What Doctors Don't Tell YouInevitably, families on holiday encounter small and large emergencies, and often don't have the health professionals on hand to help. Here's an A to Z of common emergencies plus simple remedies wh ...
How do you know if a cut or wound needs stitching? The advantage to stitches is that the doctor can line up the edges of the cut squarely and cleanly,
Although we think our bodies handle healing automatically, much depends on our nutritional status. A high-fat diet or malnutrition/malabsorption, particularly in the elderly,
Dana Ullman MPHSurgery represents conventional medicine at its best and its worst. On the one hand, surgery demonstrates incredibly sophisticated informational and technical advancement, yet on the other hand, it often indicates the inability of physicians and...
In "First Aid with Homeopathic Medicines”" Dana Ullman, M.P.H. shows how homeopathic remedies for first aid and sports injuries are very easy to prescribe and are usually very effective in reducing pain of the injury and speeding the healing process...
A growing number of professional athletes and weekend warriors are spelling relief H-O-M-E-O-P-A-T-H-Y. Although homeopathic medicines have a reputation of helping people who are suffering from chronic diseases, these natural medicines are...
Elson M. Haas MDArginine is usually synthesized by adults in amounts sufficient to maintain the body proteins, but additional dietary arginine is needed during periods of growth, as in childhood or during pregnancy, and possibly during times of stress.
There are definitely specific requirements for proteins, though the exact amount is somewhat questionable. The Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) of protein according to U.S. government standards is 0.8 gram per kilogram (1 kilogram equals 2.2...
Hyla Cass MDIt was never like this on Prozac ... there's more laughter. (Kate, 48-year-old author. The herbalists of ancient times knew about the powers of St. John's wort, and they used it for a wide variety of ailments. However, Western medicine discarded the...
Michael Janson MDBlood vessel diseases are the leading killers in America and much of the industrialized world. Loss of circulation to affected parts of the body leads to some of the signs of this hardening of the arteries. This condition is even more common in...
