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Health Headlines - November 28
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Meredy
Many Type 2 Diabetes Patients Morbidly Obese: U.S. Study Twenty percent of Americans with type 2 diabetes are more than 100 pounds overweight (morbidly obese), according to a Loyola University Health System study. "The rate of morbid obesity among people with diabetes is increasing at a very alarming rate, and this has substantial public healt ...
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Caregiver Stress Getting To You? Try My 3 Day Cure
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Carol O'Dell
I call it my 3 day cure. When I was caregiving my mom who had Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s –and I was a sandwich generation mom–which for me meant having 2 teenagers and one pre-teen (all girls to boot), stress could sometimes mount to a hair-pulling, screaming and crying at the same time fiasco. I wanted to walk out and sla ...
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Update small but there
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Jill Constantino
Vacation So I am back from vacation in San Antonio. We had a blast. I LOVE watching the kids hang out with each other. I won't lie though - Antonio was whinny and cranky. He got sick before we left and was sick part of the week and just as he was starting to get into playing he tripped and fell - bloody nose, fat lip and tears. Later in the week he ...
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The Badgers Nadgers…!!!
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Kingmagic of Purpleplus ..
I have been very fortunate in being recently asked to field test a pair of the latest Magnum boots. The ‘Ion-Mask’. I have included the links to the Magnum website for you to read up on all the scientific niff naff as it explains the technology better than I ever could.The main difference with these boots is that they are ‘blood p ...
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Coil Embolization: Miracle of Medical Technology
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Claire
My daughter's stroke was caused by an AVM...Arteriovenous malformation on her brain stem. The photo above is something similar to what hers looked like (I recall hers was a bit worse): take cooked angel hair pasta, throw it up against the wall and you get the picture. This tangle of tiny veins is NOT supposed to be there (or anywhere else for tha ...
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Coil Embolization: Miracle of Medical Technology
by
Claire
My daughter's stroke was caused by an AVM...Arteriovenous malformation on her brain stem. The photo above is something similar to what hers looked like (I recall hers was a bit worse): take cooked angel hair pasta, throw it up against the wall and you get the picture. This tangle of tiny veins is NOT supposed to be there (or anywhere else for tha ...
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Health Headlines - November 27
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Meredy
Many Type 2 Diabetes Patients Morbidly Obese: U.S. StudyTwenty percent of Americans with type 2 diabetes are more than 100 pounds overweight (morbidly obese), according to a Loyola University Health System study."The rate of morbid obesity among people with diabetes is increasing at a very alarming rate, and this has substantial public health ...
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x Having a rant.... x
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Sophie-Anne
Right where do i start....erm.....Tuesday was a looooooong day and we was up the hospital for an appointment at half 9 to see the pre-assessment people to talk about my portacath operation. I was asked all the usual questions about my health and told about the procedure which i feel not too bad about but that doesnt mean i want it lol. I am pleased ...
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Happy Thanksgiving and catching up
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cancerisnotanoption
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, I hope you have a beautiful day with your families and friends. My family will be coming to visit and have dinner with me this afternoon. I have missed them, I have not seen them since Saturday. Sofia is all better now and no fever for 48 hours so she can come back to visit today. Days 9, 10, 11, 12 have been rough. ...
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