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Science of Slumber: How Sleep Affects Your Memory. Drug Library - DrugDigest. Honey Boo Boo. My son has been coughing for several weeks, and the cough will probably persist for another 2 or 3 weeks.

Honey Boo Boo

Coughs last a long time. Patients think a cough will go away in less than a week but in reality they are likely to last several weeks. Coughs are a pain for the patient and an annoyance for the people around them. Outdoor and natural learning. Free Blood Pressure Chart and Printable Blood Pressure Log. Our free blood pressure chart and blood pressure log allow you to track your blood pressure, aiding you in being aware of and gaining control over your blood pressure and health.

Free Blood Pressure Chart and Printable Blood Pressure Log

Since normal blood pressure levels can change with age, weight, height and many other factors, you should consult your doctor or caregiver to determine your appropriate target blood pressure, which can be entered into the blood pressure log. The blood pressure charts below are a quick reference for low, normal and high blood pressures. Blood Pressure Charts These blood pressure charts will give you a quick reference of blood pressure levels for adults 18 and older. Download the Blood Pressure Charts in PDF format. Printable Blood Pressure Log When you measure your blood pressure, you're not always next to your computer.

Www.dcscience.net. Tinnitus Awareness Week. This week (4th – 10th February) is Tinnitus Awareness Week and UK charity Action on Hearing Loss has been campaigning to raise awareness about Tinnitus and the dangers of exposure to loud music.

Tinnitus Awareness Week

Bringing a new perspective to infectious disease. Studying infectious diseases has long been primarily the domain of biologists.

Bringing a new perspective to infectious disease

However, as part of the Ragon Institute, MIT engineers and physical scientists are joining immunologists and physicians in the battle against HIV, which currently infects 34 million people worldwide. The mission of the Ragon Institute—launched jointly in 2009 by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), MIT and Harvard University—is to develop new HIV vaccines through better understanding of how the immune system responds to infection.

Bruce Walker, the MGH physician who directs the institute, says it was important to enlist engineers and physical scientists, who have usually been excluded from traditional HIV research, to help in this effort. Stochastic monte-carlo epidemic sir model to reveal herd immunity. NHS Scandal Report Into Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Due. The much-anticipated report from the public inquiry into serious failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust is set to be published, kickstarted by a grief-stricken woman after her mother died.

NHS Scandal Report Into Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Due

The landmark report is expected to propose wide-ranging reforms of the NHS. It has been suggested that chair of the inquiry Robert Francis QC will recommend that hospitals should face tough new scrutiny by teams of inspectors which include doctors and nurses. Julie Bailey, of campaign group Cure the NHS, who lost her mother Bella, aged 86 whilst she was a patient at Stafford General Hospital The move will form part of an overhaul of the array of regulatory bodies that failed to detect failings in patient care at the trust, it has been reported. It is also expected that Francis, a specialist in medical legal issues, will recommend a "duty of candour" that would see fines or threat of closure used against hospitals that fail to tell their patients if their treatment went wrong. Integrated medicine makes no sense.

There are few subjects in the area of alternative medicine which are more deceptive than the now fashionable topic of “integrated medicine” (or integrative medicine, healthcare etc.).

Integrated medicine makes no sense

According to its proponents, integrated medicine (IM) is based mainly on two concepts. The first is that of “whole person care”, and the second is often called “the best of both worlds”. Attractive concepts, one might think – why then do I find IM superfluous, deeply misguided and plainly wrong? Whole patient care or holism Integrated healthcare practitioners, we are being told, do not just treat the physical complaints of a patient but look after the whole individual: body, mind and soul. Wikipedia at War with Homeopathy.

News - The Nightingale Collaboration. Research in chiropractic seems in a dismal state. If I had a pint of beer for every time I have been accused of bias against chiropractic, I would rarely be sober.

Research in chiropractic seems in a dismal state

The thing is that I do like to report about decent research in this field and I am almost every day looking out for new articles which might be worth writing about – but they are like gold dust! “Huuuuuuuuh, that just shows how very biased he is” I hear the chiro community shout. Well let’s put my hypothesis to the test. ...Whatever. — Wrote this for reddit because a story about... Wrote this for reddit because a story about aspergers made the front page and I can only listen to “How is being socially awkward a disability, fucking fakers” for so long before I flip my shit.

...Whatever. — Wrote this for reddit because a story about...

Next time you have a conversation with a person, try to take manual control over everything. Eye contact, reading gestures, analyzing tone of voice, continually mentally polling to determine if it’s your turn to speak yet, keep a background check to make sure you don’t “go on too long” when you are speaking, take manual control over your own facial expressions and vocal modulations. Honey Boo Boo. Faith in alternative therapy delays cancer treatment. Even though cancer is diagnosed in the early stages, patients waste precious time in using alternative therapies before going to a hospital for treatment. Almost 70% of new cancer cases at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)'s Dr BR Ambedkar Institute-Rotary Cancer Hospital are beyond the critical stage two, when the cancer can be treated easily.

Of these, half have been using an alternative therapy for months. Most private hospitals say one in four patients have tried alternative medicines before coming for treatment. Our Favourite British Business this month. Burzynski: killing without care? Homeopathy Starter Kit, Pt 1. Wellness Oprah and Deepak's 21-Day Finding Your Flow Meditation Find out how you can be a part of Oprah & Deepak Chopra's latest meditation.

Homeopathy Starter Kit, Pt 1

Family Health. Malleus Homeopathicum. HealthyRelationshipsToolkit. Delny%20Britton. Second Week of Fundamentals Training Begins in Belle Anse, Haiti. Here I am, on my second trip to Haiti with Homeopaths “Sans Frontières”—I spiffed up my French to be able to communicate with the Haitian people better.

Second Week of Fundamentals Training Begins in Belle Anse, Haiti

My Creole is basically nonexistent but if you know the words “meci” (thank you) and “enpils” (a lot), you can get pretty far. More on that, later. We all arrived on the same flight, allowing us to bond early in our adventure. Homeopathswithoutborders-na. Homeopaths offer to rebrand products as 'confectionery' Homeopathy: An Introduction. On this page: Homeopathy, also known as homeopathic medicine, is an alternative medical system that was developed in Germany more than 200 years ago.

Vaccine Information You Need from the Immunization Action Coalition. That Mitchell and Webb Look: Homeopathic A&E.