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Four of the Most Misused Terms in Alternative Medicine
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It also makes its practitioners a lot of money. Here are some of the terms that are most commonly used and misused by alternative medicine gurus, natural products websites, dubious doctors, holistic healers, and all those purporting to treat illnesses ...

Outlook India
Getting A Grip On Diabetes
Outlook India
Modern lifestyles in urban India can be blamed for the surge in NCDs such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension and some cancers. ... Advancements in bariatric surgery have made this a feasible alternative treatment option in persons with BMI 30-35.

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Outlook India
Getting A Grip On Diabetes
Outlook India
Modern lifestyles in urban India can be blamed for the surge in NCDs such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension and some cancers. ... Advancements in bariatric surgery have made this a feasible alternative treatment option in persons with BMI 30-35.

Independent Online
Cancer accounts for over 60% of critical illness claims by women
Independent Online
The latest figures from Statistics South Africa show that cerebrovascular disease (which causes strokes), hypertensive disease and other forms of heart disease were among the top five natural causes of death among women in 2015. In addition, some ...

Health24
Why are biologics so expensive?
Health24
Biologics are a new kind of medicine, not produced chemically, but made from a variety of natural resources. Biologics are .... More and more non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as arthritis, diabetes and heart disease can now be treated with biologics.

Bloomington Pantagraph
Heart Disease: A Price Humans Pay for Fertility?
Bloomington Pantagraph
The researchers said that raises a fundamental question: Why haven't the genes that promote heart disease been weeded out by natural selection? Natural ... But studying the genetics of heart disease will hopefully lead to better treatments, Rosenson said.

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World-First Trial Shows Improving Diet Can Treat Major Depression
Anti Aging News
Many people suffer from depression. In as much as the causes of this mental disorder remain largely unidentified, numerous therapies have been advanced. Mental health experts have been trying to advance therapies that provide a longstanding solution to ...

The San Luis Obispo Tribune
'I need to go to the hospital,' SLO jail inmate said before deadly heart attack
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
A 60-year-old County Jail inmate died of a heart attack while in custody in April within an hour of asking to go to the hospital for pain, numbness and tingling in his shoulder, a coroner's report released by the Sheriff's Office says. However, the ...

HealthDay
Heart Disease: A Price Humans Pay for Fertility?
HealthDay
The researchers said that raises a fundamental question: Why haven't the genes that promote heart disease been weeded out by natural selection? Natural ... But studying the genetics of heart disease will hopefully lead to better treatments, Rosenson said.

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Daily Mail
Could this be a cure for heart attacks? Scientists pinpoint method to prevent deadly blood clots
Daily Mail
Among mums who breastfed each of their babies for two years or more, heart disease risk was 18 per cent lower and stroke risk was 17 per cent lower than among mothers who never breastfed. And each additional six months of breastfeeding per baby was ...

Newsmax
Coconut Oil Has More 'Bad' Fat than Beef, Butter
Newsmax
“Replacing saturated with polyunsaturated has a two-fold effect because a fat that causes heart disease is lowered and a fat that prevents heart disease is increased,” lead author of the advisory Dr. Frank Sacks, a researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan ...
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TheHealthSite
Global Hospitals launches a heart failure clinic for people with cardiovascular disease
TheHealthSite
According to Dr. Z. Hamdulay, Director of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery, Global Hospitals, “Through our heart failure clinic, we focus on providing alternative treatments to patients who have been awaiting a suitable donor or the ones who have a ...

Undark Magazine
In Defectors From the North, Doctors in South Korea Find Hope — and Data
Undark Magazine
A tuberculosis specialist, he saw many patients with malnutrition, which compounds the effects of TB — making people more susceptible and making the disease harder to treat. Another former North ..... “It's important not to ignore these folk remedies ...

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Ruidoso News
Natural healing: Understanding the thyroid hormone dysfunction and treatment
Ruidoso News
Too much thyroid hormone causes a condition called Graves' disease, characterized by increased fatigue, rapid heart rate, and higher than normal body temperature. Often increased thyroid hormone is caused by dysfunction of the immune system, where the ...

Digital Trends
Heart disease treatment fights health problems with … photosynthesis?
Digital Trends
“We set out to try to think of different, out-of-the-box ways to approach heart disease,” Dr. Joseph Woo, chair of cardiothoracic surgery at Stanford and lead author on the study, told Digital Trends. “I wanted to know if there was any way of taking ...

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Lifesite
Gender-confused kids need therapy, not puberty-blocking drugs: New study
Lifesite
In their new article, Hruz, Mayer, and McHugh explain that transgender-affirming treatments of children “may drive some children to persist in identifying as transgender when they might otherwise have, as they grow older, found their gender to be ...

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The Sun
Is coconut oil bad for you, how is it used to treat skin, hair and sunburn and does it help you tan?
The Sun
Saturated fats are linked to high cholesterol and heart disease, suggesting that consuming coconut oil may not be as healthy as we were originally told. There is, however, some evidence ... Some people promote virgin coconut oil as a natural laxative ...

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Takeda and TiGenix announce that Swissmedic has accepted for review the file on Cx601 for the treatment of complex ...
GlobeNewswire (press release)
"Cx601 may have the potential to offer an alternative treatment option to current therapies, which are often associated with complications and a high failure rate for a disease that is difficult to treat and often leads to pain, swelling, infection and ...

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BBC News
Cholesterol-lowering jab to help prevent heart disease
BBC News
Human trials of a cholesterol-lowering vaccine to help prevent heart disease are under way after successful studies in mice. Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna are testing the safety of their experimental treatment in 72 volunteers. The ...

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Valve Leaflet Thrombosis: Treat It or Leave It Be?
TCTMD
Despite new guideline support, not everyone agrees anticoagulation is warranted in patients who develop thrombosis and mobility problems. ... Sondergaard and colleagues have a paper in press at the European Heart Journal, some of which he has also ...