http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/treatment/ en-us Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:45:56 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416002/posts LANTANA, Fla. – It started with a cough, an autumn hack that refused to go away. Then came the fevers. They bathed and chilled the skinny frame of Oswaldo Juarez, a 19-year-old Peruvian visiting to study English. His lungs clattered, his chest tightened and he ached with every gasp. During a wheezing fit at 4 a.m., Juarez felt a warm knot rise from his throat. He ran to the bathroom sink and spewed a mouthful of blood. I'm dying, he told himself, "because when you cough blood, it's something really bad." It was really bad, and not just for him.... Newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416002/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:45:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408502/posts IT WAS just after midnight. Brian Westberry and a woman friend sat frozen in his bedroom, hoping the persistent pounding on the front door of his Northeast Philly home would stop. It didn't. Westberry, 24, slipped his licensed .38-caliber revolver into his pants pocket and crept downstairs to open the door. There stood Gregory Cujdik, 32, who demanded to see "Jen," his girlfriend. Westberry told him "Jen" didn't want to see him, and repeatedly ordered Cujdik to leave. When Cujdik refused, Westberry threatened to call police. " 'Do it. My family are cops,' " Cujdik said, according to Westberry. Philadelphia Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408502/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:51:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390056/posts Enhancing specific chemical signaling in the brain could help treat the disorder. By Emily Singer Drugs that boost the chemical messenger norepinephrine in the brain have been shown to alleviate cognitive problems in mice engineered to mirror Down syndrome. The findings, published today in the journal Science Translational Medicine, suggest a new approach to treating the disorder. Several existing drugs can boost the chemical or mimic its effects, though none have yet been tested in patients with Down syndrome. The research also reflects a growing understanding of the brain systems that underlie the cognitive problems in people with Down syndrome,... MIT Technology Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390056/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:31:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374918/posts Only half of the people in the United States who most need immediate treatment for H1N1 swine flu are actually seeking it, even as the virus spreads at unprecedented speed, U.S. health officials said on Friday. The latest count shows 114 children have been killed by the virus in the United States since April, during a time when there is usually virtually no influenza, said U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Thomas Frieden. H1N1 is widespread, he said, and case counts continue to rise in most states. "One of the things that we have been surprised to... Rooooooters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374918/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:12:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353416/posts I learned a lot about the cost of health care when I had a hybrid general surgery practice in California 's rural San Joaquin Valley. My practice consisted of uninsured women with breast cancer combined with a smaller percentage of cosmetic patients whose cash payments for "vanity care" subsidized the treatment of women unable to pay for needed medical treatment. Although patients seeking cosmetic services tend to be healthy, I evaluated them like any other patient. I asked about medical history, allergies, medications and genetic disorders. Upon questioning Sherry S., a pretty 46-year-old seeking wrinkle relief, I learned that four... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353416/posts#comment Fri, 2 Oct 2009 15:32:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349373/posts While the people die, Minister of Health is working in the campaign of continuity Although you may not believe in public hospitals the first requirement for treatment is not sick. And the first question asked him is: "do you agree with the fourth ballot box?". Those who claim to be against President Zelaya and continuity of a dictatorship in Honduras, inevitably have to turn around and go home or seek care at a private clinic. This was the sad experience he had Saris Elda Herrera, who came to the hospital in Tela, Atlantida, to seek medical services for an intestinal... El Heraldo (Honduras) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349373/posts#comment Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:29:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333218/posts An unlicensed intravenous form of the antiviral drug Relenza saved the life of a woman with a severe illness resulting from infection by the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus, British doctors reported today in the journal Lancet. Dr. Michael Kidd and Dr. Mervyn Singer of the University College London Hospitals were treating the virus, commonly known as swine flu, in a 22-year-old woman who had contracted it after undergoing chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease. The woman had increasing shortness of breath, build-up of fluid in both lungs and was progressively deteriorating. Physicians had given her Tamiflu and Relenza, which is normally given... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333218/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2009 05:36:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320621/posts President Barack Obama said he would be okay with illegal immigrants being treated in emergency rooms in some situations under his health care plan. Real Clear Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320621/posts#comment Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:40:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309067/posts NEW YORK – The American Psychological Association declared Wednesday that mental health professionals should not tell gay clients they can become straight through therapy or other treatments. Instead, the APA urged therapists to consider multiple options — that could range from celibacy to switching churches — for helping clients whose sexual orientation and religious faith conflict. In a resolution adopted on a 125-to-4 vote by the APA's governing council, and in a comprehensive report based on two years of research, the 150,000-member association put itself firmly on record in opposition of so-called "reparative therapy" which seeks to change sexual orientation.... AP-Yahoo! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309067/posts#comment Wed, 5 Aug 2009 21:34:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2303980/posts WASHINGTON, July 29, 2009 – Renovations have begun on a water treatment plant near the villages of Hitaween and Adamiyah, Iraq. Army Lt. Col. Mark Solomons, commander of the 1st Infantry Division’s 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, receives a tour of the Hitaween, Iraq, water treatment plant, July 27, 2009. Coalition forces are funding some renovations to the facility, which will be carried out by Iraqi contractors. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Joshua Risner  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The sparsely populated, rural patch of land west of Baghdad relies heavily on the facility... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2303980/posts#comment Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:21:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292977/posts Both cancer and obesity kill hundreds of thousands of patients each year, but they have more than the Grim Reaper in common. Tumors and excess fat are both unhealthy accumulations of tissue that require elaborate networks of blood vessels to feed them. Now Zafgen, a biopharmaceutical startup based in Cambridge, MA, is attacking obesity the way that cancer researchers have been attacking tumors for decades: using drugs that interfere with its blood supply. "It's a very interesting and exciting concept," says Rakesh Jain, director of the Edwin L. Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology, at Massachusetts General Hospital, who has no... MIT Technology Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292977/posts#comment Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:52:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262981/posts New approach offers more pleasant light of traditional bulbs without the energy guilt Thanks to a bit of ingenuity, Chunlei Guo, associate professor of optics at the University of Rochester, and his assistant Anatoliy Vorobyev have been able to squeeze out fluorescent-like energy performance from an incandescent light bulb. The breakthrough boils down to a laser treatment of the bulb's tungsten filament, a processing step which could one day become a standard in the light bulb industry. Daily Tech http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262981/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 16:09:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260164/posts CAMP BUCCA, Iraq, May 28, 2009 – Air Force Airman 1st Class Alberto Lopez knew the guy was hiding something. An airman with 887th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron searches a detainee before a visit with his family at the theater internment facility’s visitation center at Camp Bucca, Iraq, May 12, 2009. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Thomas J. Doscher   (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. He could feel it. The detainee was giving off "the vibe" that three months of working the visitation center at the theater internment facility here had taught the airman to detect.... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260164/posts#comment Thu, 28 May 2009 23:40:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2259248/posts Health and Human Service Undersecretary Mortimer Graves cited figures on iatrogenic morbidity and mortality in rebuttal of criticism that national health care would increase delays in treatment. “While, in theory, the extra caution and review that will accompany the President’s reform of health care could cause additional deaths and suffering, the fact is, doctor error killed nearly 100,000 people last year,” Graves said. “It seems to me that when it comes to medicine, haste makes waste. If government intervention impedes access to physicians by elongating the process, less damage will be done.” Graves also contended that “in 90% of cases,... A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2259248/posts#comment Wed, 27 May 2009 19:14:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237393/posts BAGHDAD — A joint inspection conducted by the Iraqi Ministry of Defense’s Human Rights Directorate, Ministry of Defense Advisory Team from the Multi-National Security Transition Command - Iraq, and the Multi-National Corp - Iraq’s Provost Marshal Office concluded that 19 detainees are being held in satisfactory conditions at the Iraqi Army 17th Division Headquarter based in Mahmudiyah. The team visited one detention facility run by the division’s headquarter and another facility operated by the division’s brigade during the inspection. Living conditions were commendable at both facilities and detainees had access to an outside exercise area, decent latrines and showers, and... Multi-National Force - Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237393/posts#comment Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:42:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2183207/posts Covertly slipped into GL Obama’s faux “stimulus bill” last weekend—by leftist Democrats—was the Socialist Universal Healthcare program. Contained within the bill is the provision that doctors will now be forced to report any and all of their patient treatments to the federal government for approval to treat. Also contained within this portion of Obama’s non-stimulus bill is the rationing of healthcare services to senior US citizens and the withholding of potentially life-saving measures. As Democrat Tom Daschle wrote in his book “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis” senior citizens “should be more accepting of the conditions that... BorderFireReport http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2183207/posts#comment Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:02:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150501/posts WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2008 – Defense officials will take action if an upcoming congressional report on the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody yields new information, a Pentagon spokesman said. "We'll look at the report in detail. If there is any new information in there that we feel we need to address, we will certainly act upon it," Bryan Whitman told reporters last week. The Senate Armed Services Committee report culminates a two-year investigation that included hundreds of hours of interviews with current and former Defense Department personnel and a review of almost 200,000 pages of documents provided by the... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150501/posts#comment Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:23:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2127465/posts I wrote an article that pretty much summed up my feelings with the Obama-Democrat victory on Tuesday: Obama Wins! God Damn America! Two comments represent two very different points of view: You people are rediculous [sic]. Take a minute and think about what you’re saying. You cannot continue to spew lies and deciet [sic] and expect us to come together peacfully [sic] as a country. And: Let’s give Obama the same chance his followers gave Bush in 2000. None. I have to laugh at the first comment. Did liberal individual expressing this opinion feel a similar righteous indignation for the... American Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2127465/posts#comment Fri, 7 Nov 2008 01:17:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031608/posts WASHINGTON (AFP) - Countrywide Financial, the largest mortgage lender at the center of the US housing crisis, regularly gave loans on favorable terms to prominent lawmakers and former cabinet members, according to US media. The preferential treatment for senators including Democrat Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and a recent presidential candidate, was approved by Angelo Mozilo, chief executive of Countrywide Financial, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. CondeNast Portfolio magazine first broke the story on Wednesday, saying the recipients of the favorable terms were known as "Friends of Angelo" in internal company documents and e-mails. "Make an... AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031608/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:54:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996398/posts KABUL, Afghanistan, April 3, 2008 – The Afghan National Police Central Training Center graduated 24 police officers today from the first course for trauma-assistance personnel taught by U.S. Navy hospital corpsmen. Students with the Afghan National Police Trauma Assistance Personnel course treat a fellow policeman’s simulated wounds during the inaugural course at the ANP Central Training Center in Kabul, Afghanistan. Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Three Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan Navy corpsmen from the ANP Medical Embedded Training Team here taught the eight-week course, which gives the ANP its first personnel... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996398/posts#comment Fri, 4 Apr 2008 00:00:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996393/posts FALLUJAH, Iraq, April 3, 2008 – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Gulf Region Division is directing an $85 million central wastewater treatment facility for Fallujah’s estimated 200,000 residents. Workers weld a hatch beside the sludge-drying beds of the sewage treatment facility under construction in Fallujah, Iraq. U.S. Army photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Started in May, the project is the largest in Anbar province and is 45 percent complete, officials said. The facility is projected to be sufficient for all of Fallujah’s wastewater treatment needs when the city integrates its own collection systems later and through... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996393/posts#comment Thu, 3 Apr 2008 23:55:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971168/posts WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 2008 – The Army has made huge improvements in the way it cares for combat-wounded troops during the year since news reports brought problems at Walter Reed Army Medical Center to light, the Army surgeon general told Congress today. Army Lt. Gen. (Dr.) Eric Schoomaker, who also commands U.S. Army Medical Command, told the House Armed Service Committee’s Military Personnel Subcommittee the Army’s medical action plan “is continuing to move forward” and making steady progress in improving care for wounded warriors. “We as an Army are committed to getting this right and providing a level of care... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971168/posts#comment Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:04:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963532/posts Lt. Col. Timothy Monahan, battalion surgeon for Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, listens to an Iraqi girlÂ’s heart pace during a coordinated medical engagement Jan. 28 in Khidr, Iraq. Photo by Pfc. Amanda McBride. FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU — Working side-by-side, surgeons and medics from 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division and the Iraqi Army came together in a coordinated medical engagement Jan. 28 in Khidr, Iraq. “By us coming out here and doing this with the Iraqi Army, the families know that we are serious and want... Multi-National Force - Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963532/posts#comment Sat, 2 Feb 2008 00:17:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963021/posts By Audrey Hudson - The Oakland International Airport did not break any laws or regulations when it denied 200 Marines and soldiers access to the passenger terminal during a layover last year from Iraq to the troops' home base in Hawaii, the Transportation Department says. Calvin L. Scovell III, the department's inspector general, blamed the mix-up on security concerns and a communication failure between the Defense Department and the Homeland Security Department. The contract to allow military layovers at the California airport "did not require that military personnel have access to the airport terminal; it only required that military personnel... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963021/posts#comment Fri, 1 Feb 2008 04:14:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954856/posts WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, 2008 – When Army Sgt. Nicholas Paupore puts a mirror between his legs and looks down, he’s whole again. The right leg that was destroyed when an explosively formed penetrator ripped through his Humvee just south of Kirkuk, Iraq, suddenly reappears before his eyes, reflecting the left leg that remains. Navy Cmdr. (Dr.) Jack Tsao, associate professor of neurology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, in Bethesda, Md., encouraged Army Sgt. Nicholas Paupore, an outpatient at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, in Washington, D.C., to try mirror therapy to treat phantom pain in... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954856/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:50:48 GMT