QUESTIONS ASKING FOR PERSONALIZED MEDICAL ADVICE ARE OFF-TOPIC. CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN. Healthcare refers to the system or systems used to deliver medical care to patients. It may be a monolithic, government controlled system (like the NHS in some parts of the UK) or a mixed system of providers and insurers (as in the US). Healthcare is the way the delivery of medical science is organised (at least for the purposes of tagging on this site).
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Does the "Lightning Process" successfully treat Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
My partner suffers from Myalgic Encephalopathy (ME) otherwise known as Chronic Fatigue Sydrome. It is a condition that remains not particularly well understood, even to the point where there doesn't seem to be any diagnosable root cause - just a…
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Does soap help prevent body odor?
One of my friends told me he stopped using soap years ago and I never smelt anything bad. I wanted to test it and changed my shower routine to just warm water and thoroughly using my hands to scrub my body. The results were amazing, I didn't notice…
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Is there a correlation between cold and illnesses generally perceived as cold-related?
Cold weather is usually considered to be one of the causes of common cold, flu, influenza, pneumonia etc., especially in winter.
However, many believe that these illnesses may be mainly caused not by low temperatures, but by other factors which are…
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Does stress-related tension account for 80%-90% of disease?
This page on Eaton Chiropractic claims that:
Massage therapy addresses a variety of health conditions, the most
prevalent being stress-related tension, which, experts believe,
accounts for 80%-90% of disease.
The same claim is echoed on many…
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If a defibrillator is correctly applied to a person with a normal heart rate, what consequences will they suffer?
I've heard people say that a defibrillator being used on someone whose heart has a normal beat, like if they have a blocked throat and can't breathe, but still have a regular pulse. However, I have also heard that defibrillators only stop and…
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Is ICD-9 to ICD-10 migration in health care industry another Y2K-like opportunity?
The World Health Organisation publish the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD). A new version, ICD-10 was published in 1992.
I work in health care IT. Recently there has been quite a few…
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Is the cervix pierced during the insertion of an IUD?
From this reddit post:
This is the first step to the insertion of an IUD. They are piercing
the cervix with no anesthesia or local numbing and it's most common
for clients to be unaware of this step.
This seems fake, but i didn't see any comments…
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Do an estimated 1 in 3 Americans have an undiagnosed thyroid disease?
I came across an advertisement for the movie The Thyroid Secret, which claims (sic caps):
[Shocking] 1 in 3 Americans Have Thyroid Disease And Are Often Told That They are Crazy, Fat or Lazy, When In Fact They Are Just Sick. A 34-Year-Old Rebel…
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Is the ageing population a major cause of higher healthcare costs?
Healthcare is getting more expensive in most western countries. It is widely assumed that one of the major factors behind this is the ageing of populations (baby boomers produced in the burst of high birth rates in the 1950s and '60s are now…
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Does the Brilliant Blue G food dye halt spinal degeneration?
A 2009 Popular Science article (no longer available from the original site, but cached here) claims that Brilliant Blue G - a compound used as a food dye - helps spinal degeneration.
The next time someone tries to argue that all M&Ms are the same,…
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Is the US government murdering "natural" doctors?
I keep seeing the claim of several recent suspicious deaths of "natural" doctors being passed around lately. Often the claim is that they died "mysteriously" after visits by "Feds", etc. I've tried to get to the bottom of this but all I find is…
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Can Okra treat Diabetes?
A work colleague has been taking Okra to treat his type 2 diabetes. There are many article over the internet claiming the benefits of Okra for the treatment of diabetes, including (but not limited to) a Snopes article.
There is a bit of truth to…
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Does eating the apple skin alone help to reduce cancer cells and liver cancer?
The article An Apple a Day May Really Keep the Doctor Away mention:
Using colon cancer cells treated with apple extract, Liu and colleagues found that 50 milligrams of apple extracted from the skins decreased the cancer cell growth by 43%, while…
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Do 15-25% of all computer users worldwide (both vocational and recreational) have some computer-related injury (CRI)?
This news article from the The Economic Times claims that:
15-25% of all computer users worldwide (both vocational and recreational) are estimated to have computer-related injuries (CRI).
The same, unreferenced claim is echoed on many websites.…
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Does eating Vitamin C and drinking green tea helps to counteract the effects of secondhand smoke?
This article The Surgeons General's Report on Secondhand Smoke:
"The health effects of secondhand smoke exposure are more pervasive than we previously thought," Carmona said in his report. "The scientific evidence is now indisputable: Secondhand…
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