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		<title>DEMENTIA: HELP FOR CAREGIVERS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Keeping the environment predictable, buying helpful devices, and ruling out other memory-impairing conditions go only so far in reducing the strain of dealing with a person with this disease. The real effort lies in coping with a loved one turned alien, where the tools used in normal human encounters no longer apply.
Dave (who usually cared [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edmedblog.com/2010/06/dementia-help-for-caregivers/</link>
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		<title>ALZHEIMER&#8217;S DISEASE: STEPS TO IMPROVE SYMPTOMS, CAPACITIES AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eliminate illnesses compounding the problem. Although it is incurable in itself, dementia often coexists with conditions that can be treated &#8211; depression, other illnesses and memory impairment from medications. These problems exacerbate the mental confusion. When they are ferreted out and eliminated, thinking often improves.
Judiciously consider using tranquilizers. Although tranquilizers have the potential to make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edmedblog.com/2010/06/alzheimers-disease-steps-to-improve-symptoms-capacities-and-the-quality-of-life/</link>
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		<title>CHANGES IN YOUR CHILD’S LIFE: BRINGING HOME A NEW BABY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a stressful transition for everyone involved, including parents (see Chapter  and other siblings. There is a major disruption in routine for the whole family. Sleep is invariably disrupted as the baby&#8217;s needs are attended to, and tiredness may result in increased tension within the family. There may be increased expectations of other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edmedblog.com/2009/05/changes-in-your-child%e2%80%99s-life-bringing-home-a-new-baby/</link>
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		<title>OTHER WAYS OF REDUCING YOUR PAIN – GENERAL INFORMATION</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, think about what you can do to take your mind off your pain and to reduce your feelings of fear and anxiety. Try to express and explore your feelings with family and friends and see if you can come to accept the aspects of your situation that you cannot change. Try to deal with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edmedblog.com/2009/05/other-ways-of-reducing-your-pain-%e2%80%93-general-information/</link>
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		<title>WHIPLASH &#8211; DESCRIPTION</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whiplash injury to the neck is a phenomenon associated with the car.

The sudden acceleration and then deceleration of the head and neck when the car is struck from behind is likened to the way a whip is cracked.

On the day of injury there is a little stiffness and soreness and then over several days it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edmedblog.com/2009/05/whiplash-description/</link>
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		<title>FOOD POISONING &#8211; INTRODUCTION</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Food poisoning is the term for attacks of vomiting and diarrhoea which can happen within 24 hours of eating food contaminated with bacteria, toxins or chemicals.

However, it is also possible for the same disease to pass from person to person or, more commonly, to be spread by infected water.

The outbreak may involve many people or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edmedblog.com/2009/05/food-poisoning-introduction/</link>
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		<title>DES – GENERAL INFORMATION</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the &#8217;50s, diethylstilboestrol or DES, a synthetic oestrogen or female hormone, was widely used in treating cases of threatened miscarriage.

It has been shown that the daughters of women exposed to this hormone during pregnancy have an increased rate of developing cancer of the vagina although further research has shown the incidence is not as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edmedblog.com/2009/05/des-%e2%80%93-general-information/</link>
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		<title>YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING CLINICAL TRIALS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t forget that you have the right to refuse to take part in clinical trials. If you do agree, you have the right to withdraw at any stage simply because you don&#8217;t want to keep having the randomly allotted treatment—you don&#8217;t need any more reason than that. If you refuse from the start or withdraw [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edmedblog.com/2009/05/your-rights-regarding-clinical-trials/</link>
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		<title>THE G.I. FACTOR: ANSWERED QUESTIONS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If foods containing refined sugar have an intermediate G.I. factor, does this mean that people with diabetes can eat as much sugar as they want?

Research has clearly shown that the G.I. factor of refined sugar is the same in people that have diabetes and people that don&#8217;t. Moderate consumption of sugar (which means 40 to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edmedblog.com/2009/05/the-gi-factor-answered-questions/</link>
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		<title>FAT LOSS: SUMMARY OF PRESCRIPTION NEEDS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are few specific exercise prescriptions for heterogeneous groups that can be scientifically supported at the moment, but those with most promise appear to be the following:

• long duration, low intensity exercise for pre-menopausal women

• any form of physical activity (high or low intensity) for younger men

• increased resistance training for seniors

• walking is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edmedblog.com/2009/05/fat-loss-summary-of-prescription-needs/</link>
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