Neat Stuff on the Internet

Special Reports on Para Medical Device And Therapy

If you kept a log on what is being pushed on TV and Cable Infomercial, you may have noted the comings and goings of several medical products or treatments. Remember those muscle stimulators that were advertised by more than one company? Why did they disappear? How about these small hand-held electric zappers that was suppose to make pain temporarily and instantaneously disappear? Yeah! where are they know? Some of the company have been caught “converting” BBQ piezo gas lighter which could be obtained for less than one dollar out of mainland China and reselling the “modified” version more than 3000% more than what it was worth, and, in the process, may have negatively affected their customers. There are many new other products making their rounds on the infomercial circuit. It does not mean that all of them are bad—just remember the old saying: CAVEAT EMPTOR (Let the buyer beware.)

This site: http://geocities.com/kbeb3234/projects.htm provides an number of reports on this very topic.

I do not necessarily agree with all these reports as some of them my have gone too far the other way. It is SO EASY to quote one study and claim it to be “THE ANSWER.”

Anyhow, I thought that your perusal of these reports would at least create a “heads-up” type of reaction.

Again, the links to the reports are located at: http://geocities.com/kbeb3234/projects.htm

One way to save a LOT of money on a FULL SET of dentures is to contact Affordable Dentures. It is possible to have a full set of denture starting at $325. If you want all the details, drop on their site. This sound like an assembly line concept applied to choppers but considering how expensive denture really are, this is one way to keep the cost down. You don’t even need an appointment—you simply just show up.

http://www.affordabledentures.com/

A visit to www.healthandage.com is a must for healthy aging. This site provides three different learning tracks. One for the layman, another for researcher and physician, and the last one for health care professionals. The site also includes a Reuters Health Information newsfeed, which provides both healthcare professionals and elderly patients with late-breaking health news.

http://www.healthandage.com/

If you like to quickly track medical and health breakthroughs and issues, I’ve found the BBC to be one of the better site to check on a daily basis.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/

The folks at healthwell.com are doing an excellent job on health issues. One of the topics which I would like to bring into focus is that of high blood pressure. Here is a well-writen article on this subject that no one should miss or dismiss.

http://www.healthwell.com/healthnotes/Concern/Hypertension.cfm

About 10 years ago I used to sell CD-ROM copies of Medline, the premiere information resource to the medical community. It was very expensive. Today, with the advent of Internet, you can tap into the United States National Library of Medicine and do some heavy searching on Medline.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

This site is a good starting point if you want to learn the healing effects of a magnetic fields on the physical as well as the biological effect effects on the human body. If press the home button on the home page, you will also be able to navigate to another section of the same site and learn about similarity between this effect and Electrotherapy.

http://www.indiangyan.com/books/magnetbooks/art_magnetic_healing/index.shtml

Make your own “HOME MADE MOSQUITO REPELLENT FROM NEEM”

Neem is a tropical/subtropical tree from which can be extracted an oil that is a prime insect repellant. The byproducts of the Neem tree have many other major applications in medicine—many discoveries are still being made. The Neem tree will have a major positive impact because it is safe, natural, bio-degradable, and environment-friendly.

To produce insect repellant, low-cost neem oil is mixed with coconut oil in concentrations of 1 to 2%. This type of mixture is very effective at repelling mosquitos.

Neem-based pesticide formulations which are safe, natural, bio-degradable, and environment friendly.

The Neem tree, also know in France as Azadirac de L’Inde or Margosier, has even its own foundation

http://www.neemfoundation.org/

The Necessity of Emotional Modulations
http://www.optimums.com/wellchp10.htm

If we were all “mind” we could wish for permanent “highs”—no more mood swings! However this article lucidly explains that modulation of the highs and lows of emotion seems essential to health. This surely sheds some new lights on my ways of thinking. The trick is to avoid extremes and maintain harmony between thought and emotion—cognitive balance is an acquired skill.

I unearthed the above from http://www.optimums.com/home.htm—a VERY interesting site.

The other night, a recent infomercial caught my attention. Without mentioning any names, all I can say is that it was concerning calcium, coral calcium, to be precise. Following my anciently-acquired retrieval instincts I cruised the Internet till the wee-hours of the night(hmm… morning that is) with an adequate supply of coffee. Wow! Lots of good information was unearthed, and, I was even more impressed how many people were beating their drums to sell the stuff. Immediately, I called a friend of mine, Don, a registered nutritionist working at a university hospital—no slouch, mind you. “Don,” I said, “what do you think of coral calcium?” Don did not even share my enthusiasm (one of my contagious habit). Needless to say that this lead to all sorts of “alarm bells” going off. Hey! Wait a minute I thought I was a true vicarious “Missourian” skeptic; I had to be “shown.” How the break through my mental-firewall. Ha!, yes, a fatal flaw! ... I let my emotions take over and forgot that, no matter what there are always people beating their capitalistic drums. What did it? It was the quality of the infomercial and the enthusiasm and a lot more (hmm.)

So what’s going of with coral calcium? I invite you for an eye-awakening visit to Dr. Michael T. Murray site at:

http://www.doctormurray.com/articles/CoralCalcium.htm

Of all the health-based web sites reviewed, telmedpak is most interesting. Did you know that Vegan mother can cause delays in a child development? Do you know how to prevent antibiotic resistance? And what are the links between your diet and mental moods? These are a few of the interesting topics covered on this site.

The word TEL in telepak should give you some hints about the site’s agenda. However, when a site is well done and really contributes to our knowledge, I have no objection to the commercial undercovers. This site contributes good stuff to all of us and this is why it deserves some attention.

http://www.telmedpak.com/default.asp