Archive for March 2012

Palliative care

palliative care treats the life of the whole person and their support network Read the rest of this entry »

Coffee looks like it Protects from Liver Fibrosis

"Moderate consumption of coffee may be a useful, benign adjunct(for patients with fatty liver disease) - but hold the cream and sugar!" Read the rest of this entry »

Latest Guidelines for successful for care to PLHIV (people living with HIV)

"For these guidelines, a systematic literature search was conducted to produce an evidence base restricted to randomized, controlled trials (RCTs) and observational studies with comparators that had at least 1 measured biological or behavioral end point. For monitoring, correlation between a method and an outcome was required. A total of 325 studies met our criteria." Read the rest of this entry »

Calcium, Vitamin D Modulate Human Energy Metabolism

Can outcomes research credibly stand with a reasonably safe and useful role for patients and their care providers? Read the rest of this entry »

Vitamin D tied to fewer stress fractures in girls

"While there was no link between how much calcium girls and young women got in their diets and their chance of getting injured, those with the greatest daily vitamin D intake were half as likely to have a stress fracture as those who got the least." "We know that calcium is important for bone health, so we were surprised to find that vitamin D was only found to be protective," Sonneville told Reuters Health. Still, she added, "Our findings in no way suggest that calcium is not important." Read the rest of this entry »

The world’s health teaches about our own

mindful food choices lead to more stable health How the industrialized world eats is having a disastrous impact on the other six billion people. Read the rest of this entry »

Forgotten Children

This is the viral video that heightens global awareness of child abduction-transformation into soldiers.  Watch it, and feel whatever inspiration you may experience to make healthy change happen from your life out to millions of others.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc