The Salobreña branch of the AECC, with the collaboration of the Town Hall, dedicated Wednesday to showing their support for those who suffer from cancer.
Pink Wednesday in Salobreña
by Vivienne Hughes •
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The White Cactus Plague
by Martin Myall •
Although this article mainly concerns Lanjarón, evidence of this prickly-pear disease is all over Andalucia: shrivelled cacti pads, covered in a white substance.
Massage Treatments by Quiromasaje Almuñécar
by David Darby •
Are you suffering pain, stress or recovering from an injury? Massage is the best way to recover or revive, as long as it is performed by an expert.
Palm Beetle Conference Concluded
by Martin Myall •
The talk on the destructive palm-tree weevil or beetle was not all conducted within a room in Almuñécar, but also took to the streets for practical demonstrations.
Nanny Versus Nano
by Wolfgang K Piller MD •
Medicine has advanced since and quietly keeps advancing. And maybe, we will witness the moment when not the nanny but the nano makes us help the medicine go down.
An exciting technology is emerging, offering possibilities as diverse as radiation does and medicine has discovered it, too. Nanotechnology works in dimensions which are hardly imaginable for us – matter no bigger than the size of 400 hydrogen atoms (the smallest atom).
No-Food for Thought
by Axel E. Thieke G.P. •
Food is a potent inducer of metabolic responses (and pleasure ). Specific nutrients enhance muscle action, while others boost appetite or modulate inflammatory responses. On the other hand, caloric restriction under normal conditions ( 20 to 40 % fewer calories than required ) has been shown to protect against the development of chronic diseases. ( To highlight this : there was hardly any diabetes or gout in post-war Germany ) Exploiting the differential effects of food or its absence during disease may be one strategy to enhance the efficacy of drug therapies.
Getting High & Preventing Flu
by Axel E. Thieke G.P. •
There are preventative treatments for mountain sickness, but they may have some serious side effects and therefore alternatives have been sought.
Researchers randomized 90 healthy non-acclimated adults to receive 600mg of oral Ibuprofen or placebo every 6 hours, beginning 6 hours before rapidly ascending from an altitude of 1.000 to 4.000 meters. It was measured how often symptoms of acute mountain sickness such as headaches, dizziness, disorientation occurred and how severe they were.
Anxiety Sells
by Axel E. Thieke G.P. •
Maybe some can remember (can I ?) the bird and swine-flu hype which made governments spend trillions on supposedly anti-viral medicines, which firstly were never needed, which secondly would have never worked because of a lack of efficacy and which thirdly had to be destroyed at more great expense after the date of expiry. The media were happily fueling this hype and created by this a public pressure on governments with the above mentioned consequences – anxiety sells and I think that after shedding some light on dark banking practices the print and visual media do certainly merit the same treat – anxiety sells. Any room for ethics here ?
Bowel Cancer – Trust The Medics
by Wolfgang K Piller MD •
Last month two meta-analyses were published about health strategies on how to reduce the chances of developing bowel cancer. A meta-analysis is not a new piece of research, but it looks at all the published research on a subject, thus unifying conflicting results and drawing a conclusion out of the whole body of existing evidence.
Clinica Santa Cecilia
by David Darby •
Have you got any health concerns that you know should really be checked out, but you’re either concerned about the language barrier or maybe just too embarrassed to go along to the doctors?
Help is at hand… Just contact Clinica Santa Cecilia in Nerja, where they have both American and European doctors, and have a wealth of experience in every field, from Gynaecology, Urology and Midwifery, through to Dermatology, Psychology and even Erectile Dysfunction.