The new year and a good old cold… We hope you have recovered enough from welcoming this new and unique 2016 – let it be a healthy, happy and successful one. Be aware that it’s not the stars but the mind which determines this. And the mind needs – Sleep! Previous research has suggested that…
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Can You Ensure Being Lucky?
by Axel E. Thieke G.P. •
Are most cancer patients simply ‘unlucky’? The media have spread the ‘news’ that 65% of human cancers are inevitable and therefore just unlucky.
Ice-Cream, You Scream – Everybody Takes Statins
by Axel E. Thieke G.P. •
Axel HeaderDetermining whether statins (cholesterol-lowering-medicines) are responsible for non-specific aches and pains can be difficult, especially in elders.
What Happened to the Plague?
by Wolfgang K Piller MD •
But considering the Ebola hype, what really happened to the plague? The only disease mankind has been able to eradicate is smallpox, although the virus is still being stored in high security laboratories – in case one needs it!
War on Carbs
by Axel E. Thieke G.P. •
Low-carbohydrate diets are increasingly popular, but concerns have arisen that such diets, compared with traditional low-fat diets might have adverse cardiovascular consequences.
Of Grandmums and Grandsons (Instead of Mice and Men):
by Axel E. Thieke G.P. •
Although Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) with estrogen or estrogen/progestin continue to be the most effective treatment for women with bothersome menopausal symptoms such as hot flushes, many such women are interested in non-hormonal options.
Emerging Diseases
by Wolfgang K Piller MD •
Whilst it is inevitable that new infectious illnesses emerge all the time, mankind does its share to spread them more rapidly with its modern means of transport like the examples above teach us. But apart from that we have to prepare for known illnesses emerging in new populations because of the illness travelling itself. The African West Nile Virus is believed to have been spread nearly all over the world via an infected bird or mosquito entering the United States less than two decades ago. It mainly infects birds and kills them. It causes severe illness in humans, most patients however recover eventually.
Detox in the Operating Theatre – or in Your Bed!
by Axel E. Thieke G.P. •
Without sufficient sleep, mood and intellectual performance are impaired. Various central-nervous-system conditions, including migraines and seizures, become more frequent and severe. When animals are kept from sleeping, they ultimately die.
Progress In The Slow Lane
by Wolfgang K Piller MD •
In March 2014 the U.S. Prevention Services Task Force presented its update on “Screening for Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults,” meaning more than 65 years of age.
Philippines… Forgotten People, Forgotten Illnesses.
by Wolfgang K Piller MD •
Philippines… forgotten people, forgotten illnesses. Support “German Doctors”