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En 2050 le nombre de personnes souffrant en Suisse d'une démence type Alzheimer va tripler et ainsi dépasser les 300'000. La situation pourrait devenir explosive tant au niveau des coûts que de la prise en charge. Des perspectives sombres qui s'inscrivent dans un contexte de controverses scientifiques. Une enquête de Françoise Ducret et Gérard Louvin
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Traditionnellement, une émission médicale aborde les problématiques telles que le corps médical les définit. A l'inverse nous souhaiterions aborder la santé du point de vue du patient et non du médecin en nous intéressant également aux aspects politiques, économiques, éthiques et médicaux.
Dans cette perspective, l'individu n'est plus seulement le corps soumis à l'intervention chirurgicale ou à l'effet d'une molécule pharmaceutique. Il est aussi celui qui paye ses impôts et ses primes d'assurance maladie, celui qui vote contre la suppression d'un hôpital ou pour l'adoption de mesures antipollution, celui qui subit la publicité des multinationales de l'agroalimentaire, celui qui tente de mener de front carrière et vie de famille, celui qui préfère ne pas prolonger sa vie ou tout simplement celui qui aspire à une autre vie.
Chaque mois, l'émission propose deux reportages, l'un de 40 minutes et l'autre de 12, consacrés à des thèmes différents. 36.9° est présenté par Isabelle Moncada.
Rheumatoid arthritis - MayoClinic.com
Rheumatoid arthritis is an inflammatory form of arthritis that causes joint pain and damage. Rheumatoid arthritis attacks the lining of your joints (synovium) causing swelling that can result in aching and throbbing and eventually deformity. Sometimes rheumatoid arthritis symptoms make even the simplest activities - such as opening a jar or taking a walk - difficult to manage.\n\nRheumatoid arthritis is two to three times more common in women than in men and generally occurs between the ages of 40 and 60. But rheumatoid arthritis can also affect young children and older adults.\n\nThere's no cure for rheumatoid arthritis. With proper treatment, a strategy for joint protection and changes in lifestyle, you can live a long, productive life with rheumatoid arthritis.
Slide show: Hand exercises for people with arthritis - MayoClinic.com
Hand exercises may help improve muscle strength and joint range of motion in people who have arthritis. You can do hand exercises daily or, preferably, several times a day. You might find it helps to do hand exercises while soaking your hands in warm water. Know your limitations, though. Hand exercises shouldn't cause pain.
Start your hand exercises by relaxing your hand. Start with your fingers straight and close together. Bend the end and middle joints of your fingers. Keep your wrist and knuckles straight. Moving slowly and smoothly, return your hand to the starting position. Repeat with your other hand. If you can, perform multiple repetitions of this exercise on each hand.
Rheumatoid arthritis pain: 7 ways to protect your joints - MayoClinic.com
Joint protection is one strategy to help you manage your rheumatoid arthritis pain. Taking the time to think ahead and plan ways to avoid unnecessarily stressing your joints may help you reduce your rheumatoid arthritis pain. Arthritic joints can't tolerate as much stress, so pushing, pulling or twisting motions can be painful. Though you may want to work through your rheumatoid arthritis pain, doing so can aggravate the situation.
Joint protection: 7 techniques to manage rheumatoid arthritis pain
To avoid unnecessary joint strain and increased rheumatoid arthritis pain, follow these seven steps.
The Carlat Psychiatry Blog
The Carlat Blog versus the Carlat Report
This is NOT The Carlat Psychiatry Report. It is "The Carlat Psychiatry Blog." Here are the differences: The Report is a peer-reviewed, non-industry biased, CME publication. The Blog is not peer-reviewed, is not ACCME-accredited, and is definitely very biased. My opinion, formed as a result of participating in many CME activities, is that allowing pharmaceutical companies to sponsor accredited medical education leads to many bad things, including biased education, corrupt physicians, and, ultimately, harm to our patients. So, if you arrived here for straightforward psychiatric information, click here instead. If you are interested in the tangled politics and economics of CME, read on!
Fight Aging!
"We are on the verge of a revolution in medicine: understanding, treating, and ultimately preventing the causes of degenerative aging. But medical revolutions only happen if we all stand up in support of funding and research. We did it for cancer. We're doing it for Alzheimer's. We can do it for aging - and create an era of longer, healthier lives!"
Learning More About The Placebo Effect
In a recent trial, a sample of alcohol-dependent patients received naltrexone, acamprosate or placebo for 12 weeks. While there were no differences in outcomes between treatment groups, those who believed they had been taking active medication consumed fewer alcoholic drinks and reported less alcohol dependence and cravings. That is, irrespective of actual treatment, perceived medication allocation predicted health outcomes.
Moringa or Moringa Oleifera
The Moringa tree is a fast-growing, drought-resistant tree. It grows best in dry sandy soil and can survive even in poor soil conditions. In fact, this plant can be cultivated even in coastal areas.
Despite Moringa’s astonishing health benefits, it makes you wonder why the Western world is not yet embracing this plant.
Asperger syndrome - Wikipedia
Asperger syndrome is an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and people with it therefore show significant difficulties in social interaction and restricted, stereotyped patterns of behavior and interests. It differs from other ASDs by its relative preservation of linguistic and cognitive development. Although not mentioned in standard diagnostic criteria, physical clumsiness and atypical use of language are frequently reported.
Brain Trainers: A Workout for the Mind: Scientific American
Put your cortex through its paces with these software games.
Michael Merzenich, neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, is ruthless as he describes how my 37-year-old brain is going to turn to mush over the years to come.
“You’re going to slowly decline in operating speed,” he says. “Your brain will become noisier and noisier in its processing.” And I will have more and more trouble figuring out exactly what it was I just heard or saw. The villain: age-related cognitive decline, which Merzenich says is a combination of physical changes and something called negative brain plasticity—the cerebral equivalent of what has happened to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s biceps.
A way to combat negative brain plasticity is to train regularly using any of an increasingly wide range of software products designed expressly for the purpose, says Merzenich, who founded Posit Science, which makes one such package.
F.D.A. Approves Monthly Injectable Arthritis Drug - NYTimes.com
The Food and Drug Administration approved a potential blockbuster drug from Johnson & Johnson on Friday that fights three forms of arthritis caused by immune-system disorders.
The injectable medication, called Simponi, is essentially a follow-up to the multibillion-dollar drug Remicade, which is marketed in the United States by Johnson & Johnson and in Europe and other countries by the Schering-Plough Corporation.
Combined sales of the drug were more than $5 billion last year.
Sales of the new drug would be similarly split between the two companies.
F.D.A. regulators have approved the drug for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis, a painful, progressive form of spinal arthritis. All three forms of arthritis are chronic disorders in which the immune system attacks joints, causing stiffness, pain and restricted motion.
The drug is injected under the skin once a month. It is made to be used alongside drugs that suppress the immune system.
Official Google Blog: Google Health: helping you better coordinate your care
We continue to learn a tremendous amount since launching Google Health in the spring of 2008. We're listening to feedback from users every day about their needs, and one issue we hear regularly is that people want help coordinating their care and the care of loved ones. They want the ability to share their medical records and personal health information with trusted family members, friends, and doctors in their care network. I can relate to this.
Just a few years ago, my father suffered a minor heart attack and was sent to the ER. I arrived on the scene in a panic, and was asked what medications he was taking. To my surprise, I had no clue. If my father had a Google Health account, and had shared his profile with me, I would have been up-to-date on his current medications.
A la carte - France 3
Nos maisons sont souvent perçues comme des cocons protecteurs, nous mettant à l’abri des nuisances extérieures. Nous avons tort. Les chercheurs s’accordent pour dire que nos maisons et nos appartements sont gravement pollués. Les produits toxiques sont partout dans nos intérieurs, les ondes électro-magnétiques nous envahissent, l’hygiène minimum que nous devrions respecter pour éviter la prolifération des microbes et bactéries n’est jamais respectée… Alors quels dangers courons-nous dans nos maisons ? Comment lutter contre les pollutions sournoises ? Quels sont les réflexes à acquérir ? @ la carte fait le point sur les pollutions des maisons.
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Dr Dominique Belpomme, cancérologue à l’Hôpital européen Georges-Pompidou, président de l’Association pour la recherche thérapeutique anticancéreuse (ARTAC) et de la Société européenne de santé environnementale.
Site Internet : www.artac.info
Frédéric Saldmann, nutritionniste.
Georges Méar, victime de pollution domestique.
Site Internet : La maison empoisonnée
Marie-France Corre, ingénieur en design industriel, matériaux et innovations technologiques. Elle a dirigé pendant dix-sept ans les tests de produits de l’UFC-Que Choisir.
FuturePundit: Immune System Reboot Works For Multiple Sclerosis
Immune System Reboot Works For Multiple Sclerosis
Chondroitin Slows Progression And Relieves Symptoms Of Knee Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis (OA) causes disability and is a major public health problem. A new study examined the effect of chondroitins 4 and 6 sulfate (CS) on OA progression and symptoms. CS, unlike other chondroitin sulfate products sold as dietary supplements in the U.S., has been approved as a prescription symptomatic slow acting drug for OA in many European countries.
Arthritis pain relief: Creams and gels for aching joints - MayoClinic.com
Arthritis pain relief: Creams and gels for aching joints
Learn about the various types of creams, gels and ointments available for pain relief. Find out whether these topical pain medications can ease your arthritis pain.
Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging
This report primarily examines the lifetime influences of environmental factors on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases and their underlying pathologic mechanisms. Our close look at the science of these diseases shows they are related to a number of features of modern society and that Alzheimer’s disease especially is linked to other serious health problems of modern times, which we call the "western disease cluster."
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