Vibro-Acoustic Imaging for Early Cancer Detection

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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neurological basis of diabetes as autoinflammatory disease

I rediscovered an article I'd saved, a December 2006 announcement of Dr Michael Salter's work on reversing Type 1 diabetes in rats. Neuropeptide P deficiency was causing inflammation at the Islets of Langerhorn in the pancreas. Injection of “Substance P” reversed the condition. Since then, Salter's team has also reversed Type II [...]

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fat hatred: undiagnosed killer

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

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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Finding a Good Hospital

Followed a link in my inbox to a rating survey of hospitals, rating them on things like doctor-induced harm, post-op sepsis, patient death, etc. 4th or 5th annual survey of over 5K hospitals in USA.
If fellow South Bay folks need anything, or have to go to an ER and have choices, go for [...]

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