PHOENIX - Are you thinking about ditching the glasses and going for LASIK eye surgery?
The folks at Angie’s List have a few things for you to keep in mind before making a decision.
Make sure you research the doctor. Talk to friends and family who have had the surgery and see you they recommend.
Your optometrist may also have some good suggestions for a qualified surgeon.
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Political uncertainty in Canberra has left cancer patients in the lurch.
Just before the election was called, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee recommended Erbitux - which ordinarily costs around $2,000 a fortnight - be added to the benefits scheme, making it easier for bowel cancer patients to access.
Erbitux is said to offer a chance of slowing bowel cancer for about 2500 Australians.
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Former Tour de France winner Laurent Fignon has died from cancer at the age of 50.
Fignon won the Tour de France in 1983 and 1984 and also finished runner-up by just eight seconds to Greg LeMond in 1989, the smallest winning margin in the history of the race.
The Frenchman was a versatile rider capable of challenging in both the grand tours and classics - he collected 76 victories during his career, including Milan-San Remo twice and the 1989 Giro d'Italia.
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British actress-model Elizabeth Hurley says she is on a vodka diet to keep in shape. The 44-year-old has confessed that she was forced to adopt a more extreme diet plan to maintain her famously svelte figure. She revealed that she has cut out coffee and wine from her diet.
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Gaunt Michael Douglas put on a brave face yesterday - as he vows to win his throat cancer battle.
The star, 65, was seen entering his New York apartment - the first time he has been pictured outside since the diagnosis.
Michael, a heavy smoker, insisted: "I can beat this. I'm feeling really optimistic."
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An experimental drug from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer reduces the risk of stroke by more than half compared with aspirin, with no significant rise in major bleeding, researchers said on Tuesday.
The results boost prospects for apixaban, one of several new anticoagulant pills aiming to displace the old, problematic heart drug warfarin as a stroke preventer for patients with a common heart arrhythmia called atrial fibrillation (AF).
Industry analysts believe the market for products to replace warfarin, which was originally developed as rat poison, could eventually be worth more than $10 billion annually and possibly as much as $20 billion.
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Noreen Oliver, the award-winning advocate of an abstinence-based approach to rehab, tells Mary O'Hara addicts need choice
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A fire that did $20,000 in damages to a northeast Arkansas home wasn't caused by an electrical problem or burning food or arson, an insurance investigator concluded.
Instead, the dead plants did it, according to a report summary provided to the homeowner, Brian Duncan.
"The fire was caused by self-heating through decomposition of organic materials contained within a plastic flowerpot," the Aug. 25 letter from State Farm Insurance Co. said.
Or, in layman's terms, spontaneous combustion.
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There are many different meditation techniques and benefits, and many different reasons why people meditate. Here are 13 celebrities who meditate, and 13 things we can learn from them.
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Drug charities are urging the UK Government to drop plans to withdraw welfare benefits from addicts who refuse treatment, warning that such a move could turn them to crime.
The Home Office is looking at introducing a “financial benefit sanction” for claimants who fail to address seriously their drug or alcohol dependency.
Such a move, contained in a consultation paper on the Government’s drug strategy for Scotland, England and Wales, would resurrect a scheme planned by the previous Labour Government, which was aimed at helping drug-users get back into work.
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Exercise, medications and dietary modification remain the bedrock of successful diabetes management. A poor understanding of steps to take diet-wise in the management of diabetes can lead not only to poor blood sugar control but also to personal frustration in the individual with diabetes.
All treatment strategies for diabetes cannot be successful without attendant modification of the diet. Most individuals with diabetes continue to ask, “What do I eat as someone living with diabetes?”
This treatise will attempt to give some general guidelines, keeping in mind that individuals with diabetes should have dietary counseling sessions with a dietitian. It must be clearly understood from the outset that there is no one diet for all people with diabetes. Individuals with diabetes need to fully understand the general dietary principles that will serve as a good guide to them when planning their own meals.
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Many of us consider ourselves spiritual seekers. We wish we meditated more. We wish we were better people. We wish we had an inner calm. We wish and often we try. Sometimes we try very, very hard. And sometimes we make some progress. In fact, among us there are many dedicated meditators, of all types and persuasions. And along side those folks are the many who work equally hard on their spiritual path, whatever it may be.
But most of us, even those on a disciplined path, find ourselves often caught in our 24/7 world and that twenty-minute meditation time we promised ourselves has disappeared. The summer, in which we committed ourselves to long walks in nature and quiet time for self-reflection, ran away from us in the blink of an eye. The calm inner sense of peace is nowhere to be found, as we answer yet another phone call, fix another dinner, go to one more meeting, soothe one more crying child.
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Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday advised people showing symptoms of dengue to go for a check-up and get treatment without any delay, saying timely treatment can only help cure this disease.
"I am feeling feverish and I am shivering. I am going to get a medical test done for dengue. And that is what I would advice everybody. People should also take precautions. Timely treatment can help cure this disease," said Azad.
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Health experts have warned that China is at risk of losing at least two million lives each year to smoking-related diseases.
The use of tobacco by Chinese men, 53 percent of whom are smokers, has already peaked, reports China Daily.
Each year, some one million people die from tobacco-related diseases in China, which is home to about 300 million smokers.
"The crucial time has come for China to implement tougher tobacco control measures, which will be good for both national health and wealth," said Judith Mackay, a Hong Kong-based tobacco control expert.
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The recipient of the first successful total artificial heart implant in the southern hemisphere says more people should consider becoming organ donors.
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Nova Scotia's premier has added his voice to a growing chorus of support for a national clinical trial for a controversial treatment for multiple sclerosis.
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Aug. 20, 2010 -- Pregnant women who drink artificially sweetened carbonated and noncarbonated soft drinks may be at increased risk for preterm delivery, a study shows.
But a spokeswoman for a beverage trade group says the study doesn't demonstrate cause and effect and unnecessarily alarms pregnant women. And the researchers themselves say more study is needed before firm conclusions can be reached.
The study is published in the September issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
"We observed a positive association between the intake of artificially sweetened soft drinks and the risk of preterm delivery, [but] no association was observed for sugar-sweetened soft drinks," conclude study researchers, who were led by Thorhallur I. Halldorsson of the Centre for Fetal Programming at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Halldorsson says in an email to WebMD: “We see some indications suggesting that high intake of artificially sweetened soft drinks may be non
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AHMEDABAD: US-based Ronda Anderson has come to Ahmedabad for the first time, on invitation from her father Bob who has gifted her a bariatric surgery so that her three-decade-old struggle with the bulge finally comes to an end.
Ronda weighs 130 kg and this 38-year-old says she remembers to be fighting the battle against bulge ever since she was a teen. "I have been on a diet almost all my life," says Ronda.
Be it the Cabbage diet, the Atkin's Diet, the GM motors, the South Beach diet, Ronda confesses to have been there, done that. She says she also tried all kinds of exercise. "I would lose 30 pound and the moment I slackened a little, I would gain 50 pound. I think I can put on a couple of kg only by looking at good food," Ronda says even as she makes light of her frustrating struggle.
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ALOR SETAR, Aug 13 (Bernama) -- One in six men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime according to Kedah Medical Centre (KMC) Consultant Urologist, Dr Murali Mohan.
According to the Urologist, if at a locally confined stage, five years survival rate remains a 100 percent possibility but in cases of metastasis, five years survival rate is only about 35 percent.
Dr Murali said prostate cancer was the second leading cause of cancer deaths among American men after lung cancer and those who are over 50 are advised to undergo a medical examination.
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At a press conference at the 2010 PGA Championship this week, Masters winner and number 2 ranked golfer in the world Phil Mickelson has publicly announced that he is being treated for psoriatic arthritis and has adopted a healthier lifestyle to deal with the symptoms, including following a vegetarian diet.
Arthritis itself means “inflammation of the joints”, although the cause can come from several factors. Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is an autoimmune disease that affects between 6 and 42% of people with psoriasis, a skin disease that causes itchy or sore patches of thick, red skin with silvery scales
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