What Doctors Don't Tell YouWhich fish oil?
I have been trying to figure out how to fight a standard medical procedure, the examination of the genitals of children during routine physical examinations, barring any obvious medical problems. ...
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A range of alternatives exist for the rheumatoid arthritis sufferer worried by the battery of toxic treatments from conventional medicine. Here are some of the main ones. Remember, though, as with ...
When I was 18, doctors discovered that I had ankylosing spondylitis, a form of arthritis that destroys the spine and all the major joints of the body. ...
I seem to have contracted polymyalgia rheumatica, a type of arthritis that affects the muscles, but not the bones or joints. It’s causing the muscles in the backs of my legs to ache badly when I walk or sit for more than a few minutes. It also...
Every other popular health book these days seems to contain the world "detoxification". We are urged to change our diet, fast or purge our systems to facilitate internal "cleansing". ...
What could be done for one reader's mother who has been diagnosed with Reynauds syndrome? She also suffers from arthritis, and it's believed there is an association between the two conditions. One reader tells us he developed the condition after...
For years, non-specific anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin and paracetamol (acetaminophen) were the medications of choice for joint pain. But NSAIDs quickly became COX-2 inhibitors associated with adverse gastrointestinal effects such as peptic...
