January 31, 2008

Asking 40 Important Health and Medical Questions to the Next US President

Dear Mr or Mrs Next US President,The health and medical blogosphere would like to make sure you and your team take into account the issues outlined below as you and your aids formulate your policies and put together the team that will further define and implement them.40 different health bloggers have asked these questions that I now pose to you and your team.Dear Mr or Mrs Next US President,1. Your main asset is your brain. What have you done lately to maintain your brain? (SharpBrains).Health Policy2. Who do you support as US Science Advisor? (A Blog Around the Clock).3. Not to depress you but…are you aware that healthcare reform is really hard? how will you change all this? (Medinnovationblog).4. How will you increase price transparency of medical procedures and engage consumer forces? (Val Jones).5. Sorry to insist, but this is an important point. Why is there so much confusion and misinformation about procedure prices? (Insure Blog).6. Have you seen the recent figures that show how lack of insurance reduces cancer survival rates? (Highlight Health).7. The cost of fruits and vegetables is growing higher than inflation rates, and we have a growing obesity problem. What will you do? (The Diet Dish).8. […]

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What Is Stroke?

Stroke/apoplexy commonly occurs as a result of disorders of cerebral/brain circulation, called cerebral vascular accident (CVA). It results in unconsciousness, paralysis either of a part or one half of the body (hemiplegia), or loss of speech or vision or balance of the body. As described earlier, it can be very senous.
In this condition, there could be either thrombosis (clotting) or haemorrhage in one 6f the blood vessels of the brain, leading to the above-stated manifestations. This can be best checked by the same factors which are required for the prevention of coronary artery disease. This includes proper control of diabetes, hypertension, high blood cholesterol, high blood uric acid, and by taking a proper diet and exercise commensurate with any of the above disease(s) one is suffering from. In case one is overweight, reduction in weight is also essential for the prevention of stroke.
It should be known to all that sometimes there may be even warning signals before the occurrence of stroke. These are termed as ‘transient ischaemic attacks (TIA)’. In these attacks, the flow of the blood is momentarily hampered in one of the blood vessels of the brain, causing transient spells of loss of vision/speech/paralysis of a part of […]

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How To Control High Blood Uric Acid?

How to Control High Blood Uric Acid? This is very common question and this articles will help you to solve this problem.
High levels of blood uric acid may occur during the course of various diseases. For example, if kidneys are damaged even due to some other cause, say as a result of chronic infection or prolonged high blood pressure, or in acute cases, like acute nephritis, blood uric acid levels will rise, because the kidneys will not be able to maintain the normal levels of blood uric acid. And, in such cases, both kidneys and high blood uric acid require equal attention.
In some other diseases also, e.g. when a person is suffering from leukaemia, malignant tumours, polycythaemia, psoriasis, cyanotic congenital heart diseases, pernicious and haemolytic anaemias, during the administration of anticancer drugs, blood uric acid is likely to get raised as a result of excessive tissue breakdown. Again in such cases, care of both the primary disease and high level of blood uric acid is required so as to save the patient from additional complications due to high blood uric acid.
Besides the above, blood uric acid can also rise in other diseases which may be listed as: myxoedema, hypoparathyroidism and […]

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