Prevention | Remedies/Cures | Symptoms

Cancer: Palliative Care and Quality of Life

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Published April 27, 2010 at 3:54 p.m.

Palliative care for cancer patients helps ease discomfort, anxiety, nausea, and emotional distress. Find out how palliative care can improve quality of life during and after cancer treatment ...

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How to Make Soothing Ginger Tea with Fresh Ginger

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GingerGinger (Zingiber officinalis) is a calming and soothing flavour with a touch of a bite to it that helps to keep you alert and calm ... Ginger is commonly used to help an upset stomach, motion or travel sickness or general low-grade fevers ... It is also excellent for nausea and for warming you up when you feel cold (it stimulates cold hands and feet), and is esteemed as a "heating herb" ... Ginger is reputed to help ward off colds or improve your recovery time ... Other benefits of ginger

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Can Symptoms Predict Ovarian Cancer?

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Published Jan. 28, 2010 at 5:51 p.m.

When symptoms such as nausea, bloating, or pelvic or abdominal pain suggest ovarian cancer, evaluation results in a diagnosis of ovarian cancer in about 1% of the time, according to a new study ...

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A Bloody Mary Good Morning!

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Published Jan. 1, 2010 at 2:16 a.m.

Welcome to the first day of 2010! Chances are that if you are on my website this morning (or what seems like morning to you right now) you are looking for some relief from that nasty hangover. While there are many remedies that range from drinking orange juice, sports drinks or some protein drink that will make your stomach curdle to (I love this one) the old Irish way of burying the ailing person to their neck in river sand, there is one tried and true hangover "cure" that is simple: drink a

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Swine Flu Strikes Pandemic Expert Laurie Garrett

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Published Sept. 19, 2009 at 12:32 p.m.

As I type these words my brain is swarming with mind-twisting immune-system chemicals called cytokines: I am in day six of the swine flu. Yes, I wrote ...

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