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Category Archives: Health Conditions

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An Expert Guide to Reducing Your Dementia Risk

Written on Feb, 09, 2010 by

An Expert Guide to Reducing Your Dementia Risk: “ There are lifestyle changes you can adopt which may reduce your chance of developing dementia by as much as 20 percent. A panel of independent experts evaluated more than 70 research papers and articles…

Aluminum in Drinking Water Connected to Dementia

Written on Mar, 15, 2009 by

Aluminum in Drinking Water Connected to Dementia: “Exposure to aluminum in drinking water can increase your person’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, but silica could reduce the risk. In a recent study, researchers followed elderly subjects for 15 years to learn whether the…

How Cranberries Prevent Urinary Tract Infections

Written on Mar, 15, 2009 by

How Cranberries Prevent Urinary Tract Infections: ” Chemicals present in cranberries prevent infection-causing bacteria from attaching to the cells that line the urinary tract. It was previously thought that the acidity of cranberry juice caused the effect. Adhesion of bacteria to cells lining…

Smoke Inhalation in Souther California

Written on Nov, 15, 2008 by
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The recent fires in Montecito and Sylmar in Southern California have taken a terrible toal. Sylmar Fire Many people have lost there homes and in these economic times may not be able to recover. Countless thousands are also having to breathe in smoke…

More on Charles Bonnet Syndrome

Written on Jun, 08, 2008 by

In the year 1760, a Swiss naturalist named Charles Bonnet became concerned when his grandfather Charles Lullin began to experience a parade of “amusing and magical visions.” The eighty-nine-year-old Lullin was being visited by visions of people, birds, carriages, and buildings, all of which were invisible to everyone but him. Apparently these mysterious objects materialized spontaneously among the few bits of the world he was still able to perceive through his cataracts.

Charles Bonnet syndrome—elderly people and visual hallucinations

Written on Aug, 08, 2007 by

Charles Bonnet syndrome—elderly people and visual hallucinations Anu Jacob, research fellow1, Sanjeev Prasad2, Mike Boggild, consultant neurologist3, Sanjeev Chandratre, consultant4 1 Department of Neurosciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L9 7LJ, 2 Care of the Elderly, Calderdale Royal Hospital, Halifax HX3 0PW, 3 Walton…