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Marijke: Nurse Turned Writer has made it through the first round of voting for Best Canadian Health Blog and is now in the second and final round. It’s up against four other fine blogs but, let’s face it, I’d love to come out number one!
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If you’re a new visitor to Help My Hurt, welcome! We have many regular visitors but we also get new readers every day. Have you had a chance to explore yet? If not, let me give you some tips that may help you in your visit.
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November is drawing to a close - one more month and that’s the end of 2008. And, next month, December, is my 1-year anniversary with Help My Hurt. I’ll have to think of a way to celebrate!
In the mean time, here are the top 5 posts, the ones that got the most reader interest, for [...]
Barbara Bush, wife of President Bush, the elder, was hospitalized for a perforated ulcer. The 83-year-old former First Lady had surgery for a 1-centimeter sized hole in her stomach. She’s expected to be in the hospital for about a week.
Ulcers can be very serious. They used to be portrayed as a nuisance. On television [...]
Reporters are supposed to be objective but they aren’t always. Take this opening paragraph from a LifeWire.com article:
A disturbing new poll from Canada finds an equal number of respondents would choose palliative care over euthanasia at the end of their lives. The results find death is increasingly becoming an alternative for pain relief for patients, [...]
I just came across and interesting press release from Cell Press, the publisher of the journal Current Biology. It says:
By manipulating the appearance of a chronically achy hand, researchers have found they could increase or decrease the pain and swelling in patients moving their symptomatic limbs.
That is a great finding and could bring forth other [...]
Ok folks, you really do have to watch those power tools. This is a blog about pain and power tools do a very good job of inducing pain.
Personally, I am absolutely terrified of power saws of any kind. I was a long time ago well before I actually knew someone who was injured. Several years [...]
Lupus is another one of "those" diseases that the general public doesn’t know much about. In fact, I’d hazard a guess to say that most people don’t know what lupus is. That’s why people who have illnesses like lupus are often given a boost when a public personality comes forward to tell their story about [...]
Hi folks - some of you are regular readers and some of you are new here so you may know know about my other work. I do write some other blogs, including two others for b5media. But, another one of my blogs, called Marijke: Nurse Turned Writer, is one that I write just for health [...]
A new medication, called Uloric, may be close to FDA approval in the United States after an FDA advisory board recommended approval.
Gout is a type of inflammatory arthritis that was once called the disease of kings because it seemed to affect royalty more than the common folk. It used to thought that gout was more [...]
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