| Pet doctor -- Heartworm disease in cats easily prevented
Recently the Sun Herald carried a column by a California veterinarian who wrote on the topic of heartworm disease and heartworm prevention. In his piece, he mentioned that heartworm prevention may be optional for your cat. While that may be true in some parts of the world, it certainly isn't for the Southeastern United States. We fully realize that Your Pet's Doctor is distributed worldwide, but our home base is on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. We don't want any cats getting heartworms, here or anywhere else, either. Let's look at the reasons in favor of using monthly heartworm preventive for your kitty: • Heartworm disease is deadly in cats. It is a very treatable disease in dogs, but there is no treatment for cats, only prevention.
Smoking Snapshots Spark Debate in India
(AP) -- Health activists said Tuesday that powerful tobacco industry groups could scuttle a federal government decision to require photographs of cancer patients on cigarette packs sold in India by next month. Several other countries have tried similar strategies to discourage smoking. .
How To Beat The Flu Virus
SOME people call it the tenner test - the unscientific way of determining whether you have the flu or a common cold. Imagine you saw a £10 note lying in your garden. If you have a cold you'll go and retrieve it, but if you have the flu you'll say 'stuff it' and leave it lying there. Because if sniffing and sneezing characterise a common cold, bone-shaking shivers, pounding headaches and excruciating tiredness signify the flu. The cosy option of snuggling in front of the TV is not an option when the flu virus is coursing through your veins leaving you too ill to move and exhausted after waves of hot fever and cold trembles. Only those who have truly suffered the flu understand its debilitating effects - and they hope the rest of us never experience it.
Our Kids News & Events
The board of directors of the Community Foundation has approved a technical assistance grant of $3,000 for Community Oral Health Services to provide staff training on recently acquired patient management software. The new system establishes a foundation for "tele-dentistry" among the organization's three mobile clinics and their administration office and will improve its ability to serve young children in remote areas on the Central Coast. .
Smoking snapshots spark debate in India
Health activists said Tuesday that powerful tobacco industry groups could scuttle a federal government decision to require photographs of cancer patients on cigarette packs sold in India by next month. Several other countries have tried similar strategies to discourage smoking. .
The Faith Column
What picture pops into your mind when you read the word feminist? Is it a woman layered in petticoats with a big, swooping hat, picketing the white house for her right to vote? Is it Gloria Steinem in her aviator glasses, sleek, straight hair hanging down both sides of her pretty face? These are the dominant images that so many people associate with feminist history, and for good reason. The first image�the suffragist�represents the so-called �first wave� of feminist history. These women, philosophising and organising from the late 1800s through the 1930s, were primarily focused on legal and institutional changes that would allow women to gain more power and autonomy. The �second wave,� then, was most active in the 1960s and 1970s and was concerned with social and psychological liberation (think dishes, contraception, and objectification).
Inhaler misuse detrimental to health
A recent study has shown that close to one-third of people suffering from asthma or chronic obstructive disease are using dry powder inhalers incorrectly.
This is putting these patients at risk of potentially developing dangerous complications from their disease.
Inhalers are used to deliver medication to the lungs to reduce the airway inflammation and airway muscle constriction caused by asthma. The study, conducted at the University of Heidelberg, involved 224 patients of varied age and severity of disease. Of this group, researchers reported that 32 percent blew into their inhaler instead of taking in a fast, deep breath, this is considered a serious technical error.
The study involved four dry inhaler products, of those used researchers found rates of error ranging from nine percent to 53 percent depending on the product.
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