Christian Health & Medicine

How much pain one experiences depends on expectations

The amount of pain that a person experiences depends not only on what is causing the pain, it also varies greatly with how much pain the person expects to receive from it. Scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine recruited 10 volunteers to study activation of various areas of the brain prior to and during […]

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Posted on 1/16/2007 in Christian Health & Medicine, Faith, the Bible and Medicine | Permalink | Comments

Prostate Cancer: To Treat or Not to Treat

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. Approximately 250,000 men each year are informed that they have been diagnosed with the disease. Despite being the most common, prostate cancer is not the deadliest. Cancers of the lung and digestive tract take the lives of more men than that of the prostate. […]

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Posted on 12/12/2006 in Christian Health & Medicine, Diseases | Permalink | Comments

Vitamin C effective against cancer? Try it IV.

In 1997, I spent one week touring alternative cancer treatment clinics in Mexico. Some of those clinics were using vitamin C to treat cancer, a practice mocked by conventional doctors as unproven and ineffective. Now, a new study may give these much-maligned practitioners the last laugh. Researchers at the National Institute of Diabetes and […]

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Posted on 12/04/2006 in Christian Health & Medicine, Alternative Medicine, Diseases, Nutrition/Prevention | Permalink | Comments

When it comes to your heart engine, choose your oil carefully

Ever since the Seven Countries Study was released in the early 1960s, olive oil’s reputation as a “heart healthy” oil has only grown. This landmark study revealed for the first time the dramatic difference in rates of heart disease amongst seven different countries. This paper pointed out that the inhabitants of Crete, a small island […]

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Posted on 11/01/2006 in Christian Health & Medicine, Diseases, Nutrition/Prevention | Permalink | Comments

Risk is low to labor after cesarean

One of the downsides for mothers who give birth to a child by cesarean section is that once a cesarean has been done, all subsequent births are traditionally delivered by this method. When I was trained during the 1980s, only 3 percent of women attempted normal labor and delivery after a cesarean. The reason […]

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Posted on 10/17/2006 in Christian Health & Medicine, Maternity/Infant care | Permalink | Comments

Spinach not “ready-to-eat”

E. Coli outbreaks have usually been associated with bad meat. But as I write this, today’s news headlines announced a new source for the potentially deadly bacteria: Bad spinach. Within hours, the Kroger Company announced that it was pulling all bagged spinach off of its stores’ shelves until further information was available. […]

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Posted on 10/03/2006 in Diseases | Permalink | Comments

Lessons learned from care providers (when I’m the patient…)

At 2:30 AM on Monday, April 11, 2005 my sleep was suddenly cut short when I awoke with the most intense pain I have ever experienced. After a few minutes, I concluded I had a kidney stone and, for an hour or so, experimented with every conceivable position for comfort, including crawling around on my hands and knees.

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Posted on 9/02/2006 in Christian Health & Medicine | Permalink | Comments (1)