Jade Goody, well known to Brits for staring in Big Brother has been told her cancer cannot be cured and that she will die. Goody became a household name in the UK after appearing in Big Brother in 2002 and since...
" Genetic variations which predispose people to a common inflammatory bowel condition have been uncovered by a team of German and UK researchers. It was known that ulcerative colitis, which affects around...
"Doctors may prescribe chewing gum after research found it helps patients recover faster from bowel operations. People who had bowel surgery were able to go home nearly two days earlier if they were given the...
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" DALLAS - Seventeen weeks premature, our twin sons were so small, so fragile. And already they'd been through so much.Josh had had heart surgery, Jake a life-threatening bowel operation -- and that was just in their first week. They'd received blood transfusions, endured...
The world’s first appendectomy removal has happened, through a man’s mouth! The patient was able to return to work just after two days, and only suffered a minor sore throat. From a...
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""China is the only country in this region where we have regulatory approval for both PillCam(R) SB and PillCam(R) ESO and it was important that we have a strong partner to deliver our products to physicians," said Kazem Samandari, Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific/Japan...
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"Talking therapies, by which people learn to change their attitudes towards illness, can help to relieve chronic conditions such as diabetes and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), scientists said yesterday.
Research suggests that cognitive behavioural therapy, a technique by...
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A nice article about the importance of colon cleansing, using naturaopathy and herbs. "Brilliant herbalist and naturopath, Dr John Christopher, said: "Death
begins in the colon". This was because he had seen many cases where
improving bowel function had changed a health...
As I mentioned in my post about babies and cough syrup, I'm preggers. My mind has been increasingly floating towards news about parenting, babies and tots, and that's how I came across this story about a new way...
Vice President Dick Cheney will assume control as US Commander-in-Chief which President George Bush gets a colonoscopy on Saturday, White House spokesman Tony Snow announced a short time ago."President Bush will...
Scientists have discovered a gene link in bowel cancer, giving hope to sufferers that this discovery could lead to better diagnosis and treatment of the disease.
http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article2747716.ece
"We live in a stressful world. Stress at work, at school, over politics or social activities or family matters can all take their toll on an individual. Stress can have a negative effect on the body and stress can be made even worse by a condition known as IBS or irritable...
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"Colon cancer, the third most common type of cancer in the United States, is a serious health threat for men and women over 50. However, if you are of the one million Americans living with an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), you face a higher risk for colon cancer than the...
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Hundreds of millions of dollars racked up by longer-than-necessary hospital stays after intestinal operations might be offset by the simplest and cheapest of activities: chewing gum.
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