Guest Article by Todd Griffin You may have been overlooking your mental health while doing nothing when a legitimate concern comes up. Unfortunately, living a life full of mental health concerns isn’t easy as it can drain you financially and lessen your chances of fulfilling any ambitions you may have for yourself. Thus, you should start taking care of your mental health as early as now while you’re still sane. To improve your mental health so that you can take on any challenge that life throws at you, here are some key tips on how you can harness the power of positivity for a better and healthier mind:
Many people see electronic cigarettes as an alternative to tobacco cigarettes. However, this safer option to traditional smoking is still highly debatable, especially when we talk about quitting regular cigarettes. While an e-cig is considered a relatively new phenomenon, it’s essential to note that these are indeed addictive and chances are you increase your risks of contracting severe health problems. As you decide to move forward and quit e-cigarette smoking for a healthier life, remember that stopping itself is not easy because it presents many challenges. This article provides essential tips you should consider when quitting electronic cigarette smoking.
Mental health issues such as bipolar disorder, depression, or schizophrenia rarely appear out of nowhere. A common characteristic of mental health issues is that they affect your personality, thought processes and social behavior. It can be tough to diagnose mental illness when it is not detected early. However, learning about warning signs and developing symptoms can help reduce the severity of the illness. The following are hidden signs of mental health issues you should be aware of. If any symptoms describe what you have been feeling the past days or weeks, seek help.
Do you know that Asia and the Pacific is the second highest region where people with HIV live? Composing around three-quarters of the population are these three countries: China, Indonesia, and India. These are mainly affecting these specific groups: people who inject drugs, transgender people, men having sex with men, as well as sex workers.
What is the winning combination to improving your family’s health? Is it a healthy diet, work-life balance, lots of sleep and exercise- or a combination of it all? Here are key tips on improving your family’s health in the long term:
The new American Drug War is fought on streets today with prescription painkillers (Hydrocodone) and anti-anxiety drugs (Xanax) sold on the black market. The victims–seniors, school kids, and people in pain are turning a deaf ear on government warnings, drug-related suicides, and death by withdrawal.
Hydrocodone, the nation’s second-most abused drug, is linked to murders, celebrity overdoses and a rising tide of violent pharmacy robberies. But since 1999 federal regulators have put off deciding whether to tighten controls over this addictive narcotic, the key ingredient in Vicodin and other medicines. The Drug Enforcement Administration and Food and Drug Administration insist they are still studying whether to move hydrocodone-containing medicines from the Schedule III category to the more restrictive Schedule II drug category. The 12-year delay is frustrating drug treatment counselors, lawmakers and relatives of overdose victims. Prescriptions for Schedule III medications can be refilled up to six times without a doctor visit. By contrast, Schedule II drugs are kept under lock and key at pharmacies and patients must have an original prescription slip. In June, a man walked into a Long Island pharmacy in New York and shot four people before leaving with 11,000 hydrocodone pills. Hydrocodone pills contain no more than 10 mg of the drug, while oxycodone pills contain up to 80 mg. But the lower content doesn’t stop abusers. They just take more.
There are many causes of hip pain. This year’s MRI, like last year, showed acute damage to the left hip and lesser damage to the right hip joint. I had pain and stiffness and difficulty walking, getting up out of a chair, and carrying weight. That is typical for osteoarthritis–pain that is worse with movement and age. The good news is a recent ultrasound showed that, because of the injections I have been getting from my orthopedic physician for a year, I now have more cartilage to protect my hip joints! January, 2010 was my first injection using PRP platelet rich plasma and stem cells from my bone marrow. See my video. Following treatments using only PRP and stem cells from fat were in February, August, and October 2010. Because of the treatments I could walk smoother with less limp and could climb stairs and sneeze without saying OUCH. I tried the experimental treatment to increase my hip joint cartilage, but there is no guarantee. The hip is hard to treat–hard to reach, the joint is very deep and mine has long term acute damage from osteoarthritis.
Blood Cells At Ft. Lauderdale airport six women were lined up in wheelchairs near the check-in counter waiting for Jet Blue flight 14 to New York’s JFK airport. I was the youngest in a wheelchair two days after my 4th PRP (platelet rich plasma) injection into my hips and SI joint. I had to avoid lifting my heavy backpack and bending for a couple of weeks so the injection would not move away from the joint. The older women read or cat-napped, and one grandmother bragged about her docta in Queens, “He did both my knees. He’s great. I am going back to have my hips done.” Joint-replacement surgery has become nearly as common as a manicure. According to the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, 193,000 total hip replacements are performed yearly in the US. Lawyers handling class action lawsuits, estimate 200,000 – 300,000 hip replacements yearly in the US. There is a serious downside to joint replacement surgery.
London Telegraph, Sept. 2009: “Doctors in Southampton are using the pioneering technique, where a patient’s damaged bones are repaired using their own stem cells. Patients hailed the treatment, after many found they could walk normally again without any pain and without the need for hip replacement surgery. Under the treatment, surgeons at Spire hospital used purified cells from bone marrow extracted from the pelvis. The stem cells, which are immature cells that can develop into different kinds of tissue, were then mixed with “cleaned, ground-up” bone from another patient, after they had a hip replacement operation. They then finished with dead tissue being removed before surgeons filled the cavity with the mixture of stem cells and donated bone. Carl Millard, who had the stem cell procedure, said he could walk normally and without any pain. “I feel great,” he said.”
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