Mammogram Accuracy Reduced In Overweight Women
• Cancer: Breast • May 28 04
Women who are overweight or obese are more likely to receive a false-positive result on mammography screenings than normal weight women, according to research…
Processed Soy Products Linked To Tumour Growth
• Cancer: Breast • May 28 04
Highly purified soy foods and supplements sold in the United States may stimulate the growth of pre-existing estrogen dependent breast tumors, according to a…
Anti-Nausea Drug Interferes With Breast Cancer Chemo
• Cancer: Breast • May 28 04
A drug widely used to prevent nausea and other side effects in patients receiving chemotherapy for breast cancer may also, unfortunately, prevent the therapy…
LA Yoga Study Seeking Breast Cancer Survivors
• Cancer: Breast • May 28 04
Researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center are recruiting volunteers who have completed treatment for breast cancer and are experiencing persistent fatigue to join a…
Big Differences In Countries Masectomy Rates
• Cancer: Breast • May 28 04
The rates of conservation surgery for breast cancer vary hugely between countries, delegates at the 4th European Breast Cancer Conference were told. In France,…
Diets
• Dieting To Lose Weight • May 28 04
* Carbohydrate Addict’s LifeSpan Program (Drs. Richard and Rachael Heller)
Premise: Richard and Rachael Heller claim that an excess of insulin,…
Popular diets: The good, the fad and the iffy
• Weight Loss • May 28 04
A calorie is a calorie, no matter where it comes from. Most weight-loss diets help you to restrict calories in one way or another.…
Weight Loss CAD Diet
• Dieting To Lose Weight • May 28 04
The Basics
It stands for the Carbohydrate Addicts Diet. According to two doctors, a husband and wife team, named Richard and Rachael…
The Atkins Diet
• Dieting To Lose Weight • May 28 04
The Atkins diet is considered the most popular of the low carbohydrate diets. It is based on the restriction of processed and refined…
Herbal Diet Product Information Misleading
• Dieting • May 28 04
Many websites marketing and advertising dietary supplements containing the herb ephedra are posting false or misleading information, a Johns Hopkins study demonstrates.
Internists at…
Type Of Exercise Can Determine Long-Term Weight Loss Success
• Dieting • May 28 04
Many of us go on a diet to lose weight, but many refrain from taking up exercise. For people who are markedly overweight, it…
Atkins Diet May Help With Epilepsy
• Dieting To Lose Weight • May 28 04
Along with helping some people shed unwanted pounds, the popular low-carbohydrate, high-fat Atkins diet may also have a role in preventing seizures in children…
Warning On Low Carb Diets
• Dieting • May 28 04
The latest issue of the Mayo Clinic Proceedings has published a letter explaining that the reason low-carb dieters often lose weight and sometimes show…
Study Gives Low-Carb Diets The Thumbs Up
• Weight Loss • May 28 04
Two trials reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine compared low-carbohydrate diets with low-fat diets. Both found that people on the low-carb diets lost…
Does a Low-Fat Diet Increase Heart Risk?
• Weight Loss • May 28 04
A low-fat diet decreases good cholesterol along with the bad. But that’s OK, a new study shows. Bad cholesterol is called LDL. It causes…
Searching for a Diet That Works
• Weight Loss • May 28 04
I just want a diet that works!” That’s the plea from confused people who feel overwhelmed by today’s many diet options, or frustrated that…
A Migraine in the Forecast
• Headaches • May 28 04
Doctors have long brushed aside patients who think the weather can trigger their migraine headaches.
However, recent research has found weather conditions can unleash…
The Basic Principles of Chinese Traditional Medicine - Part 4
• Chinese Medicine • May 28 04
Palpation
Palpation of the pulse
The pulse provides a great deal of the information gained from palpation, although a mass or trauma…
The Basic Principles of Chinese Traditional Medicine - Part 2
• Chinese Medicine • May 28 04
Zhong qi
Zhong qi is found mainly in the chest. It nourishes the structures and functions of the xin-heart and fei-lung.
Nourishing qi Stagnant blood causes ecchymosis or petechia. Stagnant blood can cause a mass. This can be any sort of mass, tumor, splenomegaly or hepatomegaly. Phlegm…
I. Yin and Yang It is estimated that 10-20 per cent of the population of the United States and Australia suffers from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). This chronic…
Dr. Edzard Ernst, MD, Professor of Complementary Medicine at the University of Exeter has just released a major report on the safety of herbal…
It is estimated that about two million people die every year from malaria. Since 1981 between 20 and 40 million people have died from…
Investigators at the U.S. National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory report that they have found potentially toxic levels of arsenic and mercury in Chinese…
The Basic Principles of Chinese Traditional Medicine - Part 3
• Chinese Medicine • May 28 04
The Basic Principles of Chinese Traditional Medicine - Part 1
• Chinese Medicine • May 28 04
The theory of yin and yang is a kind of world outlook. It holds that all things have two…
Chinese medicine alleviates irritable bowel syndrome
• Chinese Medicine • May 28 04
Herbal medicines - Are they safe?
• Chinese Medicine • May 28 04
Chinese herb proves effective against malaria
• Cosmetics • May 28 04
Some Chinese medicines may be toxic
• Chinese Medicine • May 28 04