Partial Paralysis - Articles
My (Very Early Morning) EEG
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patientanonymous
Ugh. I’m still waiting for the Tea Faeries to alight upon my shoulders, with blessings of sweet caffeine relief, but to no avail… Yes, I was up very early this morning (after staying up a little late?) for another EEG!Let’s just say the whole thing started off with a bang. Literally. The hospital’s revolving door’ ...
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Temodar and Xeloda for neuroendocrine cacner
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Mark Levin
CVS/Caremark policy considers Temodar unapproved for lack of efficacy or of harm. Most of the available information is in abstract form. A retrospective review suggest that a combination of T + C is active, well tolerated and may prolong survival and palliate symptoms in pts with neuroendocrine tumors, a malignancy closely relatd to islet cell (NET ...
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Howard: The Medicaid Monster
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Dr. Paul Hsieh
In a recent issue of City Journal, Paul Howard describes how a combination of perverse funding formulas, political corruption, regulations on private insurance, and entitlement mentality have driven up New York state's Medicaid costs. In particular, he describes some of the controls placed on the private insurance market: Why is private health ins ...
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Judgments Based on First Impressions
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Sagan
It’s really funny to see people’s reactions when you change from this:…to this:Oh my goodness is that a brunette?!Reactions have ranged from the complimentary “That’s a nice change, you look better as a brunette” to “oh, that’s… different…” (said in a high-pitched tone which reall ...
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Recovering from Surgery
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Neo-Conduit
February 18th. Monday. My doctor came back from her two week holiday. I believed she would have been in a brilliant mood. No such luck. She ranted and screamed at the staff over menial things. One of my drains from the Neobladder had to be changed. In a couple of days I would be learning how to self catheterise. During the pretty simple procedure ...
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The days post NeoBladder Surgery
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Neo-Conduit
The surgery Continues. Over the next few days recovery happened. It wasn't a nice holiday in France type thing, but if Hannibal Lector was around it would be a similar experience I suppose. You know that bit of the movie where he attempts surgery without anaesthetic on the balcony, well the similarities were freakishly similar. It felt at times t ...
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Ramadan and home from Hospital
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Neo-Conduit
Finally Home. I had been feeling really awful from last Monday. Tummy pains, back ache etc. I thought that maybe it was a mid cycle thing as I have experienced in the past haemorrhagic Cysts on my ovaries, that have necessitated peritoneal lavage for removal of blood and infection. I just thought I would wait it out, and by day three the pain was ...
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We arent getting a choice with Flu vaccinations, Swine Flu mixed in.
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Neo-Conduit
In the new year New-Zealanders will receive their usual Flu Vax complete with Swine Flu thrown in for good measure. So if you are having to receive Flu shots yearly you have no choice but to also get the H1N1 shot. Im so glad I don't need the Flu shots, wouldn't have them anyway. The Press states"Next year's flu vaccine will contain the swine ...
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Botox injections not favoured by all celebs
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Peter Beard
Thursday 10th September 2009It seems that Botox injections are not favoured by all celebrities after actor Colin Firth expressed concern over the ability to act if your face becomes frozen.He likened it to the act of making sure the strings of a violin don’t vibrate and said that by paralysing the muscles in the face, you were essentially pre ...
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Featured Q&A: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
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Lisa E. L.
Over at the medical genetics forum on MedHelp, senior genetics counselor Lisa Kessler responds to an inquiry about the inheritance patterns of ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), which is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Many people assume serious conditions such as ALS are either hereditary or they are not. We are increasingly finding, h ...
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