Monthly Archives: August 2011

Cold and Flu Treatments You Can Find at Home

Feeling under the weather? The common cold is one tricky illness to deal with but what most do not know, is that there are a number of home remedies that can help alleviate symptoms and make you feel better. Check out these natural alternatives to help you win over cold and flu.Chicken Soup. It’s no [...]

Beating the Cold or Flu With Natural Homeopathic Methods

Stuffy head, fever, body aches, cough; there is nothing fun about having the cold or flu. It is even less fun when that cold or flu hangs around, dragging you down and you can’t seem to shake it. Although modern western medicine has made great progress in curing many diseases, there still is no cure [...]

How should we treat pain?

The role of doctors in our culture is very important. Because they can be useful in treating injuries and illnesses, they have become a profession. To ensure only the best people enter the profession, there are high educational standards to meet. The training is long and difficult. But, once doctors have qualified, they command respect. [...]

What exactly is a patent?

In a way, this is way too technical for an article here but, unless you understand a little about the law, it’s hard to understand why your drugs cost so much. Bear with us. It gets easier as we go on. A patent is a monopoly. Whoever invests the time and money to invent something [...]

What is pain?

When we’re born, we pause helpless for a month or so and then begin the process of exploring the world. In this, pain is a vital part of the learning process. We knock into hard objects and fall. Only when we understand cause and effect can we move around safely. If parents and authority figures [...]

Reading the Warning Lights to Save

There are a lot of ways to avoid higher car insurance premiums. One of them is to simply know your vehicle. Understanding and addressing potential mechanical problems and safety issues will keep your car performing optimally and minimize the chance you’ll need to make repairs-or worse, get into an accident. As a driver, one of [...]

Can yoga help with back pain?

Back pain is certainly one of those health problems that can seriously mess with one’s life. Feeling pain in the back can restrict many of your activities and make even the simplest everyday tasks seem like the toughest physical challenge. We all know that the back is a part of our body that is linked [...]

Lung Cancer Drugs

Cancer of lung is the most widespread cause of cancer death in the world. In the UK, approximately 100 people are diagnosed with the cancer on a daily basis, and roughly 1 in 5 of them will have small cell lung cancer, for which the rate of survival is very low: simply 3 per cent [...]

Sue, baby, sue

Thanks to Sarah Palin, we can now put verbs on either side of “baby” and still make perfect sense. In this case, we consumers all want there to be thousands of attorneys around to protect our interests when capitalist corporations sell us products that injure us. It can be a car that just will not [...]

What Is The Bird Flu

It started out as a natural influenza virus being carried naturally among wild birds which carry the viruses in their intestines, but usually do not get sick from them. However, bird flu is very contagious among birds and can make some domesticated birds, including chickens, ducks, and turkeys, very sick and kill them.Avian influenza does [...]