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2010-09-10 01:07 pm
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Honey is Good For You

7/2010 report from Cardiff School of Health Sciences in Wales
n = 655 men
41 of those men reported eating honey regularly
followed them for 25 years, examined diets
honey eaters significantly less likely to die
‘hazard ratio for all-cause mortality’ dropped 56% even when adjusted for possible confounders
(95% confidence limits 0.23, 0.86; P<0.017)

abstract and lots more honey info )
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2010-04-24 09:29 pm

Dead Sea treatments arthritis, skin and heart conditions

BALNEOTHERAPY MUD AND CLIMATOTHERAPY AT THE DEAD SEA
lecture by Shaul Sukenik - Soroka University Medical Center and
Faculty of Health Sciences,
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Beer-Sheva, Israel
notes from recording of this presentation which was given in October 2008 )
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2009-03-16 07:25 pm

Diagnostic Imaging II Study Review: Arthridities

Which condition demonstrates nonuniform joint space narrowing, osteophytes, subchondral sclerosis, & subchondral cysts?
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2008-03-02 06:57 pm

Psoriasis Triples Heart Attack Risk for under 50 Crowd

You may be surprised to learn that having the common skin disease psoriasis may triple your risk of a heart attack if you're under age 50. This finding results from five years of medical data collected on British patients. It appears that both psoriasis and athlerosclerosis are mediated by T-cell (immune) mediated inflammation, so the correlation could result from a shared cause.
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