Parkinson's Disease
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Paul E.
About 10 percent of Parkinson's disease is thought to be genetic, while the remainder is thought to result from environmental fa ...
Choice or Disease
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eatnormalnow
Whether you view eating problems as a disease or not may determine your ability to recover. When we think of diseases, we often ...
muscle disease
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Lori ..
Hi my name is Lori. I have a chronic muscle disease I have to deal w/everyday. I know (I've been told stretching is so importa ...
Menopause is not a disease
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Cathy T.
DR. Michaela Glockler assured women that menopause is not a time of chaos or a form of disease. Rather, she said, it is “a ...
RENAL DISEASES
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Dr. Farhan A.
Kidney are composed of millions of tiny filter-cells called nephrons, which have even smaller vessels located within them. Prolo ...
Abuse or Disease?
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eatnormalnow
What’s in a name? A recent letter to the editor in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune made the case that people should think twice abou ...
Mondor's Disease
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Ramona B., MD
Mondor's disease is an uncommon condition of the pectoral region. Fage (2nd reference) first described this condition in 1870, ...
PMD Foundation Homepage The PMD Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization formed to serve three distinct interest groups as they relate to Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease: The ...
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD) is a rare, progressive, degenerative central nervous system disorder in which coordination, motor abilities, ...
WellTips
Fruit & veggies
Eat more fruits and vegetables.
People who do have a reduced risk of chronic diseases, including stroke, heart attack, diabetes, and certain cancers.
Getting started
Buy organic milk, eggs, and meat.
Reduce your risk of being exposed to mad cow disease (BSE), and help cut back the destructive use of antibiotics.
Fiber
Avoid trans fats.
Trans fats (and saturated fats too) raise the bad LDL cholesterol in your blood which increases your risk of heart disease.
Who needs to supplement
Everyone should take a multivitamin.
Increasingly, experts conclude a multivitamin pill daily may help fend off heart attacks and various chronic diseases.
More tips
Cut the fat.
Vegetarian diets are remarkably low in saturated fat, which probably explains why vegetarians have a lower incidence of heart disease.
Reasons to workout
Workout reason 2.
Lowers your blood pressure and reduces risk of heart disease.
Blog Articles
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease: A disorder of the central nervous system (CNS) in which there is loss of myelin, the sheath around the nerves. The disease is clinically characterized by nystagmus (rhythmical oscillation of the eyes), ...
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease Application of a new progesterone antagonist to reduce PLP overexpression in a mouse model of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease by Klaus-Armin Nave, PhD, Hauke Werner, PhD Max-Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Goettingen, ...
Mitochondrial Hsp60 Chaperonopathy Causes an Autosomal-Recessive ... ... Karl Skorecki, Hanna Mandel. Hypomyelinating leukodystrophies (HMLs) are disorders involving aberrant myelin formation. The prototype of primary HMLs is the X-linked Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD) caused by mutations in P....