Posts Tagged ‘Doctors’

Muscle-eating disease like ‘Pac-Man’

Friday, July 23rd, 2010
If you have to amputate my leg to save my life, don't feel guilty, he told the doctors.

Medical Mysteries: Pain in woman’s ribs

Monday, May 24th, 2010
After more than a year, Jan Weymouth had stopped believing what doctors kept telling her: that the severe pain in her rib cage was the result of a muscle she pulled learning to play golf.

He’s beating the odds, doing it swimmingly

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
When Joe Wise was 9, he started having hip pain and tired easily. Then he started walking funny. A muscle biopsy found the cause: mitochondrial disease. In short, the parts of his cells that make energy were not working. Doctors said he probably would be dead... Mitochondrial disease - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Biopsy - Energy

New theory on muscle and bone diseases

Thursday, April 29th, 2010
Traditionally, doctors and clinicians thought diseases that affect muscles or bones affected those areas specifically. For example, bone diseases only affect bones, or muscle diseases only concerned muscles. But recent evidence supports the notion that bones and muscles are more interconnected than previously thought.

How To Have The Best Aging Health Possible

Thursday, October 15th, 2009
October 15, 2009 | By Rick Winters In Finance | by Mark ShortsIf you are aging you may have really real health issues. But aging health doesn’t need to be a string of doctors appointments, chronic infirmities and medicines. There are three different areas where work on your side will help you enjoy good health even at a particularly complicated age.You need to think about the health of your body and your mind, and use nutrition to bring them into line. The good news is that since these