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The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa See book keywords and concepts

Pages of this book were written during different stays in the small white hospital rooms of Johns Hopkins Hospital, and many chapters were drafted during long bedridden months at home. The greatest of these challenges began one fine spring afternoon as I was celebrating "Carpet Day" with my daughter. Carpet Day is our own personal mother-child holiday, celebrated only by us. On the first great spring day we take an old carpet and unroll it on our suburban drive. We bring pillows, chalk, snacks, and lemonade and lie there, reading and chatting, pretending it's the beach for a whole afternoon.

Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 Bottom Line Health See book keywords and concepts

As an alternative, hand-sanitizing gel, which is now located outside many hospital rooms, may be used by visitors. Other self-defense strategies... •Keep a bottle of hand-sanitizing gel at your bedside. Use this hand cleanser yourself before eating. •Beware of the TV remote control. One study found that remote controls in hospitals have three times more bacteria than doorknobs or nurse call buttons. To protect yourself, cover the TV remote with a new medical glove. You'll still be able to change the channels. •Ask about the stethoscope.

Following deplorable attacks in London, pharmaceuticals are still more deadly than terrorists Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

They died silently, in their beds, or chairs, or hospital rooms. They died individually, and often alone. But they all had one thing in common: they were killed by prescription drugs approved as "safe" by the FDA. This very day, "safe" prescription drugs killed 270 people in the United States, and there's not a peep from the press. There are no resources whatsoever devoted to finding out who's responsible for these deaths. There are no news reporters covering this tragedy. No flashy headlines. No images on the evening news of screaming people running in fear.

Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health Joseph E. Mario See book keywords and concepts

Preserves and flavors meat wrapped in Rosemary; antiseptic for incensing hospital rooms (burned with Juniper berries); wards off witches (planted around the home); said that if a young person tapped another with a twig having an open flower, the two would fall in love; for fidelity, loyalty. Rosemary oil aroma or 1 -3 drops for internal ailments, helps most of the above conditions. In large amounts, Rosemary oil can irritate the stomach, intestines, and kidneys. •ROWANBERRIES (Fructus sorbi) European Mountain Ash, red tree-bome berries; dry for hoarseness. Serve in jams.

The Big Fix: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers Katharine Greider See book keywords and concepts

Still others expressed doubts about the appropriateness of a new drug-ad vehicle called the Patient Channel, which would wrap the ads around educational segments about particular conditions and send them into hospital rooms, where patients lay convalescing.

Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele See book keywords and concepts

The business practices that the Street has introduced—cutting corners, trimming costs by eliminating nurses, hiring less-qualified physicians, replacing skilled employees with the unskilled, paying poverty-level wages to many workers, driving down the salaries of professionals, even curtailing the cleaning of hospital rooms, operating rooms, and doctors' offices to meet financial projections—have also been adopted with a vengeance by the so-called nonprofit side of medicine, so much so that the two now are often indistinguishable.

Mindfulness Ellen J. Langer See book keywords and concepts

Robert Ulrich reported that gall-bladder-surgery patients who had been assigned to hospital rooms with windows facing brilliantly colored fall trees had shorter postoperative stays and took fewer pain relievers than those assigned to rooms that faced a brick wall.11 Part of the hospital context is its strangeness. But seen in a different way, this unfamiliarity may disappear. Hospital staff, after all, are people, windows are windows, and beds are beds. And yet we let this perceived strangeness have a great impact on us. In a dramatic investigation, K.

The Practical Encyclopedia of Natural Healing Mark Bricklin See book keywords and concepts

Despite all that's been said about the importance of nutrition in recent years, the message apparently is not getting through to where it's needed most: in hospital rooms where patients are attempting to recover from serious illness. It is estimated that one-quarter to one-half of all medical and surgical patients hospitalized for two weeks or longer are malnourished, a research team from the University of Alabama reports. And the implications are serious. "Patients with malnutrition, particularly protein-calorie malnutrition, do not tolerate illness well," write R. L. Weinsier, M.D.

The New Holistic Health Handbook: Living Well in a New Age Berkeley Holistic Health Center and Shepherd Bliss See book keywords and concepts

Visit one of the hospital rooms and look around. • Ask to see a surgery room and the recovery room. (This is optional, but it may be helpful.) • Go to the Admittance desk. Ask what the procedure is, what you will need to bring with you, and what forms you will need to sign. • Ask for any other forms you may need, so you can read them ahead of time. • Pick up a surgery-release form and read it over. This will help keep you from being surprised or fearful, and will also give you time to prepare your questions. • Inquire about the procedure of obtaining your medical records.

Manifesto for a New Medicine: Your Guide to Healing Partnerships and the Wise Use of Alternative Therapies James S. Gordon, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Rich patients recall famous physicians who hovered nervously at the door of their hospital rooms as if the cancer that ravaged their bodies were a flu that could be caught. Middle-class patients tell me about weeks of waiting lists in their health maintenance organizations, the impossibility of paying for a long-trusted physician not on the HMO's approved list, and care so cool and perfunctory they wish, once they finally arrive, that they'd never come.

Staying Healthy in a Risky Environment: The New York University Medical Center Family Guide Arthur C. Upton, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Inspecting the patients' hospital rooms, medical detectives uncovered another unexpected source of exposure. Lurking in the shower heads used by the people who had become infected were colonies of Legionella bacteria. Another outbreak of the disease occurred in 1989 in Bogalusa, Louisiana, where seventy citizens fell ill and two died of Legionnaires' disease. This time, the victims seemed to have nothing in common except grocery shopping.

Allergic to the Twentieth Century: The Explosion in Environmental Allergies--From Sick Buildings to Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Peter Radetsky See book keywords and concepts

In the early 1950s Randolph began testing the notion by appropriating a few hospital rooms, depositing his patients inside, and subjecting them to a four-day water fast in order to purge their systems of any possible contaminants. Then he tested them for allergies. "The experiment was a success," he wrote, "and certain foods and chemical allergies were diagnosed that simply could not have been found through any of the office procedures used at that time." But Randolph began to realize that it wouldn't do simply to use any old hospital room. A much more controlled setting was necessary.

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