Chronic Illness

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• Massuccis Take: Can a fat tax fix our health care system?

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 787
  Filed under: Columns , Economy , People , Healthcare How much does your illness cost you and your insurer? According to a recent study by General Electric ( GE ) and the U.S. Department of Healths Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality , a 50-year old with diabetes will rack up more than $6,600 in medical ...
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• Schools see more students with chronic health needs

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 434
  Congress considers adding school nursesFrom the [Newark] Star-Ledger:As more kids with more complicated health issues are attending mainstream public schools, school nurses are being called upon to provide care they once administered only in hospitals. A bill pending in Congress would offer grants to states to help ...
  2 days ago

• Sign Of The Economic Times

  
  Sick Momma — Authority: 128
  In some ways, I think its a good year for those of with chronic health problems that limit our ability to get out and about.  Seems like just about everyone is offering free shipping, which I consider a godsend since it means I dont have to kill myself trying to shop in person nor do I have to pay a premium (i.e. ...
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• Inertia

  
  three rivers fog — Authority: 466
  Asking for help is something I have never been good at. It’s rather like standing in front of a car hurdling toward you, intending to push it in the opposite direction. It requires an enormous amount of resistance. And I’m almost certain to come away with some sort of injury. Lying in bed the other night, I had a ...
  3 days ago

• Multiple Sclerosis Info on the Web, on Twitter, on Facebook

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 548
  Multiple sclerosis information on the web… on Twitter… on Facebook… oh my!When newly diagnosed with something like multiple sclerosis, your first task is to get educated so that you can become your own best advocate. We truly do live in the information age and the internet can be a wonderfully informative source ...
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• Snow/ XRMV

  
  LEMON-AIDE — Authority: 107
  Good morning.  It’s snowing here…hushed, white and beautiful. Earlier this morning, after a weekend off the computer, I checked my email and read the latest XRMV virus news sent out by the CFIDS Association of America (the organization that never stops fighting for us). Here is a summary–The government is ...
  3 days ago

• Giant Step Outside Happy’s Comfort Zone. Big Risk. Big Bravery. Big Blessings. Living In The Orange Zone of Chronic Illness

  
  WORD ZOO — Authority: 125
    Central Park, NY, North End near Harlem Meer, pointing towards South End © CJ   Sunday December 6 2009 Closet Cleaning Musatation Post NYNY Visitation   Everyone’s journey of chronic illness is unique, with variability that makes dips, dives and jumps in the stock market appear ...
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• Stem Cell Research: Mixing religion, science and politics equals controversy.

  
  women 4 hope — Authority: 114
  This week president Obama announced the release of 13 new embryonic stem cell lines to be used for research.  Scientists are hopeful that this research could someday treat or even cure diseases like Diabetes, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and spinal cord injuries ( just to name a few ).  But this decision isn’t ...
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• Waiting.

  
  Three Ring Circus — Authority: 490
  Waiting. It seems we are all waiting for something. I have been to the doctor. She was, as all boonie doctors are in these parts, apathetic to say the least. I told her my symptoms, told her I was worried. I told her about Ivy and that I thought it was perhaps stress related. She thought stress had nothing to do ...
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• Learning To Be a Primary Care Patient

  
  A Chronic Dose | A blog about chronic illness, healthcare, and writing. — Authority: 476
  I do not subscribe to the saying, “There’s no such thing as a stupid question.” There are many, many stupid questions. So opposed am I to the asking of stupid (by which I really mean unnecessary ) questions that I go out of my way to acknowledge that a really good question is just that when I hear one. It’s ...
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• What can I do to prevent my cat from getting diabetes?

  
  Cat Advice | Paws and Effect — Authority: 107
  Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties:My cat is about a year and a half old. I’m very concerned about diabetes — it seems extremely prevalent, if not inevitable these days in older cats, and it doesn’t just strike the obese. I don’t remember dogs and cats getting it often when I was younger.It has to ...
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• The Knight’s Journal – Medieval Messenger from the Dark Times

  
  Knights of the Pain Table — Authority: 118
  The Knight’s JournalE New Anthem for Autoimmune Disease: Rob Thomas’ “Her Diamonds”Rob Thomas,  American rock recording artist and songwriter and lead singer of the band  “Matchbox Twenty” composed the song “Her Diamonds” for his wife Marisol Maldonado Thomas who suffers from a rare autoimmune ...
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• New blog focused on midlife health!

  
  Midlife Crisis Queen: The Weblog — Authority: 419
  After much consideration, I decided to give birth to a whole new blog specifically focused on Baby Boomer health. I am constantly collecting studies  and information in this area, especially because that is my primary freelance writing money maker.  So why not share the wealth? It’s called Medical Research on ...
  5 days ago

• Scam Busters

  
  ChronicHealing.com — Authority: 123
  This post is a partial reprint of an article I read on The Canary Report.While the full post there was more detailed and got into specifics involving claims made by companies targeting multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) patients, for the purposes of this post I have decided to focus on the ten warning signs of a [...]
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• When the Disease Eludes Diagnosis

  
  BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS — Authority: 465
  By BARRON H. LERNER, M.D. Lucy, one of my longtime patients, has a neurological ailment she believes I have been unable to adequately diagnose. Although I hope to make further progress on her case, I have also told her that there may never be a definitive answer. Not surprisingly, she is feeling pretty ...
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• £10m ($16.6 million) funding boost to eliminate elephantiasis globally

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 125
  The Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases (CNTD) at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has been awarded £10 million by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to support endemic countries in tackling lymphatic filariasis (LF) – a crippling disease more commonly known as elephantiasis.The ...
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• I don’t want to be a burden to people

  
  Ask the Therapist — Authority: 130
  I’m depressed but want to know if there’s anything majorily mentally wrong with me? I’ve never asked or had the courage to seek for help before, mainly because I don’t want to be a burden to people and feel my ‘problem’ (if I have one) isn’t important. My main issue is that, I lack confidence, only ...
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• Why Humans Outlive Apes: Human Genes Have Adapted to Inflammation, but We Are More Susceptible to Diseases of Aging

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 553
  A baby chimp (Pan troglodytes) and his handler looking at each other.In spite of their genetic similarity to humans, chimpanzees and great apes have maximum lifespans that rarely exceed 50 years. The difference, explains USC Davis School of Gerontology Professor Caleb Finch, is that as humans evolved genes that ...
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• Bladder Instillations Help!

  
  ChronicHealing.com — Authority: 123
  Over the weekend I did a bladder instillation. As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, it really helped.Clearly I am having an interstitial cystitis (IC) flare because I just did another bladder instillation. It is very unusual for me to do bladder instillations so close together. The instant relief it provides is ...
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• Catching up.

  
  The Daily Dish — Authority: 115
  Many, MANY thanks for all the well wishes.  I am finally feeling normal again, thank GOD.  This episode was particularly bad.  Normally the dizziness lasts about a week, this time it was more like 10-11 days.  Being me (read DAMN STUBBORN) I basically try to do everything I normally would.  Which – being home ...
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