Illness, Injury & Treatments

Magazine articles on illnesses, injuries, currently available treatments, drugs, and homeopathy.

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Health July 2007 Curt Pesmen	Surgery to Avoid #2: Episiotomy It may sound logical that cutting or extending the vaginal opening would reduce the risk of pelvic-tissue tears and ease childbirth, but studies show that is may cause as many or more problems than it prevents.
Health July 2007 Curt Pesmen	Surgery to Avoid #1: Hysterectomy Commonly used to treat persistent vaginal bleeding or to remove benign fibroids, hysterectomies often remove your sources of estrogen and testosterone, increasing your risk of heart disease and osteoporosis.
Health July 2007 Curt Pesmen	The Scary Truth About Surgery The 5 operations you don't want to get and what to do instead.
Health July 2007 Curt Pesmen	Surgery to Avoid #4: Heartburn Surgery A popular procedure to treat heartburn involves wrapping a part of the stomach around the weak part of the esophagus. Successful treatment of heartburn, however, is not guaranteed.
Health July 2007 Curt Pesmen	Surgery to Avoid #5: Lower-Back Surgery Endoscopic or the traditional lumbar-disc repair surgeries relieve lower-back pain in 85 to 90 percent of cases, but there may be easier solutions.
Health July 2007 Curt Pesmen	Surgery to Avoid #3: Angioplasty A new study has found that heart medication is just as effective as this invasive surgery.
Psychology Today May/Jun 2007 Jill Neimark	The Optimism Revolution Optimism as you know it isn't always the best medicine. A new view of optimism holds that to have a real impact on health, outlook is less important than behavior. Under trying circumstances, optimism can actually lead to fatigue and temporary immune suppression.
National Gardening Charlotte Kidd	A Brush With Poison Ivy Poison ivy is the plant that keeps on giving long after the first rash is gone, a good reason to try this usually successful antidote.
National Gardening Suzanne DeJohn	Leaves of Three Poison ivy - identifying it, preventing it, treating it, eradicating it.
Managed Care June 2007 Lola Butcher	What the Devil Is Information Therapy? Welcome to information therapy, the practice of providing more and better information to patients so they can contribute more to their healing.
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