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Good News on the Booster

Posted in advice, cats, critters, health, real life, recommended, tagged , , , , , on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Plz! No paparazzi at naptime!
Our bestest buddy the Booster is doing really well and has regained much of the weight she lost this past fall, when we feared the worst. None of the tests we ran turned up anything: she was pronounced incredibly healthy for a 13.5 year old kitteh, but she [...]

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Vibro-Acoustic Imaging for Early Cancer Detection

Posted in health, medical, technology, tagged , , , , , on November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Back in the golden age of rock-n-roll, Chubby Checker exhorted us to “Shake It Up, Baby!” Turns out he had a darn good idea, when applied to medical imaging techniques. In 1999, some clever researchers at the Mayo Clinic came up with an idea they called ultrasound-stimulated vibro-acoustic imaging (USVA). [...]

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fat hatred: undiagnosed killer

Posted in activism, ethics, health, medical, tagged , , , on August 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Found this stunning blog entry about the death of someone’s mom via ’s journal. Went on to read the comments (oh, the comments … heartbreaking) and the follow-up posting. [Edit: and the third posting.]
When I think about my ever-escalating war against the medical establishment to get GOOD treatment for my autoimmune diseases, and [...]

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if your folks are 'losing it', there are things to try

Posted in advice, aging, health, lifecycle, making a difference, medical, recommended, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Worked up a rather long reply to a friend who has a parent with some issues, and thought others might appreciate the info. Getting a parent to actually TAKE vitamins or admit anything is wrong might be, well, some kind of karmic irony in action. But maybe you can use the info [...]

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Keeping the kitties happy

Posted in advice, critters, health, tagged , , on August 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I found a holistic cat care page with some advice, but, even though I am not a vet, my advice is different. Why? Because a lot of vets, even holistic ones, still have the ‘treat the symptom’ mentality that doesn’t always think about side effects. Do your own research, including talking [...]

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eek erk squick! shopping-cart cooties

Posted in advice, health, squick, tagged , , on July 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Via Farber’s IP list:
10 Things Your Grocery Store Doesn’t Want You to Know, including:
1. The shopping carts have cooties.
According to studies done on shopping carts, more than 60 percent of them are harboring coliform bacteria (the sort more often associated with public toilet seats). “These bacteria may be coming from raw foods or from children [...]

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Some Health Tidbits

Posted in health, recommended, research, tagged , , , , , , on June 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Discovered the excellent Public Health and Nutrition List” run out of UW. Lots of cites of interesting nutritional, morbidity, and research info.
A really great posting by on the topic of thyroid and chronic fatigue led me to the Fibromyalgia and Fatigue Centers web pages. Highly recommended. I’ll see if there’s one [...]

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