Disorders Of Wound Healing - Articles
I have a friend
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Larry Drain
I have a friend who hurts most of the time now. He says they call it chronic pain. They have given him several different explanations…. He doesnt really know why. He just knows he hurts.It is there he says almost 24/7. Sometimes it gets down to a 5 or 6. But he says 9 or 10 is the rule. Some pain meds seem to help sometimes. He doesn ...
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Why Sleep Apnea Increases During the Holidays
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Dr. Steven P.
It’s the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and I have to admit, I’m not feeling too well today. I had my usual two servings of turkey Thursday evening. For some strange reason, I had three pieces my other sister-in-law’s coconut cake, and as usual, this Thanksgiving dinner was much later than my usual dinner time. The next morning, I s ...
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Working through the kinks ...
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Diana ..
My Oopherectomy and Appendectomy went well and I was healing really well ... but I noticed that part of the incision didn't look right and was hot to the touch, swollen and red. A couple signs that can signal a local infection. Yesterday Cecilia and I spent most of the day hustling between the Albany VA Medical Center and Albany Medical Center to ...
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Just Take A Pill
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Danielle Elwood
I am part of a cesarean mothers group on Cafemom, while the vast majority of posts are not things I personally agree with, I stay in the group for the random occasion of a mother who may be in need of support that these other women really aren't familiar with giving. I finally ran into this today. A mother had a cesarean section over a week ago an ...
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On life- the bioethics vision
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Larry Drain
Life has intrinsic value– right. Wrong if you listen to the vision of bioethicists. Bioethicists are people concerned with the ethics of life and medical practice and choice. They believe that there is such a thing as a “life not worth living.” The late Joseph Fletcher (who started the idea of “situation ethics”) w ...
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Confidence Is Nature’s Best Aphrodisiac
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Dan and Jennifer ..
”Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.” – Aimee MullinsI remember as a teenager, being so self-absorbed, hoping my Prince Charming would come along and rescue me from my life as I knew it! One day I read an article in a woman’s magazine about my very predicament. This a ...
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Product Review and French Toast
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trying.to.heal
How about a product review, hmm? I’ve seen this on a few blogs and was excited that I got a sample in my 10k Turkey Trot (recap here!) Swag Bag! It was a nice sized sample bag, and just enough for my breakfast!I like the ingredients and nutritional stats of the product. Pretty simple and nothing fake to me!I paired it up with an apple tosse ...
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Exercise & Prostate Cancer Risk
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Robert W.
Weekly Health Update: Exercise & Prostate Cancer Risk "A critical weekly review of important new research findings for health-conscious readers..." By, Robert A. Wascher, MD, FACS Updated: 11/29/2009The information in this column is intended for informational purposes only, and does not constitute medical advice or recommendati ...
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Of the Earth – Original Speech and the Senses
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Kiva R.
The foundation for experiencing and understanding herbal energetics and human constitutions is to learn to speak with the natural world (including plants and the human body) through our senses (which is what they’re there for, after all). Thus, one of the most important practices of the aspiring or practicing herbalist is to thoroughly awaken ...
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The Eternal Optimist
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Melissa H.
This is my latest blog post over at WeAretheRealDeal. You can read it here or after the jump. I was a sophomore in college, mending a broken heart and pretty bummed about the state of my life at the moment when, during a dorm-room chat, a (very blunt) friend looked at me point-blank and said, “Oh, Meliss, you’ll be fine. You’d be ...
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