Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Inflammatory bowel disease is the name of a group of disorders that cause the intestines to become inflamed (red and swollen). The inflammation lasts a long time and usually comes back over and over again....

ESR: Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate

     This lab test is also known as the sedimentation rate, or "sed" rate for short. It is also called the Westergren sedimentation rate. It is an easy and inexpensive test that has...

Guest Editorial: How America Was Sold on the False Health Promises of Soy

This is a guest editorial from Dianne Gregg Soy has become so popular because of the industry advertising. It started me off as a believer! There was considerable research done in 1966 about the harmful...

Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Bowel Flora

     Normal bowel flora may play a role in inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis). An article appearing in the Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology...

Events at Birth Can Increase the Risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Vitamin Deficiency

5 Things Everyone with Irritable Bowel Should Know

Smell Your Way to Happiness

Can Wheat Cause Irritable Bowel Disease?

Asthma and Omega-3 Fatty Acids

Peripheral Neuropathy

L-carnitine and COPD

Autism and Omega-3 Fatty Acids

Think Diet Doesn't Affect Learning and Behavior--Watch This part 2

Think Diet Doesn't Affect Learning and Behavior--Watch This

Six Things You Absolutely Have to Know to Lose Weight

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Easily Take Control of Your Habits

Someone can outline the perfect nutrition and exercise regimen for you, but it will do no good unless you can change the habits that undermine your health. Unfortunately for many of us, bad habits are...

The 15 Minute Vacation that can Literally Save Your Life

Diet and Asthma

Asthma and Vaccines

Excerpt From a New Book About Anorexia

Nutrient Intake and Frailty in the Elderly

Herbs for Erectile Dysfunction?

Ginkgo for Sexual Dysfunction?

Ginkgo for Sexual Dysfunction?

What is Developmental Coordination Disorder?

Developmental Coordination Disorder and Essential Fatty Acids

Is Vitamin K Really Dangerous to People on Anticoagulants?

Anticoagulation medication (preventing clots) works by blocking the body's utilization of vitamin K. These drugs are commonly called "blood thinners" by the public. Generally, people on the medication...

Warfarin

Warfarin is the most common medication used in the United States for anticoagulant therapy. It is sold under the brand names Coumadin and Jantoven. Certain proteins need to be circulating in the blood...

Testing Anticoagulation Therapy

Anticoagulation therapy is monitored by the PT-INR test. PT stand for "prothrombin time" and is a measure of how quickly blood clots. The test works by mixing the blood with a reagent that causes it to...

Drugs May Trigger Asthma Attacks

According to an article appearing in the Annals of Allergy (June 1992;68:453-462), between 8% and 10% of all asthma attacks may be due to medication. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs...

Overuse of Inhalers Dangerous to Asthmatics

Alpha Lipoic Acid

Pain Medication and Healing

Carotenes and Cardiovascular Disease

Supplements Benefit Acutely Ill Patients

Selenium and Bladder Cancer

Depression and Folic Acid

Iodine--Important for Thyroid Function, and Much More

Cardiac Arrhythmia and Omega-3 Fatty Acids

Selenium and the Thyroid

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