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By Gene J. Koprowski UPI Science News Published 1/7/2005 10:58 AM CHICAGO, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Physicians now have a technological solution to an all too common scenario -- a cardiac patient forgets to take his heart medication and winds up in the emergency room. Doctors are sending text-message reminders to patients, via mobile phones and personal digital assistants, telling them it's time to take their prescribed angiotensin converting enzyme or ACE inhibitor, like Prinivil, or other medications."One of our major thrusts is going to be moving healthcare related applications to technologies that are more familiar to the patients," said...

Democratic Party dismay has been mounting since Kerry ____ (fill in the blank with your favorite of any of a dozen things). Stoked by a constant barrage of well documented inconvenient facts coming out about Kerry's background and the ever-increasing popularity of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the heated arguments between the Kerry campaign and the DNC leadership increase. Add in, too, the rousing success of the GOP convention and it appears we can stick a fork in the Democratic Party now because that goose is just about fully cooked. Another good barometer, of course, is the mania displayed...

MONROE — A man who last night shot and killed his 5-year-old grandson before turning the gun on himself suffered from depression and previously alluded to hurting himself, Monroe Police Chief Tim Quenzer said. The Snohomish County Medical Examiner's Office identified the man as Roy Bryan Hetherwick, 58, and the boy as Roy Brennan Hetherwick, 5. According to Hetherwick's wife, Quenzer said, Hetherwick took medication for depression but had never talked of injuring the child. In a release issued this afternoon, Monroe police said officers responded to the house on July 2, when they found Hetherwick "despondent and feeling suicidal."...

VITAL SIGNS Many women who suffer migraines tell their doctors that their headaches are related to the onset of menstruation. Two studies released yesterday lend support to that link and to the idea of timing medication to the menstrual cycle as a preventive measure. Both studies were published in the journal Neurology. The lead author of one of the studies, Dr. E. Anne MacGregor of the City of London Migraine Clinic, said that in general about half of women with migraines say their headaches come on more often and with greater severity just before menstruation. Earlier studies had not found...

I was out working with the plants in the rain. Just wondering how the always fair and unbiased mainstream media treated Teraaaaaaaaayza's comments ("SHOVE IT"- speaking of civility in politics). Would Laura have ever said something like that? How would she be treated if she had? For that matter, what if SandyPants Berger had been Condi? Is the liberal/socialist/Democrat/commie mainstream media SICK enough? Is there any way to get some truth to the average uninspired, uninformed, disinterested voter?

A radical scheme to vaccinate children against future drug addiction is being considered by British ministers, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. Under the plans, doctors would immunise children at risk of becoming smokers or drug users with an injection. The scheme could operate in a similar way to the current nationwide measles, mumps and rubella vaccination programme. Childhood immunisation would provide adults with protection from the euphoria that is experienced by users, making drugs such as heroin and cocaine pointless to take. Such vaccinations are being developed by pharmaceutical companies and are due to hit the market within two...

Check your local listings for airtimes. (Current show is updated every weekday at 5pm EST.) HEALTH Health Experts Warn of Antidepressant Dangers for Children, Teens By Darla SittonCBN News Producer In America, Prozac is the only drug the FDA has "approved" for pediatric depression. CBN.com – (CBN News) - As many as one in eight adolescents suffers from clinical depression. And these kids are often treated with anti-depressant drugs that have been tested and approved for adult use. But the drugs may not be safe for children. Corey Baadsgaard doesn't remember storming into his honors English class with a...

Pills vs. Talking When It Comes to Mental Illness, Parents Face Dilemmas Over Medication, Talk Therapy By Bryan Robinson June 7, 2004 — When Chad Taylor noticed his son was apparently experiencing serious side effects from Ritalin prescribed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, he decided to take the boy off the medication. Now, he says he may be accused of child abuse. In February, 12-year-old Daniel began displaying some symptoms that his father suspected were related to the use of Ritalin. "He was losing weight, wasn't sleeping, wasn't eating," Taylor told ABC News affiliate KOAT-TV in New Mexico. "[He] just...

http://www.mondobimbo.com/buon-natale/musiche.htm MIDI - UP ON THE HOUSETOP High on the housetop poor Howard stands...Saddam's capture screws his plans He's up there screaming that Bush has lied...last night supporters had really cried Ho ho ho...look out below...ho ho ho...look out below Will be hearing thump, thump, thump Is Howard Dean gonna finally jump Those who sent money are going nuts...once more, Dubya kicks their butts Look at their faces...they all are numb...vanquished again by a guy who's dumb Ho ho ho...look out below...ho ho ho...look out below Will be hearing thump, thump, thump Is Howard Dean gonna finally jump Here come...

Dancing Cheek-to-Cheek with the Rx HexOctober 30, 2003Rush Limbaugh is dancing with a double-edged demon on a crowded floor.  No, this isn’t another skirmish in the “Hate Rush/Love Rush” debate...if only it was that simple.  As Limbaugh explained, “I first started taking prescription painkillers...following spinal surgery...the surgery was unsuccessful...I am still experiencing that pain.”  He is one of over 50 million Americans suffering from some form of chronic pain. The good folks at Lancaster General Hospital explain chronic pain, “...as pain that overwhelms all other symptoms and may become the problem. It may affect people so that often they cannot work,...

Allowing direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs in Canada would be a bonanza for the media, generating an estimated $360-million a year in new ads. But the demand it created would also spur as much as $1.2-billion a year in new drug sales, and the beleaguered medicare system would have to bear most of that cost, according to an editorial in Tuesday's edition of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. In a strongly worded piece, editor John Hoey says prescription drugs should not be advertised in the same manner as other consumer products because that could lead to dangerous excesses, as has...

Allowing direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs in Canada would be a bonanza for the media, generating an estimated $360-million a year in new ads. But the demand it created would also spur as much as $1.2-billion a year in new drug sales, and the beleaguered medicare system would have to bear most of that cost, according to an editorial in Tuesday's edition of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. In a strongly worded piece, editor John Hoey says prescription drugs should not be advertised in the same manner as other consumer products because that could lead to dangerous excesses, as has...

PALO ALTO (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Fifteen percent of the 18 million people living with depression experience symptoms such as paranoia and hallucinations. This type of depression, called psychotic depression, is hard to treat with standard medication. Now a controversial treatment is changing the lives of people with this illness. Just a few months ago, this scene was unthinkable for Isabel Camarillo. "I didn't want to live at all. I was always thinking of how to kill myself," she tells Ivanhoe. Camarillo started hearing voices as a teenager. "It was like they were controlling my life," she says. They didn't go...

This is a new thread dedicated to conservative parents of children/teens "at risk". I noticed in my FReeping that there are a lot of other conservative parents like me dealing with children or teens that are socially "at risk". Yes, there are other web sites out there dedicated to this, however they tend to be liberally/socialistically slanted. They have a whinning "poor pitful me" attitude. As conservatives, from talking with many of you, we take a different attitude and require our children to have that same attitude. I FReep Mailed Jim Robinson to get his "blessing" on this thread. If...

A woman was arrested at an airport for "possession" of an illegal substance. That's nothing new; except that this woman did not do anything wrong. A stupid federal law states that it is illegal to transport prescription drugs out of the container provided by the pharmacist. Never mind that every drug store in the country sells special containers for just that purpose; under federal law, it is a felony. Compliance with the intent of the law would mean that every person on medication(s) must box up the complete bottles of every medication they will need during every outing. That is...

Please pray for Freeper Pegita's Father who has been on a ventilator and "could be taken off the ventilator but his oxygen level is dropping" and she urgently needs prayer for him and information on oxygen enhancing drugs. From Pegita: "His blood was iron poor before hospitalization, and my suggestion for the use of this new medicine (originally for rebuilding blood for chemo patients), has not met with any interest."Meaning she needs prayer help and information from any Freeper in the medical field who might have information on medicine that is specifically for "blood rebuilding" - need this information urgently!

Register-Herald Editorial 8/27/02 The death of Rebecca Allen of Fairlea was tragic, but the circumstances do not warrant a lawsuit filed by her widowed husband, Brian Allen. That was the ruling of Greenbrier County Circuit Judge James Rowe in a suit Brian Allen filed against Purdue Pharma L.P. of Connecticut, as well as several other companies. The target of the suit was the drug OxyContin, which generally is administered in time-release capsule form. Rebecca Allen broke open the capsules, crushed them and injected them into her veins. The judge ruled that Rebecca Allen died at age 41 because she and...

Mentally ill prisoners often go unmedicated Jail's psychiatric chief denies lack of treatment, hasty exams 08/01/2002 By TIM WYATT / The Dallas Morning News Mentally ill prisoners in the Dallas County jail routinely undergo only cursory psychiatric exams and often go days or weeks without the anti-psychotic drugs needed to control their behavior, an investigation by The Dallas Morning News and WFAA-TV (Channel 8) has found. Some exams last less than two minutes a practice that mental health experts say makes it impossible to determine whether an inmate could harm himself or others. The family of one inmate with...

FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) - A man has been charged with poisoning his ex-girlfriend's lipstick and anti-depressant medication with insecticide. At a preliminary hearing Tuesday, Vincent Hall, 36, pleaded innocent to felony charges of poisoning and making threats. An attempted murder charge was dropped, and bail was set at $10,000. Hall faces a maximum of nine years in prison if convicted. The former girlfriend testified that the alleged poisoning attempt came a few days after she and Hall agreed to split up, and that Hall had moved his belongings out of her home by the time she returned from work...

US asked to market computer chip implant27-02-2002 WASHINGTON (AP) - A Florida technology company is poised to ask the government for permission to market a first-ever computer ID chip that could be embedded beneath a person's skin. For airports, nuclear power plants and other high security facilities, the immediate benefits could be a closer-to-foolproof security system. But privacy advocates warn the chip could lead to encroachments on civil liberties. The implant technology is another case of science fiction evolving into fact. Those who have long advanced the idea of implant chips say it could someday mean no more easy-to-counterfeit ID...