Diagnosis and Treatment
Medicare vs. Medicaid
Overview The terms Medicaid and Medicare are often confused or used interchangeably. They sound extremely similar, but these two programs are actually very different. Each is regulated by its own ...
Kelly Preston Dead At 57 From Breast Cancer
The death of Kelly Preston yesterday took all of us – except for those closest to her – by surprise. When a vibrant, beloved soul leaves this world all too ...
The Tiny Cell that Connects our Physical and Mental Health, and Solves a Decades-old Mystery of Why Toxic Stress Leads to Brain Changes that Spark Depression, Anxiety
More than a decade ago, I was diagnosed with several autoimmune diseases, one after another, including Guillain-Barré syndrome, which left me paralyzed twice while raising two young children. All told ...
Leaky Gut Syndrome: What Is It?
What you should know if you think you have leaky gut syndrome. "Leaky gut syndrome" is said to have symptoms including bloating, gas, cramps, food sensitivities, and aches and pains. ...
Expanded Treatment Focus Markedly Improves Lyme Disease Patient Outcomes
Many people think of Lyme disease as an illness caused by the bite of an infected tick. Though the bite may be a triggering event, this perspective is simplistic and ...
What Is Holistic Dentistry?
Your teeth and gums play an important role in your body’s overall health. Holistic dentistry recognizes this connection and takes a whole-body approach, using tools and procedures that promote total ...
Medical Marijuana
There are few subjects that can stir up stronger emotions among doctors, scientists, researchers, policy makers, and the public than medical marijuana. Is it safe? Should it be legal? Decriminalized? ...
Dr. Dale Bredesen on Preventing and Reversing Alzheimer’s Disease
Dale E. Bredesen, M.D., is a professor of neurology at the Easton Laboratories for Neurodegenerative Disease Research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los ...
Spanish Scientists Find Secret to Rewinding 27 Years of Old Age
Scientists at the prestigious National Cancer Research Institute in Spain didn’t set out to find the secret to human immortality... But then Dr. Maria Blasco... A Spanish Scientist who studied ...
PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injuries: A Functional Treatment Model
For decades, we treated brain disorders blindly, without even knowing what was really going on inside. Not only did that mean we could mistake one problem for another, it meant ...
Israeli Scientists Claim They’re On The Path To A Cure For Cancer
It doesn't seem possible. But they say it's true. A small team of Israeli scientists is telling the world they will have the first “complete cure” for cancer within a ...
Can polio, a killer virus from the past, treat cancer in the present? Duke is optimistic.
Dr. Allan Friedman places a catheter into a tumor in a patient's brain during a procedure at Duke Hospital. The catheter delivers a genetically modified form of the poliovirus to ...