Exercises to increase flexibility and remove stiffnessToday we focus on postures that increase the range of movement of your shoulders. As your flexibility improves and your movement increases, you will feel lighter on your shoulders and feel them moving backwards. Remember to hold the postures for some time as the longer you hold them, the [...]
Every organ in the body is a muscle performing a specific function; be it digestion or secretion of hormones or detoxification of the body. The reproductive organs are muscles that need some form of massage. These exercises do just that. It works your reproductive organs so that they function smoothly and optimally.CAUTION: [...]
My HOD cc’d me on an e-mail where he said and quoted:
Another very relevant document has come out today:
Revised Recommendations for HIV Testing of Adults, Adolescents, and Pregnant Women in Health-Care Settings
It contains the following summary:
Major revisions from previously published guidelines are as follows:
For patients in all health-care settings
HIV screening is recommended for patients in [...]
The immune system…your vigilant guard to all things toxic and illness-producing.
Just how does the immune system work? What cripples it? Does stress affect the immune system? What about nutrition?…drugs?..environmental poisons?…bacteria?..virus?
Of course all these things have their individual roles to play..whether it be positive or negative.
I think the burning questions for most [...]
A bit old - 2004 - but it gave me a good laugh at the time.
The study describes 5 patients with malaria, with management followed up with the OptiMAL dipstick test.
Patients 1 and 4 were treated with intravenous quinine; patient 5 was treated with chloroquine; and patients 2 and 3 were given e-mail.
A second patient [...]
A recent blog by Dr. Louanne Cole Weston on why women don’t want sex had me thinking. What about the guys? Don’t our feelings count? Isn’t it important what the men want and feel? Why is all the attention about when women want or don’t want sex? What about our needs? Isn’t the man supposed [...]
I just read that the Chinese performed a breakthrough penile transplant. Though unsuccessful, this raises many questions that remain unanswered.
First of all, who said “Hey, sure I’d love to donate my penis to a total stranger!”
Or what about being an organ donor? We all think of giving up our heart or kidneys or even pancreas. [...]
I think the opt-out system of HIV testing is a fairly good idea. Of course, it will have to be looked at carefully, and checks put in place to ensure confidentiality and avoidance of stigma. That is something I am not sure South Africa is ready for, but I’m also not sure that it isn’t [...]
In the recent August 2006 Transcript, the newsletter of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society, the following article by Supreme Court Judge Edwin Cameron caught my attention. I’ve posted it here with his permission.
Normalising HIV Diagnosis and Treatment
By Judge Edwin Cameron
My friend Ronald Louw was dean of the law school at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, [...]
What are CounterThoughts? They’re the commonsense questions you ask yourself when you see something in the world that just doesn’t make any sense. They’re a glitch in the Matrix. You know, like when you see a sign on the road that says, “Men at Work” but they’re all just standing around definitely not…
The liver is an organ in vertebrates,(life forms with spinal columns) including humans. It plays a major role in metabolism and has a number of functions in the body including glucose storage in the form of glycogen (for energy, when needed), plasma (blood fluid) protein synthesis (production), and detoxification (drugs, toxins,waste products from our own [...]
It all starts with understanding the goal of the terrorists - to cripple us with fear. Terrorists aren’t celebrating the destruction of a building or the death of a few innocent souls. What they thrive on, what drives them to spend years planning an attack, is the desire for sheer and total panic and fear [...]
