http://www.medicalsite.info/blog personal health & news Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:09:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Irritable bowel syndrome has a strong connection to the mind. More: continued here http://www.medicalsite.info/blog/2008/09/let-the-mind-help-tame-an-irritable-bowel/ You don't have to be an actuary or funeral director to have noticed the striking increase in the length of many Americans' lives. The obituaries in this or any other newspaper show a growing number of people who depart this world in their late 80s or 90s, or even at ... http://www.medicalsite.info/blog/2008/09/personal-health-living-longer-in-good-health-to-the-end/ Getting older doesn’t have to mean getting frailer. More: continued here http://www.medicalsite.info/blog/2008/08/living-longer-in-good-health-to-the-end/ For cancer patients, one of the toughest questions can be knowing when it’s time to let go. More: continued here http://www.medicalsite.info/blog/2008/08/in-cancer-therapy-there-is-a-time-to-treat-and-a-time-to-let-go/ When Howard D. Schultz in 1985 founded the company that would become the wildly successful Starbucks chain, no financial adviser had to tell him that coffee was America's leading beverage and caffeine its most widely used drug. The millions of customers who flock to Starbucks to order a double espresso, ... http://www.medicalsite.info/blog/2008/08/personal-health-sorting-out-coffees-contradictions/ Rheumatoid arthritis does not have to mean an end to the things you love. More: continued here http://www.medicalsite.info/blog/2008/08/living-better-with-rheumatoid-arthritis/ Each year hundreds of thousands of Americans, including some 700,000 Medicare recipients, get on a treadmill not for exercise but to try to determine if their hearts are healthy. Tim Russert, the NBC journalist, had such an exam, called an exercise or treadmill stress test, six weeks before he died ... http://www.medicalsite.info/blog/2008/08/personal-health-the-treadmills-place-in-evaluating-hearts/ As with any product used to excess, consumers often wonder about the health consequences of caffeine. More: continued here http://www.medicalsite.info/blog/2008/08/sorting-out-coffee%e2%80%99s-contradictions/ The exercise stress test has no value unless its findings are interpreted in the context of a person’s other risk factors for heart disease. More: continued here http://www.medicalsite.info/blog/2008/07/the-treadmill%e2%80%99s-place-in-evaluating-hearts/ Medpedia Forms Online Medical Encyclopedia Site looking for ...EndoNurse -20 hours agoSAN FRANCISCO - The Medpedia Project recently announced that the world's largest collaborative online encyclopedia of medicine, Medpedia, will launch soon. More: continued here http://www.medicalsite.info/blog/2008/07/medpedia-forms-online-medical-encyclopedia-site-looking-for-endonurse/