Hello all you wonderful people out there. If there is one subject that affects every one of us that is our health. What is the best way of taking care of our health?

Let’s take a brief look at some of our options for taking care of our health.

Some people believe in preventative measures for taking care of their health. What exactly does this mean? Basically, it means eating a healthy diet, exercising properly, and living a healthy lifestyle. A yearly check-up is also a good way to know what shape you are in and to catch any developing illness.

An unpleasant factor in modern life is stress. It is a fact of life. Fortunately, there are many ways to deal with stress. Conventional medicine is one method – relaxation medication. Meditation is another method. In between there are such options as daily rest (even if for ten to twenty minutes), spending part of every day in a soothing physical environment, taking a break, a change of scenery, a vacation. A good laugh, whether at a funny joke or at a comical situation is highly recommended for keeping your mind and body in good shape.

None of us is infallible. We are all prone to illness. What are our options when we do become ill? Again there is conventional medicine. Medication for practically every illness under the sun is available.

Personally, when something out of the norm is detected on my blood test, I make a bee line to the dietician’s office. By eating those foods, those vitamins, required by the body, balance can be regained.

There is more than one way of doing things. You decide what makes you feel good and how you want to stay healthy. After all, health is wealth.

PHARMATEX is Ireland’s largest pharmaceutical industry conference and exhibition. Although still in its second year, the trade event serves as a multi-disciplined event offering insights into the future of business and technology of both the pharmaceutical as well as the bio-pharmaceutical industry.

Ireland being a knowledge-based economy is slated to remain a major contributor to the Pharmaceutical and (bio) pharmaceutical sectors which thrive on education innovation and technology transfer.

To take a stock of Ireland’s leadership position. Consider the following facts:

* At present 13 of the top 15 companies in the world have significant operations in Ireland.
* There are 83 facilities in Ireland that employ over 17,000 people.
* 12 out of 25 of the world’s top selling drugs are manufactured in Ireland.

The Exhibition

The companies present at the exhibition include those supplying technologies, services or equipment to both pipeline and existing manufacturing facilities. The event is a perfect venue to meet with new and existing customers. If you’re interested in building or expanding your Irish and European customer base then this is the event to make it happen.

The Conference

The conference is an informative and and insightful event delving into and contemplating about the future of innovation, technology and corporate strategy of the bio-pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical industries. For this it banks upon the opinions and experiences of international as well as local business leaders and advisors to chart a decade’s road-map.

The profile of the attendees during the previous year’s show has included international leaders, directors and managers from Ireland based facilities including engineering consultancies, government representatives, representatives from top-notch academic institutions, in addition to representatives from supplier and industry support base. To learn more about the health care trade event, kindly visit my blog “Smiling Health.”

Truth is, looking for a chiropractor can be somehow difficult given that a general of them are involved in some kind of unscientific practices. So in order to save your time and effort, start the process of looking for one through phone calls. Talk to the chiropractor and explore his or her attitude.

As much as possible, do not go with chiropractor whose practice is merely limited into the conservative method of the treatment. Also, you can seek the help of your personal medical doctor. Ask about names of reputed chiropractors who your personal doctor thinks to be trustworthy.

Membership to the renowned National Association for Chiropractic Medicine is a positive sign to look for. But given that the number of people who belong to this kind of organization is very small, it may be hard for you to look for them.

Go for science-based chiropractors since they can do the job of manually stretching the tight muscles and joints while at the same time using ultrasound treatment, heat or ice packs, and various other modalities that are employed by physical therapists. Also, they may ask their patience to perform home exercise program. With all of these, an improvement is expected to be seen only after a few days from the first treatment with science-based chiropractors.

These are some of the positive signs that will tell you if the chiropractor who you are asking for help is indeed reliable. You need to do your own homework to be able to rule out the best from the least.

When doctors order tests like x-rays and CAT scans they usually only need a simple reason for doing so. Unfortunately, in many cases these types of health care equipment is misused or ordered when it is not really necessary. When this happens a patient ends up paying for a service they should not have had to. The costs alone from misuse of health care equipment is staggering. Not only is it putting a dent in the pockets of patients, but it is also part of the reason for rising health care costs.

Besides the financial side of misuse of health care equipment, there is the health concerns to consider. X-rays, for example, are known to be dangerous. A person is being subjected to radiation which can be profoundly damaging to the body. There is a limit on the recommended number of X-rays a person should receive, but many times when a doctor orders a x-ray, they are unaware of the person s history with getting x-rays. Additionally, x-rays are harmful for pregnant women and for reproductive organs, in general. Too many x-rays can lead to many health problems.

The misuse of health care equipment is something that is likely to go unnoticed. More and more insurance companies, though, are requiring further validation for such uses which may help to end misuse. However, most of the time as long as a doctor deems it necessary, the procedure will continue.

When it comes to medical equipment, x-rays are probably the most used type of health care equipment. In emergency rooms around the country, doctors usually are quick to order an x-ray if the diagnosis is not immediately recognizable. The misuse of health care equipment can lead to many problems for the patient.

If everyone gets free health care what is the incentive to live a healthy life, eat right and work out every day? Why bother? After all if there is free health care for everyone why not just wait to you have a medical problem and then go get fixed, why bother to work out? Why bother to walk around the block every day; why bother to jog?

Do you see the problem with universal health care in the United States of America paid for by the government and our tax dollars? The entire idea is flawed. Personally I don’t want to pay for people who do not take care of themselves, do not exercise, abuse alcohol and drugs and eat crappy foods.

That is not fair to me and I should not have to pay for them. They don’t care so, why should I? And why should my taxes go up so people that don’t take care about themselves can abuse yet another government social program? Now you are probably saying; yet you Republicans; always complain about taxes and you never have a solution.

Well I say to you, I do have a solution and it is a really simple one; let’s give tax incentives for people who exercise, eat right and do not do drugs or abuse alcohol. Let’s reward people for getting back in shape and in the long run we will be Bucks ahead with a whole lot less people in our population with major medical issues down the road.

Take ownership of your personal health care records with a medical organizer. Begin today to use this valuable information to improve the quality of care you receive.

Collect and Share

Having up-to-date records about your medical condition allows you to share valuable information with your medical team. Accurately describing your symptoms and body changes allows your physician to provide the best possible care. Remember, according to the American Society of Internal Medicine, 70% of a correct diagnosis depends on what the patient tells the doctor.

Sharing information such as your family history may be the one crucial item that helps secure a correct diagnosis. An empowered health care consumer will continue to track, document and share information about their health status.

Partner with your Physician

A key strategy in receiving the best possible care in today’s health care system is to have an effective working relationship with your physician. Research suggests that patients who have an active working relationship with a primary care physician receive more preventative services and spend fewer days in the hospital.

The partnership with your physician will be enhanced when you are able to provide credible, up-to-date health information. Effective medical information gathering by patients and more conversation with their physician during office visits is related to better health status.

Take Control

Begin today to access and store all of your own medical records in a medical organizer. You will soon discover that your will be in a much better position to manage your condition. Use this information to be more actively involved in your own care.

The engaged health care consumer seeks an ongoing dialogue with their medical team. Having access to your life-long medical records will allow you to engage in meaningful discussions about your condition and potential treatment options. Use a medical organizer to take ownership of your health information; you will be glad you did.

When a busy person goes to see his doctor, it is because he wants to get better. This may sound obvious – but often things happen so quickly, or the tests and treatment sound so complicated, that one can lose sight of one’s original goal. It can even happen that one ends up feeling worse than one was before!

Here are some practical hints to help you get the best possible treatment from your own doctor. Decide before you actually go to see your doctor, in what way you are feeling unwell. Plan how you will describe these symptoms to your doctor. Thinking about them beforehand and even writing down exactly what bodily changes you feel which make you think that you are unwell, will help clarify things in your own mind and so will help your doctor get a clearer picture of what is going on. Remember – doctors can only diagnose from the information which you, the patient, reveal to them!

Don’t underplay your symptoms – either because you feel that the symptoms are trivial, or because you are frightened that they will cause the doctor to suspect that you have some serious disease. This may sound silly but I have met patients who did not reveal to their doctor that they had a lump in the breast “because it might have been cancer”. It is far better to voice one’s fears to the doctor, get him or her to do a full examination and reassure you that you have no serious cause for worry(or, on the other hand, detect in its early stages some major ailment) rather than keep one’s symptoms hidden.

At the same time, don’t exaggerate your symptoms either.

Do you remember that quaint Evil Empire that stretched across much of the world; the one where countless millions were enslaved, without opportunity or hope?

Well, I have news for you.

Those huddled masses weren’t completely hopeless, poor, or disadvantaged.

If you interview Russians who grew up during the age of Glasnost, you’ll learn many of them had it pretty good. Free health care, a living wage while they studied in universities, and a guaranteed job thereafter, if they excelled, were commonplace.

Indeed, many who have immigrated to the land of opportunity, America, simply cannot believe, for instance, the primitive state of our health care system.

Waiting in an Emergency Room, hour after hour while they bleed, they recall with wistfulness how hospitals were only mere blocks away, staffed to the gills with highly educated and competent physicians, not illiterate assistants, who couldn’t contain their enthusiasm about assisting them.

Doctors in the Russian Federation, I hear, still make house calls and prepare medicines and curatives on the spot. No visits to drug stores, by the sick and infirm or their time-strapped relatives, are required.

Having spent hour after hour with loved ones and friends while they have languished for want of treatment, I can’t help but wonder why America can’t fix its broken health care system.

When increasing amounts of our national wealth are sunk into health services each year, the output of this sector continues to worsen.

Isn’t it time to do what England, Canada, and even the Russian Federation have done, and declare this sector, and the health of their people so significant, that they cannot be left to the pharmaceutical companies and the medical education establishment to control?

Lester Thurow, the Dean of the Business School at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said when it comes to health care, “We’re all socialists.”

We don’t care if our fellow citizens receive the best care imaginable, as long as we share in the privilege.

What do you think?

A new study proves an amazing fact that if you are not a sportsperson but just being a sports fan can perk up your lingo proficiency. How? Well, it’s inter-related – When you watch your favorite sports, your brain habitually gets occupied in interpreting sports language.

This study proved that a part of the human brain typically linked with arrangement and calculating activities gets triggered off, as athletes and sports fans pay attention to discussions pertaining to their favorite sports. The brain hike facilitates players and fans to better interpret knowledge about their sports, even during the moment when people are paying attention to the sport language and have no plan to do something.

It is believed that the brain is extra elastic during maturity than in any other age. The activities associated with non-language for example playing or watching a sport, improves an individual’s capability to interpret lingo about their sports. It may be because parts of the brain which are usually used to perform become extremely occupied in inferring these languages.

Doctors proclaim that practicing to play and watching sports has influences on interpreting language by modifying the neurotic set of connections that carry knowledge to integrate regions dynamic in executing sports skills.

Studies prove that brain imaging discovered that when soccer players and fans pay attention to soccer lingo, they demonstrate rigorous actions in the brain areas which are used to design and pick well-learned physical movements. The improved movement in motor parts of the brain facilitates soccer players and fans to better interpret soccer language. Thus, the outcome proves that playing sports, or even merely watching it, creates a substantial inferring of language.

Natural Remedies Best for Head Lice Treatment

After treating an outbreak among elementary school-age children, public health doctors in Wales discovered that 80% of head lice were resistant to the insecticidal shampoos commonly used to eliminate them.

Despite the wide availability of treatments, head lice infestations are on the rise. Why? After years of using the same products to eradicate lice, they are becoming immune to our treatments. Insects either evolve methods of neutralizing the insecticide before it destroys them or simply become less sensitive to the toxins in the insecticide.

At the National Public Health Service for Wales Communicable Disease Surveillance Center, Dr. Daniel Thomas discovered that four out of five lice were resistant to pyrethroids (the chemicals commonly used in head lice treatments) due to the development of a specific gene.

This and other studies indicate that natural remedies to the problem might be the best solution. Specially designed combs trap and kill lice and nits, and mixtures composed primarily of coconut or olive oil have proven extremely effective in head lice treatment. Not surprisingly, natural treatments are also much safer for the patient. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continually maintains that no pesticide can legally be sold as a “safe” product, and as such, chemical shampoos for head lice treatment cannot be assumed completely nontoxic.

The active ingredients in head lice treatment shampoos are pediculicides: nerve poisons which are neurotoxic to children as well as lice. Lindane is the most dangerous of the pediculicides, and it can be absorbed through your skin. Some of the tamer side effects include headaches and vertigo, but lindane also has the potential to cause nerve damage, convulsions, disrupt hormonal function, and damage the liver, kidneys, and immune system.

Guaranteed safety and guaranteed louse immunity make an all-natural treatment like olive, coconut, or neem oil the preferred choice for many who suffer and are seeking head lice treatment. In addition to being less expensive and more readily available, you can rest assured these natural treatments will always work and that those who suffer won’t run the risk of developing any dangerous side-effects.