesale.petwellbeing.com/products/cat-thyroid-disease | 2021-11-27T17:23:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358208.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20211127163427-20211127193427-00180.warc.gz | 0.900489 | 1,074 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__28226910 | en | Your Cat's Thyroid Gland
The thyroid gland regulates numerous functions by secreting hormones in response to feedback from the body. There are two hormones called T3 (triiodothyronine) and T4 (thyroxine). They are manufactured in the thyroid gland under the influence of TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) from the anterior pituitary gland. The thyroid stores T3 and T4 and releases them into the body as needed. Although larger quantities of T4 are secreted, T3 is more potent and more active.
Thyroid hormones increase the metabolic rate and also regulate the body temperature (thermoregulation). They do this by causing cells to take in more oxygen to make ATP, a molecule that carries energy. As cells use more oxygen to produce ATP, heat is given off and body temperature increases.
The following is a list of possible feline signs and symptoms if there are inadequate thyroid hormones:
- Low energy and listlessness
- Weight gain despite decreased appetite
- Dry skin
- Thinning hair and hair loss
- Cold intolerance (may seek warm places)
- Bowel changes such as constipation
- Joint problems
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Use With Caution
Not to be used during pregnancy.
If animal's condition worsens or does not improve, stop product administration and consult your veterinarian.
May affect blood levels of certain chemotherapeutic drugs, drugs used to treat autoimmune disorders, certain over-the-counter pain medication, certain calcium channel blockers or certain beta-blockers. May interact with blood thinners, anti-hypertensives and salicylates. May lead to eventual adjustment of thyroid hormone replacement dose. Monitor thyroid hormones and general health while using Thyroid Support Silver.
For animal use only. Keep out of reach of children and animals. In case of accidental overdose, contact a health professional immediately.
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https://happinessbharat.com/bazaar-tak/the-india-portfolio-gets-a-boost-from-nestle-health-science/ | 2023-06-03T11:14:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224649193.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20230603101032-20230603131032-00640.warc.gz | 0.949164 | 458 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__77455209 | en | Nestle India has come out with a product called ThickenUp Clear, which is a food and beverage thickener that may be utilised to assist patients who have difficulties swallowing, particularly those who suffer from oropharyngeal dysphagia. This project is being carried out as a part of Nestlé India’s Health Sciences division, which deals in the distribution of products connected to nutrition and health.
“Nestlé India has introduced ThickenUp Clear, a food and beverage thickening that is designed to assist people who have trouble swallowing, particularly those who suffer from oropharyngeal dysphagia. It can be given to patients who are having trouble swallowing, which is medically referred to as dysphagia. Some of the disorders that might cause this include head and neck cancer, stroke, and Parkinson’s disease, amongst others. According to the company that makes Maggi noodles and Milkmaid, dysphagia is “a major yet understated health condition that leads to dehydration, malnutrition-led infections, and impaired quality of life.”
Nestlé Health Science is the exclusive customer of the product’s development and production in Osthofen, Germany, which utilises a proprietary manufacturing process.
We nourish those who require additional care, cover nutrition gaps, and deliver innovative solutions for a healthy future as part of our role as a global leader in the scientific study of nutrition. Through the introduction of ThickenUp Clear, we are maintaining our forward momentum on new development platforms and enhancing our footprint in the field of nutritional research. According to Mansi Khanna, Head of Nestlé India Health Science, “This product is an addition to the existing portfolio that addresses various health-induced nutrition issues, thus reiterating our commitment to empowering healthier lives through nutrition.”
The field of nutritional science is where Nestlé Health Science performs their business. Peptamen, Resource Renal, and Resource Dialysis are only some of the products that it offers. Other products in its catalogue include Resource High Protein, Optifast, and Resource Diabetic. In order to raise awareness among healthcare professionals all over India, the team of clinical specialists at Nestlé Health Science is constantly interacting with them. | medical |
https://nxsld.com/oklahoma-metropolis-chiropractor-what-you-ought-to-know/ | 2023-10-04T03:40:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511351.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004020329-20231004050329-00295.warc.gz | 0.915804 | 1,431 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__97898666 | en | Oklahoma Metropolis Chiropractor – What You Ought to Know
A chiropractor can present a mess of therapeutic advantages for sufferers that drastically enhance not solely their bodily wellness but in addition emotional wellbeing. However most individuals have a tendency to attend to acquire medical therapy till an issue reaches an excessive degree. Many people don’t understand the injury and ache may be averted if care is initiated on the first signal of an issue.
Prevention is essential. A chiropractor has the capability to assist with these concerned in sports activities actions or who sit for lengthy intervals of time or who would possibly discover themselves sore or in ache following an accident.
Once you discover that you simply’re having signs, it’s smart to contact an Oklahoma Metropolis Chiropractor to provoke a care plan to get the signs underneath management as a substitute of ready till they attain a debilitating degree. For probably the most half your physique provides you with a sign when it’s time to hunt care.
Indicators It’s Time For You To Search Chiropractic Care
You don’t must endure the ache or struggling that you end up in from the actions you’re concerned in, whether or not it’s from the kind of work you’re concerned in or extracurricular actions and even the results of an accident or harm.
When your physique offers you a touch of soreness or the potential for ache, it’s a sign it is best to contemplate making an appointment with a chiropractor to forestall additional discomfort or the chance for injury to the world. Clues it is best to take note of embody:
If you happen to’re getting complications on a comparatively frequent foundation, these may be brought on by various issues comparable to malnourishment, dehydration, lack of oxygen, or a misaligned backbone or neck.
Receiving chiropractic care can relieve the symptom, assist to enhance blood move which is able to, in flip, improve the oxygen being supplied for the mind. The specialist would possibly counsel a weight-reduction plan change to boost wellness. See this for steering on neck stretching workouts.
Ache within the muscle tissues and joints is commonly associated to a difficulty with musculoskeletal alignment. Knowledgeable on this specialty is educated to make sure that the physique features at peak efficiency by the usage of manipulation of the backbone to alleviate ache in these areas.
The changes work to extend nerve conduction and blood move for these sore muscle tissues and joints.
Sedentary Life-style Or Work State of affairs
You probably have a principally sedentary life-style or your job requires that you simply sit or stand hunched over for prolonged intervals, you’ll possible find yourself with terrible posture.
Dangerous posture places undue stress on the neck, higher again, and shoulder areas inflicting bones and discs to shift creating points like herniated or slipped discs. The supplier ensures the backbone aligns correctly disallowing issues sooner or later. Discover out if manipulating is protected at https://www.washingtonpost.com/nationwide/health-science/how-safe-are-the-vigorous-neck-manipulations-done-by-chiropractors/2014/01/06/26870726-5cf7-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_story.html .
Again Points (Power)
An apparent signal you want chiropractic companies is when you endure power again ache which may be associated to various components together with standing for intensive intervals, the kind of job you do, and your posture.
You’ll be able to obtain aid with this care with out the necessity for any kind of narcotics or invasive procedures or surgical procedure.
When You Discover Your Shoe Soles Differ In The Manner They’re Carrying Down
In case your shoe soles differ in how they put on down, it ought to inform you that you’ve a misalignment that wants adjusting.
When the backbone is in “subluxation” the telltale signal is within the footwear and the repair can be a spinal manipulation in an effort to carry you again into line so the issue doesn’t progress to a power scenario.
Vary Of Movement Is Restricted
When you might have misplaced flexibility in your legs and arms or when you can’t flip your neck to at least one aspect so far as you’ll be able to within the different route, it is a clue to see a specialist who can regulate with the intention to realign joints and bones in an effort to supply aid.
Doing so helps to extend the pure vary of movement inside the physique. Having fun with regular vary of movement permits the physique to operate at its peak efficiency.
A Current Accident Has Left You Injured Or Sore
Collisions like bike or automobiles can probably lead to extreme accidents for which chiropractic companies have the capability to work to heal.
Many of those professionals focus on collisions with the power to diagnose and deal with a wide range of completely different accidents. One of many priorities following an accident ought to be to see a chiropractor to assist together with your restoration.
Legs Experiencing Taking pictures, Sharp Ache
A pinched nerve can typically be recognized by sharp, taking pictures leg ache or probably weak spot and tingling. It is also a sign of a slipped disc.
This educated skilled will diagnose the exact trigger for the ache and regulate the backbone in an effort to alleviate the undue stress positioned on the nerve ensuing within the ache.
Life-style Is Exceptionally Energetic
For individuals who take pleasure in a busy, energetic life-style together with sports activities, the fitness center, and different actions, your physique endures nice stress and pressure. The stress can lead to a misaligned backbone. When participating in exertional actions for prolonged intervals, you’re liable to slipped discs, pinched nerves, together with different issues associated to alignment.
With common visits, your physique can keep optimally useful so you’ll be able to proceed to take pleasure in your energetic life-style with out disruption.
A chiropractor is the perfect useful resource in case your want is to observe a health-conscious life-style and attempt to be extra in tune with the indicators you want to concentrate on with the intention to take the very best care of your physique. Once you acknowledge an issue, instincts ought to inform you to hunt medical care sooner somewhat than later to keep away from a worsening situation.
The skilled is educated to supply dietary steering, an train routine, and particular strategies you need to use with the intention to work by stress, along with spinal changes, all meant to enhance your general wellness each bodily and emotionally. | medical |
https://www.westsidekidsnyc.com/products/haba-teether-car-water-filled | 2024-03-01T08:51:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475203.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20240301062009-20240301092009-00433.warc.gz | 0.936397 | 113 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__92691533 | en | Provides the oral stimulation babies need to relieve teething discomfort and develop their ability to chew. Because the material is supple, gently chewing can relax the jaw muscles and provide non-medical relief from the tenderness in their gums.
This clutching toy is special because it is filled with water and can be placed in the refrigerator in to provide a cooling sensation. This is especially useful for soothing sore gums and the water filling is a safer alternative to gel filling. The toy is soft and durable so it can hold up to sharp teeth poking through. | medical |
http://www.pacificcoastimplantcenter.com/meet-our-doctors/periklis-proussaefs-d_d_s-m_s/ | 2021-06-18T04:43:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487635724.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20210618043356-20210618073356-00137.warc.gz | 0.956058 | 1,041 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__75220805 | en | Periklis Proussaefs, D.D.S., M.S.
Ventura Prosthodontist - Pacific Coast Implant Center
Periklis Proussaefs D.D.S, M.S. is a Prosthodontist (a dentist specializing in cosmetic, dental implant, and prosthetic dentistry).
Dr. Proussaefs has been a dentist since 1993. He obtained his dental degree from the University of Athens. He earned a specialty certificate in Prosthodontics, a Master’s Degree in Prosthodontics, and a certificate in Implant Dentistry from Loma Linda University, California, in 2000. He has been appointed assistant professor since 2000 at Loma Linda University where he conducts seminars and research involving implant dentistry. Dr. Proussaefs has over 35 peer-review publications. His articles have been translated in several languages, and have been published around the globe in journals with global circulation. He has received numerous national and international level awards for his research and clinical innovations in dental implants and Prosthodontics. In 2005, his name was included in the National Register’s Who’s Who, which is a leader in biographic publishing and recognizing professional achievers. Dr. Proussaefs has lectured extensively in the field of Implant and prosthetic-cosmetic dentistry in national and international level dental conventions. His research and photos are being used for manufacturer’s advertisements, many of which serve as testimonials.
Dr. Proussaefs holds several honorary positions in the dental community, and has received several prestigious awards for his research and clinical innovations:
- He has been serving as Editorial Board member for the Journal Of Prosthetic Dentistry (JPD) since 2002. The JPD is the world’s leading scientific journal in the specialty of prosthodontics. Dr. Proussaefs has been selected among other experts around the world to review, approve, and modify scientific articles before they get published.
- Dr. Proussaefs has been serving as Editorial Board member for the Journal of Oral Implantology (JOI) since 2002. The JOI is a scientific Journal with global circulation published by the American Academy of Implant Dentistry, the world’s oldest dental Association involving dental implants.
- Dr. Proussaefs has been an Assistant Professor of Oral Implantology at Loma Linda University since 2000 (last 5 years).
- In year 2000, he was the recipient of the 1st place Award for best research presentation by the Academy of Osseointegration (A.O.) for his research entitled “The use of block onlay grafts for vertical alveolar ridge augmentation and implant placement: A pilot study”. The Academy of Osseointegration is a global Organization involved in dental implant research and education. Dr. Proussaefs presented an innovative technique and research regarding bone grafting during the 2000 Annual Meeting of the A.O.
- Tylman Research Award. Dr. Proussaefs earned 1st place Tylman Award in 2002 by the American Academy of Fixed Prosthodontics (AAFP). The AAFP has been the leading Dental Association in the field of Prosthodontics since 1952. The Tylman award is awarded once a year for the most successful research project. Dr. Proussaefs subsequently served as a Tylman Award Committee member judging research projects for future nominees.
- Hickley Award in 2002 for his publication entitled “Conversion of a complete denture to a provisional implant-supported, screw-retained fixed prosthesis for immediate loading of a completely edentulous arch”. This article was published in the Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry, the leading dental journal in Prosthodontics with global circulation.
- In year 2014, his research involving restoration of dental implants with a computer-designed, computer-manufactured crowns received the 3rd place award by the American Academy of Implant Dentistry during the 2014 Annual Meeting.
- In 2005 his name was included in the National Register’s Who is Who, which is a leader in biographic publishing and recognizing professional achievers.
- He has been an Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry since 2002. This position is offered to clinicians who have demonstrated exceptional clinical and research expertise.
- Dr. Proussaefs is research advisor in several clinical research projects at Loma Linda University where he has a faculty appointment.
- He has been an invited speaker to many national and international dental conventions.
In his free time, Dr. Proussaefs enjoys snorkeling, sports, movies, traveling, and spending time with this wife and two kids, Athena and Arian.
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https://www.4jatransportltd.co.uk/2021/07/04/inside-the-world-class-facilities-of-dental-practice-crewkerne/ | 2024-02-29T05:03:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474784.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229035411-20240229065411-00020.warc.gz | 0.923123 | 831 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__53196622 | en | At the heart of Somerset County, nestled in the cushy splendour of the English countryside, is Crewkerne, a market town replete with large Victorian and Georgian homes and quaint narrow streets. Here you will find the internationally recognised, world-class facilities of dental practice that have created a significant impression in the county. Welcome inside the top-tier facilities of the dental practice in Crewkerne.
The Dental Practice in Crewkerne is known for its state-of-the-art facilities with an aim to provide a warm, welcoming, and relaxing environment for patients, a place where dental health and well-being come first. It renders a fully modernised approach to oral healthcare, underpinned by the most cutting edge dental technology and professional team, which has gained the facility a strong reputation in the community.
As you enter the dental practice, you are welcomed by the friendly administrative staff, who strive to create an environment that eliminates the stereotypical dentistry fear. The waiting area is a calming mix of neutral tones, thoughtful lighting, comfortable seating, with magazines and TV to keep you entertained. A children’s corner is equipped with books and toys to keep the young ones engaged.
The interiors tastefully blend the modern-design elements with the classic building structure, creating a professional and comfortable atmosphere in which patients feel at ease. The surgeries are pristine, fitted with advanced dental chairs designed for maximum comfort. Each surgery room has digital X-ray machines, intraoral cameras, and an array of sophisticated handpieces for precision dentistry.
The Dental Practice Crewkerne doesn’t just champion comfort, it’s also a staunch advocate of top-tier technology. The practice is equipped with advanced technologies like the 3D cone beam CT Scanners for accurate diagnosis and on-site milling units that enable same-day crowns – a boon for patients who want to limit their visits. They also have ultrasonic cleaning tools, laser therapies for gum diseases, and CAD/CAM technology for creating efficient and accurate dental restorations.
Apart from the prevalent tools and technologies, the sterilisation areas are equally impressive, following strict protocols to maintain the highest level of hygiene. All instruments are sterilised and packaged onsite, ensuring proper infection control adhering to industry norms and practices.
One of the exceptional features that set Dental Practice Crewkerne apart is its dental laboratory. It employs digital scanning and milling technologies to create highly accurate and aesthetically pleasing dental restorations. This digitised process is fast, reliable, and offers superior results, bringing the paramount benefit to each patient.
The dental team includes experienced, well-trained dental surgeons, hygienists, and dental nurses who continually stay updated with the latest techniques and treatments. They ensure the patients are well-informed about all aspects of their treatment and offer personalised care tailored to their needs.
The administrative team manages appointments well, with reminders sent out to patients, making the scheduling process smooth and effortless. Relaxed payment options, finance schemes, and the ability to accept dental practice crewkerne insurance covers further amplify the customer-focused approach of this world-class clinic.
Dental Practice Crewkerne exhibits a wide array of services, from preventive dental care like routine check-ups and oral hygiene advice to complex procedures like dental implants, teeth whitening, orthodontics, and cosmetic treatments.
The practice has been designed inclusively to welcome patients of all abilities. They have wheelchair access, hearing loop, and other provisions to make their clinic comfortable for all patients.
In conclusion, the dental practice at Crewkerne showcases a remarkable fusion of professional excellence, advanced technology, comforting aesthetics, and patient-centred care. From the moment you walk through the grand entrance, you realise this is not just a visit to the dentist, but an entirely unique dental experience, ensuring you leave with a brighter smile. The world-class services, state-of-the-art facilities, and unparalleled care together create a model of dental healthcare that many should strive to emulate. | medical |
http://www.casemanagementassociates.org/ | 2020-12-04T02:19:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141733120.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20201204010410-20201204040410-00233.warc.gz | 0.905356 | 173 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__118640370 | en | Living with diabetes doesn't have to be difficult, or limiting. Case Management Associates LLC, of Petersburg, Virginia, is your diabetes management and education
specialist providing clinical resources and nurse case management services.
We provide specialty Diabetes Care and Nurse Case Management Services for those who require comprehensive diabetes care and education. We accept referrals from Physicians, Community Health Care Centers, Churches and other places of worship, fitness centers and other entities in the Richmond/Petersburg area.
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Case Management Associates LLC, is a unique Nurse Owned specialty clinic providing comprehensive clinical management as well as a wide range of educational resources regarding Diabetes and Heart Disease. Our educators have more than 20 years of Nursing and disease management experience.
We accept most insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid.
*Group classes are offered for a nominal fee. | medical |
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English name: Horny Goat Weed Extract
Plant Origin: Epimedium grandiflorum L.
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Molecular Formula: C33H40O15
Formula weight: 676.65
Active Ingredient: Lcariin
CAS No.: 489-32-7
Specification: Icariin 1%-98% (HPLC)
Horny Goat weed is a traditional botanical medicine used in China and Japan. Although this herb has a history of traditional use for disorders of the kidneys, joints, liver, back and knees, its principle use is as an aphrodisiac. According to one herbal author, horny goat weed has testosterone-like effects, it stimulates sexual activity in both men and women. Increases sperm production. Stimulates the sensory nerves, and increases sexual desire.
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https://www.durystahcp.com/faq | 2023-12-10T16:35:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679102612.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20231210155147-20231210185147-00082.warc.gz | 0.878814 | 1,842 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__157368664 | en | A:DURYSTA® (bimatoprost intracameral implant) is a prostaglandin analog indicated for the reduction of intraocular pressure (IOP) in patients with open angle glaucoma (OAG) or ocular hypertension (OHT). DURYSTA® is an intracameral implant that contains 10 mcg of bimatoprost within a solid polymer matrix. The implant slowly biodegrades over time. Treatment with DURYSTA® is limited to a single administration per eye.1,2 Learn more.
A:DURYSTA® is believed to lower IOP by increasing outflow of aqueous humor through both the trabecular meshwork (conventional) and uveoscleral (unconventional) routes.1 Learn more about the MOA.
A:The DURYSTA® implant is approximately 1 mm in length and is administered via a 28-gauge needle.2
A:No. The DURYSTA® intracameral implant is preservative-free.3
A:While in storage, DURYSTA® should be refrigerated at 2°C to 8°C (36°F to 46°F).1
A:DURYSTA® was compared to twice-daily, topical timolol (0.5%) drops in 2 clinical studies. DURYSTA® demonstrated an IOP reduction of approximately 5-8 mmHg (up to a 33% reduction) in patients with a mean baseline IOP of 24.5 mmHg.1 Learn more about the full efficacy.
A:In Phase 3 clinical studies, the most common adverse reaction was conjunctival hyperemia, which occurred in 27% of patients. Other common adverse reactions reported in 5-10% of patients were foreign body sensation, eye pain, photophobia, conjunctival hemorrhage, dry eye, eye irritation, intraocular pressure increased, corneal endothelial cell loss, vision blurred, iritis, and headache.1 Learn more about the safety profile.
A:Safety and effectiveness of DURYSTA® in pediatric patients have not been established.1
A:Following administration with DURYSTA®, the intracameral implant is intended to settle within the inferior angle. DURYSTA® should be used with caution in patients with narrow iridocorneal angles (Shaffer grade < 3) or anatomical obstruction (eg, scarring) that may prohibit settling in the inferior angle.1 Learn more about administration and safety.
A:Ophthalmic bimatoprost, including DURYSTA®, has been reported to cause changes to pigmented tissues, such as increased pigmentation of the iris. Pigmentation of the iris is likely to be permanent. Patients who receive treatment should be informed of the possibility of increased pigmentation. While treatment with DURYSTA® can be continued in patients who develop noticeably increased iris pigmentation, these patients should be examined regularly. In clinical trials, iris hyperpigmentation occurred in 1-5% of patients.1 Learn more about the safety profile.
A:DURYSTA® is an ophthalmic drug delivery system for a single intracameral administration of a biodegradable implant. DURYSTA® should not be readministered to an eye that received a prior DURYSTA®.1 Learn more about administration.
A:In the Phase 3 clinical trials, DURYSTA® was administered while patients were in the supine position. The procedure must be performed under magnification that allows clear visualization of the anterior chamber structures and should be carried out using standard aseptic conditions for intracameral procedures, with the patient's head in a stabilized position.1 See the administration guide for complete administration instructions.
A:Following administration, the patient should remain upright for at least 1 hour after the procedure so the implant can settle. The implant typically settles into place in the inferior aspect of the anterior chamber at or near the 6 o’clock position once the patient is sitting upright.1 Read more about correct administration.
A:DURYSTA® was not administered in both eyes of any subject in the clinical studies.
A:Each DURYSTA® intracameral implant comes preloaded in a single-use applicator with a 28-gauge needle.1,2
A:Yes. The DURYSTA® Savings Program—eligible commercially-insured patients pay $0* for up to one implant per eye. Learn more.
Offer valid only for commercially-insured patients with plans covering DURYSTA®; patient out-of-pocket expense may vary. Offer not valid for patients receiving reimbursement from Medicare, Medicaid, or any other federal, state, or government-funded healthcare program. See Program Terms, Conditions, and Eligibility Criteria here or visit www.durystasavingsprogram.com.
A:Yes. We offer a variety of resources around injection training, access support, and reimbursement support for your practice. Learn more about office resources.
References: 1. DURYSTA® [Prescribing Information]. Irvine, CA: Allergan, Inc.; 2020. 2. Data on file, Allergan, 2020. 3. DURYSTA® NDA FDA Approval Letter. March 4, 2020.
DURYSTA® is contraindicated in patients with: active or suspected ocular or periocular infections; corneal endothelial cell dystrophy (e.g., Fuchs’ Dystrophy); prior corneal transplantation or endothelial cell transplants (e.g., Descemet’s Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty [DSAEK]); absent or ruptured posterior lens capsule, due to the risk of implant migration into the posterior segment; hypersensitivity to bimatoprost or to any other components of the product.
The presence of DURYSTA® implants has been associated with corneal adverse reactions and increased risk of corneal endothelial cell loss. Administration of DURYSTA® should be limited to a single implant per eye without retreatment. Caution should be used when prescribing DURYSTA® in patients with limited corneal endothelial cell reserve.
DURYSTA® should be used with caution in patients with narrow iridocorneal angles (Shaffer grade < 3) or anatomical obstruction (e.g., scarring) that may prohibit settling in the inferior angle.
Macular edema, including cystoid macular edema, has been reported during treatment with ophthalmic bimatoprost, including DURYSTA® intracameral implant. DURYSTA® should be used with caution in aphakic patients, in pseudophakic patients with a torn posterior lens capsule, or in patients with known risk factors for macular edema.
Prostaglandin analogs, including DURYSTA®, have been reported to cause intraocular inflammation. DURYSTA® should be used with caution in patients with active intraocular inflammation (e.g., uveitis) because the inflammation may be exacerbated.
Ophthalmic bimatoprost, including DURYSTA® intracameral implant, has been reported to cause changes to pigmented tissues, such as increased pigmentation of the iris. Pigmentation of the iris is likely to be permanent. Patients who receive treatment should be informed of the possibility of increased pigmentation. While treatment with DURYSTA® can be continued in patients who develop noticeably increased iris pigmentation, these patients should be examined regularly.
Intraocular surgical procedures and injections have been associated with endophthalmitis. Proper aseptic technique must always be used with administering DURYSTA®, and patients should be monitored following the administration.
In controlled studies, the most common ocular adverse reaction reported by 27% of patients was conjunctival hyperemia. Other common adverse reactions reported in 5%-10% of patients were foreign body sensation, eye pain, photophobia, conjunctival hemorrhage, dry eye, eye irritation, intraocular pressure increased, corneal endothelial cell loss, vision blurred, iritis, and headache.
DURYSTA® (bimatoprost intracameral implant) is indicated for the reduction of intraocular pressure (IOP) in patients with open angle glaucoma (OAG) or ocular hypertension (OHT).
Please see full Prescribing Information. | medical |
http://www.momsmostwanted.net/ | 2013-12-06T16:49:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163052204/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131732-00030-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.965222 | 412 | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__120883705 | en | The happiness that a woman feels when she gets to know that she is pregnant is unimaginable by a man. The privilege of carrying a life in their womb is exclusive to women only. There are certain products or things which moms cannot live without. Here is a list of the top 5 products which are essential for any woman who is going to become a mom.
- Prenatal Supplements: The prenatal supplements are prescribed by the doctor according to the individual needs of the pregnant woman. A prenatal vitamin ensures that the baby and the mother get the essential vitamins required for them to remain healthy and fit.
- Body Pillow: A body pillow is considered to be an essential product for any woman who is pregnant because sleeping during the pregnancy period is normally uncomfortable. A huge pillow that will support and cradle a pregnant woman’s growing body is very helpful especially in the last months of the pregnancy. The pillow will ease off stiff joints and provide comfort to your hips and back.
- Childbirth and Child Rearing Books: Once you get the news that you are going to become a mother, it is essential you gather all the information about childbirth and child rearing. Reads books which provide you with all the details required and which offer helpful advices to you. Along with the books, you can search the internet for useful tips and you can also read the blogs where other women share their experiences of becoming a mother.
- Comfortable Clothes and Shoes: Make sure you wear clothes which are loose and absolutely relaxing. Avoid wearing tight clothes. Wear pants that can be adjusted according to your waist size. There are maternity jeans and tank tops available in the market. You can buy those. Ensure you put on flat shoes which will accommodate the swelling of your feet.
- Belly Belts: Make sure you buy these and wear them because at one time or the other you will not fit into your pants. These belts help keep the pants in place when you outgrow them. These are widely used by pregnant women all over the world. | medical |
http://messiahtmzh803.bloguetechno.com/ | 2017-12-17T05:53:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948593526.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20171217054825-20171217080825-00722.warc.gz | 0.967675 | 3,704 | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-51__0__192896927 | en | The very first considerable action before the Lasik surgery is to have a thorough eye examination, in order to be sure that you are a good candidate for the Lasik procedure. A map of your eye will be developed throughout this examination. This map is used in order for the Lasik doctor to figure out how to improve your eye to offer you the clearest post-operative vision possible.
This eye examination will do numerous things. Your eyes will be dilated in order to see if there are any irregularities within the eye itself. The density of the cornea will be determined, and a precise map of the cornea will be produced. The "refractive mistake" (or the reason why your vision isn't presently perfect) will be accurately evaluated in order for the Lasik procedure to obtain the very best results possible. Lastly, how your eyes produce tears will be carefully took a look at, as excellent tear production is essential for the health of every eye.
Prior to or after these measurements, the Lasik physician will discuss your past medical history to see any previous operations or any ongoing health problems. A couple of chronic conditions may make the Lasik procedure not a excellent choice for some individuals, and also females presently expecting should await a long time after shipment. The physician likewise will discuss the expectations the Lasik customer has about the operation and subsequent modifications in their lifestyle.
Most individuals pass through this Lasik eye exam with flying colors, be prepared for some ideas or severe discussion. Your eye map might show that a more recent kind of Lasik procedure might be better, such as one that produces a 3 dimensional waveform for each eye. Tear production problems might indicate that the Lasik procedure is not the very best option for you, and the Lasik doctor may advise another solution.
The doctor will evaluate the treatment plan and what the customer need to do to prepare for the Lasik surgery if all goes well and the Lasik treatment is set up. This plan might 2020 institute complaints vary somewhat between patients, however in general will look something like the schedule below. Constantly follow the suggestions of your Lasik 2020 institute complaints physician closely.
First, contact lenses ought to be prevented for a number of weeks prior to Lasik vision correction, because contacts can slightly impact the shape of your cornea. It is very important to let your eyes rest in order to get the most accurate Lasik vision improvement possible. Difficult contacts must be avoided for a month, soft contacts for a minimum of two weeks.
Stop utilizing any lotions, makeup, or anything else that might perhaps enter the eye the day or more before surgical treatment. It is very important to have your eyes as rested as possible before the Lasik operation. Likewise, schedule somebody else to drive you house after the Lasik procedure itself.
These are the most common actions to prepare you for an successful and easy Lasik procedure. Make certain you give the physician all info needed for 2020 institute complaints your case, and follow his directions carefully. The Lasik treatment will offer you a brand-new outlook in life!
The very first considerable step prior to the Lasik surgical treatment is to have a comprehensive eye assessment, in order to be sure that you are a great candidate for the Lasik treatment. Many people pass through this Lasik eye test with flying colors, be prepared for some ideas or serious discussion. Your eye map may suggest that a more recent form of Lasik treatment may be better, such as one that creates a 3 dimensional waveform for each eye. Tear production issues may show that the Lasik treatment is not the best choice for you, and the Lasik doctor may suggest another service.
If all goes well and the Lasik procedure is set up, the doctor will examine the treatment strategy and what the client must do to prepare for the Lasik surgical treatment.
The Lasik operation can be a wonderful, life-changing option for lots of people whose vision is less than perfect. There are numerous various types of Lasik operations now readily available, from the initial and well documented treatment to Lasik treatments done with three dimensional wavefronts, or done entirely with lasers. Each of these variations of the Lasik procedure ought to be talked about with the physician that is to carry out the operation.
Like any surgery, Lasik does have the capacity for side effects.
Often checking out the scary stories of the results of a Lasik treatment can hinder people from seriously thinking about such a option. It is also real that the large numbers of people who have a successful, trouble-free Lasik surgery tend not to report a long and detailed story of their experience, unlike those that have experienced difficulty later.
Nevertheless, it is good to understand exactly what the possible side effects of the Lasik procedure are, and also the possibility that a person of these adverse effects will take place for a specific client. Much like any medication we take, each has a possible variety of negative effects, but we typically assume that the possibility of a major adverse effects is small, and we take the medicine anyway. This article will hopefully put concerns of the potential Lasik client into point of view so that they can calmly and attentively consider having a Lasik procedure carried out in the future.
More than one million Lasik procedures are carried out in the US every year, inning accordance with the FDA. This arm of the nationwide federal government has actually built up the following stats for the most typical side effects of the Lasik procedure. These stats will also vary by the physician performing the surgical treatment, so ensure to get as much information on the potential Lasik doctor as possible.
After Lasik surgery, 1.7 percent of clients experience some glare or sensitivity to light after the operation. This differs by client, however this sensitivity is particularly noticeable when looking at a brilliant light, such as a streetlight when strolling at night, or other strong light and dark contrast. Another light related negative effects is a halo around a light, and this takes place in 3.5 More hints percent of Lasik clients.
The brand-new, corrected vision can be discovered quickly by some Lasik patients, in as low as a couple of hours after surgery. Many patients that have gone through the Lasik treatment find the modification is long-term within a couple of days. In 2.6 find more information percent of clients that have had a Lasik procedure done, there is persistent visual change within a minimum of a part of their sphere of vision.
Finally, some clients do not get a completely corrected sphere of vision after their Lasik treatment. This happens with a small number of customers, and the FDA statistics are that just 3 percent of clients have this effect. In all or nearly all cases, the physician in charge will perform an extra Lasik treatment to improve this.
This detailing of the major permanent side effects of the Lasik treatment need to put any personal horror stories into point of view. Notice that none of the percentages are above 3 percent, and this need to bring convenience to the majority of prospective Lasik clients. It needs to also encourage them to look thoroughly at the Lasik doctor's personal record.
There are several various types of Lasik operations now readily available, from the initial and well recorded procedure to Lasik treatments done with three dimensional wavefronts, or done totally with lasers. It is excellent to understand exactly what the possible side impacts of the Lasik procedure are, and also the possibility that one of these side impacts will happen for a particular patient. Many patients that have gone through the Lasik treatment discover the change is long-term within a couple of days. Some clients do not get a totally corrected sphere of vision after their Lasik procedure.
I had Lasik vision modification surgery 2 years back, and also am quite grateful I did. I believe that my Lasik story could be handy to some that take into consideration that they might not be an ideal Lasik client, as well as are worried regarding side effects after the Lasik procedure. I did have a substantial negative effects after my Lasik procedure, yet have weathered it well, and still suggest the operation extremely.
My operation went exactly as described, without pain or actual discomfort at all. My Lasik medical professional was clear, specifying each action that he completed to make sure that I would recognize the Lasik procedure was continuing as anticipated, and more quickly than I had visualized. I understand that of the discussion I had earlier with the Lasik professionals stated the procedure typically took much less than twenty mins, however I was still amazed.
At the end of the operation, my Lasik medical professional replaced the flap to its correct setting in my eye and also covered it with some kind of clear goop. I guess they presumed that any type of good Lasik individual would certainly not do that when awake.
Furthermore, I adhered to all post-op Lasik procedure direction word for word. I rested right away after the Lasik treatment was done (after I made it home, certainly), used the eye goes down religiously, as well as did not try to stress my eyes by reviewing everything that I could. I was astonished the instant improvement in vision that Lasik makes, as if there was a set of insubstantial contact lenses. Really excellent.
My largest trouble in Lasik treatment healing was a result of epithelial erosion. The flap that is made in the eye during the Lasik treatment is made from epithelial cells. When the flap is replaced at the end of the Lasik procedure, these cells start to regrow in order to fill in the line where the flap has actually been reduced.
I told this to my Lasik medical professional, that said this side effect simply makes recovery a little longer and it was not a major negative effects. When I chose a check-up to the Lasik facility (which I highly advise whenever a Lasik client has any kind of post-op concerns or questions) they determined that I needed a thicker, a lot more jelly like variation of the eye drops to utilize in the evening. This functioned well, and the rest of my post-Lasik healing worked out.
I am a solid advocate of the Lasik vision adjustment treatment. I additionally highly suggest interviewing a number of positions, as well as do not put affordable as the highest concern. Your eyes are crucial, and an extremely competent Lasik doctor is one of the most important element.
I think that my Lasik story might be useful to some that consider that they may not be an excellent Lasik customer, as well as are concerned regarding side impacts after the Lasik procedure. My Lasik doctor was clear, stating each step that he finished so that I would certainly recognize pop over to this web-site the Lasik procedure was proceeding as expected, and also extra promptly compared to I had actually visualized. I rested instantly after the Lasik procedure was done (after I made it home, of course), made use of the eye goes down religiously, and did not try to stress my eyes by checking out everything that I could. The flap that is made in the eye during the Lasik procedure is made from epithelial cells. When I went for a check-up to the Lasik facility (which I very recommend any time a Lasik client has any kind of post-op concerns or concerns) they decided that I required a thicker, extra jelly like variation of the eye drops to use at evening
If you put in the time to check out any one of the message boards or chat rooms on the web about Lasik surgical treatment, you will certainly ask yourself just how any person can get the courage to set up a Lasik treatment, and why in the world they would desire it. The different Lasik clinics sound anywhere from impersonal to something similar to Dr. Monster's lab, as well as the Lasik treatment itself seems, well, unique. It appears like the only people that would obtain Lasik are those with such bad vision that they could not wake up without their glasses on.
Well, let me give you my story of how I chose Lasik. For me, Lasik was not required, but I figured would simplify my life. For these factors, Lasik looked really appealing.
OK, technically Lasik does NOT make use of a scalpel but instead a "microkeratome blade", however it is still a sharp item approaching my eye as component of the Lasik treatment. Nowadays Lasik medical professionals could obtain a laser to reduce the flap in the eye, which is extra than a little better than a sharp blade.
After speaking with 3 (yes, 3!) independent Lasik physicians, they each assured me that a 28 year old guy in nearly perfect health and wellness (OK, I overemphasize a little bit) with modest nearsightedness was among the best prospects for a successful Lasik treatment. I decided to schedule my Lasik treatment with the one that had the most effective record, and also coincidentally took the most time to explain whatever concerning Lasik to me.
The only unusual thing I bear in mind concerning the Lasik treatment itself was a scent, something slightly like hair burning. I am kind of delighted they didn't tell me to expect that prior to the additional resources Lasik treatment, I am not certain I would have gone in.
After a few years, I guess I was a virtually excellent Lasik customer, as my eyes now have 20/20 vision as well as have continued to be secure long after the Lasik procedure. I state that if you are a good prospect for a Lasik vision modification treatment, get that teddy bear and take place in.
If you take the time to check out any of the message boards or chat rooms on the Net concerning Lasik surgical procedure, you will wonder Find Out More just how any individual might get the nerve to arrange a Lasik treatment, and also why on earth they would certainly want it. The various Lasik facilities sound anywhere from impersonal to something comparable to Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory, as well as the Lasik procedure itself appears, well, surreal. OK, practically Lasik does NOT use a scalpel however rather a "microkeratome blade", yet it is still a sharp object approaching my eye as component of the Lasik procedure. I determined to schedule my Lasik procedure with the one that had the finest track document, as well as together took the most time to describe everything regarding Lasik to me.
If you take the time to check out any of the message boards or chat rooms online regarding Lasik surgical procedure, you will certainly question just how any person might get the nerve to set up a Lasik treatment, and why on earth they would certainly desire it. The various Lasik clinics audio anywhere from impersonal to something just like Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory, as well as the Lasik procedure itself appears, well, unique. It looks like the only people that would certainly get Lasik are those with such bad vision that they can not get out of bed without their glasses on.
Well, let me offer you my tale of how I selected Lasik. For me, Lasik was not needed, yet I figured would streamline my life. For these reasons, Lasik looked very attractive.
The paragraph over might make you assume I am a "manly person" (hope so, believe so!), so why in the world would certainly I be afraid of a little Lasik scalpel? OK, practically Lasik does NOT use a scalpel yet instead a "microkeratome blade", but it is still a sharp object approaching my eye as component of the Lasik procedure. Nowadays Lasik doctors can get a laser to cut the flap in the eye, which is more than a little much better compared to a sharp blade. Anyway, I had too many spills in my life to believe any sharp things nearing my eye was a great idea, also under the proficient hands of a Lasik doctor.
After chatting with three (yes, three!) independent Lasik doctors, they each guaranteed me that a 28 years of age person in almost best wellness (OK, I exaggerate a bit) with modest nearsightedness was just one of the greatest candidates for a successful Lasik procedure. I chose to schedule my Lasik procedure with the one that had the very best record, and also coincidentally took the most time Look At This to discuss every little thing concerning Lasik to me.
The Lasik surgery was not unpleasant, though I accepted almost everything they offered to give me comfort, consisting of a sedative as well as a teddy bear. (I also returned to take a picture of me as well as the Lasik comforting teddy bear.) The only weird thing I remember concerning the Lasik procedure itself was a scent, something vaguely like hair burning. I intend that was my eye. I am type of delighted they didn't inform me to expect that before the Lasik treatment, I am uncertain I would certainly have gone in.
After a couple of years, I think I was a nearly best Lasik customer, as my eyes currently have 20/20 vision and also have actually stayed secure long after the Lasik procedure. I claim that if you are an excellent prospect for a Lasik vision correction treatment, order that teddy bear and go on in.
If you take the time to review any of the message boards or conversation rooms on the Web concerning Lasik surgery, you will question just how anyone could get the guts to set up a Lasik treatment, and why on earth they would want it. The different Lasik facilities audio anywhere from impersonal to something comparable to like it Dr. Frankenstein's lab, and the Lasik procedure itself seems, well, surreal. OK, practically Lasik does NOT make use of a scalpel yet instead a "microkeratome blade", yet it is still a sharp item approaching my eye as part of the Lasik procedure. I chose to schedule my Lasik procedure with the one that had the finest track record, as well as coincidentally took the most time to describe everything about Lasik to me. | medical |
https://www.britta-strubel.de/en/warum-eine-doula | 2024-04-16T16:01:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817103.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416155952-20240416185952-00273.warc.gz | 0.964342 | 209 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__128404560 | en | Why a doula?
The term doula comes from the Greek and means "servant of the woman". The tradition of childbirth care is very old. In many cultures it was and is common for women to provide constant support to the mother-to-be during childbirth, supporting her on her journey to motherhood.
Unfortunately, this valuable part of obstetrics has been largely lost in the last hundred years, with the shift of birth from the familiar home environment to the hospital.
Despite all the advantages and achievements of modern medicine today, the human-emotional needs of women are often neglected.
Taking time, emotional attention, words of encouragement, soothing relaxation, constant presence and patience are of immense importance, especially in such a sensitive phase of life as birth.
The topics of pregnancy and childbirth are associated with insecurities and fears for many women (and men too). Letting go of these negative feelings and reconnecting the pregnant woman with her own strength and her feminine instinct is an essential part of my work. | medical |
http://summittherapeuticsdenver.com/2020/05/lymphatic-drainage-massage/ | 2020-07-15T12:32:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593657167808.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20200715101742-20200715131742-00072.warc.gz | 0.920078 | 1,135 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__256086136 | en | – Lymphatic Drainage Massage –
– Because none of us are strangers to feeling puffy once in a while –
Sometimes we notice it after a deep tissue massage.
Sometimes we notice it after a hot stone massage.
Sometimes we just wake up feeling puffy.
Is there anything to be done about it?
My friends, I give you Lymphatic Drainage Massage
What is Lymphatic Drainage Massage?
Lymphatic Drainage Massage (LDM) is a therapeutic massage treatment technique.
The massage uses very light pressure with gentle, rhythmic strokes throughout the body
in order to increase the flow and efficiency of the lymphatic system.
Okay. So what is the Lymphatic System?
I’m glad you asked! An article by Encyclopedia Britannica gives a lovely,
succinct overview of the important anatomy and physiology of the lymphatic system.
I have summarized it below, but the full article can be found here
The lymphatic system is a complex network of vessels, tissues, and organs throughout the human body
which is responsible for helping to maintain fluid balance in the body.
The lymphatic system collects excess fluid, filters debris, pathogens,
and particulate matter from said fluid, and re-deposits it back into the blood stream.
The lymphatic system also helps defend the body against infection by regulating
the production and distribution of disease-fighting cells called lymphocytes
As blood circulates, blood plasma diffuses out through the thin walls of the capillaries into the interstitial/extracellular fluid.
This is a good thing. This is how nutrients reach the cells throughout the body.
Most of this fluid is re-absorbed back into the bloodstream after depositing nutrients to the cells,
but some of it is left behind, and is now saturated with cellular debris
and foreign particles the body would like to purge.
This is where the lymphatic system comes in to play.
The fluids that are left behind by the circulatory system are siphoned off by the lymphatic system.
Now that that fluid has been absorbed by the lymphatic system, it is called “lymph.”
The lymph is transported along lymph vessels, filtered clean at lymph nodes, and then reintegrated into the blood stream.
The lymphatic system also protects the body against infection and disease
because tissues and organs found in the lymphatic system are responsible for producing,
differentiating, and proliferating white blood cells (lymphocytes)
which help rid the body of pathogens.
When the lymphatic system is functioning optimally, it maintains the fluid balance throughout the body
and keeps any bacteria/viruses/pathogens at bay. When the lymphatic system is compromised or sluggish,
fluid may begin to pool in the tissues at a faster rate than the lymphatic system can remove it
(this condition is called Lymphedema) and the body may be more susceptible to illness.
So if I’m reading this correctly, Lymphatic Drainage Massage
can help with puffiness and may boost my immune function?
Yes! The benefits attributed to LDM are vast and varied,
but typically involve a reduction in swelling and water retention,
and a moderate increase in circulating lymphocytes.
LDM has shown promising effects on puffiness and swelling in the face,
making it a popular treatment for someone wanting to tone up before a big event.
LDM has shown promising effects when combined with deep tissue and fascial techniques on
the appearance of cellulite, making it a popular treatment for someone with an upcoming beach holiday.
**No massage technique will truly result in the loss of fat from any area.
Treatments targeted at cellulite are designed to break up adhesions and restrictions, encourage fresh blood flow,
and diminish water retention in the area –
effectively smoothing the tissue and diminishing the puckered appearance of cellulite.**
Note our disclaimer that LDM is meant to encourage your body’s natural ability to filter and protect.
Not to replace it. Responses to LDM will vary depending on many things,
including your current lymphatic function, activity levels, nutrition, hydration,
injury and surgery history, and cancer/chemotherapy history.
What should I expect after an LDM session?
As LDM is encouraging your body to filter cellular debris and water at a faster rate
than it was before the session, your body may feel a bit sluggish after an LDM session,
especially if you don’t receive frequent bodywork.
This will pass. If you do feel sluggish, honor what your body is telling you, and take it easy for the rest of the day.
When it comes to prolonging the effects of the LDM session, there are a few common and simple suggestions.
First and foremost, Get Moving!
The lymphatic system does not have its own pump:
the flow of lymph through the body relies on pressure differentials created within the tissues,
and the best way to stimulate all of that is to Move.
Muscular contractions stimulate lymphatic flow. It’s as simple as that.
Other ways to encourage lymphatic flow at home is to drink enough water,
consider lowering your salt intake, and analyze your daily posture.
Poor posture can block lymphatic pathways, and slow flow in that area. | medical |
https://backyardrevolutoins.gumroad.com/p/fighting-high-blood-glucose | 2021-09-26T21:52:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057973.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20210926205414-20210926235414-00606.warc.gz | 0.967039 | 327 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__238033384 | en | If you are diagnosed as a diabetic it may be in your best interests to carry around a glucose gel. You simply never know when your blood sugars will jump, and consequently, when you might need a quick rush of sugar to your body. Keeping it handy can and will save your life.
The key to a Diabetic diet isn't necessarily cutting anything out completely, but instead is about counting up what is in that food item and eating it in an Glucofort reviews appropriate moderation. For example, having a slice of cake can be fine as long as you work it into your meal and have a smaller piece than you might have pre-diagnosis.
There really is not a diabetic diet. The American Diabetes Association recommends that you get 50 percent of your calories from carbohydrates, 30 percent from fats, and 20 percent from proteins. Proteins work to stabilize blood sugars and to help you feel satisfied. Proteins also help your body to rebuild and provide nutrients your body needs not found in carbs and fats.
Being diagnosed with Type II Diabetes does not mean you are lazy, fat, or nonathletic. There are many causes of Diabetes which don't necessarily come from being overweight or not exercising enough, but all diagnoses mean that you'll need to start watching what you're eating and increase your exercise level.
While it is very important to watch your intake of sugar when you are diabetic, you have to keep in mind that the amount of carbohydrates should be low, as well. Eating things like white bread, potatoes, flour, and white rice, can cause your blood sugar to rise fairly quickly. | medical |
https://www.focusyourhealth.co.uk/sciatica/ | 2019-10-17T04:04:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986672548.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20191017022259-20191017045759-00447.warc.gz | 0.945414 | 550 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__121317024 | en | The word sciatica (used to describe painful symptoms in the low back/ buttock region and/or down the leg) and lumbago (pain in the low back) are familiar to many of us and are most commonly caused through joints of the spine being injured in the low back and pelvis and may be due to wear and tear.
Your General Practitioner may have advised that the pain is due to wear and tear or an overloading injury and you may be taking painkillers and/ or anti-inflammatory medication to help manage your pain.
There may be many reasons for symptoms to occur and the cause can be precisely identified during a physical examination by your chiropractor. The diagnosis of sciatica or lumbago is often given to common non-specific lower back pain and can be effectively treated with chiropractic treatment.
Chiropractors are concerned with the bones and muscles that support the body. This is known as the 'musculoskeletal system'. Problems and associated pain with the musculoskeletal system may have a variety of causes such as lifting accidents, DIY activities, gardening, road traffic accidents, stress, lack of exercise and repetitive poor posture resulting in sciatica.
These problems may, in turn, cause pressure on the nerves of the body and produce sciatica symptoms such as sharp or dull toothache type nerve pain, pins and needles and/or numbness in the buttock region and legs.
Chiropractors specialise in identifying and treating back pain and sciatica. Chiropractors provide effective relief for these symptoms in the short and long term and will also identify the source of the pain which will help in prevention of future painful episodes.
Whilst most patients will require a course of treatment to recover from their sciatica injury, the treatment duration will wholly depend on your individual circumstances. Following your initial appointment we will be able to outline the treatment and its expected progression.
Some patients may choose to attend for ongoing care due to individual circumstances such as degenerative wear and tear. They will continue to benefit from the chiropractic treatment and this will be discussed during your treatment.
If you would like help to relieve lower back/ sciatica and/ or leg pain, please call and book your new patient appointment.
If you would like to find out more about how chiropractic can help with back and leg pain, sciatica, please contact Warren at
Tel: 023 93 233144 / 07967 029263
or email: [email protected]
focusyourhealth healthcare is individual to you, getting you better and helping to keep you active | medical |
https://www.peakpositions.com/healthcare-seo-company.html | 2024-02-22T02:03:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473598.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221234056-20240222024056-00388.warc.gz | 0.907606 | 1,791 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__157171537 | en | In the online world of healthcare marketing, leveraging specialized Healthcare SEO services is crucial for practitioners aiming to overcome unique challenges and stringent regulations. Navigating the intricacies of compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is paramount to protect patient data and maintain trust. Peak Positions specialized Healthcare SEO program enhances online visibility and helps to ensure that our strategies adhere to these stringent privacy regulations.
Marketing in the healthcare sector faces the challenge of reaching potential patients when third-party administrators, including insurance companies, hold significant influence over decision-making. Healthcare SEO services can strategically address this challenge by optimizing online content and strategies to resonate with both patients and the administrators, ensuring that the practice remains visible and compelling within the confines of regulatory frameworks and industry dynamics. In a field where trust and compliance are paramount, healthcare SEO can be your tool to navigate the complexities and promote your practice effectively.
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Healthcare Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an essential tool for medical practices seeking precision and integrity in their digital marketing efforts. Operating under the guidelines of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), healthcare SEO prioritizes patient privacy first. Our strategic approach involves not only optimizing technical aspects for search engines but also crafting patient-centric content that helps to inform and engage while safeguarding sensitive information. Peak Positions compliant healthcare SEO uses targeted strategies designed to help third-party entities, particularly insurance companies, in their decision-making processes as well. By focusing on building and reinforcing the authority and experience of your medical practice, compliant healthcare SEO helps to facilitate a credible and trustworthy online presence, all within the ethical framework of healthcare marketing.
HIPAA Compliance Best Practices in Healthcare Marketing
Adherence to HIPAA Compliance Best Practices is paramount for maintaining patient privacy and fostering trust. HIPAA rules expressly prohibit the utilization of Protected Health Information (PHI) for marketing purposes without explicit patient consent. This restriction significantly impacts the degree to which healthcare organizations can target individual patients based on their specific health conditions or treatment history. HIPAA extends its influence to market segmentation within healthcare, a fundamental element of effective marketing strategies. Market segmentation involves categorizing a target market into subsets based on consumer characteristics or needs. However, the stringent privacy constraints of HIPAA pose a challenge for healthcare marketers, as they cannot efficiently segment markets based on specific health conditions or treatments without obtaining explicit consent. This necessitates a delicate balance between effective marketing strategies and the ethical handling of patient information to ensure compliance with HIPAA regulations.
Healthcare SEO Strategies Focusing on HIPAA Compliance
To optimize for HIPAA compliance in healthcare marketing, we use generalized demographic data like age, gender, and location instead of specific patient health information (PHI). For example, a digital marketing campaign could target older adults in a particular area for arthritis treatments without revealing personal health details. We also help your team obtain patient consent through opt-in forms integrated into the intake process, allowing the use of PHI for targeted marketing. Segmenting markets based on general health interests, such as mental health, nutrition, fitness, or preventative care can also be beneficial for PPC campaigns or SEO. Additionally we leverage non-PHI data like behavioral (online health content engagement) and psychographic (attitudes, aspirations, lifestyle) information for effective market segmentation while staying within HIPAA guidelines.
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Influence Public Perception with Effective Healthcare SEO
Public perception of healthcare can vary widely, and how patients view your individual practice can have a major impact on their decision-making process. Effective Healthcare SEO serves as a powerful tool to influence and shape this perception positively. By emphasizing positive patient experiences through strategic SEO, practices can build trust and reliability, key factors that resonate with potential patients seeking care.
How Healthcare SEO Can Help
Managing media coverage with our targeted healthcare SEO strategies helps to ensure that the online narrative accurately reflects the true essence of your practice, mitigating any potential discrepancies between perception and reality. We also help to address concerns related to fragmented care, rising healthcare costs, and quality issues through SEO strategies highlighting transparency and a commitment to patient-centric services. Aligning your online presence with social norms and cultural beliefs, and showcasing cultural competence, helps to further strengthen the positive perception of your practice. In the face of healthcare inaccessibility, Healthcare SEO optimizes online platforms, providing comprehensive information and telehealth options to enhance accessibility. These collective efforts not only address concerns but also position your practice as one that values quality, accessibility, and patient-centric care, ultimately influencing public perception in positive way and bringing new patients to your practice.
Local SEO for Healthcare Organizations
Local SEO is integral to the success of healthcare practices, playing a crucial role in connecting providers with their immediate communities. In the healthcare sector, where proximity and accessibility are paramount, local SEO ensures that medical facilities, practitioners, and services are easily discoverable by local residents. Optimizing for local search enables healthcare organizations to appear prominently in location-based searches, providing prospective patients with essential information such as contact details, directions, and operating hours. This heightened visibility not only fosters trust within the local community but also enhances the chances of attracting nearby individuals seeking immediate healthcare solutions. Local SEO strategies help healthcare providers stand out in a competitive market, emphasizing their relevance and accessibility to those in need within their specific geographical area.
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As a foremost authority in the field of healthcare SEO, Peak Positions offers unparalleled healthcare SEO services and expertise to globally renowned brands. Beyond our advanced healthcare SEO services, we provide your company with comprehensive digital marketing solutions.
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Healthcare SEO continues to be the most cost-effective form of digital marketing, especially when organizations face limited advertising budgets. Traditional expansive advertising campaigns can strain financial resources, restricting the reach to the target audience and diminishing impact. Financial constraints may also limit the diversity of marketing channels, missing opportunities to engage with prospective patients across various platforms. Limited budgets can also pose challenges in allocating resources for crucial marketing activities like keyword research, local SEO, analytics, and content creation. Within budgetary restrictions, optimizing online presence, tracking performance metrics, and crafting engaging content become challenging, highlighting the efficiency of Healthcare SEO in maximizing impact with a small budget.
Don’t Pay Per Click – Target All of Your Relevant Healthcare Keywords
In the face of limited budgets, traditional paid advertising models relying on pay-per-click (PPC) can strain financial resources, often resulting in a narrow focus on specific keywords due to cost considerations. This limited approach may hinder the ability to reach a comprehensive audience and capitalize on various relevant keywords that potential patients might use in their searches. By prioritizing Healthcare SEO instead, organizations can strategically optimize their online presence for a broader spectrum of relevant keywords without incurring the ongoing costs associated with PPC campaigns. This not only allows for a more comprehensive reach to the target audience but also facilitates consistent visibility across diverse search queries. Peak Positions allows your practice to monitor as many keywords as necessary to ensure you are targeting the right patients at the right time without paying for every click to your website.
Peak Positions a Leading Healthcare SEO Company
With over a decade of experience collaborating with various healthcare organizations across the United States, Peak Positions understands the importance of maintaining a strict budget while striving to increase patient numbers and adhering to compliance standards. Our seasoned team specializes in crafting agile and adaptable marketing strategies, leveraging data expertise and prioritizing a customer-centric approach. Through continuous innovation and optimization, we work closely with healthcare clients to meet the ever-changing needs and expectations of patients in today’s healthcare marketing landscape. | medical |
http://almocadohairclinic.com/1/archives/02-2020 | 2021-09-18T22:26:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780056578.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20210918214805-20210919004805-00386.warc.gz | 0.938603 | 473 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__226747648 | en | The Term Trichology derives from the Greek "trich" meaning hair and "ology" - the study of. Trichology is the branch of medical and cosmetic study and practice dealing with diseases and disorders of the hair and scalp.
While suffering from hair loss or uncomfortable scalp issues may leave you apprehensive, the Trichology process needn't be daunting or complicated.
All appointments are conducted in complete confidence and with utmost privacy, but you may bring someone with you if it'll help you feel more comfortable. You should also bring with you details of any medications, supplements, herbal remedies and/or products you are using along with any recent pathological or haematology test results.
During your private consultation, we take a case history, look at all potential factors and examine both the area of complaint and any relevant associated areas you may not have considered e.g. nails, eyes and ears. We may use a mag-lamp and/or a special trichoscope to examine the scalp in fine detail and we may also take hair samples to examine under the microscope.
We use a methodical approach for differential diagnosis and at the end of your appointment you should have both a diagnosis, a prognosis and recommendations for treatment (in-salon) and at home after care/ongoing management. If necessary, we will write a referral to your GP suggesting blood tests and in some (rare) cases we may suggest referral to a dermatologist for prescription treatments. A follow up review in 6-12 weeks may also be recommended to assess the results of your treatment.
Should you opt for an in-salon treatment the process is as follows.
Your appointment will be held in a private studio and will involve a scalp treatment, one or two shampoo treatments, a conditioning treatment (if appropriate), a steam treatment.
Some conditions also involve treatment with Infrared or UV lamps.
Your customised treatment will always be explained to you and you will be made aware of the results you can expect and whether one treatment or a course of treatments may be required.
The initial consultation can be booked online and costs £105 (up to 1 hr)
Personalised private treatments cost £60. (approx. 45 mins)
Follow-up Review appointments cost £50. (up to 30 mins) | medical |
https://gustafssonlabucsd.org/research/ | 2023-05-30T07:12:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224645417.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20230530063958-20230530093958-00356.warc.gz | 0.913226 | 495 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__174492893 | en | The occurrence of cardiovascular disease and heart failure development increases with
advancing age and intrinsic alterations in aging cardiac myocytes are a major contributor to the underlying pathogenesis. In particular, a decline in mitochondrial function is considered to play a key role in the increased susceptibility to disease. In the heart, the primary function of mitochondria is to meet the high energy demand of the beating myocytes by providing ATP through oxidative phosphorylation. However, mitochondria can quickly change into death-promoting organelles that generate excessive levels of reactive oxygen species and release pro-death proteins. Mitochondrial dysfunction and activation of cell death pathways are common occurrences in cardiovascular disease and contribute to the development of heart failure. Our research is focused on dissecting signaling pathways involved in ensuring mitochondrial health in cells. We are using genetic, cell and molecular biology approaches, mouse models, and cutting-edge 2D/3D imaging techniques to study the signaling pathways involved in regulating mitochondrial structure, function, and turnover in cells and heart.
Autophagy and mitochondria:
Due to the importance of maintaining a healthy population of mitochondria, cells have developed multiple defense mechanisms against aberrant mitochondria that can cause harm. The ability of a cell to repair itself and prevent unnecessary death is particularly important in a post-mitotic cell such as a myocyte that cannot be easily replaced. During mitochondrial autophagy (also known as mitophagy), dysfunctional mitochondria are rapidly sequestered by autophagosomes and subsequently delivered to lysosomes for degradation (Figure). We are examining the signaling pathways and proteins involved in the identification and labeling of
damaged mitochondria, and the formation of vesicular structures (autophagosomes) required to
sequester the mitochondrion. We are interested in how mitophagy is regulated by the PINK1/Parkin pathway and mitophagy receptors.
Alternative mitochondrial quality control pathways:
Recent studies suggest that alternative pathways to traditional autophagy exist that can clear unwanted mitochondria. We have uncovered that dysfunctional mitochondria can also be eliminated by Rab5-positive early endosomes and that this pathway is independent of autophagy. The early endosomes mature into late endosomes which then deliver the cargo to lysosomes for degradation. We are currently focused on dissecting the role of Beclin1 and the various Rab GTPases in regulating this process. | medical |
https://clinicity.com/healthcare-professionals/cied-physician-cardiac-device-clinic-remote-monitoring/ | 2020-05-31T00:39:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347410535.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20200530231809-20200531021809-00262.warc.gz | 0.906895 | 374 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__76860192 | en | Heart clinics following patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) now more than ever need to effectively manage greater volumes of device interrogations and more data from remote monitoring transmissions. Cardiac clinics should be able to interrogate patient devices at regular intervals and upon alerts across all device manufacturers, complete Technical Component (TC) and Professional Component (PC) evaluations with accuracy and efficiency, and understand where opportunities exist to improve device patient care. Whether a clinic chooses to utilize staff technicians or an outsourced workforce to complete the TC review of cardiac transmissions, the interrogation data and reporting process needs to be secure and HIPAA-compliant. Further, clinics today face increasing time demands on physicians and reimbursement pressures and some may not have the resources to perform remote monitoring interrogations or appropriately bill leaving room to improve patient outcomes and clinic profitability.
Clinicity’s cardiac platform allows heart clinics to perform all required workflows within a single user-friendly, secure and compliant interface and realize improvements to patient outcomes and clinic productivity and profitability. Clinicity cloud-based software is used by both staff and outsourced IDTF technicians to automatically receive transmission data in real-time, evaluate patient and device health, easily record impressions and plans, and instantaneously deliver reports for physician approval. Physicians can efficiently review and approve interrogation reports as well as see all underlying and historical information within the Clinicity platform. With Clinicity, there is no need to download or print pdfs, manually compile technical evaluations, or struggle with file transfer systems. The Clinicity remote monitoring solution allows clinics to greatly increase interrogation volume and deliver more timely care. Cardiac clinics following implantable cardiac device patients across the US can greatly improve their clinic productivity and lower their costs while providing higher quality of care using Clinicity.
To learn more about how Clinicity can improve your heart device clinic, contact us. | medical |
https://www.yellowhousevirtual.com/atlanticcanadaswellnessretreat/1123900 | 2023-06-05T02:34:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224650620.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20230605021141-20230605051141-00644.warc.gz | 0.940834 | 235 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__298607432 | en | Darcy H. Shaw
professor emeritus of small animal internal medicine
Professor emeritus of small animal internal medicine in the Dept. of Companion Animals, Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC), University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Over his 30 plus years as a veterinarian, Darcy has served as a clinician, educator and administrator and held leadership positions such as Teaching Hospital Director, Department Chair, and Associate Dean of Professional Services. He is a Past President (2000-2001) of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association and is a board member of the Veterinary Leadership Institute. Darcy is a trainer for the Institute for Healthcare Communication in the annual veterinary faculty development train-the-trainer program and is a certified facilitator for the Center for Courage and Renewal. He recently co-led the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) Leadership Academy from 2016 to 2020. Darcy and his wife, Shelley Burton, a clinical pathologist at AVC, live in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Darcy’s personal passions include cooking, cycling, cats and travel (at least pre-COVID!). | medical |
https://en.berryizh.com.ua/tproduct/1-353516368941-berryzh-dried-raspberries | 2022-08-14T21:30:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572077.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814204141-20220814234141-00411.warc.gz | 0.927463 | 353 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__102040438 | en | •Antioxidant source - dried (red) raspberries contain a wealth of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds. Consumption of antioxidants protects the body's cells from oxidative damage caused by the accumulation of free radicals. This type of oxidative stress and inflammation is directly linked to heart disease, heart attack and other degenerative conditions. Daily consumption of foods rich in antioxidants, such as dried raspberries, can prevent free radical damage to your body's cells.
•Created from fiber - a portion of dried red raspberries provides 6 grams of fiber, or about 25% of the daily recommended amount. Raspberries contain fiber, both soluble and insoluble. Soluble fiber forms a gel in a body that binds to cholesterol and sugar. This process helps reduce harmful cholesterol levels and stabilize blood sugar levels. The insoluble fibers in dried raspberries are important for overall body health. They are neither absorbed nor soluble in water, so they can remove toxins from the colon and keep the digestive system in proper condition.
•A powerful source of nutrients - dried raspberries are filled not only with protective antioxidants and fiber, but also provide the body with nutrients such as vitamin C, iron and calcium. Vitamin C supports the immune system during illness and promotes the formation of collagen and protein that keeps skin smooth and resilient. Vitamin C also helps the body absorb minerals such as iron and calcium, both of which are found in dried raspberries. Iron improves energy levels and plays an important role in the delivery of oxygen by red blood cells throughout the body. Calcium, in turn, is the building material for bones and teeth, as well as improving muscle function and reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Features: by weight
Shelf Life: 12 months | medical |
https://valadao.house.gov/services/federal-agency/va.htm | 2018-11-17T20:03:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039743732.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20181117185331-20181117210542-00018.warc.gz | 0.921029 | 746 | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-47__0__143071565 | en | How can I contact the VA?
You can contact the VA by utilizing their online portal. You can also contact the Department's Los Angeles Regional Office listed below:
Los Angeles Regional Office
11000 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90024
Phone: (800) 827-1000
What benefits are available from the VA?
The VA offers many types of benefits available to the men and women who have served on Active Duty or with Reserve Components of the U.S. Armed Forces including, but not limited to:
- Disability Compensation
- Disability Pension
- Survivor and Dependent Benefits
- Education Benefits
- Life Insurance
- Burial Benefits
- Home Loans
For more information on these and other VA benefits, please see the VA's benefits fact sheets web page.
How do I apply for VA healthcare benefits?
Veterans can enroll in the VA Health Care System by:
Applying in person at any VA Medical Center or VA clinic
Applying online here.
Mailing or faxing a completed VA form 10-10EZ, Application for Health Care Benefits, to the VA Medical Center or VA clinic of their choice
Enrollment assistance can be obtained by calling the VA's Health Benefits Service Center at 1-877-222-8387, or by calling your County Veterans Service Officer (CVSO).
Are Operation Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom veterans eligible for VA Healthcare?
VA healthcare benefits are available to veterans who served on active duty in a theater of combat operations. Free medical care is available for a period of five years from discharge from active duty. Each VA Medical Center has a Point of Contact to assist with OEF/OIF veterans with accessing care.
Who can provide assistance with my VA claim?
Veterans Service Organizations (VSOs) are organizations or individuals who help veterans or beneficiaries with their claims without charge. VSOs can help with questions about your claim, and they also can act on your behalf regarding your claim with the VA. See the VA's online Directory of Veterans Service Organizations for VSO contact information.
How can I get a copy of my medical records?
Copies of military personnel and service medical records that are on file at the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC), including Reports of Separation (DD Form 214 or equivalent), can be made available upon request to veterans and the next-of-kin of deceased veterans. Next-of-kin is defined as the father or mother, son or daughter, brother or sister, and the un-remarried widow or widower of the deceased veteran.
In November 2007, the NPRC opened to the public the military personnel records of individuals separated from the military prior to 1946. Each year, additional military personnel records will be made available to the public for individuals who have been discharged, deceased or retired for at least 62 years.
For information on how to request military records, please visit the NPRC's military records request page, or contact the NPRC directly.
How can I get replacement medals?
Requests for the issuance or replacement of military service medals, decorations, and awards should be directed to the specific branch of the military in which the veteran served. However, for Air Force (including Army Air Corps) and Army personnel, the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) will verify the awards to which a veteran is entitled and forward the request with the verification to the appropriate service department for issuance of the medals. The Standard Form (SF 180), Request Pertaining to Military Records, is recommended for requesting medals and awards. Provide as much information as possible and send the form to the appropriate address. | medical |
http://www.abmatamd.com/ | 2016-05-25T14:44:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049274994.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002114-00235-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.975776 | 390 | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-22__0__145284319 | en | Choosing the right doctor is one of the most important decisions anyone considering cosmetic surgery will make. If you're buying dish soap, it might be okay to choose a brand you have never heard of, but when it comes to choosing the person to whom you will give control over your appearance and future well-being, it pays to do your homework.
There are thousands of inexperienced plastic surgeons out there who claim to have the skills needed to enhance your natural beauty. In the end, you can't predict the quality of treatment you will receive. Do not take chances with something as important as your health: Let the inexperienced surgeons treat patients who are more frivolous with their appearances. Breast augmentation, face lift, and other plastic surgeries are investments in your appearance. Do your research. Pick an experienced, established surgeon like Dr. Armando Mata, who has unparalleled skill and training and has put in the time it takes to hone true artistry in his plastic surgery treatments.
Dr. Mata is a board-certified plastic surgeon who has been doing high-quality work for more than two decades. He has trained at world-renowned hospitals and has been a successful plastic surgeon in one of the most competitive markets in the country. You do not arrive at the level Dr. Mata has without years of hard work and an impeccable track record.
A surgeon's success depends just as much on the quality of care he or she provides as the quality of work. Dr. Mata prides himself on his ability to communicate effectively with his patients, providing support and alleviating uncertainties. He is attentive and can share your vision and goals in a comfortable, discreet atmosphere.
Take a hard look at Dr. Mata's credentials. Consider his experience and browse our before and after gallery. If you still have questions, do not hesitate to contact our office. Do your research, and we expect you will feel confident choosing Dr. Mata as your surgeon. | medical |
https://regionsem.org/fellowships/quality/ | 2020-09-24T01:39:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400213006.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20200924002749-20200924032749-00209.warc.gz | 0.888763 | 395 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__126733940 | en | Content: This is a one or two year flexible fellowship that will include the completion of a master’s degree in business administration (two year program), completion of a publishable project, certification in medical quality management, and the practice of clinical medicine and teaching.
Career Pathways in Medical Quality Management and Patient Safety
Fundamentals of Quality Improvement
Organization Design and Management
Variation in Medical Practice and Implications for Quality
Economics and Finance in Medical Quality Management
Implementing Healthcare Quality Improvement: Changing Clinician Behavior
External Quality Improvement: Accreditation, Quality Improvement Education, and Certification
Interfaces Between Quality Improvement, Law, and Medical Ethics
Leadership for Quality
1. Medical Quality Management: Theory and Practice; Editor: Prathibha Varkey
2. The Healthcare Quality Book: Vision, Strategy, and Tools: Editors: Ranson, Joshi, and Nash
Other Assigned Readings:
American Journal of Medical Quality as well as other selected peer reviewed journal articles.
Research/Quality Improvement Project:
Minimum completion of one major project with publication/national presentation.
American College of Medical Quality: Medical Quality Meeting
Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care
Memberships in Organized Medicine:
American College of Medical Quality
American College of Physician Executives
American College of Healthcare Executives
Funding: Funding for the fellow’s salary and tuition comes from working half time clinically at Regions Hospital and/or affiliated outlying facilities, CME and membership funds, and tuition reimbursement.
Alex Asp, MD: July 2018 – June 2020
Jacqueline Kelly Hegarty: July 2017 – June 2018
Ryan Bourdon, MD: July 2014 – June 2016
Kara Sellung Tomlinson, MD: July 2011 – June 2012
Andrew Zinkel, MD
Associate Medical Director for Health Plan Quality | medical |
http://doctor.rpatel.co.uk/ | 2020-07-02T14:33:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655879532.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20200702142549-20200702172549-00087.warc.gz | 0.941601 | 326 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__122885341 | en | Dr Rashmi Patel studied Medical Sciences at the University of Cambridge before completing his medical degree at the University of Oxford in 2008. He moved to London to train as an academic foundation doctor at North Middlesex Hospital (F1) and The Whittington Hospital (F2). He has recently undertaken a Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Research Training Fellowship and is now an MRC UKRI Health Data Research UK Fellow in the Department of Psychosis Studies at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London. He has a particular interest in the neurobiology of psychotic disorders and the role of health data research techniques such as extracting data from free text electronic health records (EHRs) using natural language processing to predict clinical outcomes and develop more effective treatment strategies. In addition to research, he is an honorary consultant psychiatrist in the Psychosis Clinical Academic Group of King's Health Partners, a pioneering Academic Health Science Centre which combines world-class clinical research and mental healthcare for people with psychotic disorders.
Dr Patel enjoys teaching and inspiring future healthcare professionals and researchers and is a lecturer on the MSc in Psychiatric Research and MSc in Urban Informatics at King's College London and a former Assistant Clinical Tutor at The Queen's College in Oxford. He is passionate about innovating teaching methods including audio and video podcasts which he has recorded as part of the Podmedics series in Clinical Medicine, Surgery and Epidemiology. Having previously held a choral scholarship and lay clerkship while studying Medicine, in his spare time he enjoys singing as a freelance tenor in choirs across Boston, Oxford, Cambridge and London. | medical |
http://tadlaw.ca/blog/what-to-do-after-a-spinal-cord-injury | 2021-01-28T07:54:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610704839214.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20210128071759-20210128101759-00654.warc.gz | 0.951297 | 220 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__95460897 | en | Spinal cord injuries can be devastating. There are physical and emotional impacts, which will affect you for the rest of your life. As well, the impact your family can be significant.
Many times, you or your family do not know what to do. There are so many steps that need to be coordinated following the injury that it can become overwhelming and lead to frustration.
When you retain my firm, I help you by hiring case managers (where appropriate), coordinating your treatment, arrange necessary home modifications and ensure proper in-home care. I ensure that you receive any income benefits you are entitled to receive, and my office assists you with applications for long-term disability benefits or even CPP disability.
The treatment road is long, hard and expensive. My firm is dedicated to ensuring that your future needs are provided for so that you may live a full life despite your injury.
Do not simply retain any lawyer. With over 20 years of experience of personal injury experience, I have assisted many with spinal cord and other catastrophic injuries.
- Tullio A. D'Angela | medical |
http://www.qualityservicemarketing.com/2008/02/musings/bid-bake-for-a/ | 2023-12-08T21:56:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100779.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20231208212357-20231209002357-00783.warc.gz | 0.969572 | 1,047 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__279616110 | en | In the spirit of Valentine’s Day with its outpouring of love, I had to write this post. My intent is not just to touch your heart strings, it’s to ask for your help.
Question: What do you do to help a friend who’s been diagnosed with a rare terminal illness and fighting the disease despite major cutbacks in its research budget?
Answer: Everything possible.
In addition to supporting emotional and financial support, I want to help publicize her special fundraising event, Bid & Bake for a Breath, and her overall cause.
Alanna Nelson (pictured holding her daughter, Sadie) is one of my former students when I taught as an adjunct instructor at Lehigh University back in the early 1990’s. We’ve been in touch over the years as she graduated, progressed in her career, got married, and started a family (beautiful Sadie) … all wonderful milestones. Now, however, Alanna is fighting for her life, and she is not alone.
Here’s Alanna’s story in her own words:
“Recently my three-year-old daughter, said to me, “Mommy, when I grow up I want to be a doctor to make you better. I cried an entire day, but after crying, I decided to act. I am a happily married woman who has been recently diagnosed with a rare terminal lung disease that affects only women. The disease is called Lymphangioleiomyomatosis, or LAM for short. It is a genetic lung disease, which destroys healthy lung tissue by causing bubble-like cysts that cannot transfer oxygen to the blood. This means that people with LAM will eventually need full-time oxygen, and finally must resort to lung transplantation to stay alive. There is currently NO CURE and LAM is ultimately fatal.
There are 1500 confirmed cases worldwide, but LAM Foundation scientists estimate that there are over 250,000 women going undiagnosed or misdiagnosed. I was misdiagnosed for seven years! I had a lung collapse in 2000, followed by the discovery of cysts on my kidneys, and in October 2006, when I had my gall bladder removed and then suffered another lung collapse, I was finally diagnosed with LAM.
LAM is cruel. It lurks silently as women begin their careers and start their families, then it slowly destroys their lungs. The progression of the disease is dramatically hastened by estrogen, so doctors advise against having children. I was lucky not to have a lung collapse while pregnant. However, my disease was probably kicked into high gear by becoming pregnant. I’ve learned that others share similar stories. Like many women, I now live with the guilt of asking the ‘what if’ question: “What if I never had a child – would I be in the same condition I am in now?” Then the guilt creeps in for having thought about such a question in the first place. My every day life is no longer the one I led previously. I now must worry about how things will affect my lungs or my ability to breathe. I can no longer fly in an airplane, ride a roller coaster, or even take a hot steamy shower without getting short of breath.
For me, and for so many other women, the only way to “live life” is to be proactive and to help raise funds to find a cure. The LAM Foundation has raised over $10 million to help to find a cure and dedicated nearly 70% of all funds raised to research alone. Most of the funding has come from private donations; very little has been through government grants. Federal funding for the National Institutes of Health was recently cut, thereby making our fundraising efforts even more crucial.
While there is no cure now, there are several drugs that might be effective, if only funding were available for more clinical trials. I am organizing a fundraiser in February 2008. All proceeds will go directly to The LAM Foundation to further the search for a cure. The LAM Foundation is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization and all donations are tax-deductible.”
“Bid & Bake for a Breath”
Alanna and her friends have organized a wonderful family-friendly fundraiser, Bid & Bake for a Breath, to be held Sunday, Feb. 24, 2008. It will be a great event with a kids’ baking contest and silent auction with terrific items – all-in-all, a great way to beat the winter blahs this time of year while supporting a great cause.
If you’re in the area, please stop by. Regardless of where you live, I encourage you to support The LAM Foundation … for Alanna’s sake … for her family … and for the families of those affected by this disease.
(Note: If you make a donation to The LAM Foundation, please do so in Alanna Nelson’s name so she can acknowledge your contribution.)
Thank you from my heart. | medical |
https://necoalitionforpeers.org/event/living-well-program/ | 2023-03-24T19:26:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945288.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20230324180032-20230324210032-00205.warc.gz | 0.92614 | 185 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__47680997 | en | - This event has passed.
Living Well Program
February 20, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Region 6 and Douglas County will be hosting the Living Well Program which is a series of 2.5 hour classes, held once a week for 6 weeks, that will help you learn ways to self-manage your health and take charge of your life. Anyone living with an ongoing health condition is welcome. You can also join any session and learn information to self-manage your health. Weekly on Wednesday’s from February 6th, 13th and 20th. Douglas County Health Center, 4102 Woolworth Ave, Omaha, NE 68105, Time —2 to 4:30 pm. Click here for flyer. Email—[email protected], Call— 402-490-2700 or Register online— http://bit.ly/LivingwellNE | medical |
https://www.namialaska.org/ | 2021-12-02T01:42:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964361064.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20211201234046-20211202024046-00144.warc.gz | 0.917314 | 291 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__100261475 | en | NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for millions of Americans affected by mental illness.
Our mission is to end the stigma of mental illness.
NAMI advocates for access to mental health services, treatment, support, and research and is committed to raise awareness and build hope.
NAMI Alaska is the statewide umbrella organization for Alaska's four local and regional NAMI Affiliates including NAMI Anchorage, NAMI Fairbanks,
NAMI Juneau and NAMI North Slope. As the state chapter, NAMI Alaska
has helped people affected by mental illness since 1984.
We envision a state where all people affected by mental illness live healthy, fulfilling lives supported by a caring, culturally sensitive community.
NAMI Hawaii & NAMI Alaska Joint Training Opportunities
Applications now being accepted!
Please email [email protected] for more information
Family Support Group Facilitator Training
January 15th & 16th on Zoom
Connection Recovery Support Group Facilitator Training
January 29th & 30th on Zoom
Qualifications to apply:
must be a family member or loved one of someone
with a mental health condition
must be 18 years of age & over
Must have attended a NAMI Alaska Family Support Group or Connection Support group to be eligible | medical |
https://emma.family/disclaimer/ | 2023-03-20T19:24:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943555.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230320175948-20230320205948-00331.warc.gz | 0.946659 | 266 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__166474343 | en | The alternative therapies offered here are experimental and in no way meant to discourage you from undertaking conventional treatments for your condition, but hopefully will support you.
The information is provided for educational and informational purposes only, and is not intended to be a substitute for the diagnosis, treatment and advice of a qualified, licensed medical professional.
The information is provided to support your informed consent to any treatment program you may decide to undertake. The practitioners at Centro Emma are not doctors, and shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss, damage, or injury caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information or therapy provided.
No representation or warranties of any kind are made with regard to completeness or accuracy of the information. Quotations are used as ‘fair use’ to illustrate various points made. Quoted text may be subject to copyright owned by third parties.
The information on this website is not intended to replace a one-on-one relationship with a qualified health care professional and is not intended as medical advice. It is intended as a sharing of knowledge and information from the research and experience of the creators of this site. We encourage you to make your own health care decisions based upon your research and in partnership with a qualified health care professional. | medical |
https://lansingsci.com/education/dont-get-burned-protecting-skin-cancer/ | 2022-12-02T19:11:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710916.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20221202183117-20221202213117-00267.warc.gz | 0.962999 | 878 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__258606133 | en | Don’t Get Burned! Protecting Yourself from Skin Cancer
by Ed H. Edwards, Lansing SCI Chapter Member
You have skin cancer!
Back in 2007 I visited a dermatologist for a vanity issue and after treatment he looked me over and took a biopsy from my shoulder.
A week later I received the dreaded call that squamous cell carcinoma was detected and should be removed ASAP. The detection was early and the successful removal required minimal stitches.
Since then I have researched skin cancer, had annual checkups and have had three other findings that were also successfully removed. I have not given up outdoor activities but have developed habits and purchased clothing to protect my skin from further damage.
The three types of skin cancer
Skin is an organ that covers and protects the rest of our body from heat, light, trauma, and infection. It helps regulate body temperature and stores water, fat, and vitamin D.
The outer layer termed epidermis is where skin cancer starts. The outer most layer of the epidermis is made up of squamous cells.
The next layer is termed basal cells. The deepest part of the epidermis contains melanocytes, which produce melanin and give skid its color.
Below the epidermis is the dermis which has the hair follicles and sweat glands.
Healthy skin cells grow, divide and replace themselves. When cells divide too rapidly and in an irregular manner a tumor begins to form. Benign tumors are not cancerous, do not spread, and seldom life threatening. Malignant tumors are cancerous, can invade tissues, and can spread to other parts of the body and form new tumors.
The most common kind of skin cancer is basal cell which is a slow growing tumor that rarely spreads. The next most common is squamous cell which also rarely spread however can invade deep into other tissues and can cause other problems if not detected early
Both basal and squamous are termed non-melanoma skin cancers and have a nearly 100% cure rate if detected early.
The third and most deadly form of skin cancer is melanoma. This is a serious cancer characterized by the uncontrolled growth of the pigment producing melanocytes cells. Melanoma’s can appear without warning or develop from a mole.
Causes of skin cancer.
Excessive exposure to ultraviolet sun rays (radiation) is the cause of skin cancer. People who live in areas that have high levels of UV radiation, such as the southern regions of the USA, have a higher chance than those of use that live in the northern in developing skin cancer. Worldwide the highest does of UV radiation and skin cancer occurs in Australia and Southern Africa!
Skin cancer can also be dependent on amount of exposure a person receives in a lifetime, in particular during the pre-teen years. In my case this was the 1950’s early 1960’s before skin cancer became a concern and being light completed I experienced many severe sun burns.
Skin cancer protection.
Develop habits and clothing choices that provide protection. Since my wake up call the following have worked for me.
SPF 30 or higher has become my aftershave choice regardless of the weather forecast and plan for the day. If an outside activity is planned a liberal amount of sunscreen is applied to any exposed skin and most clothing will have an SPF rating including long sleeved shirt, hat with ample brim and gloves. Yes Gloves! Hands are subject to skin cancer and once you get used to them the thin sun gloves developed for fishing work well and are comfortable.
Columbia and many other companies offer excellent sun protection garments that are great for hunting, fishing, and general outdoor use.
My hats of choice are Tilley which have become quite popular for safari wear since that is what Ivan Carter wears.
My final recommendation on clothing and I encourage you to take this recommendation seriously: buy a “buff”
For less than 30 bucks buy a garment that will protect your head and neck from sunburn, add a little warmth when needed, repels insects, and also works as a face mask! This is go to for nearly every hunting and fishing venture you are likely to take.
In closure protect yourself, have your skin checked by a dermatologist, and have a great time outdoors! | medical |
https://nazconstruction.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html | 2021-07-25T12:11:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046151672.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20210725111913-20210725141913-00320.warc.gz | 0.915978 | 329 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__186831233 | en | Video: Fly-Through Golisano Training Center
- Timeline: To open by the beginning of the 2019-20 academic year.
- Components planned: Indoor track, field, courts, and training facilities in a 125,000-square-foot building (estimated size)
- Provide modern facilities to promote the fitness and wellness of Nazareth students.
- Provide track and field facilities for intercollegiate and intramural athletics as well as practice facilities for other sports, such as soccer, lacrosse, and softball.
- Enable the College to partner with Special Olympics, which will use the Center for training and events.
- Create opportunities for the College to work with Special Olympics and the Golisano Foundation to promote the Healthy Communities effort to improve the health status of people with intellectual disabilities.
- Nazareth students can be involved in the Special Olympics partnership. Nazareth is the only Rochester‐based college to offer an array of professional health care programs that includes Nursing, Physical Therapy, Speech Therapy, Social Work, Creative Arts Therapy (Art and Music), and Occupational Therapy degrees, as well as pre‐medical and pre‐dental minors. The unique Interdisciplinary Specialty Program in Autism (I‐SPAN) program prepares professionals to work with individuals on the autism spectrum across the lifespan.
- Complements Nazareth's on‐campus clinics, where students work with community clients/patients under faculty supervision.
- Promotes interdisciplinary training of future health care and education professionals.
- For more: Press release announcing the project.
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https://qldwater.com.au/qldwater-affiliates/department-of-health | 2022-08-15T16:11:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00447.warc.gz | 0.94363 | 192 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__145216105 | en | Queensland Health delivers a range of public health services, in collaboration with key stakeholders, to help ensure the health of Queenslanders is protected. Public health services are delivered by Queensland Health’s 11 public health units, located across the state, with support from Queensland Health’s central office.
Queensland Health’s Water Unit, located in Brisbane, develops policy and legislation, and provides health risk and technical advice, on matters relating to drinking water, recycled water, water fluoridation, recreational waters, and water risk management in healthcare facilities. Queensland Health’s Water Unit also oversees Queensland’s wastewater surveillance program for SARS-CoV-2.
Queensland Health’s public health units are regulators of water fluoridation and co-regulators of drinking and recycled water and four of these public health units deliver the Safe and Healthy Drinking Water in Indigenous Local Government Areas Program in partnership with participating councils. | medical |
https://greenspringaesthetics.com/treatment/liposonix-custom-contouring/ | 2019-09-16T08:46:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514572516.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20190916080044-20190916102044-00351.warc.gz | 0.908851 | 1,667 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__131524692 | en | Liposonix®: “Custom Contouring™”
"1 treatment | 1 hour | 1 size smaller™"
Liposonix® is a non-surgical treatment that helps men and women take control and achieve a body shape that is more ideal for them. Developed for people who lead a healthy lifestyle by eating right and exercising, but still have “an inch to pinch” around their waist, Liposonix® is the non-invasive way to conveniently whittle down that last stubborn inch. Scientifically proven, the hour-long treatment leaves behind the desired slimmer, more contoured waistline. Those with more than one inch to lose will still benefit but may want more than one treatment.
The Liposonix® system is the go-to solution that is clinically proven to effectively get rid of that unwanted inch around the waist or those love handles, giving men and women an added boost of confidence in their shape. Unlike other non-invasive fat reduction treatments, Liposonix® is a custom contouring solution designed to selectively target and permanently destroy unwanted fat tissue around the waist.
By using advanced high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) technology, Liposonix® destroys fat below the skin in one hour-long treatment. Over a period of 8-12 weeks, the body naturally processes and removes the fat tissue.
Features and Benefits Liposonix
• One hour-long treatment has the power to get tangible results without the hassle of repeat office visits, fitting into your busy lifestyle.
• Features Greenspring’s low-pain technique
• FDA-cleared non-invasive waist circumference reduction on both the abdomen and flanks, trimming the waistline by about one inch per treatment.
• A safe and non-surgical way to control where you lose, by custom contouring your abdomen, getting results where you want them most.
• Uses clinically proven, state-of-the-art high-intensity focused (HIFU) technology to remove fat below skin.
• Developed over a period of 10 years by leading scientists and ultrasound experts.
How Liposonix® Works
Liposonix® penetrates and destroys the fat found beneath the skin, using advanced high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) technology to create a focal zone of heating, resulting in a dual tissue response: thermal destruction of targeted fat cells and contraction/thickening of subcutaneous collagen and tightening of elastin. A unique pattern delivery system within the treatment head delivers the energy in a controlled, consistent manner. Targeted fat cells are permanently destroyed without harming the skin, and the body naturally processes and removes the fat tissue over a period of 8 to 12 weeks.
A single treatment results in an average reduction of one dress or pant size (1 inch). Clinical studies showed an average waist circumference reduction of approximately 2.6 cm (1 inch) after a single Liposonix® treatment.
How is Liposonix® different from Coolsculpting (Zeltiq)?
• Liposonix® results are smooth; Coolsculpting often leaves lumpy results.
• Liposonix® generates heat to destroy fat. Coolsculping freezes fat.
• Liposonix® tightens the overlying skin. Coolsculpting does not tighten skin.
• Liposonix® actually sculpts the treated area. Coolsculpting does not sculpt; it destroys blocks of fat.
What is the Liposonix® system?
The Liposonix® system uses non-invasive, high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) to get rid of fat on the body without surgery.
What are the typical results of the procedure?
Individual results and office visit time may vary among patients, but on average, a single treatment around the waist results in an average reduction of one pant or dress size (1 inch or 2.6 cm).
When will I see results?
Most patients see maximum results in 8 to 12 weeks. This is how long it takes for the body to naturally metabolize the destroyed fat tissue. The targeted fat cells are permanently destroyed, but surrounding fat cells can grow if a person overeats. The best way for patients to maintain their results is to stick with a healthy lifestyle.
Can I get a Liposonix® treatment instead of liposuction?
The Liposonix® treatment can help you lose one dress or pant size without surgery, but a single procedure may not produce the same dramatic fat reduction associated with surgical liposuction. Dr. Cadoux or his staff would be happy to discuss the different approaches with you during your free consultation.
Can I get a Liposonix® treatment if I’ve already had other procedures?
If you have had surgery or have scars in the treatment area, Liposonix® may still be right for you. Liposonix® is not used directly over scars but can be used adjacent to scars. We encourage you to make an appointment for a free consultation so we can discuss your specific situation.
Is the Liposonix® treatment safe?
The Liposonix® system has more than a decade of research and testing behind its development. The treatment has a well-defined safety profile.
Are there any side effects?
After treatment, you may experience temporary redness, bruising, some discomfort, and swelling. The skin over the treated area may be mildly sensitive for several weeks.
What does the Liposonix® treatment feel like?
During treatment, you may experience discomfort, pain, cold, prickling, tingling, or warmth. Oral pain medication is often used for the procedure. After treatment, you may have temporary redness, bruising, some discomfort and swelling.
How long does the treatment take?
Typically a Liposonix® treatment of the abdomen and flanks is completed in about one hour. This may vary depending on the treatment area and your specific needs.
Will this treatment leave saggy folds in my skin?
This is unlikely. The Liposonix® treatment actually tightens the skin and does not produce the saggy skin that you often find with surgical liposuction procedures or Coolsculpting treatments.
Will the treatment leave an uneven or lumpy looking result?
Unlike many liposuction procedures, the Liposonix® treatment produces smooth results due to its unique, advanced delivery technology. No cases of uneven or lumpy results have been reported.
What will I need to do after the Liposonix® treatment?
There are no special requirements. However, post-treatment care is at the discretion of your healthcare professional. Patients are informed they may resume regular activities right away. Patients are advised to maintain (if not improve) the same diet and exercise routine they observed before treatment – but they don’t need to change these things for the treatment to work.
Who are the potential candidates?
The Liposonix® treatment is for patients who want to reduce stubborn fat and who do not want to undergo surgery. Men as well as women can benefit from the treatment. The Liposonix® treatment is not a means of weight reduction or a replacement for a healthy lifestyle.
How can I find out if the Liposonix® treatment is right for me?
At your free consultation we can determine if the Liposonix® treatment is right for you. To learn more make an appointment with us for a free consultation.
*Individual results may vary from person to person.
Any specific claims or permanence length of results vary for each patient and are not guaranteed. Each treatment plan is designed for an individual patient’s needs, so depending on the area being treated and the condition of the skin, each patient may see different results.
Please call for a patient assessment to discuss your treatment plan and the results that can be achieved for you.
**Call Greenspring Medical Aesthetics for details. | medical |
https://www.myorganicsheets.com/blogs/news/how-bedding-affects-sleep | 2019-04-24T18:04:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578655155.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20190424174425-20190424200425-00527.warc.gz | 0.939706 | 530 | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__77271025 | en | Human beings are part of the earth's natural cycle of seasons. The seasonal changes effect our metabolism and sleep patterns. As we approach the summer months, the light levels increase. This changes the production of the hormone that makes us sleepy (melatonin). It might make us feel sleepy earlier in the evening and wake up earlier in the morning.
As winter approaches with reduced sunlight levels, we can become depleted in vitamin D levels which also affects the level of melatonin production. This will affect our sleep-wake cycle as well. In fact, chronic depletion of vitamin D can cause Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD.
The seasons mess with our sleep patterns and temperature plays a very important role in the onset of sleep and our sleep patterns. A good night's sleep is the most important regenerative process we can give ourselves every day. We can eat a proper diet, work out regularly, drink lots of water and take really good care of yourself, but without good sleep, we do not feel very well in body or in mind. In fact, poor sleep has been linked to depression, being over-weight and reduced concentration according to healthline.com.
As our body prepares to get drowsy and sleep, our internal temperature drops slightly and stays lower until a few hours before wakeup. Research indicates that cooler room temperatures support the body's natural deep sleep cycle. This deep sleep temperature is also affected by our clothing and bedding. The opposite is also true. Hot and humid air makes it harder to sleep. Feeling hot and sticky is not only uncomfortable, but it also interferes with our body attaining and maintaining a deep sleep. Using lightweight and natural fiber bedding and pajamas can help with sleep through proper air circulation and the resulting lower temperature.
Organic bamboo bedsheets are not only eco-friendly, but they are also softer and more comfortable than cotton. With bamboo bedsheets, you will always stay cooler and more comfortable, no matter the season. They are more comfortable than other bedsheets because they are more breathable, easily allowing the passage of air and moisture through them. Bamboo bedding will not trap the excess heat under the covers. Your deep sleep patter will not be interrupted.
Bamboo bedsheets are also healthier because they are hypoallergenic. They do not allow any moisture build up and the resulting allergens. This is most important with your children who are more susceptible to allergens. Since long fibers are stretched the full length of the sheet, bamboo bedsheets are also more durable.
Choose better sleep and health. Choose bamboo bedsheets! | medical |
https://www.thesantaclarachiropractor.com/chiropractic-care/ | 2024-04-16T13:57:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817095.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416124708-20240416154708-00040.warc.gz | 0.943095 | 1,097 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__111282687 | en | Chiropractic is a form of natural healthcare that helps to keep your spine healthy and aligned. When subluxations (misalignments) are present in the spine, pressure is put on nerves. When the misalignments are corrected through the chiropractic adjustment, everything goes back to functioning as it should. The most important part is that your nervous system, which controls every other body system-can work at 100%.
Providing Personalized Plans
The care New Hope Chiropractic provides is always customized to each patient. After your chiropractor performs a detailed history and exam, they will come up with a diagnosis and then construct an individually tailored treatment plan.
Being in Silicon Valley, where many people work long hours in front of a computer, we see many patients benefit tremendously through our treatments. However, the biggest contributing factor to patients getting the best results is consistency of treatments and actively engaging in their own recovery and care.
Our doctors will choose the techniques that will fit each patient best. The main methods we use are as follows:
- Diversified: After determining which vertebrae have lost their normal motion or position, a precise manual thrust is performed to free up “stuck” spinal joints.
- Gonstead: This full spine approach relies on X-rays and a heat-sensing instrument for a thorough evaluation and documented results.
- Thompson Drop Table: Thompson Terminal Point technique is a system of analysis and a special table that reduces the amount of energy needed to adjust your spine.
- Cox Flexion-Distraction: This is a gentle, non-force adjusting method that includes the use of a unique table. The movements of this table assist in the traction of the spine. The method opens up compressed spinal discs and reduces pressure on facet joints of the spine.
- Myofascial Release: We’ll locate tender areas where muscles and connective tissue are producing pain and restricted movement and gently release them.
- Activator Methods®: This technique uses the Activator Adjusting Instrument-a handheld spring-loaded tool that delivers a steady low-force, high-speed thrust. Because this approach is dramatically faster than manual adjustments, the body rarely tightens to resist the adjustment. As a result, your adjustment will be more comfortable and effective. The Activator is also helpful for adjusting elbows, wrists, knees and other joints of the body.
- Extremities: While many health problems can be traced to the spine, wrists, elbows, shoulders, knees other joints of the body can be helped.
We help patients with all types of problems including:
There are certain health conditions we enjoy helping. We enjoy helping because it’s not only challenging but because it’s so gratifying to see results after traditional methods are unsuccessful.
We’ve had great success in treating patients with back pain. We have been able to locate the root cause of the problem and help patients maintain the health of the spine.
At our chiropractic office we have many patients who have been relieved of their nerve and sciatic pain. It’s always a great joy to see patients’ relief when they no longer live day to day with nerve pain and numbness.
We have treated many patients who sustained injuries and trauma in motor vehicle accidents. We have been very effective in helping patients manage their pain and make a strong recovery.
We have helped countless number of athletes at our office get back on their feet after a sports injury, so they can continue to do what they love to do. We also identify injury-prone areas that may cause problems later, and help them to protect and strengthen those areas.
The number of sessions depends on your medical history and the severity of your condition. After a few appointments, we can let you know how you’re improving and provide an estimate of how long your care will take.
Will I be given exercises as part of my care plan?
Yes, we will provide you with various exercises to help with range of motion and the particular condition you came in with.
Are there other services you will recommend to complement my chiropractic care?
Yes, massage, physiotherapy and custom orthotics all work in conjunction with chiropractic care.
Do you take insurance?
Yes, we accept most insurance plans and will verify your insurance coverage, when you contact your office.
I don't have insurance; do you offer a way to make my care affordable?
We do have a discounted rate for patients who do not have insurance.
What are some of the common things that people come to you for?
As we’re in Silicon Valley, we see many engineers who are in pain from sitting in front of the computer all day long. Sciatica and help for auto accident injuries are two other common reasons why patients see us.
If you can't help me will you refer me elsewhere?
Yes, although we can help most people who come to see us, there will be times when someone else is better suited to your particular case. In those instances, we have a network of doctors we can refer you to.
Book Your Consultation Today
Contact us to book your appointment today! We look forward to helping you achieve a healthier version of you.
CONTACT US » | medical |
https://thesourcenews.com/2015/09/17/first-3d-transplant-proves-a-success/ | 2023-12-01T06:02:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100276.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201053039-20231201083039-00172.warc.gz | 0.966875 | 438 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__35779920 | en | A world first Australian development has seen the successful transplant of a sternum and rib cage created by 3D printing.
Australian company, Anatomics teamed with CSIRO to develop the innovative medical device which was used on a 54 year old Spanish cancer patient.
Senior CSIRO Research Scientist, Dr Robert Wilson said they were approached to build the 3D metallic sternum and praises the design by Anamotics.
“The innovation comes from [the] new type of implant, the way the fixing was done, it wasn’t just done with drilling a hole and putting in screws and so on,” he said.
“It was a world first for all those reasons, the surgical guide plate, the unique design, the unique clamping, as well as it being 3D printed which was CSIRO’s role.”
Dr Wilson said 3D printing will continue to develop drastically into the future and options such as regrowing organs are in development.
“What we are doing at the moment, we are building something from a scan, such as the sternum which can sit there as an implant, and that’s going to be around for a number of years,” he said.
“The other stuff [regrowing organs] is largely in development- the way in which a salamander regenerates its organs, if it loses a limb it can re-grow it, understanding those things and then making those organs to regrow is something that is next generation.”
CEO of Anatomics Andrew Batty said although titanium implants have been used previously, current designs do not consider issues of long term fixation.
“Flat and plate implants rely on screws for rigid fixation that may come loose over time- this can increase the risk of complications and the possibility of reoperation,” he said.
“From this, we were able to design an implant with a rigid sternal core and semi- flexible titanium rods to act as prosthetic ribs attached to the sternum.”
The patient was discharged from hospital 12 days after surgery, showing stable signs of recovery. | medical |
https://www.miss.com.au/health/weight-loss | 2024-03-04T18:36:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476464.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20240304165127-20240304195127-00484.warc.gz | 0.943057 | 908 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__165732987 | en | There is a way to fast without going hungry but still achieve the same health and weight-loss effects, leading Australian nutritionist Donna Aston has revealed.
Known as nutritional fasting, the game-changing diet enables you to eat nutritious foods while “fasting” from any foods that have a significant impact on insulin levels.
It enables you to remain nourished, but at the same time promotes visceral fat loss because it reduces the body’s reliance on glucose – meaning the body turns to its fat stores for fuel.
Insulin resistance is at the heart of gaining weight. Following a nutritional fasting diet effectively reduces insulin resistance, which can also mitigate type 2 diabetes symptoms and relieve inflammation.
Nutritional fasting can also reduce blood pressure and cholesterol and improve liver function. It improves on other fasting diets, such as intermittent fasting or water/juice diets, by doing away with long periods of hunger or having to remember what hour or phase of the cycle you are in.
And nutritional fasting is more effective than “monotonously counting calories” as it focuses on the science behind the metabolic impact of foods, and how each affects your body’s microbiome and hormones.
Aston says, just like we need breaks from the routine of our day-to-day lives to relax and recharge, our bodies need time out from the “constant churn and metabolic stress of the digestive process”.
“Nutritional fasting is nothing to fear, although it does terrify people who associate fasting with hunger pains and starvation,” Aston says. “It’s a different pathway to access stored fat more readily, especially visceral fat around the organs, and mobilise it or get it working better for you as energy.
“At the heart of this process is reducing the body’s reliance on glucose by lowering insulin levels.
“Rather than enforcing long periods without food, nutritional fasting selects foods for their low impact on insulin levels, allowing you to consume optimal nourishment while reaping the benefits of fasting.
“Meal timing and obeying your circadian rhythm also plays a critical role in this process.”
Aston, who is also a best-selling health and fitness author, has designed a “nutritional fasting” method as part of her ground-breaking AstonRX program. She says Western diets which are high in refined carbohydrates make us “totally reliant” on glucose for energy. Coupled with a lack of exercise, it can be a recipe for poor health.
But, she says, when we eat “a diverse range of vegetables and good quality protein”, we switch the balance away from glucose and “the body starts looking to the fat stores for the purpose they were deposited – fuel”.
“One of the main ways to initiate this switch is to incorporate nutritional fasting into your life,” Aston says. “That’s when you start to see the body functioning much better and weight starts to shed as a welcome bonus.
“The highs and lows of glucose dependence disappear, and the painful ache of hunger subsides because your body is always calling on the right tank for fuel.”
It is part of Aston’s revolutionary online program which is turning weight-loss on its head by taking the focus off counting calories and instead using science. AstonRX.com is individually tailored to improve metabolic function and gut health with what she calls the “lovely” side effect of rapid fat loss.
Aston, who has previously worked privately with a host of celebrity and business clients, describes the program as “the instruction manual for our body that we never got”.
Aston says the benefits of nutritional fasting are many – with the scientific data to prove it.
Nutritional fasting gives cells a chance to repair, reduces insulin resistance and inflammation, promotes fat loss and improved liver function, reduces blood pressure and cholesterol, and removes waste material from our cells.
“You also lower the risk of being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes or completely reversing the disease progression by allowing your body the opportunity to fast,” Aston says.
“Once your body is working as it should, which only takes a few days to reset, you welcome the opportunity to let your body take a breather.”
Find out more at: https://astonrx.com/ | medical |
https://readysalem.org/potential-hazards/frostbite-and-hypothermia/ | 2023-09-26T22:09:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510225.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926211344-20230927001344-00145.warc.gz | 0.869999 | 254 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__255435667 | en | Frostbite and Hypothermia
Frostbite is a severe reaction to cold exposure that can permanently damage its victims. A loss of feeling and a white or pale appearance in fingers, toes, or nose and ear lobes are symptoms of frostbite.
Hypothermia is a condition brought on when the body temperature drops to less than 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Symptoms of hypothermia include uncontrollable shivering, slow speech, memory lapses, frequent stumbling, drowsiness, and exhaustion.
If frostbite or hypothermia is suspected, begin warming the person slowly and seek immediate medical assistance. Warm the person’s trunk first. Use your own body heat to help. Arms and legs should be warmed last because stimulation of the limbs can drive cold blood toward the heart and lead to heart failure.
Put person in dry clothing and wrap their entire body in a blanket.
Never give a frostbite or hypothermia victim something with caffeine in it (like coffee or tea) or alcohol. Caffeine, a stimulant, can cause the heart to beat faster and hasten the effects the cold has on the body. Alcohol, a depressant, can slow the heart and also hasten the ill effects of cold body temperatures. | medical |
https://www.blaney.com/lawyers/gary-srebrolow | 2023-12-03T06:44:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100489.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203062445-20231203092445-00733.warc.gz | 0.937831 | 708 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__105325773 | en | When dentists and other health professionals require legal advice, they turn to Dr. Gary Srebrolow because of the unique medical-dental perspective he brings to his dental law practice. As a health law lawyer, Gary understands what it is like to be on the “front lines” of providing health care, as he was a practising dentist for many years before he became a lawyer. Gary is also the Chair of the Health Law Group.
Gary is a well-rounded insurance defence litigator as well. Insurance companies rely on him because of his attention to detail, expertise and good results in defending many other professionals in malpractice or errors and omission claims.
Dental Law - Regulatory (RCDSO) Matters:
Gary’s knowledge of dentistry gives him an advantage in terms of understanding the strengths and weaknesses of a dental College case and what is needed to obtain a favourable result.
Dentist clients have retained Gary for the following professional regulatory matters:
- Defence of College (RCDSO) dental complaints and Registrar’s investigations
- Representation at Discipline Hearings
- Defence of Fitness to Practice investigations;
- Representation in Registration/Certification matters
- Insurance company billing audits and investigations
- Preventive action to avoid legal problems (i.e. dental complaint or dental malpractice lawsuit)
- Appeal of Dental Certification Exams (NDEB and RCDC)
Dental Law – Dental Practice legal advice:
Dentists are business people too and they turn to Gary for legal help when their partnership/cost share arrangement/dental associateship comes to an untimely end.
Gary provides legal advice for the following dental business matters:
- Litigation/Arbitration for partner, cost share and associate break-ups
- Dental purchase and sale disputes and litigation
- Drafting of agreements (partnership, associate and cost-sharing)
- Professional corporation formation
- Employment issues/litigation
Health Law - Other Health Professionals – Regulatory Matters and Malpractice Defence
Gary has also successfully represented numerous other health professionals in professional regulation matters (i.e. complaints, investigations, registration appeals, exam appeals, privacy matters, etc.) including the following:
- Physicians and Nurses
- Dental Hygienists and Denture Therapists
- Chiropractors, Physiotherapists and Massage Therapists
- Naturopaths and Dietitians
- Psychotherapists, Psychologists and Social Workers
Gary has also successfully defended health professionals and health care clinics in defending medical and other healthcare malpractice claims. Clients rely on Gary because he understands scientific and complex medical issues.
Legal Opinions for Specialized Health Care Ventures
Gary also provides legal advice and opinions for health care professionals and entrepreneurs interested in establishing innovative and specialized health care ventures, including executive medical clinics, cosmetic medical centres, “private” surgical centres, mobile medical centres, dialysis clinics and diagnostic imaging centres. He also represents patients who wish to appeal denials by OHIP for reimbursement for out of country medical care costs.
Insurance Defence Lawyer
Gary’s practice also involves insurance defence. Insurers have turned to Gary to defend engineers, police officers, governmental agencies, security guards, architects, designers and contractors in litigation claims. Clients appreciate Gary’s scientific background and analytical approach in defending these types of claims. | medical |
https://onlinearabnews.com/sdrpy-inaugurates-operations-and-intensive-care-center-in-al-mahra-governorate-yemen/ | 2021-07-31T05:11:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154053.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20210731043043-20210731073043-00277.warc.gz | 0.948495 | 320 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__251737209 | en | Al-Mahra, The Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen (SDRPY) inaugurated today the Operations and Intensive Care Center in Al-Mahra Governorate, Yemen, which will address the governorate’s need for health services for chronic and urgent cases, and to facilitate the access of patients in the governorate and its surroundings to high-quality and efficient medical care.
The opening was attended by Yemeni Minister of Health and Population Dr. Qassem Buhaibah, Governor of Al-Mahra Mohammad Ali Yasser, and a number of concerned health officials.
The Yemeni Minister of Health said that opening of the Operations and Intensive Care Center in Al-Ghaydah Hospital will be of great benefit to the citizens of Al-Mahra and the neighboring residential areas, commending the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's constant and generous support through the SDRPY. "We in the health sector consider the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as the first supporter of the health sector", he added.
The new Operations and Intensive Care Center of Al-Ghaydah Hospital in Al-Mahra has an area of 1,000 square meters and equipped with 134 medical devices.
It is noteworthy that the SDRPY works to improve services in various vital sectors in Yemen, the most important of which are education, health, transportation, water, agriculture and fisheries, capacity building of government institutions, and energy. So far, the SDRPY has implemented more than 198 projects and initiatives across Yemen.
Source: Saudi Press Agency | medical |
https://williamlongbooks.co.uk/prostate-cancer-news/ | 2023-12-01T01:02:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100258.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130225634-20231201015634-00278.warc.gz | 0.979711 | 291 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__87718658 | en | It is always sad to hear about someone who has been given the news they have prostate cancer, and having experienced this myself, I fully understand what they must be thinking. But in the case of a man I heard about recently whose cancer is much more advanced than mine was, I can only wonder if he had been screened earlier would his condition be much improved.
There has been some debate on how effective early diagnosis is, but at the very least, it gives men who have been diagnosed with the disease, the opportunity to discuss with their oncologist the likelihood of it being the less harmful or more aggressive form of cancer.
This was my position 18 years ago, and 16 years after opting for surgery, I’m very thankful that I was screened early, enabling me to make a decision on which course of treatment to take. I tell how this came about in my book (along with a collection of Irish short stories) https://williamlongbooks.co.uk/books/an-unexpected-diagnosis/
There are a number of websites offering information on prostate cancer. One USA site which covers a lot of the issues is https://prostatecancerfree.org/
Another excellent site is the Macmillan Cancer Support at https://www.macmillan.org.uk/
A previous blog on the subject: https://williamlongbooks.co.uk/prostate-screening/ | medical |
http://www.africanyouthexcellence.org/pursuers_2016_deborah.php | 2023-03-27T00:06:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296946584.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20230326235016-20230327025016-00783.warc.gz | 0.96356 | 957 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__119761559 | en | EDUCATION: Master of Philosophy | Yale University
My participation in the 2010 Summer Undergraduate Internship Program at the University of Pennsylvania served as a bridge between the painful childhood experience of losing my grandmother to breast cancer and my dream of pursuing a career in biomedical research. I spent the first 18 years of my education in Nigeria. During those years, I was groomed towards becoming a medical doctor and knew very little about biomedical research. However, guidance from mentors during the internship and experience in other research laboratories helped me better understand the important contribution of basic research to the field of medicine. This further strengthened my resolve to pursue a career in biomedical research. I am currently a PhD candidate in Experimental Pathology, with a focus on cancer research at the Yale School of Medicine.
At Yale, my research involves the rapidly emerging field of tumor immunology.
Specifically, I am part of a research team working on a paradigm shift wherein the immune system of a cancer patient will be trained to kill tumor cells as efficiently as it would kill, for example, an influenza virus. This is a novel approach to fight cancer because it tackles the two main conundrums of cancer therapy. The first is the toxicity and collateral damage that happens to a patient’s healthy cells as a result of chemotherapy treatment. The second is the issue of relapse commonly observed in cancer patients following an appreciable response to therapy. I am very excited about this new approach to cancer therapy because patients that do respond have durable, long-lasting response. My PhD work is focused on identifying patients that are likely to respond and understand why some tumors may be intrinsically resistant to this new class of therapies.
I have received several awards including the prestigious 2011 City University of New York (CUNY) Salk scholarship, which recognizes students that are likely to make a significant contribution to the field of medicine. In 2012, I won a $120,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) that supported 3 years of my research. In 2015, I was awarded a 2-year pre-doctoral fellowship from the National Cancer Institute, which will support the last phase of my studies. I have also received several scholarships at Yale including the Gruber and Annie Le Fellowships. I authored two peer-reviewed scientific publications from my research as an undergraduate student at the City College of New York (CCNY) and as a graduate student at Yale.
My PhD training has demonstrated the importance of integrating the practice of clinical medicine with biomedical research; they go hand in hand and you cannot do one without the other. For instance, discoveries from research in our lab have led to clinical trials investigating novel drugs that can delay relapse in cancer patients. This is the type of collaborative environment that I would love to see in Nigeria.
I am passionate about affecting a growth in basic and biomedical research as well as an improved collaboration between scientists and clinicians in Nigeria. I am committed to being a vigorous and thought-stimulating mentor and educator. I have a goal of providing young students from and within Africa with the confidence, craft and framework to formulate thought-provoking questions and in the process develop the next generation of scientists equipped with the intellectual support they need to be successful. While pursuing my Bachelor’s degree in New York, I pioneered one-on-one weekend tutoring sessions for middle and high school students at my church, where I prepared students for the mathematics and science regents examination. I ensured the sustainability of my efforts in this area by mentoring the next generation of tutors before leaving New York for graduate studies in New Haven. I remain committed to community service in New Haven by volunteering with the non-profit organization New Haven Reads, which fosters reading and learning in children within the community who may not have access to needed educational resources. For two consecutive years since 2014, I have worked with a team from the telecommunication company, MTN Nigeria and other non-governmental organizations to mentor secondary school students in Nigeria on career, leadership and responsible citizenship via teleconferences. In addition to this, I am currently working with a non-profit organization in Nigeria to provide primary school children with book bags, and stationery as well as equip local libraries with books generously donated by New Haven Reads.
Furthermore, I envision improvement in the state of biomedical research in Nigeria through collaborations between research institutions in the US and Nigeria. This project is still at its nascent phase but I have assembled a team of physicians and scientists at Yale and currently working on identifying the right partnerships in Nigeria. Our goal is to foster the exchange of ideas and resources through an internship program wherein interns are selected from a pool of young faculty members, residents or medical students from Universities across Nigeria. | medical |
https://agirlsgottaspa.com/blogs/beauty-blog/what-is-keratosis-pilaris-and-treatment | 2024-02-28T05:07:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474697.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228044414-20240228074414-00012.warc.gz | 0.942546 | 2,160 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__148292941 | en | What is Keratosis Pilaris?
According to skin care expert, René Serbon, Keratosis Pilaris (commonly referred to as KP) is a keratolytic skin disorder.
Most often seen on the outer upper arms, but can occur on the thighs and cheeks, and less frequently on the forearms and upper back. The condition presents as numerous rough follicular spots that can be skin colored, red, or brown.
The bumps generally don’t hurt or itch. The transition of vellus hair to terminal hair may be an aggravating factor to why this condition often develops in teenage year indicative of a hormonal trigger such as androgen.
Vellus hair, twisted into a spiky keratolytic plug, emerge from the dilated opening of the pilosebaceous duct, can become discolored with pigment or inflammation or both.
In layman's terms - KP is that red, bumpy skin that is annoying at best and is often referred to as, "chicken skin."
At What Age Does KP Appear?
KP is also most evident during teenage years, however; it can be present in babies and persist into adulthood usually disappearing by age 30. It can be particularly prevalent in those who are overweight.
My youngest son has had KP on his arms since birth. Anyone who has ever touched his arms, always remarks on the bumps.
Is KP Genetic?
When I was in my teens and first realized that my skin was not like my friends, I began to notice my mom's skin was exactly the same. And some of her siblings also had this bumpy skin.
Now a mom myself, I have come to understand that KP is familial. My son's have it, as well as atopic dermatitis and eczema.
Serbon explained to me, "There is a genetic predisposition. In individuals with a history of eczema, atopic dermatitis or ichthyosis a genetic filaggrin gene deficiency might be present."
She also told me, "People with a very fair skin and red hair, e.g. Celtic background are also prone." And this makes sense. While we don't have red hair, both their father and myself are Irish (my mom's side of the family is Irish as well.)
Can You Get Keratosis Pilaris on Your Face?
While the bumps are commonly on your upper arms, thighs, and buttocks, it can also present on your face, although it is not as common.
What Are the Symptoms of KP?
As described above, the symptoms largely surround the presentation of numerous small rough bumps on the skin, is typically dry, and can occur in patches. The biggest complaint of those who have KP is the appearance of their skin.
Although, the majority of the medical literature describe sufferers of KP as symptom-free, others support that itching can occur and, less commonly, redness and swelling can be a potential problem. Especially if you are not proactively exfoliating and moisturizing your skin regularly.
Note, that there are times of the year or certain climates that can cause KP to worsen (ie: in weather that promotes dryness it can worsen, in weather that promotes moisture it tends to subdue). KP is not associated with pain or progression of symptoms (ref: Keratosis pilaris, 2).
Should one suspect that they have KP, but see an uncomfortable worsening or progression of symptoms, be sure to consult your physician to determine if there is a need to see a dermatologist or if the doctor feels that any of the associated skin conditions that may co-occur with KP are present.
“Keratosis pilaris is often described in association with other dry skin conditions such as ichthyosis vulgaris, xerosis, and, less commonly, with atopic dermatitis, including conditions of asthma and allergies” (ref: Alai, 1).
Are There Times of the Year When KP is More Prominent?
In the winter months or times of low humidity there is fast trans epidermal water loss (TEWL), Keratosis pilaris tends to be more severe.
Does KP Ever Go Away?
Dr. Hannah Sivak, PhD Founder of Skin Actives Scientifis, says yes. "As we age, the skin gets thinner and KP goes away." Serbon agrees, stating that it persists into adulthood and usually disappears by age 30.
At 45, my KP has yet to disappear, although it is not nearly as bad as it was in my teens and twenties.
But what can those of us do until it actually resolves itself decades from when it started?
Keratosis Pilaris Treatment
First and foremost, Serbon recommends reducing sun exposure to reduce keratinization.
Enzyme treatments, lotions that contain lactic acid or ammonium lactate and daily use of vitamin A in creams or lotions help to reduce KP, according to Serbon.
For those who have KP on their face, Dr. Sivak recommends products with ingredients such as alpha hydroxy acids, salicylic acid (also called "beta hydroxy"), and vitamin A.
There are surgical treatments that can be done to treat KP, although it's not something I will address in this article.
At home therapies are not a cure, however they can help to reduce KP flare ups and will help to minimize the appearance of it. These are otherwise known as home remedies or over the counter treatments.
Physical and Chemical Exfoliation
To smoothe out skin and help to "unplug" the keratin build up in the hair follicle, you need to exfoliate a few times per week.
For Face: Skin Actives Alpha-Beta Exfoliant Solution: Chemical is not a bad word here, as alpha and beta hydroxy acids exfoliate skin. This is a great way to to keep follicles (and pores) on your face, exfoliated of build up. I don't have KP on my face personally, but I use this exfoliant to keep blackheads on my nose and chin at bay.
For Body: A Girl's Gotta Spa! Energizing Citrus Salt Scrub: Manually exfoliate and smoothe your arms and legs by massaging affected areas with Dead Sea Salt. You also get the added bonus of hydration from sunflower and safflower seed oils.
Creams to Exfoliate
Creams containing alpha hydroxy acid, lactic acid, salicylic acid or urea help loosen and remove dead skin cells.
For Face: Paula's Choice Skin Perfecting 8% AHA Lotion Exfoliant: With 8% glycolic acid mixed with plant-soothing botanicals, skin is exfoliated without scrubbing and nourished at the same time.
For Body: AmLactin Lotion: This lotion has lactic acid in it, so it both exfoliates and hydrates skin.
Lotions to Keep Skin Hydrated
After removing the build-up of dead skin cells from the hair follicles, it's important to keep skin moisturized at all times, as it is the lack of moisture that creates the dry skin that lends to the cycle of build up.
It's especially important to be dilligent with this two-step process if you live in a dry climate and during seasonal dryness (like Fall and Winter.)
For Face: heritage & terre Prickly Pear Seed Oil: While not a lotion, this serum nourishes like a dream. 2-3 drops of this cold-pressed Moroccan cactus oil is all it takes to keep skin hydrated because it is very high in linoleic acid.
For Body: A Girl's Gotta Spa! Energizing Citrus Body Lotion: Olive oil, shea butter and cocoa butter create a trifecta of hydration (and pairs perfectly with the body scrub.) Olive oil is an emollient and has fatty acids (oleic, palmitic, and linoleic) that work wonderfully on the skin. Shea and Cocoa Butter are both humectants and emollients. Your skin will never be left feeling dry.
Sylveco Birch Moisturizing Body Balm - This lotion contains grapeseed oil (an emollient), aloe, Vitamin E and betulin from the bark of birch trees. It's both soothing and hydrating.
Sidenote: I used this lotion from Sylveco on my teen son, who has atopic dermatitis on his elbows, with amazing results - stay tuned for that review!
kosmatology Goody-Goody Grapefruit Lotion Bar: If you've been reading this blog since its inception in 2005, it all began with a lotion bar. This one from kosmatology comes in a handy twist-up tube with ingredients like shea butter, coconut oil, and olive oil in Candelilla wax.
All of the above won't prevent or make this skin condition go away. It will only improve the appearance and help you to manage it better.
If moisturizing and other self-care measures don't help, your doctor may prescribe medicated creams.
Things to Avoid if You Have KP
- Hot water, whether via a long bath or shower. Warm water is best.
- Exfoliants that are rough on the skin, like body scrubs that contain walnut shells or apricot kernels.
- Completely drying skin when getting out of the shower. Leaving skin slightly damp and then applying your lotion works best.
- Tight clothes - the friction can make things worse.
- Prolonged sun exposure - and always wear broad spectrum sunscreen regardless.
This article is in no way meant to diagnose and treat a skin condition. Speak to your dr., who will know your whole health history.
- Alai A., MD, FAAD. “Keratosis Pilaris Treatment and Management.” emedicine.
- “Keratosis pilaris.” WebMD.
- René Serbon, Skin Expert.
- Dr. Hannah Sivak, PhD Founder of Skin Actives Scientifis.
Co-written with Courtney Smith, BSN. | medical |
https://mediclo.com/blogs/mediclo-ambassador/vincent-chan | 2024-02-25T14:33:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474617.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225135334-20240225165334-00293.warc.gz | 0.9627 | 557 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__23663879 | en | Name: Vincent Chan
Medical Title/Credentials: MD - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Case Western Reserve University - Medical School
Harbor UCLA Medical Center - Internal Medicine Residency
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center - Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship
Favorite Hobbies: Graphic design & Trying new restaurants
Why did you choose this profession? When I was a medical student, I knew I wanted to care for acutely ill patients with a holistic approach. I thought this meant having a deep understanding of patient physiology across multiple disciplines. At the same time, I was nervous about being in the Intensive Care Unit and having to make medical decisions that could rapidly impact life and death.
As I started my intern year in 2009, I was thrown into the H1N1 pandemic, and I soon realized that in addition to diagnosing and treating complex medical issues, caring for these individuals also meant treating patients and their loved ones with compassion and open communication, whether it’s early in their hospital course or nearing their end of life. I got over my fear of the Intensive Care Unit and chose to pursue a career in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.
Biggest Inspiration: My father inspired me to pursue medicine. I have also had wonderful mentors through each stage of my training who helped shape me into the physician I am today.
Current Passion Project: Outside of the hospital, I have been designing enamel pins for healthcare professionals. In June of 2020, I produced my first pin, which was funded by my institution and given to our residents, nurses, respiratory therapists, and pharmacists for their hard work and dedication fighting the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Since then, I have opened a small business, VINPIN, where I sell enamel pins for healthcare workers and donate the proceeds to charity.
Within the hospital, I have been developing an ultrasound curriculum aimed at Internal Medicine residents, Hospitalists, and Nurse Practitioners. My goal with this curriculum is to empower bedside clinicians to make targeted clinical decisions with point of care ultrasonography, which will hopefully reduce hospital days and improve patient outcomes.
Fun Fact: I have two cats
Do you have any advice for others interested in entering your field? Medicine can be a difficult field to succeed in, but if there is anything I have learned throughout my training and career, it is that the best doctors are not the ones with the best grades or the highest scores. They are the ones who believe in the work they do and truly advocate for the patients they care for.
Any other piece of advice, motivational quote, or message you would like to share? Fortune is nothing more than loving what you do. - Jason Mraz | medical |
https://www.abeautifulme.clinic/ | 2018-02-19T11:49:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891812584.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20180219111908-20180219131908-00200.warc.gz | 0.933776 | 1,908 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__29643210 | en | A Beautiful Me
A Beautiful Me® is the plastic, cosmetic, weight loss and reconstructive surgery program from J. L. Prado Surgical Center, designed to help you keep looking amazing and feeling great about yourself.
The program was originally founded by Dr. Juan Luis Prado in 1985.
He was one of the most important Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgeons of his time, setting new standards in quality results and patient care. His great work and dedication helped patients achieve beautiful and amazing results.
His legacy is now being followed by his family.
At A Beautiful Me®, we believe that with time, people often have a desire to look for something that makes them feel better. That desire is often related to transforming one’s appearance, which can sometimes be achieved with a new diet, enrolling yourself in a gym, or getting a cosmetic surgery procedure done.
At A Beautiful Me®, we know that the decision to undergo plastic surgery is not usually taken lightly. We know that for those of you that are in the decision-making process, there are often concerns about the short and long term effects of any type of procedure.
That is why we offer experienced, highly trained personnel and the commitment of personal attention, always provided by your patient coordinator who will guide you throughout your whole experience, not only answering your questions and clearing your doubts, but helping you feel like family.
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If you have already made the decision to have plastic surgery, we would like you to consider the following factors:
- When someone is self-conscious about their appearance or a specific part of their body, they may tend to “hide” or be less outgoing. This is common, and unfortunately, it can hold a person back in life.
- When people feel good about the way they look, they are more willing to take risks, try new things and take control of their lives in new ways.
- A cosmetic procedure gives you a renewed sense of control and confidence.
- It is common for patients to report a boost in confidence after a procedure. They feel good and they look good. This confidence often gives them the motivation they need to set new goals for themselves, to be more outgoing and to feel more comfortable in their own skin.
It is important for our patients to understand the reason why they want to have a cosmetic procedure, that way they can set realistic goals and expectations, understanding that while a procedure may improve their quality of life, it isn’t going to “fix” all of their problems.
To keep you looking and feeling great, to always help you strive to achieve that perfect vision of yourself.
Dr. Juan Pablo Cervantes, MD
Dr. Cervantes is a plastic surgeon, specialized in plastic, aesthetic and reconstructive surgery.
He speaks fluent Spanish and English and has enjoyed a successful, distinguished career to date. Dr. Cervantes has a medical degree from the Faculty of medicine, Autonomous University of Baja California, and a degree in Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery from the National University of Mexico.
He has held the positions of Chief Resident of General Surgery and Chief Resident of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Hospital General.
Certification of the International Society of Bariatric Plastic Surgeons
Dr. Jackeline Aragon, MD
Dr. Aragon is a plastic surgeon specializing in cosmetic and reconstructive surgery.
She speaks fluent Spanish and English and has enjoyed a successful career, winning prestigious awards such as the National Award for Surgery in Mexico.
Dr Aragon has a Medical degree from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and has held the position of Chief Resident of General Surgery at Hospital General Dr. Manuel Gea Gonzalez, as well as having completed a third-year Residency in Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery at Hospital Central Sur.
Certification of the International Society of Bariatric Plastic Surgeons
International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS)
Both doctors are members of the prestigious International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. This is the world's leading professional body for board-certified aesthetic plastic surgeons.
Founded in 1970, ISAPS membership includes over 2,400 of the world's best known and respected reconstructive and aesthetic plastic surgeons in 94 countries on every continent reflecting the true international mission of the organization. The ISAPS charter was signed at the United Nations.
ISAPS requires that all members also maintain active membership in the national society of plastic surgery in the country where they practice.
To be considered for membership, they must be sponsored by two active or life ISAPS members and must adhere to a rigorous review process, which includes a seven-year practice history beyond graduation from medical school.
American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive surgery (ASAPS)
Members of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons; it is the largest plastic surgery specialty organization in the world. Founded in 1931, the Society represents 94% of all board-certified plastic surgeons in the U.S., and more than a thousand plastic surgeons worldwide, making ASPS a global institution and leading authority on cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery.
The mission of ASPS is to advance quality care to plastic surgery patients by encouraging high standards of training, ethics, physician practice and research in plastic surgery. The Society is a strong advocate for patient safety and requires its members to operate in accredited surgical facilities that have passed rigorous external review of equipment and staffing.
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Clinically known as rhytidectomy, is a procedure used to reduce the appearance of facial wrinkles and other telltale signs of aging, with the goal of improving the overall appearance of the face and jaw.
Also, called an eye lift, reduces bagginess from the lower eyelids and removes excess skin from the upper eyelids.
This surgery is usually done for cosmetic reasons. It's also an effective way to improve sight in older people whose sagging upper eyelids get in the way of their vision
Botulinum Toxin, It’s a purified protein that relaxes the muscles that cause fine lines and wrinkles. When does it start acting: 3 to 7 days. How long does it last?: 4 to 6 months. How it's applied: 3 to 5 injections per area
Price US $350.00 / 3 AREAS US $290.00 / 2 AREAS US $180.00 / 1 AREA
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https://cmc.deusto.eus/mathematical-vihaids-infection-tuberculosis/ | 2023-12-11T14:44:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679515260.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211143258-20231211173258-00192.warc.gz | 0.885539 | 320 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__189355216 | en | Nkamba L. Mathematical model to assess vaccination and effective contact rate impact in the spread of tuberculosis (2019)
Abstract: Tuberculosis is a serious problem of public health in several countries. Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Adults are principally attacked Vaccination and treatment of TB patients are the common control strategies. The long and binding treatment of tuberculosis at least 6 to 8 months for the new cases, the partial immunity given by bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine (vaccine for tuberculosis disease), the loss of immunity after a few years doing that strategies of tuberculosis control via vaccination and treatment of infectious are not sufficient to eradicate tuberculosis. In this work, we assess the impact of AIDS in the spread of tuberculosis via a deterministic epidemic model (S Svih, E LI) (Susceptible; AIDS patient; early latent; late latent; Infectious). Using Lyapunov-Lasalle methods, we analyze the stability of epidemic system (S, Svih, E, L, I) around the equilibriums (disease free and endemic equilibrium). The global asymptotic stability of the unique endemic equilibrium whenever R0>1 is proved, where R0 is the reproduction number. We prove also that when R0<1, tuberculosis can be eradicated. Numerical simulations are conducted to approve analytic results and that AIDS has a great contribution in the spread of tuberculosis via influence of prevalence rate and treatment of AIDS patients. | medical |
https://salford.figshare.com/articles/poster/_Cancer_Nanotechnology_Design_of_Multimodal_Gold_Nanoparticle-based_Chemotherapeutics_by_Pouria_Rafati/14815407 | 2021-10-16T11:12:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323584567.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20211016105157-20211016135157-00454.warc.gz | 0.919837 | 315 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__279688739 | en | 'Cancer Nanotechnology: Design of Multimodal Gold Nanoparticle-based Chemotherapeutics' by Pouria Rafati
Clinically available cancer therapies are restricted to radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery, all often resulting in damage to healthy tissues and causing the risk of cancer recurrence. Nanotechnology-based chemotherapeutics offer targeted therapies, selective treatments, along with a personalised medicine approach. They involve synthetic nanoparticles specifically conjugated with chemotherapy drugs, which can ultimately lead to improved distribution in biological fluids, increased systemic circulation times, protection from degradation by cellular components, and reduced systemic toxicities.
Specifically, gold nanoparticles represent an excellent choice for anticancer applications due to their biocompatibility, tunable optical properties, and advanced surface functionalisation. Currently, nanoparticle design for anticancer applications is focused around the design and development of novel multimodal and multifunctional, biocompatible nanoparticles for use in cancer therapy and cancer diagnostics. These particles provide an opportunity to reduce common side-effects of traditional chemotherapy drugs and enable optimal dose delivery to the targeted tissues.This interdisciplinary PhD project is focused on the design and synthesis of novel functional gold nanoparticles and high-throughput evaluation of the in vitro response on a range of cancer cell lines. Moreover, this study will investigate the complex mechanisms of cellular uptake of these nanoparticles designed as drug delivery vehicles. Thus, the project has the potential to contribute to the development of state-of-the-art nanoparticle-based cancer treatment strategies. | medical |
http://www.ci.carrboro.nc.us/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=886 | 2018-05-22T23:21:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864999.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20180522225116-20180523005116-00539.warc.gz | 0.929625 | 491 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__12305717 | en | Create an Account - Increase your productivity, customize your experience, and engage in information you care about.
Mayor Lavelle presented members of the National Alliance of Mental Illness of Orange County (NAMI) with a proclamation for Mental Health Awareness Month at the May 15th Board of Alderman meeting.
MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH
WHEREAS, since 1949, May has officially been observed as Mental Health Awareness Month across the United States; and
WHEREAS, one in four adults experience mental illness in a given year, including depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and PTSD; and
WHEREAS, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness; and
WHEREAS, NAMI offers education programs to ensure that thousands of families, individuals and educators get the support and information they need; and
WHEREAS, NAMI also shapes national public policy for people with mental illness and their families, and provides volunteer leaders with necessary tools, resources and skills; and
WHEREAS, NAMI has worked to secure better funding for research, and to ensure that mental illness is treated equally to physical illness in insurance plans; and
WHEREAS, to learn more, find support, and/or get involved with NAMI , visit their website at www.nami.org or call their hotline: 800-950-NAMI(6264); and
WHEREAS, Mental Health Awareness Month is an opportunity to increase public understanding of the importance of mental health, and to promote identification and treatment of mental illness;
WHEREAS, Carrboro is fortunate to have mental health providers in our community, such as Club Nova, that support persons by focusing on their strengths and potential, and address their needs by providing a holistic, caring environment designed to promote rehabilitation and reintegration into the community.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that I, Lydia E. Lavelle, on behalf of the Town of Carrboro do hereby proclaim, May 2018 as “Carrboro Mental Health Awareness Month.” I urge all residents of Carrboro to consider how they might support friends, family members, and community members suffering from mental health challenges in the coming year.
This the 15th day of May, 2018
Mayor Lydia E. Lavelle | medical |
https://www.nfgp.org/flx/sjphc/paper_of_the_year_2013_and_2014/paper_of_the_year_2015_and_2016/ | 2020-06-05T04:13:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590348492427.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20200605014501-20200605044501-00221.warc.gz | 0.955816 | 488 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__11890219 | en | 2015 and 2016
Paper of the Year 2015 and 2016
In recognition of the high standard of papers submitted to the Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, the editorial board in collaboration with the Nordic Congress of General Practice announced the two winners of the Paper of the Year Award 2015 and 2016 at the opening ceremony at the Nordic Congress for General Practice 2015 in Reykjavik, Iceland in June 2017. Both winners were rewarded participation free of charge to the Nordic Congress in Reykjavik, and were given a specific time slot at one of the congress sessions to present the Paper and the research it constitutes.
2015: Marijke Talsma, Kristina Bengtsson Boström & Anna-Lena Östberg
‘This is a cross-sectional questionnaire study with 177 GPs and GP trainees. It showed that despite mandatory reporting, 20% of all physicians had at some point suspected but not reported child abuse. The main reasons for non-reporting were uncertainty about the suspicion and use of alternative strategies; for instance, referral to other health care providers or follow-up of the family by the treating physician. The authors concluded that the communication and cooperation between GPs and child protective services needs to be improved and there is also a need for continued education and guidelines.
Both referees and the panel thought it is important to bring up the topic of underreporting of child abuse in primary health care. The approach of the paper was relevant and results useful for GPs.’
2016: Kristine Heitmann, Hans Christian Svendsen, Ingvild Sporsheim & Lone Holst
‘This is a qualitative focus group study. Focus group discussions were conducted both with pregnant women and with GPs. The study identified attitudes among GPs and pregnant women that may act as obstacles to appropriate care for women with nausea and vomiting in pregnancy. The pregnant women and the GPs seemed to talk at cross-purposes; GPs’ normalization of the symptoms made the women feel that their distress due to nausea and vomiting was trivialized by the GPs. The results indicated that pregnant women with nausea and vomiting requiring medical treatment probably need comprehensive and reassuring information about treatment options before considering using any medicines.
The panel thought this is an example of a well designed and conducted study about conflicting views and experiences. Results are relevant for clinical practice with a potential for change.’ | medical |
https://crossfitbarbending.com/personnel/danielle-mendez/ | 2024-02-21T14:55:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473518.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221134259-20240221164259-00247.warc.gz | 0.970808 | 410 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__110817762 | en | I have alway been in love with coaching and physical activity. I started coaching gymnastics in 1999 right here in CFBB before it was CFBB. I continued to coach gymnastics until I went to graduate school for physical therapy where I harnessed my love for coaching into my physical therapy practice. I completed my graduate school education in Scotland at Robert Gordon University where I received my master’s in physiotherapy. After completing my graduate education and working for several fast-paced, mill clinics, I knew I wanted to offer a more personalized approach to treating patients, one where the patient’s health and wellbeing are the center of focus.
In early 2020, I decided to open up my own practice and needed a location. I knew CFBB would be the right place because of their passion for helping people get fit, stay healthy and live long active lives. Thankfully they had a space for me to get started. As a PT I strive to make each session individualized for the patient, no one person is like another and therefore their care shouldn’t be either. I strive to educate patients not only on their clinical diagnosis, but also the benefits of exercise, sleep, nutrition (this is general, global advice, I leave the specifics to the professionals in this area), and how this can help your progress in physical therapy and prevent future injury. I strive to let the patient know that their diagnosis and pain doesn’t have to define them and their activity, you don’t have to stop doing the things you love!
A little more about me: I enjoy coaching some classes in the gym, exercising including CrossFit, running, yoga, snowboarding and chasing my kids around. All of my freetime is family time. I have 2 kids (Henry and Ramona), a dog (Harlan), and a husband (they may or may not be listed in any particular order). Physical therapy and exercising are passions of mine and I am so grateful to have the opportunity to share this with others. | medical |
https://thla.chla-absc.ca/?p=2853 | 2024-02-22T15:08:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473819.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222125841-20240222155841-00786.warc.gz | 0.942753 | 192 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__205862631 | en | Please save the date for the Toronto Health Libraries Association Annual General Meeting and Dinner!
When: Tuesday April 9th, 2019 at 5:30pm
Tickets and further information for this event will be available soon
This year we are pleased to welcome as our keynote speaker, Shelley Wall, AOCAD, MScBMC, PhD. Dr. Wall is a medical illustrator, and holds a position as faculty mentor with the Collaborative Graduate Program in Women’s Health at the University of Toronto. She is also a member of the Coalition for Research in Women’s Health at the Women’s College Research Institute. Her areas of focus in research include, medical illustration, promoting health literacy and the use of plain language in medicine, and using the visual narrative as a part of health communication. Dr Wall also co-organized the July 2018 conference, Comics & Medicine: Navigating the Margins, held at the University of Toronto. | medical |
http://frontline-vs-advantix.net/index.asp?/wormers/profender/_/profender-spon-on-for-cats-12-18-lbs-red-2-tubes/1212.htm | 2024-04-24T06:01:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819067.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424045636-20240424075636-00851.warc.gz | 0.88354 | 458 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__59439681 | en | Profender is the first-ever, topical dewormer used to treat and control intestinal parasites in cats, such as hookworms, tapeworms and roundworms. Profender is easy to use, safe and effective, usually works in a single-dose capacity.
Profender works by using the time-tested active ingredient praziquantel and a unique compound called emodepside to eradicate intestinal parasites. Once Profender encounters your cat's skin, it rapidly enters the bloodstream and travels to the intestines, controlling and eliminating unwanted parasites.
- Apply only once to your pet's skin and use the entire contents for one application.
- Twist cap off the appropriate tube of Profender based on your cat's weight and part your pet's hair at the base of the neck until your cat's skin is visible (be sure your cat's skin is dry).
- Place the tip of the tube on the exposed skin and squeeze entire contents directly onto your cat's skin. Lift tube away from the skin before releasing pressure on the tube.
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Not for use on kittens under 8 weeks old or those under 1.1 lbs. and safe use in breeding, pregnant, or lactating pets has not been determined. Use with caution in sick or debilitated cats. Keep out of reach of children, and to prevent accidental ingestion of the product, children should not come in contact with the application site for 24 hours while the product is being absorbed. Pregnant women or women who may become pregnant should avoid direct contact with, or wear disposable gloves when applying this product.
: Bayer Animal Health | medical |
http://www.21stcenturyabe.org/the-dangers-of-the-hpv-virus-besides-cervical-cancer.html | 2019-07-16T12:47:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195524548.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20190716115717-20190716141717-00482.warc.gz | 0.95877 | 918 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__202068281 | en | Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is a viral infection that is the main cause of cervical cancer. There are more than 100 HPV viruses, 40 of which are transmitted through sexual contact and can affect the genitals, mouth, and throat. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection that affects men and women.
HPV can be transmitted through anal, oral, or vaginal intercourse with an infected person. However, this virus can also be spread through contact from the skin to the skin. Usually, people infected with this virus do not show any symptoms, so transmission will be very easy to occur. Therefore, early prevention and examination is needed to find out whether or not the HPV virus is in your body, especially for those of you who are sexually active who you can consult at Yishun clinic
Infection caused by HPV in addition to cervical cancer
HPV virus infections can cause several health problems. The infection that commonly occurs is cervical cancer. But it turns out that HPV can cause various other health problems that also need special attention. Among the diseases caused by HPV are:
1. Genital warts
Genital warts are one of the HPV infections in the form of lumps, which can be large but can also be small in size so that it is difficult to see with the naked eye. Genital warts can appear in units or even in groups. If described, group warts look like a small cauliflower or may only look flat and white.
In women, genital warts appear around the anus or in the vulva, vagina or cervix. Whereas in men, genital warts can occur on the outside of the penis, in the scrotum, or around the anus.
Usually, genital warts are accompanied by itching, irritation, and may bleed if scratched. When symptoms develop, infections usually occur 2 to 3 months ago. However, not infrequently the first symptoms appear after years of infection. Both men and women are generally unaware of the existence of this disease until they check their complaints to GP in Yishun
2. Anal cancer
Nearly 80% of anal cancers are found in people over 60 years. Before the age of 35 years, anal cancer is more common in men. Frequent anal intercourse has the potential to trigger the development of anal cancer because it increases the risk of transmission of HPV infection to the anus.
Patients with weak immune systems tend to get this cancer. The most common symptom of anal cancer is bleeding. In addition, itching in the anus can also mark this disease. Other signs are pain or pressure in the anal area, lumps near the anus, changes in bowel movements, and the presence of fluid that does not usually pass through the anus.
3. Penile cancer
Penile cancer begins in the skin cells of the penis and extends to the inside. This cancer includes rarely found. Although rare, this cancer can be treated if found at an early stage. Experts estimate that uncircumcised people are more likely to be at risk of this cancer.
Cancer cell growth can occur if there is a liquid trapped at the tip of the penis and not cleaned. In addition, several studies suggest that penile cancer occurs due to infection with certain HPV viruses.
This type of cancer is more common in men over the age of 60, smokers, and those who have a weak immune system. The following are the symptoms that usually occur in penile cancer:
However, not all men with signs above have penile cancer. This can also occur due to an allergic reaction. Even so, it is important to check the health of your penis if unusual symptoms appear.
4. Vaginal cancer
Vaginal cancer is a rare case, just like penile cancer. Vaginal cancer most often occurs in cells lining the surface of your vagina, which is often referred to as the birth canal. In the early stages, this cancer does not show any symptoms. However, over time can cause signs and symptoms such as:
5. Cancer of the oropharynx
According to the Cancer Treatment Centers of America, HPV causes throat cancer, especially oropharyngeal cancer. Oropharyngeal cancer is cancer that attacks the back of the throat, including the base of the tongue and tonsils. Generally, this type of cancer is more common in men than in women.
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http://brookskomfy.diowebhost.com/6908473/the-smart-trick-of-colorado-springs-dentist-that-nobody-is-discussing | 2019-01-16T13:01:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583657470.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20190116113941-20190116135941-00175.warc.gz | 0.944684 | 470 | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__96657700 | en | Colorado Springs Dentist | Dental Professionals in Colorado Springs Area
Colorado Springs Dentistry offers a wide range of oral solutions and treatments to address all of our individuals' oral health demands. Our website includes info on the following products: Dentist, Cosmetic Dentist, Family Dentist, General Dentist, Emergency Dentist, Dental Implants, Teeth Whitening, Veneers, Dentures, Dental Crowns and also extra.
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We are devoted to supplying quality healthcare to households found in the Colorado Springs location as well as reward people of every ages. We supply thorough remedies for our individuals' dental health needs.
Thinking in the value of listening to our clients, we make the effort to really recognize everyone's requirements, goals, and lifestyle. By understanding our clients' goals we can give services that will boost their health while transforming their smile into something brilliant and also lovely.
We pride ourselves on supplying customized top-quality dental treatment tailored to fit your own distinct circumstances. When its time for your dental treatment, you can be positive that your treatment will be accomplished with the gentle strategy and also pleasant way the dental professionals and team at Colorado Family Dental is known for.
Our oral treatment services consist of:
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We enjoy treating people of any ages consisting of children at our Colorado Springs dental office, and also we provide a complete menu of dental care solutions in one location, from general dental appointments to complete smile recovery with dental implants. We additionally provide oral treatment for sleep apnea and also snoring as well as CEREC one-visit dental crowns - now you could go residence with a lovely porcelain tooth-colored crown instead of a short-term saving you time as well as an extra see to the dental professional.
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We love helping enhance our people lives, one great smile each time. We desire you to have a healthy and balanced mouth and a beautiful smile of which you could be proud. You owe it to yourself as well as your family members to uncover why a lot of others have actually more info relied on Anderson Family Dental for their very own dental treatment. | medical |
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Choosing the right dentist is an important choice to make. Dr. Evans and his staff are trained on the latest dental treatments & technologies...
How Old Should My Child Be?
Experts agree - your child's first dental visit should be scheduled around their first birthday. This provides your child an opportunity to get to know and become comfortable with the doctor and staff.
Your Child's Dental Health is Important
The most common chronic childhood disease in America is tooth decay. Many studies have been conducted on the importance of starting children early with good dental hygiene.
Liberty Lake Pediatric DentistAs a Spokane area pediatric dental office, we strive to meet the unique needs of children. Our children's dental programs include being committed to family-centered oral health for infants, children, adolescents and special needs patients.
Our dentist and staff maintain the highest standards in pediatric dental and oral care. We specialize in providing outstanding dental service for infants, children, adolescents and young adults. Our goal is to establish great oral health habits and a program of preventive dental care early in your child's life.
Our friendly staff of professionals prides itself on making kids feel comfortable within the office setting. We strive to create an environment that encourages preventive care from infancy through adolescence, that is kid friendly, facilitates communication with families, respects privacy, encourages affection and promotes great oral health. Early, regular visits to the pediatric dentist will build a trust that will help young children prepare for a lifetime of good check-ups.
Start your children's dental program with us or simply search our KiDDS Dental website for further information! If you have any questions or concerns regarding your children's teeth and over all oral health, please do not hesitate to visit with our knowledgeable pediatric dental staff. We will provide you with a wealth of information about your child's growth and development. With awareness comes better preventative care. Your kids teeth and oral health are very important to us. Visit our pediatric dentist office today in Liberty Lake, conveniently located between Spokane and Coeur d'Alene.
KiDDS Dental patients and their smiles are our most important asset, and we are committed to develop long-lasting, trusting relationships with all of our patients, and meeting all of your children's dental needs.
Your referrals are welcome and appreciated. We would love to help all children in the greater Spokane area!
We look forward to seeing you and your kids!
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Emergency services provided 24 hours a day, seven days a week for existing patients. Call our office for recorded information on how to contact our doctor on call. 509-891-7070
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https://www.msderm.net/about | 2024-02-23T17:53:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474440.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223153350-20240223183350-00142.warc.gz | 0.964036 | 1,288 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__207325891 | en | At Mississippi Dermatology Associates, we strive to glorify God and to provide the best care for each patient’s medical and cosmetic needs involving the skin. Our medical staff includes Dr. Beau Burrow, a board certified dermatologists, two physician assistants, and one nurse practitioner. Our providers offer years of combined experience treating any and all skin care concerns. We treat medical skin conditions as well and offer a wide range of cosmetic services including BOTOX®.
Mississippi Dermatology Founder,
Dr. Bill Burrow
While Dr. Bill is not seeing patients in the clinic, he continues to serve the practice as a consultant.
Dr. William H. Burrow, II, founded Mississippi Dermatology Associates in 1977. Known in the clinic as Dr. Bill, he moved to Greenville, MS with his family when he was in high school. Dr. Bill received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Vanderbilt University. He then went to Mississippi State University where he studied zoology. Dr. Bill completed medical school and an internship at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine. He moved to Birmingham, Alabama to complete a residency in Dermatology at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham.
Dr. Bill is board certified by the American Academy of Dermatology. He is active with the following professional organizations: American Academy of Dermatology, Mississippi Dermatology Society, and Jackson Dermatology Society.
Dr. Bill is married to his high school sweetheart, LaFon. They live in Madison, Mississippi. Dr. Bill is an active member at Riverwood Bible Church. When he’s not in the clinic, Dr. Bill enjoys golfing, spending time with family, and cooking.
Dr. Beau Burrow
Dr. William H. Burrow, III (Dr. Beau) joined his father at Mississippi Dermatology Associates in 2000. Dr. Beau was born in Greenville, Mississippi. Following in his father’s footsteps, he completed his undergraduate studies at Vanderbilt University majoring in Mathematics. He completed medical school at the Univeristy of Mississippi School of medicine. Dr. Beau completed his dermatology residency at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham and completed his Mohs surgery fellowship with Dr. Gary Monheit. While Dr. Beau specializes in treating skin cancer utilizing the Mohs surgical procedure, he also treats all skin conditions.
Dr. Beau is board certified by the American Academy of Dermatology. He is an active member of the following professional organizations: American Academy of Dermatology, American College of Mohs Surgeons, Mississippi Dermatology Society, and Jackson Dermatology Society.
Dr. Beau and his wife Christy live in Jackson, Mississippi. When he’s not in the clinic, Dr. Beau enjoys spending time with his wife and three children, hunting, and participating in short term medical missions.
Catherine D. Diaz, PA-C
Catherine Diaz is a nationally board certified Physician Assistant. Originally from Sugar Land, Texas, she frequently traveled to Mississippi as a child to visit her mother’s extended family and developed a great love for Mississippi. Catherine attended Mississippi State University, where she earned her Bachelor of Science in biological engineering. During her time at MSU, she was a Roadrunner and a member of the Phi Mu sorority. She then went on to attend Mississippi College to complete her Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies.
Catherine loves getting to know her patients and developing a personal relationship with them. She is passionate about providing quality care to her patients and educating them on skincare. Catherine is a member of the Academy of Physician Assistants, Society of Dermatology Physician Assistants, and the Mississippi Academy of Physician Assistants.
Catherine and her husband, Stephen, live in Clinton with their two rescue animals, Ella and Ollie. Stephen is a Biloxi native and works as a civil engineer for the Mississippi Department of Transportation. In her spare time, Catherine enjoys cheering for Mississippi State, traveling and visiting family and friends.
Jenna Haberman Ainsworth, PA-C
Jenna is a nationally board certified Physician Assistant. She earned her bachelor’s degree from University of Minnesota in biology and received her Masters of Medical Science as a Physician Assistant from Midwestern University in Arizona. Jenna has practiced with Mississippi Dermatology Associates since 2016.
Jenna is a compassionate dermatology specialist proficient in addressing medical dermatologic concerns for patients of all ages from acne, warts, psoriasis and eczema to hair loss and skin cancer detection and treatment. She also enjoys cosmetic dermatology.
Jenna is a member of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, Society of Dermatology Physician Assistants, and the Mississippi Academy of Physician Assistants. Jenna is also a clinical preceptor and guest lecturer for Mississippi College Physician Assistant program. Jenna was recently recognized by Hometown Rankin Magazine as one of the top 5 Physician Assistants in Rankin County.
In her spare time, Jenna enjoys spending time with her husband, Hunter, and their foster children.
Christina Perkins, FNP-C
Christina Perkins received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at Mississippi University for Women and her Master of Science in Nursing with honors from the University of Mississippi Medical Center. She is a board certified nurse practitioner specialized in dermatology surgery, aesthetic, BOTOX®, and general dermatology. Christina believes in developing strong relationships with her patients to achieve personalized care for every patient.
She holds a national certification with the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and is nationally board certified in emergency nursing. Christina has 10 years of experience as a registered nurse in trauma and emergency care. She enjoyed her time spent as a travel ER nurse and working at UMMC children’s emergency department. Christina is an active member of the Nurse Practitioner Society of Dermatology Nurses Association and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.
In her spare time, she serves the community as an active certified volunteer firefighter with over 7 years experience. She resides in Clinton, Mississippi with her husband and their two children. She enjoys traveling, hiking, playing the piano, painting, and spending time with her family. | medical |
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2015-09-01/mushrooms-to-the-rescue/ | 2023-01-29T09:54:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499710.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20230129080341-20230129110341-00808.warc.gz | 0.958547 | 281 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__136275597 | en | Tradd Cotter and his mushrooms are stepping up as pharmaceutical giants like Pfizer and Merck abandon the responsibility to test and develop new antibiotics to keep up with new, dangerous bacteria.
This abandonment is sudden and comes at a time when evermore bacteria have become immune to the existing antibiotics from which Pfizer, Merck and others have reaped untold billions in profits.
“It’s almost like we got cut off,” Cotter says of Big Pharma. “They have shut the door.”
Into this abyss, Cotter, a microbiologist and organic mushroom farmer, is practicing the science of mycoremediation. His mushroom “cakes” utilize mushrooms’ ability to manufacture their own antibiotics and antivirals and, in the right combinations, help the people who ingest them to sweat out the bacteria that aim to do them harm.
“It’s the old way of doing microbiology,” Cotter says.
This natural approach to fighting viruses has the added advantage of lasting longer. Bacteria can become resistant to pharmaceuticals in two years, and the band aid approach of making new drugs to keep up with them is becoming less and less effective. Mushrooms, meanwhile, have been around almost as long as bacteria and are not easily fooled.
Teaser image credit: Tellurideinside.com | medical |
http://www.thereisaway.us/a-simple-weight-loss-solution-for-those-struggling-with-dieting/ | 2017-08-18T10:37:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886104634.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170818102246-20170818122246-00272.warc.gz | 0.941798 | 1,378 | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-34__0__252714174 | en | Since it’s not so easy to achieve effective weight loss simply via diet management and exercise, people are now opting for herbal and pharmaceutical medicines for this purpose. In recent times, there are multiple debates going on regarding the use of Forskolin for weight loss and boosting the metabolism.
Forskolin is an aromatic herbal ingredient which is extracted from the roots of an Indian herb plectranthus barbatus, belonging to the family lamiacea. For centuries, this plant has been in use for diverse medical purposes owing to its pharmacological benefits.
Here, we’ve presented a comprehensive, research-based analysis of how Forskolin is really beneficial in healthy weight loss.
How Does Forskolin Work To Cause Fat Metabolism?
It’s scientifically proven that Forskolin is a natural stimulator and regulator of an enzyme adenylate cyclase which in turn stimulates the synthesis of cAMP i.e. Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate. Most of the health benefits of Forskolin are linked with this mechanism. This is because cAMP leads to the formation of ATP i.e. Adenosine Triphosphate which is the basic energy resource of our body and has multiple functions such as:
- Decrease in blood pressure
- Decrease in inflammatory reactions of the body
- Prevention of platelet aggregation
- Causing bronchodilation to assist breathing
But the most beneficial characteristic of cAMP is its ability to stimulate the production of such hormones in the body which activate and potentiate the lipid-burning mechanism i.e. lipolysis .CAMP basically belongs to a specific group of chemicals called as ‘second messenger’. These chemicals indirectly work by increasing the activity of certain neurotransmitters in the brain which signal the brain to release such hormones which cause the release of fat from the fat cells. One of these hormones is testosterone which is increased in the body with the use Forskolin, thereby having a significant increase in fat-metabolism in the body .
Does Forskolin Have Significant Effect On Weight Loss?
Untill today, only two major and authentic scientific studies have been carried out to analyze the effects of Forskolin on weight loss in humans.
In one study, the changes in the body composition and hormonal levels were studied with the consumption of Forskolin in obese and overweight men. It was a comparative, double-blind study which was conducted on a total of 30 subjects. Since it was a comparative study, 15 men were treated with Forskolin while 15 were given placebo for twelve weeks.
It was observed that the subjects treated with Forskolin showed favorable alterations in their body composition by a significant decrease in their total fat mass and body fat percentage, because of an increase in their serum testosterone levels , whereas, no such effects were observed in subjects which were given placebo. Hence, it was concluded from the study that Forskolin can be used as a possible pharmacological agent for the management and treatment of obesity.
The second study was conducted on mildly overweight women to check the effects of Forskolin on body composition and to determine the safety of supplementation. The results obtained from the study suggested that Forskolin didn’t promote significant weight loss; however, it did help to stop further weight gain in overweight females, with no threatening side effects.
Hence, it can be concluded that Forskolin can have mild effect on weight loss along with significant lipid-metabolism and a decrease in total body fat percentage. However, more scientific evidence is needed to support or strengthen its use as a potential weight-reducing agent.
The recommended dosage of Forskolin is about 25 to 60mg\day, in order to allow the body to adjust and adapt to Forskolin consumption. 125mg and 250mg Forskolin tablets are also available in the market. What you need to consider is whether you’re getting Forskolin’s pure natural extract or not. Always choose a supplement which has at least 20% pure Forskolin extract or more.
Are There Any Adverse Effects Associated With Forskolin Consumption?
After aggressive testing and comprehensive research studies, it was concluded that there are no threatening adverse effects associated with Forskolin intake However, significant lowering of blood pressure was observed in individuals who were consuming 150mg of Forskolin per day. So it’s recommended to consult a registered medical practitioner if you’re already taking other anti-hypertensive agents so that the doses are tapered accordingly and there’s no threat for the patient of slipping into life-threatening hypotension.
Also, Forskolin can act as a fluctuating blood thinner, hence, if you’re consuming other blood thinners such as; Aspirin, Heparin, or Warfarin, it’s recommended not to start Forskolin therapy without a doctor’s recommendation.
Other than that, the common side effects of Forskolin are mild daytime dizziness and nausea. Forskolin has been awarded NOAEL i.e. ‘No Observed Adverse Effect Level’ in a scientific study regarding Forskolin consumption and its safety. This means that as long as Forskolin is consumed as per the recommended dose in healthy individuals, it’s safe and well-tolerated with no potential harmful effects.
Pregnant and breast-feeding women are strongly recommended not to start Forskolin therapy without proper consultation with their gynecologist as Forskolin may cross the placental barrier and induce harmful effects in the fetus such as thinning of blood and lowering of blood pressure. Also, children under the age of 18 shouldn’t start Forskolin consumption without getting proper recommended dose according to their BMI i.e. Body Mass Ratio.
Other Medical Benefits of Forskolin Therapy
Forskolin supplements have also shown the following health benefits:
- Relief in asthma and COPD i.e. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder because of bronchodilation i.e. widening of bronchioles
- Decreased risk of osteoporosis development because of an increase in bone mineral density .
- Proper maintenance of muscle mass because of increased testosterone secretion.
What Can We Conclude?
Forskolin surely doesn’t cause magic weight-loss within a short span of time. However, if you happen to be overweight and are looking to get a well-toned body, Forskolin can assist you in achieving a healthier, leaner body by increasing your lipid metabolism and decreasing your BF i.e. Total Body Fat. | medical |
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The Delhi Community Health Centre (DCHC) is a community based not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing quality, patient-centered health care for individuals and families residing in Delhi and surrounding communities.
A variety of health care services and providers are available through the Centre. Housed within the Centre, the Delhi Family Health Team (FHT) provides access to family physicians, a nurse practitioner, registered nurses, social worker, mental health workers, pharmacist and mid-wife. A community Walk-In Clinic is offered and, also available, are additional family physicians and specialists who provide care via their private practices.
Supporting individuals who are accessing their primary healthcare through the Centre, in addition to supporting the broader community, a pharmacy, community lab and ultrasound services are available on site, as are a variety of other community services intended to enhance the overall health and wellness of men, women, children and families.
A secondary site can be found in Port Rowan.
In 2018, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC), in collaboration with the Association of Ontario Midwives (AOM), introduced an opportunity for providers to partner in the development of reproductive, pregnancy and newborn care services to better meet the needs of their communities.
Funding was made available for Expanded Midwifery Care Models (EMCMs), to enable community-based midwifery services to be delivered in a wider variety of settings.
The Delhi FHT secured funds to move forward with the hiring of one full-time Midwife, who will provide one-on-one care and group education and support, in a role which is fully integrated within primary care and under medical direction.
An immediate need exists for one 37.5 hour/week Midwife.
The Midwife will work under medical direction of a FHT Family Practitioner and will provide well-woman care and pre-natal and post-partum care, both one-on-one and in group settings, with a focus on disease prevention, health promotion and education. Education and support will include lactation consultation. The Midwife in this role will NOT be responsible for deliveries and there will be no on-call or weekend responsibilities. The Midwife will work a combination of days and evenings, based on patient need(s) and the scheduling of educational and support groups.
- Will provide prenatal and post-partum care for pregnant women and their babies, including women deemed high risk (e.g. women with substance use disorders, teenagers, women without physicians/prior care, etc.), in collaboration with the program physician
- Will provide lactation consultation
- Will conduct screening tests and order investigations (e.g., laboratory and ultrasounds)
- Will offer one-on-one support and education
- Will develop and facilitate educational groups, workshops and presentations
- Will consult and work collaboratively with the program physician, interprofessional primary care team and appropriate community health and social services in addressing identified patient needs
- Will work in collaboration with sub-regional Health Links to ensure integrated care and case management
- Will provide broader well woman care in collaboration with the program physician
- Will actively participate in the planning, development, implementation and evaluation of the program and act as a liaison with partner/referring agencies
- Reports jointly to the program/physician lead and the Executive Director
- Graduate of a Canadian University Midwifery education program or a qualification equivalent to in in accordance with the College of Midwifes of Ontario
- Active member with the College of Midwives
- Member in good standing with the Association of Ontario Midwives
- Lactation Consultant with an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) certificate
- Current HIROC liability insurance certificate or eligible to obtain HIROC liability insurance (cost covered by DFHT)
- Current certification and maintenance of CPR for Health Care Providers and Neonatal Resuscitation certification (NRP)
- A minimum of three years’ experience working as a Midwife
- Demonstrated experience not only in the provision of low-risk, but also complex prenatal and post-partum care for pregnant women and their babies, including experience with an expanded midwifery scope of practice
- Demonstrated experience providing well woman care
- Strong clinical, organizational and interpersonal skills
- Experience developing educational groups and workshops and facilitating the same
- Experience and skills in motivational interviewing
- Committed to Best Practice in patient-centered care
- Exceptional documentation skills and attention to detail
- Exceptional communication skills
- A positive and professional attitude
- Excellent time management skills with an ability to multi-task and effectively set priorities
- Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as a part of a diverse and interprofessional primary care team
- Flexibility and adaptability
- Experience in new program development and program evaluation an asset
- Experience in and/or familiarity with rural medicine an asset
- Familiarity and comfort working within an EMR system an asset
- Multilingualism (e.g., French, Polish, Hungarian, Low German) an asset
Interested applicants are asked to forward a current resume and cover letter to Kelly Brotz, Clinical Coordinator, at [email protected] by Friday, December 14th, at 4:00pm.
The Delhi Community Health Centre (DCHC) is committed to employment equity, diversity and a supportive environment. The Centre welcomes applications from all qualified individuals, including women, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities and aboriginal persons, individuals of diverse gender and sexual orientation and all groups protected by the Human Rights Code.
The DCHC offers accommodation for applicants with disabilities in its recruitment processes. If you are contacted by the DCHC regarding a job opportunity, please advise if you require accommodation. Please note, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. | medical |
http://b.8899098.com/resources/covid-19-health-and-safety/ | 2024-04-25T00:31:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296820065.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425000826-20240425030826-00303.warc.gz | 0.911477 | 1,064 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__17799074 | en | Respiratory Illness Response
COVID-19 and Other Respiratory Illnesses
SPS continues to follow mitigation strategies to minimize transmission of COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses.
Respiratory Illness Prevention
Respiratory illnesses like influenza (flu), COVID-19, RSV and many others are spread when a person coughs, sneezes, talks, or laughs. The best way to prevent the spread of infectious respiratory illness is to:
- Stay home when ill
- Wash hands often with soap and water
- Cover coughs and sneezes
- Avoid close contact with sick individuals
- Practice healthy habits
- Get vaccinated for preventable diseases
Check out the Is My Child too Sick to go to School guide for more information.
Symptoms, testing, and isolating
Students and staff experiencing new, changed, or worsening of respiratory or gastrointestinal symptoms should stay home, get tested for COVID-19, and follow the Department of Health symptom flowchart.
- Fever (≥100.4°F) or chills
- Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
- Muscle or body aches
- Loss of taste or smell
- Congestion or runny nose
- Nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea
- Sore throat
Any student or staff who tests positive for COVID-19 is required to isolate at home for five full days regardless of vaccination status. See the DOH Isolation, Testing, and Masking Calculator for more information.
If you test positive for COVID-19 but do not have symptoms:
- Isolate for at least five days after testing positive for COVID-19. Day zero is the day you test positive. You can leave isolation after five full days if you have not developed any symptoms. Repeating the test does not change the requirement to isolate for five full days.
If you develop symptoms after testing positive:
- Your five-day isolation should start over. Follow the isolation recommendations below for individuals who have symptoms.
If you test positive for COVID-19 and develop symptoms:
- Individuals may return from isolation after five full days have passed since symptoms appeared if:
- No fever within the past 24 hours (without medication) AND
- Symptoms have significantly improved
COVID-19 antigen tests are encouraged before returning from isolation. Only start testing if you are fever free for 24 hours without using fever-reducing medication and your other symptoms have improved.
- Anyone returning to school or work after isolation should wear a well-fitted mask from day six to 10. These individuals should also remain masked for sports and other extracurricular activities.
- If an individual tests positive after five days of isolation, they must stay at home for the full 10-day isolation period unless they test negative on two sequential tests each performed 24-48 hours apart. If they test negative on the two sequential tests, they can end isolation before day 10.
- If an individual is unable to wear a well-fitting mask, they should continue to isolate for the full 10 days.
Individuals who have been infected with COVID-19 within the past 90 days should use an antigen test, as PCR tests may remain persistently positive even if there is no new or active infection.
Regardless of vaccination status, anyone (especially housemates and family members) potentially exposed to COVID-19 is encouraged to:
- Monitor for symptoms and get tested for COVID-19 three to five days after your last exposure.
- Wear a high-quality mask or respirator around others at home and in public for 10 days after your last exposure. Continue to wear a mask even if you test negative for COVID-19.
If you test positive:
- Isolate and follow SPS isolation, masking, and return to school guidance
If you test negative by an antigen test:
- Retest with an antigen test 24-48 hours after the first negative test. If the second test is negative, but concerns exist for COVID-19, you may retest 24-48 hours after the second negative test, for a total of at least three tests.
If there is a suspected or confirmed outbreak in a classroom or across classrooms, testing and masking may be required to sustain in-person learning.
Home Test Kits
COVID-19 antigen home test kits will be made available for students and staff to test at home.
At SPS, we respect the masking choices of individuals in our community. Wearing a well-fitted mask helps protect against the spread of COVID-19. Masks are strongly recommended for individuals recovering from the COVID-19 (days 6-10) and anyone who has been exposed to COVID-19 (days 0-10).
In the event of an outbreak, mask wearing may be required to help reduce the spread of respiratory illness.
Seattle Public Schools lifted its mask requirements in March 2022. SPS continues to encourage masking at school, especially after travel or a break. | medical |
https://www.strashfootandanklecare.com/2024/02/08/ouch-my-heel-hurts-must-be-plantar-fasciitis-acting-up/ | 2024-02-21T19:19:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473524.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221170215-20240221200215-00303.warc.gz | 0.960006 | 551 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__121908113 | en | 08 Feb OUCH! My Heel Hurts, must be Plantar Fasciitis Acting Up….
Typically, patients will come to the clinic complaining of pain in their heels usually starting with their first steps in the morning and continuing throughout the day. This is a common indicator of what is called Plantar Fasciitis – an inflammation of the ligament that runs from your heels to your toes. Plantar fasciitis much like most diagnosis that end in “itis” are caused by overuse and straining of the ligaments/muscles in the body. If you notice symptoms, it is wise to book an appointment with your podiatrist to help not only treat this issue but also ensure there is not something else entirely different going on.
I recently had a patient come in complaining of symptoms usually attributed to plantar fasciitis however there was something different. The patient told me that his heel hurt but he was feeling a numbness as well in his heel. I went through various clinical tests and came to the conclusion the patient was suffering from Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome. Tarsal Tunnel syndrome is a relatively rare condition caused by various etiologies which include biomechanical abnormalities, systemic diseases, and lower extremity edema. Due to the rarity of this condition diagnosing this pathology is imperative. Another related area of pain is to the posterior tibial tendon. We’ve treated patients that think they have plantar fasciitis and as it turns out they have inflammation to this very large tendon on the inside of their foot. This is known as posterior tibial tendonits or Posterior Tibial Tendon Dysfunction (PTTD). Another less common but painful pathology is Deltoid ligament Strain. This type of strain can be caused by an acute traumatic episode or overuse and walking for many years with a flat pronated foot.
In fact, many pathologies are related to a pronated foot type and over use. There are numerous conservative treatment approaches to these pathologies and we pride ourselves on the success we have had treating our patients at the outset with non-surgical remedies. When and if conservative treatment fails the doctors at Strash Foot and Ankle Care are skilled at surgical treatments to reconstruct the foot and ankle to return the foot to a more normal functional status.
If you are suffering from this condition or are unsure schedule an appointment with Strash Foot and Ankle Care. We provide comprehensive examinations, diagnose, and make specific treatment plans to address the underlying causes of foot and ankle pain. Whether through conservative measures or surgical intervention, our expertise is invaluable in alleviating foot and ankle pain and ensuring a swift return to comfort and mobility. | medical |
https://bocaairport.com/know-the-facts-understanding-breast-cancer-can-help-you-beat-it/ | 2023-12-07T07:40:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100650.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207054219-20231207084219-00516.warc.gz | 0.930271 | 585 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__145958682 | en | At the Boca Raton Airport, we strive to be more than just a general aviation facility. Our goal is to be a true community partner, improving the wellbeing of all of our neighbors.
As such, being that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, lets look at a few facts about the disease and what you can do to give yourself or your loved ones the best chance of beating it should one of you ever be diagnosed.
Quick Facts About Breast Cancer
According to BreastCancer.org, there will be an estimated 333,600 new cases of breast cancer in the U.S. this year1. In fact, nearly one in eight (about 12%) of U.S. women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer at some point in her life.
While these statistics are alarming, there is a 98% survival rate if breast cancer is discovered during its early stages. That’s why it’s important to regularly visit the doctor, perform monthly self-exams, and to get a mammogram as often as your doctor recommends.
Now, let’s look at three ways to improve your odds against breast cancer.
3 Ways to Improve Your Odds Against Breast Cancer
- Get a Mammogram: Your age and risk of breast cancer will determine how often you should get a mammogram, but if you’re 40 or older or have a family history of breast cancer, then you’re doctor may recommend a mammogram in order to detect cancer even if clinical signs are not yet noticeable.2
Click here to find mammography locations near you.
- Speak to a Counselor: If you or a loved one are diagnosed with breast cancer, it can be beneficial to speak to a professional counselor who can help you navigate the social and psychological factors of the disease.
Click here to learn more about cancer counseling services and for information on how to find a counselor in your area.
- Take the Breast Cancer Quiz: The more you know about breast cancer, the better chance you have to beat it.
Click here and take this 6-question quiz from the American Cancer Society to test your knowledge about common breast cancer beliefs.
To learn more about breast cancer and Breast Cancer Awareness Month, click here.
1 This statistic is a combination of 268,600 new cases of invasive breast cancer in women, 62,930 new cases of non-invasive (in situ) breast cancer in women, and 2,670 new cases of invasive breast cancer in men. https://www.breastcancer.org/symptoms/understand_bc/statistics
2 This information is from the Mayo Clinic, When to begin screening mammography and Why it’s done. https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/mammogram/about/pac-20384806 | medical |
https://www.bloomskinessentials.com/best-sunscreen-for-eczema/ | 2024-03-03T18:19:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476397.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303174631-20240303204631-00286.warc.gz | 0.902003 | 3,055 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__186198852 | en | According to the National Eczema Association (NEA), mineral-based sunscreens that are alcohol-free and come with SPF 30 and above are the best sunscreen for eczema.
Chemical-based sunscreens are more likely to irritate your already inflamed and itchy eczema infected skin. This is why the type of sunscreen described above is your best bet for soothing protection and satisfactory effect.
The SPF 30 requirement ensures that the sunscreens offer broad-spectrum protection, thereby enabling them to combat UVA and UVB rays.
Sunscreens should be a part of your daily skincare routine, especially during the summer when you might want to reveal some skin on the beach.
With this guide, you’ve got all you need to know about selecting the right sunscreen formula for eczema and other related skin conditions.
What is Eczema?
It’s essential to know the skin condition you have before selecting a sunscreen formula for it.
Eczema is a skin condition that’s characterized by chronic irritation and redness. Individuals with this skin condition are more vulnerable to the sun’s harmful rays, which makes the use of sunscreen essential.
However, selecting sunscreens for this skin condition always pose a difficult challenge, which is why we’ve highlighted essential guides for you to follow.
We’ve also included our top sunscreens list for eczema, thereby making the selection process easy for you.
Guides for choosing the right sunscreen for Eczema
It’s not every sunscreen formula that works for eczema. Some worsen your condition and leaves your skin more reddened and inflamed.
This makes it essential to choose the right formula, to prevent negative effects on your skin. Mineral-based sunscreens are generally recommended for Eczema. They contain no harsh chemicals and soothes your skin condition while ensuring optimal protection.
Apart from this, other things to consider include:
The constituents that make-up a sunscreen formula is vital to ascertain it’s safe for use. Do away with sunscreens that contain Oxybenzone, Octinoxide, parabens, alcohol, and synthetic additives.
Ensure that your choicest sunscreen is formulated with minerals like Zinc oxide and titanium dioxide. They’re safe and pure to use and cause no side effects.
Sunscreens for eczema shouldn’t be below SPF 30 rating. This is to ensure optimal protection and prevention of over 95% harmful sun rays reaching the skin.
Broad-spectrum sunscreens are recommended by Cancer foundations and NEA, which implies that they’re potent enough to protect and soothe the skin.
Some brands make their products skin-specific. This implies that some sunscreens might work for oily skin excellently but leaves dry skin with white cast and other residues, vice versa.
This is why selecting a formula that works excellently on your skin type is vital to achieving satisfactory results and effects.
Beyond sun protection, your sunscreen formula should also provide the skin other benefits like moisturizing, nourishing, soothing, smoothing, amongst others.
Best Sunscreen for Eczema in 2023
Here are the top sunscreens that made our list:
MDsolar Sciences Mineral crème Sunscreen
This mineral-based oil-free formula contains 17% zinc oxide and 2% titanium dioxide, which provides its sun-blocking effect. It features an SPF 50 broad-spectrum protection that protects your skin from UVA and UVB damages.
The water-resistant formula is non-irritating and leaves no white cast on the skin. It is formulated with ingredients rich in antioxidants like green tea, pomegranate, Vit C, and cranberry, protecting the skin from radical damage.
It is lightweight, fast-absorbing, and blends seamlessly to provide a sheer matte finish. The silky-smooth formula is gentle enough to be used on kids around 6months and above. It is suitable for all skin types, doesn’t clog pores, and works excellently for skin conditions like acne, rosacea, and eczema.
Alba Botanica Sunscreen lotion SPF 30
Alba botanica boasts of sunscreens that are recommended by skin cancer foundation. This is another formula that is reef-friendly, biodegradable, cruelty-free, and synthetic fragrance-free.
The lightweight formula is mineral-based, and it’s formulated with 100% vegan ingredients. It comes with SPF 30 that protects the skin from both types of Ultraviolet radiation present in sun rays.
Beyond this, the formula also moisturizes, smooths, and soothes the skin, making it good for eczema. It is formulated with Aloe vera and chamomile, offering soothing effects and acts as antioxidants.
The formula effectively prevents sunburn, premature aging, and other damages that result from prolonged exposure to harmful sun rays. It is non-greasy, fast-absorbing, and suitable for all skin types.
Neutrogena Sensitive Skin Mineral sunscreen
This mineral-based sunscreen has zinc oxide, which provides SPF 60 broad-spectrum protection against UVA and UVB rays. This ensures that your skin stays protected from all forms of damage caused by harmful sun rays.
The oil-free and fragrance-free formula comes with 80 water resistance, it is hypoallergenic and works well for individuals with eczema. The gentle formula contains 100% naturally sourced sunscreen active ingredients, making it pure enough to use sensitive skin.
It is fast-absorbing, non-greasy, and neither clog pores or causes acne breakouts. The formula features pure screen technology, a blend of sunscreen active ingredients that keep UVA and UVB away from the skin.
It passed all NEA requirements for sunscreens that can be used for eczema, as it contains no alcohol or chemical filters.
Totlogic Mineral-Based Sunscreen
This is a natural mineral-based sunscreen formula with zinc oxide as its active sunscreen ingredient. It is safe for use by both kids and adults, making it an excellent formula for the whole family.
The organic formula comes with a broad spectrum SPF 30 that enables it to block harmful sun rays from penetrating the skin (both the face and body). It is reef-safe, non-toxic, and offers 80 mins water resistance.
The hypoallergenic formula is suitable for all skin types, including eczema-prone skin. It is non-comedogenic and contains no chemical filter or irritants like PABA, paraben, and phthalate.
The antioxidant-rich formula contains jojoba oil, white tea, chamomile, lavender, and hyaluronic acid. All of which helps soothe, hydrate, and soften the skin. It boasts of an all-natural scent and leaves you with a satisfactory effect.
CeraVe Hydrating face Sunscreen
This sunscreen boasts a seal of recommendation by the National Eczema Association, and the Skin cancer foundation recommends it.
That’s not all, the lightweight and non-greasy formula is 100% mineral-based. It features zinc oxide and titanium dioxide as its active sunscreen ingredients and broad-spectrum SPF 50.
It provides optimal skin protection against sun damages and ultraviolet radiation while locking in moisture and restoring the skin’s natural barrier.
The fragrance-free formula contains three essential ceramides — 1, 3, 6-11, and hyaluronic acid, ensuring the skin stays hydrated. It is free of oil, paraben, and chemical filters, making it a pure formula.
The formula is also allergy-tested, and you can be assured of no negative effects.
Blue Lizard Sensitive Mineral Sunscreen
This broad-spectrum sunscreen comes with SPF 50 and contains titanium dioxide and zinc oxide as its major sunscreen ingredient. The formula boasts of 80 minutes water resistance and offers optimal protection against UVA and UVB.
The fragrance-free formula contains no Oxybenzone or Octinoxate, making it reef-friendly. It is also sweat resistant, thereby being able to withstand intense workouts for up to 80 minutes.
The dermatologist-tested formula works incredibly on sensitive and acne-prone skin. It is also recommendable for individuals with eczema.
It comes with a smart bottle technology that turns blue (under the sun) when it’s time to apply your sunscreen. The sunscreen is free of paraben, alcohol, and chemical or synthetic additives.
Australian Gold Botanical Sunscreen lotion
This mineral-based sunscreen poises strong resistance on the skin against harmful sun rays penetration. It is water-resistant (80 minutes), non-greasy l, and non-sticky.
The National Eczema Association approves the hypoallergenic formula as an effective sunscreen for eczema. It is cruelty-free and contains no oxybenzone, phthalate, and paraben.
The antioxidant-rich formula protects the skin from free radical damage while shielding the screen from UVA and UVB due to its SPF 50 feature. The reef-friendly formula is suitable for kids and doesn’t clog pores.
The dermatologist-tested sunscreen seamlessly blends and sets with a powder-like matte finish.
Amavara Tinted Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50
This sheer formula works magic on acne-prone and sensitive skin. It is also recommendable for eczema, and it leaves the skin with a transparent finish. The vegan formula contains zinc oxide as its active sunscreen ingredient.
It comes with SPF 50 and offers broad-spectrum protection against both UVA and UVB ultraviolet radiation. The non-toxic formula is hypoallergenic and non-comedogenic. It is also water-resistant and can be used for kids.
Beyond protection, this sunscreen also prime while providing the skin with a physical barrier that shields it against extreme conditions like cold, environmental pollution, heat, windburn, and free radicals.
Aveeno Protect + Hydrate moisturizing sunscreen lotion
Here’s a multifunctional sunscreen that moisturizes, nourishes, and protects the skin. It comes with SPF 70, which offers optimal skin protection and excellent resistance against UVA and UVB rays.
The oil-free formula is recommended by skin cancer foundation, an indication of its efficiency. It is fast-absorbing and offers you all-day skin hydration.
The water-resistant sunscreen protects the skin from sunburn, premature skin aging and doesn’t clog pores. It contains antioxidant-oat that protects the skin from radical damage while offering other nourishing benefits.
It’s an ideal formula for individuals with eczema. It ensures your skin stays soothed, protected, and sweat-free.
La Roche-Posay Anthelios Mineral Sunscreen
This is an Ultra-light formula that uses zinc oxide and titanium dioxide as its active sunscreen ingredients. The oil-free formula is a recipient of 90 beauty awards, proof of its optimal efficiency.
It comes with SPF 50, which ensures your skin doesn’t have to bother about UVA and UVB. It also employs a cell-ox shield technology that offers a combined antioxidant and sunscreen protection.
It is 40 minutes resistant to water and boasts of a 100% mineral UV filter system. The fast-absorbing formula is also recommended by skin cancer foundation, proof of its potency.
It is fragrance-free, paraben-free, and works excellently on all skin types. The formula comes in two forms — tinted and non-tinted, and blends on the skin with a matte finish. It is dermatologist and allergy tested and works soothingly for individuals with eczema.
Elta MD UV Shield Face & Body Sunscreen lotion
This is another sunscreen formula that’s recommended by skin cancer foundation. It comes with SPF 45 broad-spectrum protection that keeps the skin safe against UVA and UVB.
The oil-free and non-greasy formula leaves no residue on the skin and blends quickly into the skin. It contains zinc oxide, which acts as the active sunscreen ingredients in the formula.
It is non-comedogenic and works efficiently for sensitive and acne-prone skin. The fragrance-free formula contains no paraben, and it is recommended for individuals with eczema.
Coola Organic classic face sunscreen lotion
This fragrance-free sunscreen comes with SPF 50, which offers broad-spectrum protection and prevents harmful sun rays from penetrating the skin.
The lightweight and non-greasy formula hydrates the skin and features an antioxidant-rich plant protection complex.
It is water-resistant, vegan, cruelty-free, and paraben-free. It is also an excellent formula, and it blends on the skin with sheer coverage.
Goddess Garden Organics
This natural mineral-based sunscreen is suitable for sensitive skin and eczema. It contains non-GMO ingredients, and it’s reef-safe.
The vegan formula is cruelty-free, non-nano, and comes with a pure lavender fragrance. It comes with SPF 30, which provides you with broad-spectrum protection against harmful Ultraviolet rays.
It also contains nourishing organic foods like Aloe vera, sunflower, etc. It is chemical-free and doesn’t cause any allergy reaction to the skin.
Sun Bum Mineral Sunscreen lotion
This mineral-based natural sunscreen is vegan, reef-friendly, and natural. It offers optimal protection against UVA and UVB and contains SPF 50.
The zinc-based formula is hypoallergenic and works effectively for eczema. It is water-resistant (80 minutes), dermatologist-tested, cruelty-free, and gluten-free.
The lightweight formula is silky and blends seamlessly on the skin with a matte finish. It’s an effective sunscreen formula that leaves you with optimal satisfaction.
Eczema is a skin condition that can be worsened by prolonged exposure to sun rays, which is why sunscreens are essential.
However, some sunscreens irritate the skin further, which is why you need a pure and potent sunscreen formula for eczema.
This guide has got all you need — lists of top sunscreens and things to consider when making a choice. Enjoy your read! | medical |
https://bioboost-peak.com/peakbioboost | 2023-06-07T19:41:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224654012.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20230607175304-20230607205304-00341.warc.gz | 0.907903 | 367 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__170025814 | en | The working of the Peak BioBoost formula is what makes it the best digestive supplement available today. Its work has been thoroughly studied and researched to ensure there are no complications of any kind. Peak BioBoost is a revolutionary supplement set on changing the way constipation and other digestive ailments are addressed. It takes a multi-pronged approach and works by treating the cause of the problem; instead of just providing momentary relief. Its working is explained below in detail:
1. Restores The MicroBiome Balance Inside The Gut
The formula works primarily by providing Prebiotics, or indigestible fibers, to the gut and replenishing probiotics. This, in turn, restores the microbiome balance inside the digestive system, which is the ratio of good and bad bacteria inside the digestive system, resulting in regular bowel movements and relieving constipation rapidly. The presence of probiotics in an optimum quantity ensures the seamless movement of food down the gut.
2. Relaxes The Intestinal Nerves
Peak BioBoost works by relaxing the nerves present inside the intestinal walls, making the movement of digested material down the gut smoother than ever. By easing the intestinal walls, the formula ensures all the waste present within the digestive tract is flushed out while relieving constipation.
3. Bulks Up and Softens Stool
The formula makes your poop heavier than usual, along with making it softer, allowing poop to move down the intestine without causing any pain or irritation. It corrects years old problems that no other medication could address.
4. Energizes Probiotics
By providing prebiotics in large quantities, Peak BioBoost not only restores the microbiome balance in the body but also makes the gut-friendly bacteria more active and energized, allowing it to perform its functions without any impediments. | medical |
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Division Series Injury Updates
Ryan Howard, PHI (Left Achilles Surgery) [AGL: 17(87 DL), ATD: TBD (-.287 DL)] (Explanation)
The vast majority of ruptured Achilles tendons occur in field players or runners as the calf is forced to contract forcefully while being lengthened. Termed an eccentric contraction, these can produce forces much greater than when you consciously tell the muscle to contract. In relatively healthy baseball players of this age group, there is usually some sort of underlying tendon damage that weakens the area. In Howard’s case, his chronic inflammation in and around the tendon this season likely contributed to his injury. The inflammation breaks down and weakens tissue on a microscopic level, especially when it occurs for some time.
Howard now faces surgery once the swelling has gone down in the area, likely within the next several days. These cannot be delayed for too long or the damaged end of the tendon will become retracted further into the calf, making a repair much more difficult. Estimates are that Howard will miss between six to twelve months, but six months sounds overly optimistic. In the database, none of the players returned in the same season that they were injured, not even with the surgery in early May. The fastest we have anyone returning is Gabe Kapler, who did it in a little under nine months between the 2005 and 2006 seasons. Howard is obviously much bigger than Kapler and will have significantly more force directed through his Achilles with each step. As such, we’d be hesitant to say he will be ready before the start of the 2012 season and has a good chance to miss a significant chunk of the season.
Cole Hamels, PHI (1. Left elbow surgery – loose bodies 2. Inguinal hernia)
Howard is the most severely injured of the Philadelphia Phillies but certainly not the only one. Hamels is scheduled to undergo surgery on his left elbow to remove loose bodies that have accumulated over time. He has a history of elbow problems, including a sprain of the UCL in his elbow, likely leading to some looseness. Over time, some bone chips or pieces of cartilage have broken off and are now becoming an irritant in his elbow—although you wouldn’t be able to tell by looking at his stats. The procedure is usually quick and minimally invasive, meaning he should have more than enough time before the start of spring training.
That’s not all though for Hamels. He’s also facing potential surgery on an inguinal hernia that has developed and given him problems. A few other Phillies are facing sports hernia surgeries, which are slightly different than inguinal hernias. Both types of hernias involve a part of the abdomen called the inguinal canal, but there is one main difference between the two. In sports hernias, the muscles of the abdomen wall are weakened, leading to pain and discomfort, while in inguinal hernias there is an actual pouching through the abdominal wall.
Even with both the elbow and hernia surgery, Hamels should be on track for the 2012 season. Neither should limit his performance in any way going forward either.
Magglio Ordonez, DET (Right ankle fracture) [AGL: 56 DL, ATD: -.006]
Delmon Young, DET (Left strained oblique) [AGL: 6(23 DL), ATD: +.001(+.008 DL)]
Skip Schumaker, STL (Right oblique strain) [AGL: 6(23 DL), ATD: +.001(+.008 DL)] | medical |
http://ruralurbandweller.blogspot.com/2014/09/10th-annual-mesothelioma-awareness-day.html | 2018-05-27T13:49:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794868316.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20180527131037-20180527151037-00557.warc.gz | 0.932252 | 468 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__129782595 | en | September 26th is the 10th Annual Mesothelioma Awareness Day. If you are anything like me you have no clue about what this disease is, what causes it, or if there is a cure. When Heather Von St. James contacted me and asked me to spread awareness, I accepted the challenge. There's been a lot of that going on here lately. Here is a little bit of what I learned:
What is Mesothelioma, anyway?
Our bodies have a thin layer of cells that line our internal organs. This lining of cells is called the mesothelium. Malignant Mesothelioma is a rare cancer that occurs in this layer of cells. There are three types:
1. Pleural Mesothelioma - Occurs in the pleura, the lining of the lungs. Accounting for about 70% of the cases, this is the most common form.
2. Peritonial Mesothelioma - Occurs in the lining of the abdominal cavity.
3. Pericardial Mesothelioma - Occurs in the lining of the heart.
What is the cause?
Plain and simple, Mesothelioma in all its forms is caused by exposure to asbestos. It may be decades after exposure that an individual begins to show signs of having this disease. As soon as a person exposed to asbestos begins exhibiting symptoms proper diagnosis should be sought from an expert. The sooner this disease is caught the more options the exposed individual will have for treatment.
What symptoms should I look for?
Depending on the type of Mesothelioma one or more of these symptoms may be present. Since some can be easily attributed to another cause most people have experienced symptoms for two or months before diagnosis. Symptoms can include:
- Low Back Pain
- Side Chest Pain
- Shortness of Breath
- Difficulty Swallowing
- Persistent Cough
- Weight Loss
- Muscle Weakness
- Loss of Sensory Capability
- Coughing Up Blood
- Facial and Arm Swelling
- Abdominal Pain
Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation
Heather Von St. James ~ Mesothelioma Survivor
|Heather with her daughter Lily.| | medical |
https://www.napeds.com/contact-us/ | 2024-02-21T09:49:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473401.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221070402-20240221100402-00782.warc.gz | 0.920189 | 794 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__36860372 | en | Pediatric Offices in Northampton and Amherst
All types of appointments, including regular check-ups, sick visits, and follow-up appointments, are scheduled during weekdays. However, we offer evening, weekend, and holiday hours at our pediatric office for children who are acutely ill or require emergency care.
To best serve our patients, we are open seven days a week, 365 days a year. Click here for a printable the 2024 holiday calendar.
We have clinical staff available to answer questions about the care of your child during our office hours. Before you call, please be ready to provide the following information:
- When did your child become ill?
- What are your child’s symptoms? (i.e. vomiting, earache)
- What is your child’s temperature?
- Birth – 1 Year: Rectal
- 1 Year – 4 Years: Rectal, axillary or ear thermometer
- 4 Years and up: Oral, axillary or ear thermometer. Fever strips are not accurate
- What have you done so far to relieve your child’s discomfort?
Please check your current prescription to determine if you have refills remaining. If you have refills remaining, please call your pharmacy to request the refill. If you do not have any refills remaining, please log onto our MyChart Patient Portal to request the refill or leave us a message including your child’s name, date of birth, name and dose of the medication and the best contact number to reach you. Please allow 48 to 72 hours for us to process this refill request. Your prescription will be sent to your pharmacy electronically.
Please use your portal to request a prescription refill, send a message to your provider, send a picture, or schedule a well visit.
We understand occasional circumstances prevent you from keeping your scheduled appointment. If possible, please notify our office in advance if you are running late or unable to make your appointment. Our scheduling staff will do their best to re-schedule you promptly.
Virtual Sick Walk-In Hours
We now have 8:00 am to 8:30 am Monday through Friday as virtual sick “walk-in” time. You can book a virtual sick appointment for the next morning 24 hours prior by signing into the MyChart Patient Portal.
Acute care evening hours are by appointment from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm, Monday through Friday, in our Northampton office. If there is an ongoing issue for which you would like your child seen, please schedule a daytime appointment with your child’s primary care provider.
We are available to see your sick child by appointment from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm on the weekends in our Northampton office. Please do not hesitate to call if you are concerned about your child. You are, after all, the best judge of your child’s condition.
NAP observes the following holidays with limited hours in our Northampton office: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, President’s Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. All sick visits during these hours are by appointment only.
If you need advice after 7:00 pm, call our main number 413-584-8700 and your call will be taken by the Pediatric Nurse Call Service. Our nursing staff is very capable and can answer many questions about the care of your child. However, if you wish to speak to a doctor, let the receptionist know and she will have the doctor return your call. A pediatrician from our office is always available for emergencies. Non-urgent or routine calls and visits should be made during regular office hours. | medical |
http://naprelanus.com/ | 2017-02-19T23:34:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501170286.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104610-00464-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.882591 | 688 | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-09__0__251838397 | en | |NAPRELAN® may be used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, tendinitis, bursitis, and acute gout. It may also be used to relieve mild to moderate pain and the treatment of primary dysmenorrhea (menstrual cramps).|
Important Safety Information
NAPRELAN® belongs to a class of medicines called nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). NSAID medicines are used to treat pain and redness, swelling, and heat (inflammation) from medical conditions such as:
• different types of arthritis
• menstrual cramps and other types of short-term pain
All NSAIDs, including NAPRELAN®, have the same cardiovascular warning: They may increase the chance of heart attack or stroke that can lead to death. This chance increases with longer use of NSAID medicines and in people who have heart disease.
NAPRELAN® should never be used right before or after a heart surgery called a coronary artery bypass graft (CABG).
NAPRELAN® can cause ulcers and bleeding in the stomach and intestines at any time during treatment. This can happen without warning symptoms and may cause death. Patients taking aspirin and the elderly are at an increased risk.
Serious skin reactions, or allergic reactions, sometimes fatal, can occur without warning and have been reported with NAPRELAN® use. Do not take NAPRELAN® if you are allergic to naproxen, or have had an asthma attack, hives, or other allergic reactions when taking aspirin or another NSAID medicine.
Get emergency help right away if you have shortness of breath or trouble breathing, chest pain, weakness in one part or side of your body, slurred speech, swelling of the face or throat.
Before using NAPRELAN®, talk to your health care professional about all of your medical conditions and the medications you take, and if you are pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or breast-feeding. NAPRELAN® should not be taken in late pregnancy.
NAPRELAN® should be used exactly as prescribed at the lowest dose possible and for the shortest time needed.
The most frequent side effects that have been reported with NAPRELAN® are headache, heartburn, and flu syndrome. Other side effects that may occur include back pain, other types of pain, infection, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, abdominal pain, sore throat, runny nose, sinusitis, urinary tract infection, skin rash, skin eruptions, black and blue marks, drowsiness, excess fluid in the tissues, trouble breathing, and ringing in the ears.
For more information about NAPRELAN® and other NSAIDs, please see the Medication Guide.
These are not all the side effects with NSAID medicines, including NAPRELAN®. Talk to your healthcare provider or pharmacist for more information about NSAID medicines, including NAPRELAN®.
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to Alvogen at 1-866-770-3024 or the FDA at www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
|Click here for full Prescribing Information
and Medication Guide | medical |
https://drshannonbrown.com/lifestyle-and-mental-health/ | 2018-10-20T20:01:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583513384.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20181020184612-20181020210112-00384.warc.gz | 0.947442 | 501 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__61407260 | en | DID YOU KNOW THAT OVER 90% OF THE BODY’S SUPPLY OF SEROTONIN IS PRODUCED IN THE GUT?
Serotonin is a neurotransmitter with many physiological functions, among which is to regulate mood, memory, and learning. When serotonin levels are low, the risk of developing symptoms of depression and anxiety increases. The latest anti-depressants are engineered to increase access to the body’s stores of serotonin, making them an effective intervention for many.
But, what causes low serotonin levels? Conventional medicine identifies genetics as a determining factor. While genetics play a role, more than ever, science points to lifestyle factors that dictate gene expression, as well as the balance of the body’s chemistry. Diet, drug and alcohol consumption, level of physical activity, sleep patterns, sun exposure, exposure to environmental toxins and other stressors, occupation and work-life balance, spiritual beliefs and practices, quality of social connections, and even world views can not only affect physical health, but just as readily affect brain function.
So, what about the gut? The gut, or the digestive system, is a gateway between your environment and your body’s internal workings, and is a major player in your overall health. The gut affects not only your ability to process nutrients, but affects your immune and nervous systems, as well as helps to regulate hormones, and the brain’s supply and balance of neurotransmitters that affect mood.
If your gut is unhealthy, all body systems are compromised. It stands to reason that poor lifestyle choices have a direct impact on gut health, and subsequently on mood. One example of this is Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), which until recently was thought to be caused by psychological stress, with no known physiological basis or treatment. People who have suffered from IBS symptoms for years without answers are now learning that they can feel better by making simple changes, such as to their diet, and are experiencing concurrent improvements in mood.
While studying the science behind the lifestyle and mental health connection, I have been pleased to share this information with my clients, and have witnessed impressive results. I continue to provide established psychotherapeutic interventions to address your mental health concerns, and now offer lifestyle analysis and coaching to effect a more favorable therapy outcome. Let’s talk about how you can begin to take small, direct steps in your daily routine to improve your mental health! | medical |
https://www.leoyoga.co.uk/post/benefits-of-pre-natal-yoga | 2023-12-10T13:57:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679102469.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20231210123756-20231210153756-00513.warc.gz | 0.979723 | 892 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__148157455 | en | Updated: Jan 28, 2019
Prenatal yoga is an amazing way to maintain a healthy mind and body during pregnancy. Its main benefits are the development of strength and flexibility as well as support in learning proper breathing and relaxation techniques, which can be used throughout pregnancy and during labour.
Keep on reading to see the benefits of practicing #yoga while expecting during each of the trimesters and for a candid interview with our very own Georgie Donk who has just given birth to her first child.
It's not recommended to start a yoga practice until after your first ultrasound scan at 12-14 weeks. Please wait for confirmation from your GP before starting your practice.
* Yoga can help expectant mothers to rest, relax and slow down during pregnancy. Building strength, flexibility and develop elasticity in a woman’s pelvic floor to aid the labour process
* Deep relaxation helps stabilise hormonal fluctuations and mood swings
* Pranayama (breathing) exercises can help women to begin to connect and work with their breath to expand their capacity and awareness
* Regularly attending a prenatal yoga class can help women to find support with other expecting mums
* Yoga helps women to connect with their babies through breathing, sound, touch, thought and intention
* Yoga continues to help expectant mothers to cope with any anxieties they may be experiencing about their pregnancy, labour and all changes ahead by clearing the mind and bringing a sense of grounding to the day-to-day
* Yoga becomes more important now to help with lower back pain and other strains by the changes in the body, the practice may become slower and more focussed on relaxation
* Yoga teaches deep relaxation techniques which can be very useful during labour
* Breathing and sound techniques can also be very valuable during labour
* Learning birthing postures while in class can help expectant mothers to feel more empowered about their delivery process
* Positive mantras and mindset can help to reduce any anxieties around labour and help keep focus
* Yoga can help encourage the baby into the ideal birth position
Q&A "Hey Georgie! You've been a constant presence in the yoga studio since you got the all clear to start practicing. How did you find your yoga practice changed from before/after pregnancy?" "Before pregnancy, I was looking to constantly improve my practice and pushed myself in every session, however once I became pregnant, to me yoga became much more about staying strong and looking after my body." "What benefits did you feel from regular practice?" "Yoga helped me to stay mobile and healthy throughout my entire pregnancy. I was able to continue practicing right up to my due date. I felt great the whole way through and I genuinely think the reason for that was yoga!"
"How would you describe a pre-natal yoga class to someone that hasn't been before? What can they expect?" "Pre-natal yoga is much more relaxed than normal yoga and is very focused on strengthening your body to prepare for labour and including your baby in every practice. It is an hour out of your day where you really get to focus on your body and your baby." "You also maintained your regular workout routine throughout pregnancy, how did you have to adapt that?" "At the start I was able to keep my workout routine almost the same as long as I wasn’t getting too out of breath, however as the weeks went on, I found that I had to slow down my workouts and drop the weights I was using until I just used body weight. I listened to my body and adjusted every workout to how I was feeling that day."
"Congratulations again on the birth of baby Noah! Do you think your time in the studio contributed to your labour process in anyway?" "Absolutely!! Labour is an extremely difficult thing to go through, however from the Yoga and exercise I continued to do throughout my pregnancy, I was able to go into it with a good level of fitness and an extremely strong mentality and that’s what got me through. If I could give any pregnant lady a piece of advice, it would be to do yoga and stay active as much as possible throughout pregnancy. It enabled me to have a brilliant pregnancy, a great labour and a very quick recovery once the baby was born!" "Thank you so much for your time Georgie! We can't wait to welcome you back to the studio soon. x" | medical |
http://www.camelotliving.com/ | 2017-03-27T14:22:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189474.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00367-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.946923 | 224 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__63709985 | en | Welcome to Dr. Noseworthy's
Thank you for visiting!. Dr. Noseworthy specializes in nutritional medicine and has handpicked top nutraceutical companies that produce pharmaceutical-grade supplements to make it simple to find quality products that work. Due to poor industry regulation, most supplement companies do not have standardization, and what is on the label is not always in the bottle. Many supplements are also not tested for contaminants or toxins and use poorly absorbed versions of nutrients to keep costs low.
Most products are available to our retail customers (found in the Available to All category). However, some products (such as Apex Energetics) are sold only to our Clients and are part of an individualized YOUniq Wellness program that is targeted to their specific needs. These are found under the Prescription Only category.
If you want help understanding exactly what your health and wellness challenges are, and how to address them, then please call us at 813-605-0693 to schedule a consultation. It's that simple to get started!
Otherwise, click on the ORDER PRODUCTS tab above. | medical |
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