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Cirrhosis of the Liver Reversal

The HMR machine has reversed cirrhosis in a 56 year old patient with cirrhosis and hepatitis B. Daily treatments lasting two hours have allowed his liver to make an amazing transformation. The basal values of his proteins such as albumin rose significantly while the transaminases decreased. All variables have indicated that this cirrhosis is in a state of reversal, a medical first!

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• Creating An Optimal Healing Environment

“Paul Levy’s post regarding unnecessary deaths is something about which I am also passionate. While it may not currently be mainstream, I believe it is enormously effective.
Some of you might say that our theory is Pollyanna in nature, but there is quantifiable information that definitively demonstrates its effectiveness. And I believe that by embracing a philosophy that creates an optimal healing environment, many workplace “never” incidents will ultimately be resolved.” This blog focuses on inspiring us to be the best we can be and to approach life in a positive frame of mind centering on the healing elements of nature in patient care.

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• Cardiac Stent Patients With Diabetes May Benefit From Drug That Counteracts The Effects of Leptin

The naturally high levels of leptin in diabetic patients may reduce the effectiveness of drug-eluting stents used to treat heart blockages, but using a chemical that differs from the one commonly used to coat stents could counteract this effect.

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AASLD: New Strategies In Liver Cancer And Hepatitis B

Hepatitis B and liver cancer are major and growing problems under discussion at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). Related to liver cancer, there are studies related to diagnostic biomarkers to see which patients respond best to which treatment. New drugs are also on the horizon. Relative to hepatitis B, the most important result is the long term data on the safety of the drugs currently used to treat this disease. If patients can be treated to lose hepatitis B surface antigen, treatment need not be continued, according to one study.

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• Doing Harm By Doing Good

“First, a little background about prostate cancer. According to the National Cancer Institute, between 27 percent and 37 percent of men between 55 to 74 years of age have prostate cancer. It is a very slow growing cancer; most men who have it end up dying of something else.
The ugly truth about prostate cancer testing is it doesn’t work. The most common test, a blood test known as PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) is terribly inaccurate. Men who have been tested have no better survival rate than men who have not.” This blog explores the ethics behind knowing whether you have prostate cancer or not when you will end up dying of something else. Why agonize over a diagnosis you can live the rest of your life with. It is a very real ethical issue in the area of medicine today.

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• Preventing Food Allergies in Children – A Change of Strategy?

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States in 2007 around 3 million children under 18 had food allergies - a rise of 18% since 1997. The CDC says in 2006 about 6.8 million children suffered from some sort of allergy and for some reason which remains unclear there are a growing number of children with allergies to foods such as peanuts, eggs and fish and these affected children are two to four times as likely to have related conditions such as asthma or other allergies.

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Anesthesia and Pediatric Respiratory Infections

New treatments for hepatitis C hold promise for adults, top researchers said at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases It is not in the best interest of the child to do an operation and provide anesthesia when they are afflicted with an upper respiratory infection. Surgeries should not be performed on these children unless it is an emergency.

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• Amazing Mom Performs Self C-Section

“Ines Ramirez Perez was in labor, alone in a one room cabin in the mountains of Rio Talea, Mexico, with no one to help. The nearest clinic was 80km away and she had 12 hours of constant pain. Since she had delivered a dead baby three years earlier, she decided she did not want to deliver another dead baby and she would rather die herself.” This blog tells the story of a woman in Mexico desperate enough to have her baby that she performed a C-section on herself to deliver a healthy baby boy. An amazing story of the resilient nature of women.