The standard medical care during a heart attack is to give a beta blocker. Beta blockers essentially act on smooth muscle (the involuntary muscles) and cardiac muscle. In the heart, the effect is to decrease heart rate and dilate blood vessels. So, in theory, this makes great sense to give someone having a heart attack [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Medicine’
January 8, 2009
Resistant Flu
It appears as if the main flu drug, Tamiflu, isn’t all that helpful this flu season. The main form of the flu virus this season has become resistant to Tamiflu.
So what does this mean? If you have the flu, you’re stuck with it.
Experts say that the resistance didn’t come about due to overuse of the [...]
November 18, 2008
So I Found a Story…
that is worth talking about.
A father of two girls talks about his reasons for not getting his children vaccinated. I’ve copied the interesting points he makes (far more eloquently than I), but here is the link to the complete story.
At the moment, 3,000 women develop cervical cancer every year and just under 1,000 die from [...]
November 18, 2008
Truly Random…
I was browsing this morning’s news, and I couldn’t find anything that inspired me to comment, either harshly or in praise. I could, of course, continue to go on about high fructose corn syrup, aspartame, phthalates…gardasil…but I’ve not found much in the way of new material in those departments.
I could comment on how researchers are [...]
November 13, 2008
Vitamins: Good or Bad?
I recently found an article talking about how some long term clinical trials were done in regards to vitamins. They had middle aged men taking Vitamins C and E to ward off cardiovascular disease and women taking Vitamin D and Calcium to decrease breast cancer. What they found? That those vitamins weren’t doing their job. [...]
October 24, 2008
Deaths Due to Drugs
Prescription drugs, that is.
Apparently, death and injury from prescription drugs is at a record high for the first quarter of 2008. The Institute for Safe Medicine Practices compiled a bunch of data saying that for the first quarter of 2008, there were 20,745 serious injuries and 4,824 deaths reported. The safety of two drugs in [...]
October 22, 2008
Hate to Rub It In…
Well, I don’t hate it really. Well, it may turn out I won’t be rubbing anything in at all…
BUT…I found an article talking about food allergies in children and how they appear to be on the rise. There has been an 18% increase in children with diagnosed food allergies over the last decade, and this [...]
October 22, 2008
Gardasil Blog
I came across a blog that is gathering information from readers about the Gardasil shot. There are many many comments posted by mothers of young girls or the women who received Gardasil and shortly experienced seizures, severe abdominal pain, dysmennorhea, etc.
The blog I found may help give some insight into how serious adverse reactions to [...]
October 21, 2008
Erin Brokovich and Gardasil
So I was reading about Gardasil and some of the latest news about it. This one article from the BYU website was about a girl who received the Gardasil vaccine and within a very short amount of time started feeling ill. Her symptoms are not described in the article. Erin Brokovich is mentioned later in [...]
April 25, 2008
Warning: Vitamins!
Did you know…that vitamins and supplements may shorten your life? What?
Ok, so this article talked about how they studied typical antioxidants (Vit A, C, E, and selenium) to see its effect on life span. They found that there was anywhere from a 4-16% increased chance of dying (depending on the specific vitamin). What? How do [...]
