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A Caregiver’s Guide to Survival…
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It’s called “burn out.”
Because, let’s face it, being a caregiver is exhausting.
You may feel guilt, resentment, anger, anxiety or helplessness.
A chief of surgery offers insider tips to finding the right surgeon
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If you’ve been blessed with reasonably good health, you probably don’t have a surgeon’s number on speed dial.
Therefore, the bigger question is, in the unfortunate event that you need one, how do you find the best surgeon for your medical condition?
Tags: chief of surgery insider tips, doctors, interview, key credentials, references
Catamenial epilepsy — do you have it?
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Do you notice that your seizures worsen just before your period…or during the first few days…or at mid-cycle?
You could have “catamenial epilepsy,” or hormone sensitive seizures, a tendency for increased seizures related to your menstrual cycle.
The causes of catamenial epilepsy are not totally understood.
Tags: catamenial epilepsy, estrogen, hormone sensitive, menstrual cycle, progesterone
Marijuana’s time has come. ..
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“If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place.
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.” — William F. Buckley Jr.
Americans have spoken.
Congress listened.
Marijuana’s time has come.
Tags: marijuana pros and cons, medical, recreational
Ode to epilepsy…
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It strikes my head a hundred times…
It strikes my soul as many…
It strikes each thought I have…
Forecasts of epilepsy seizures could become a reality…
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Seizures are like a storm in the rain.
Not knowing when your next seizure will hit can be unnerving, at best.
Will a seizure happen five minutes from now, five weeks from now or five months from now?
It’s a crapshoot. Even with triggers and auras.
What you don’t know about your blood type could save your life!
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Do you know your blood type?
There’s a good chance that you don’t.
More Americans know their horoscope sign (66 percent) than their blood type (51 percent), according to a recent survey published by the medical laboratory company Quest Diagnostics.
Tags: Blood Type A, Blood Type A and B, Blood Type B, Blood Type O, health
Concussion diagnosis in 15 minutes?
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Can a video game detect a concussion?
Not exactly. But a computerized test, similar to a video game can do just that…
In 15 minutes!
What Do Billy Joel, Frankenstein, Itzhak Perlman and David Hockney Have In Common?
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They all have synesthesia…
The famous artist David Hockney, perceives music as color, shape, and configuration, and uses these perceptions when painting opera stage sets.
Russian painter Kandinsky combines color, hearing, touch, and smell.
In fact, people from all walks of the art world have synesthesia.
Tags: Billy Joel, David Hockney, different auras, Itzhak Perlman, Kandinsky, sight, sound, synesthesia
Do you consider yourself as “disabled” or a “person with disabilities”?
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Does your disability define you or are you defined by your disability?
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