I have some questions about blood cell counts.
The average adult has about 10 pints of blood that the heart pumps
throughout the body.  Many blood counts in a CBC are listed as so many cells
per cubic millimeter.  Most of them are listed as K/CMM (thousand per cubic

Health Canada reviewing safety profile of Crestor
from Health Canada, dated Nov 24
Updated safety information regarding Crestor®
OTTAWA - Health Canada wishes to advise Canadians of safety concerns

My mom just had an ultrasound and it says she probably has a "Staghorn
calculus". I searched the web and found out that it is a big kidney
stone. Would this type of case require invasive surgery?
Thank you very much for your help. Ultrasound results I enclosed below.

My 71 year old dad just had his annual checkup and found out that his
PSA level is 11.23 ng/ml. Any ideas what causes it to shoot up? Is this
an indication of prostate cancer?
Thanks.

"The main challenge in our work is getting to the truth," says Wright.
"It's been estimated that about 90 per cent of the published
literature is biased by economic interests."
http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/2004/04dec02/trust.html

FRUITS, VEGETABLES PREVENT CORONARY HEART DISEASE
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I'm a 5'10", 180lb, 24-year-old male.  Two weeks ago, I had an open
cholecystectomy.
How exactly do my abdominal muscles recover after the laparotomy?  Do
they just stitch back together like new?

Has anyone ever seen those pill size capsules that you put in warm
water a a sponge animal comes out?  What would happen to a kid or
anyone if they swallowed it thinking it was a pill, it would expand in
the stomach but would it dissolve or pass through or stay there

Latest research shows dangerous (above 440 mg/dbl) of iron rapidly accumulating
in the livers and pancreas, of vegetarians.

                       HOMEOPATHIC DRUG ADDICTION CURE
              A little-known, seldom used, NATURAL method of treatment
         for drug addiction is "HOMEOPATHY": simply giving the addict

"I want to affirm there have been many cases of total global amnesia
that have come to my attention." Dr. Beatrice Golomb, PI, NIH funded
Statin Study.
Even if cognitive confusion proves rare...it could affect "swarms of

Tonight I was turning the TV stations because I could not find anything
interested in. There was the Lewis and Clark Expedition on one channel
and it said one sentence "the men contracted syphillis and M. Lewis
prepared a mercury sauve for the men...(or words to that affect)" before

Today a customer told me of her experience with high cholesterol (248).
Her doctor had put her on several drugs. Each one caused her health
problems. So she finally gave up on drugs and started using red yeast
rice. Her cholesterol dropped from 248 to 187 in six months. She took

The truths about Canada's health care system !
Paradoxes and half-truths !
With the truth about Canada's health system, although even Mr. Romanow
and 22 million dollars could not see, is that it is publically funded,

With Xmas approaching, time for an Instant_Replay of last year's
prize-winning post:
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*This* from the Nobel prize-winning scientist who discovered DNA -