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| Hereditary Hemachromatosis NOT rare: read please! | 12 Jan 2005 23:03 GMT | 2 |
Everybody should be made aware of Hereditary Hemachromatosis (HH, an Iron overload disease) and the fact that, contrary to what many doctors were taught in medical school, it is one of the most common hereditary diseases, and, untreated, it is fatal. It effects as many as 8 in every
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| Re: Forensics / liver iron / African Americans | 12 Jan 2005 18:06 GMT | 2 |
Intresting, but it best to recall that the iron causes all disease and it comes from eating meat thesis has been discredited in detail and in whole so beating a dead horse puts no iron in it's backbone. Even more intresting is that the facts by which it was discredited was provided ...
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| Noone .. anemic / iron deficient ? / whodathunk | 12 Jan 2005 17:47 GMT | 2 |
It seems the transferrin saturation point for assessing adequate iron stores has been LOWERED .. pretty soon there won't be ANYBODY who is .. iron .. deficient .. Heh .. heh .. heh
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| Thumb Injury, deep slice by glass | 12 Jan 2005 15:50 GMT | 3 |
Two days ago I was pulling broken glass out of my bedroom window. One piece was stuck, I don't remember exactly how but the next thing I knew I was staring at a deep gash in my right thumb. In the split second before the blood starts to pour I saw, basically, the inside of my
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| Severe abdominal pain - please advise - don't ignore. | 11 Jan 2005 23:18 GMT | 9 |
Thanks for reading. I've never been to this group before, just picked it up while googling and now posting now that I need some help. I suspect my replies are going to be in the vein of "get yourself to the ER room now!!!" type calls. However, although financially stable I
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| Alcohol really kill germs? Waterless washes effective? | 11 Jan 2005 21:13 GMT | 1 |
I'd read somewhere that alcohol (ethanol, isopropol, whatever) doesn't actually kill anything, germs or bacteria. What it does is simply move dirt and particles which may contain bacteria on them better. So for example when you're rubbed before a shot with an alcohol swab,
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| Maybe someone can help me make sense of this MRI report ... | 11 Jan 2005 17:11 GMT | 2 |
First i wouldlike tothank anyone who replies and i do make spelling errors so if i do sorry. MS . Hard to Diagnose huh ? Been on interferon 1-a for 7 years now. Never had an mri of the neck or
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| Heavy menstrual flow help please | 11 Jan 2005 13:07 GMT | 1 |
Female, age 47, experiencing heavy menstrual flow being treated with CYKLOKAPRON It seems to me that this is a rather nasty drug to be taking which seems to treat the effect, rather than the cause.
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| Coffee | 11 Jan 2005 10:58 GMT | 9 |
http://tinyurl.com/5x5sb Who loves ya. Tom Jesus Was A Vegetarian! http://jesuswasavegetarian.7h.com
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| Statin Adverse Effects FAQ: MEMORY LOSS, AMNESIA | 11 Jan 2005 07:15 GMT | 19 |
Statin Adverse Effects FAQ: MEMORY LOSS & STATINS, AMNESIA & STATINS To my physician, I believe that my symptoms may be due to the adverse effects a_ssociated with cholesterol-lowering statin drugs. I need your help to understand the
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| hernia | 11 Jan 2005 04:44 GMT | 9 |
I just went to the doctor and he told me that i have one inguinal hernia and a second in the begining stages. My doctor offered two different options. One is the basic operation where they go through the stomach wall and repair it with the mesh, the other is laproscopic. The
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| Nissen craps his drawers | 11 Jan 2005 03:41 GMT | 18 |
Listener's going to have to replace that finely honed gyroscope of his. Zee http://www.forbes.com/2005/01/05/cx_mh_0105crp.html Now lemme see if I get this one: "NEW YORK -
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| MMR autism letter---F. Edward Yazbak,MD Pediatrician | 11 Jan 2005 02:13 GMT | 1 |
http://www.whale.to/a/yaz22.htnml.htm "The fact is that sooner or later, Andrew Wakefield will be exonerated, his theory will be accepted and a vaccine-autism connection will be proven. As the New Year comes around, Wakefield's research is being duplicated in
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| Interpreting blood test results | 10 Jan 2005 19:43 GMT | 17 |
Anyone here know how to interpret blood test results? Here are some to get started (view with FP font)... FBC WBCs 6.2 10*9/L
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| Statin Adverse Effects FAQ: LIVER OR KIDNEY DAMAGE | 10 Jan 2005 15:18 GMT | 5 |
Statin Adverse Effects FAQ: STATINS AND LIVER OR KIDNEY DAMAGE (The Cholesterol-lowering Statin Drug Names: Lipitor, Crestor, Mevacor, Pravachol, Zocor, Lescol, and Baycol, aka atorvastatin, rosuvastatin, cerivastatin, fluvastatin, lovastatin, pravastatin, and simvastatin; This
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