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Just Because

yesshecan
  • By yesshecan · New reply 12:59 pm
  • Journal · 29 replies
  • Two years ago I ran the Boston Marathon. Now I am signed up to run the Boston Marathon again. Just because. Because I don't want this cancer to define and limit who I am and what I plan . I have a PET ...

Exhaled nitric oxide: relation to sensitization and respiratory symptoms

jessibrown
  • By jessibrown · Posted 2:39 am
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • BACKGROUND: Conflicting data have been presented as to whether nitric oxide (NO) in exhaled air is merely reflecting atopy rather than airway inflammation. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between ...

ms

smidges
  • By smidges · Posted yesterday at 7:44 pm
  • Discussion in Addiction · 0 replies
  • More attention should be brought by the media and the fact that the number one cause of addiction in the US is due to prescription pills and not illegal drugs. The costs associated with the blanket coverage ...

small cell lung cancer that has moved to the brain

tobyfan
  • By tobyfan · New reply yesterday at 7:39 pm
  • Discussion in Cancer · 11 replies
  • i have a 48 year old sister that has small lung cancer that has now moved to her brain. she is in treatment . i guess i am just wonding if anyone knows more about cancer on the brain and is willing to ...

The swimmers body

acdun
  • By acdun · Posted yesterday at 12:25 pm
  • Discussion in Fitness and exercise · 0 replies
  • How To Get A Swimmers Body - More Than Just Swimming?! How to get a Swimmers Body: Is it as simple as swimming a lot? What you need to do to get a swimmers body A classic swimmers shape is often described ...

A project I am thinking about

dleach
  • By dleach · New reply yesterday at 11:29 am
  • Journal · 3 replies
  • I am thinking of collecting photos and stories of people who have died from all different types of illnesses. We have an event every year in Mason's memory and it could be an exhibit at the event. It ...

Requesting a second opinion: thyroid medicine

campfiar
  • By campfiar · New reply yesterday at 6:14 am
  • Journal · 5 replies
  • After a recent physical, a doctor at the clinic where I work suggested that I start taking thyroid hormone medicine for hypothryroid - underactive thyroid. I do exhibit many of the symptoms: fatigue ...

Asthma, Chronic Coughs, eNO and FeNO

lowlycook
  • By lowlycook · New reply yesterday at 5:26 am
  • Discussion in Allergies and asthma · 12 replies
  • There has been a lot of excitement on the progress in measuring exhaled nitric oxide (eNO) and its significance to asthma and chronic coughs. A more detailed exhaled NO determinant is measuring the Fractional ...

Connective tissue with lung problems

Quacky
  • By Quacky · New reply February 7, 2010
  • Journal · 1 reply
  • Just a update. My son was suspose to have surgery in February. They called and said they couldnt do it until he was cleared from his lung doctor. His lungs have not been doing well lately. He had to go ...

My Battle with Ulcerative Colitis

CRGuerin
  • By CRGuerin · Posted February 7, 2010
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Prior to February 2009 I was a happy, healthy, and active student who loved her job, school, exercising, having girly sleepovers with her friends, and working as a part-time educational programmer for ...

To help my friends understand #2

Nina372
  • By Nina372 · New reply February 6, 2010
  • Journal · 24 replies
  • This is the second awareness video I made for my friends. I prob won't be posting all my videos to inspire so if you would like to watch my videos you can see them on my youtube channel, my channel name ...

The Parents Cry Alone

JLH1
  • By JLH1 · New reply February 6, 2010
  • Journal · 4 replies
  • There is a family we met through CarePages around the same time my daughter Ashley's illness was first diagnosed. This family includes a teenage girl who like Ashley, was also diagnosed with osteo sarcoma ...

My Year in Rewind - Ulcerative Colitis

CRGuerin
  • By CRGuerin · Posted February 6, 2010
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Prior to February 2009 I was a happy, healthy, and active student who loved her job, school, exercising, having girly sleepovers with her friends, and working as a part-time educational programmer for ...

Grr.. So Slow!

dinky
  • By dinky · New reply February 5, 2010
  • Journal · 6 replies
  • I have increased my strength training from pretty much nothing (well, I was doing little bits here and there) to about 30 minutes per day. Doing online videos mainly. I know you can't "spot reduce" the ...

Lyme Article, part 6

aberq
  • By aberq · New reply February 5, 2010
  • Journal · 6 replies
  • Reason Seven Some patients get ill after a flood, large leak or some other water intrusion problem. They feel they are ill only because of mold mycotoxins that form after 36-48 hours of wetness on drywall ...

DGA, dialog pe Facebook, YouTube ÅŸi Yahoo Messenger

martin70
  • By martin70 · Posted February 5, 2010
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Ia uite ce am gasit pe Merita Citit: "Demersul vine ca urmare a necesitatii de adaptare la comunicarea online in vederea asigurarii unei mai bune vizibilitati a Directiei Generale Anticoruptie. Astfel ...

Preempting Asthma Attacks through the eNO System

lowlycook
  • By lowlycook · New reply February 5, 2010
  • Discussion in Allergies and asthma · 5 replies
  • If we could preempt an asthma attack it would do great wonders to remedying the ailment. My youngest son, Jonathan, a 7-year old kid, didn't show any sign of asthma until one day recently when he had ...

Exhaled Nitric Oxide Measurements to Guide Treatment in Chronic Asthma

jessibrown
  • By jessibrown · Posted February 5, 2010
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Background: International guidelines for the treatment of asthma recommend adjusting the dose of inhaled corticosteroids on the basis of symptoms, bronchodilator requirements, and the results of pulmonary-function ...

CML patients - Earn $500 by sharing your experience

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted February 3, 2010
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • The Dominion Group, a market research company, is looking for chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) patients to participate in a CML patient advisory board. The purpose of the meeting is to gain insight ...

yet another problem

fruitcake4jesus
  • By fruitcake4jesus · New reply February 3, 2010
  • Journal · 15 replies
  • ok here is yet another doctor report , this doctor went ask questions on my pain in my chest and in my left side at the end of my ribs. i told him. then he went a felt of my back bone and i clenched alittle ...

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