Army will not provide Chelsea Manning hormone therapy

Hormone therapy: Is it right for you?

Try driving the Ridge and Valley Scenic Byway, which saw Civil War battles fought. If the tall peaks make your engine tremble, opt for the relatively flat Oconee National Forest, which offers smaller hills and an easy trail to the ghost town of Scull Shoals. Scaredy-cats can opt for Johns Mountain Overlook, which leads to twin waterfalls for the sensitive sightseer in you. fs.usda.gov/conf Image credit: flickr/chattoconeenf Next 7 motorist-friendly camping sites Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness Area via Green Road, Michigan The only national forest in Lower Michigan, the Huron-Mainstee spans nearly 1 million acres of public land. Outside the requisite lush habitat for fish and wildlife on display, the Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness Area is among the biggest hooks for visitors: offering beach camping with shores pounded by big, cerulean surf. Splash in some rum and you just might think you were in the Caribbean.
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U.S. Army Does Not Provide Sex-Reassignment Surgery, Hormone Therapy: Spokeswoman

(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) Bradley Manning Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted into a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013, before a hearing in his court martial. A prosecutor recommended in closing arguments Monday that Manning should spend 60 years in prison for giving classified material to WikiLeaks. A U.S. military judge was set to deliberate the sentence of Manning on Tuesday for the largest leak of classified information in the country’s history.
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Filed under: Women’s Health ( MayoClinic.com ) Hormone replacement therapy medications containing female hormones to replace the ones the body no longer makes after menopause used to be a standard treatment for women with hot flashes and other menopause symptoms. Hormone therapy (as it’s now called) was also thought to have the long-term benefits of preventing heart disease and possibly dementia. Use of hormone therapy changed abruptly when a large clinical trial found that the treatment actually posed more health risks than benefits for one type of hormone therapy, particularly when given to older postmenopausal women. As the concern about health hazards attributed to hormone therapy grew, doctors became less likely to prescribe it. Hormone therapy is no longer recommended for disease prevention, such as heart disease or memory loss. However, further review of clinical trials and new evidence show that hormone therapy may be a good choice for certain women, depending on their risk factors. Don’t Miss Boomer’s Health What are the benefits of hormone therapy?
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Early eye care for kids helps learning and school performance (Video)

Smartphone-based kit makes eye tests cheap and portable

When visual problems are present, children have a distinct disadvantage in learning. Early diagnosis and treatment can prevent students from getting behind in school and also manage problems that could cause permanent vision loss. Eye exams are very important because they not only reveal nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism, but “lazy eye”, misalignment of the eyes, and problems with focusing, depth perception, color perception, and coordination. Experts recommend children have an eye exam at the age of 6 months, 3 years, and before beginning school.
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Foam Party Causes Corneal Abrasion And Vision Problems

It is enabled with many features, including geo-tagging, which makes it easier to locate a patient, and several eye tests such as visual field, acuity (clearness of vision), color vision, contrast sensitivity, lens imaging for cataracts, retinal imaging and image grading. The researchers say they are working on several other applications including an autorefractor, front of the eye imaging, and a suite of pediatric-centered examination tools. The project is being developed in London by a team of researchers that includes Dr. Andrew Bastawrous, an ophthalmologist and research fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and Stewart Jordan, co-founder of Golden Gekko, one of the largest mobile application developers in Europe. They are currently in Kenya, field-testing the Peek app to adjust it to local conditions. The Peek team says that 285 million people in the world are visually impaired, with 39 million of these people actually blind. The good news is that 80 percent of blindness is avoidable, although 90 percent of those people live in low-income countries where treatment is not always available.
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Wikimedia Commons Foam parties, at which you dance in a club amid several feet of soapy bubbles, apparently still exist, which, fine, do what you want to do, kids. But! If you do go to one of these parties, do not rub your eyes, or you could end up with abrasions on your cornea and lack the ability to open your eyes. A recent foam party in Naples, Florida, resulted in a whopping 56 people checking into the emergency room with eye issues. Some couldn’t open their eyes, some were unable to see properly, some were in extreme pain and discomfort. All had attended the party and reported rubbing their eyes at some point. The actual content of the foam at foam parties varies; the classic, popularized in Ibiza in the early ’90s, was basically soap, aerated through huge fans on the ceiling.
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Beauty Police: Lily Collins Borrows Mommy’s Makeup Artist and Hairstylist for Berlin Premiere

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A night of beauty and giving at Ms. World PH gala charity

Green tea can be regarded as a storehouse of benefits for the skin. It contains a great deal of antioxidants which are effective against free radicals. These free radicals, which are formed when the skin is exposed to the UV rays of the sun, are accountable for premature aging. Green tea has also been found extremely effective in safeguarding the skin against sunburn and tanning when applied locally. The antioxidants found in green tea are also responsible in combating skin cancer by blocking the cancer causing harmful enzyme, junk. This wondrous natural component is also responsible for the cell renewal process.
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Beauty benefits of green tea

World a success,” added Quirino. VIPs, beauty queens and friends from the business community flocked to Solaire’s ballroom to show their heartwarming support. John Gaddi, Mae Velilla, Cory Quirino, Sonny Tanchanco, Geena Zablan, George Sarakinis, Becky Garcia, JP Tanchanco April Jordan (MWP 3rd Princess 2012), Ross Misa (MWP 1st Princess 2012), JP Tanchanco, Brenna Gamboa (MWP 4th Princess 2012) JP Tanchanco, Miss World Philippines 2012 Queenie Rehman, Jun Unarce Emcee of the night Grace Lee welcomed everyone to the evening’s festivities. Emcee-Host of night Grace Lee Award-winning theater icon Pinky Amado performed a welcome number, “If you love me,” from the play Piaf. She followed it up with a multilingual rendition of the La Vie Rose in French, English and Tagalog. Pinky Amador on stage The evening’s highlight was a fashion show that featured each candidate modeling different fashion designers.
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Baking soda for your skin

Indulging in a detox bath every once in a while is good for your skin since it helps in purging your body of toxins. Add one or two cups of baking soda along with two cups of Epsom salt in your bath and soak in for about 30 minutes. Make sure to sip on water all through or you might feel terribly dehydrated Soothe a sunburn Relieve irritated, itchy and sun burnt skin with baking soda. Soak a clean cloth in baking soda and water to make a cool compress or run a lukewarm bath with half a cup baking soda in it to soothe irritated skin especially when there’s no aloe Vera on hand.
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Rosacea Sufferers Find Relief In A Skin Care Product Powered By Snail Secretions

I have been using the product for two months. The acne scars on my forehead have reduced dramatically and can now be concealed with only mineral powder. I no longer need the camouflage cream. Marie Claude Niel said typical results have been an overall reduction of redness and blotchiness, which results in smooth, creamy skin. While the pigmentation problems on the surface of the skin are resolved, deep down the dermis is improved structurally as new collagen is formed.
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Sanford-Burnham, Pfizer collaborate on diabetes discovery

Diabetes lifetime costs – as expensive as a house?

What we need are new models and new ways of thinking about diabetes,” said Smith. “This research takes a radically new pathway.” The research will take place almost entirely at Sanford-Burnham’s Lake Nona campus in Medical City, Gardell said. The nonprofit science institute also has a campus in San Diego. “Diabetes presents an enormous public health burden,” said Tim Rolph, head of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases research at Pfizer.
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Dance Biopharm Announces Encouraging Clinical Data for Adagio™– Inhalable Insulin Product Candidate for Diabetes

HDL will be a presenting sponsor of Diabetes Awareness Day during a Nov. 3 game at FedEx Field between the Redskins and San Diego Chargers. The Redskins and HDL didnt disclose financial terms of the agreement. Were able to let our players and coaches know what risks they might be facing in the future, Redskins General Manager Bruce Allen said yesterday in a telephone interview. If we can educate and motivate people for a healthier lifestyle today, were going to ensure a better tomorrow for them. HDL this summer performed a comprehensive blood panel on the teams players and staff that looked at biomarkers beyond cholesterol, such as lipid particle size, inflammation, stress, diabetes risk and genetics.
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Marcia Testa, Harvard School of Public Health and colleagues previously showed that Exubera inhaled insulin wasgreatly preferred by persons with diabetes as compared to injectable insulin.Dr. Testa stated, “In over 30 years of studying quality of life and satisfaction in a broad array of new medical products for various diseases and conditions,themagnitude of the treatment differences favoring inhaled insulin compared to injectable insulin were the largest we have ever seen.Inhaled insulin resulted in decreased burden, life interference, hassle and pain, and increased, convenience, flexibility, and social acceptance.” Furthermore, Dr. Tim Heise of Profil Institute for Metabolic Research, Neuss, Germany, commented, “I believe that Profil has tested nearly all of the insulin inhalation devices, and Adagio is among the best we’ve ever seen in terms of ease of use and no coughing.” Initial Clinical Trial Demonstrates Safety and Reliability of Adagio The trial recently completed (Samba 01) was a Phase 1/2 pharmacokinetic (PK) study in patients with Type 1 diabetes designed to determine the safety, efficiency, and dosing reliability of the Adagio device and formulation.This preliminary study indicated the product was safe and well tolerated with no coughing and importantly, delivered insulin consistently when patients received four doses over time, and showed reliability compared with insulin delivered by injection. While this initial trial enrolled Type 1 patients based on the ability to obtain a more precise measurement due to their lack of endogenous insulin, the initial target population for Adagio is patients with Type 2 diabetes, which the company is enrolling in its next PK and pharmacodynamics study, Samba 02. Samba 01 was a 12-patient, randomized, semi-blinded study conducted by Profil, a contract research organization based in Neuss, Germany, specializing in early-mid phase clinical trials in diabetes and metabolism. Introducing Adagio, a Second-generation Inhaled Insulin Product Dance Biopharm’s Adagio is a novel second-generation inhaled insulin product in development that could resolve problems inherent in the first-generation inhaled insulin products, which were known to be safe and effective yet uneconomical and cumbersome.The liquid formulation of natural human insulin is dispensed through a small, silent, handheld electronic aerosol device, intended to deliver the patient’s individualized dose of insulin in one to three breaths at mealtime. Dance has chosen to develop a liquid formulation of insulin instead of a dry powder with the goals of lowering manufacturing costs, eliminating cough, and facilitating ease-of-use.
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Redskins Team With HDL on Advanced Heart Disease, Diabetes Tests

Patient / Public: 1 posts A recent report published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine breaks down the costs of living with type 2 diabetes over the course of a lifetime. The dollar amount is eye-opening, and so are the differences in costs between men and women. To calculate the costs of living with type 2 diabetes on an individual basis, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Research Triangle International created a simulation model that could compile the costs of both treating the condition and managing its complications. This is as opposed to only focusing on the overall economic burden of treating type 2 diabetes in a year. The findings reveal that on average, a person with type 2 diabetes spends more than $85,000 over the course of their lifetime on treating the disease and managing complications. Additionally, the point at which a person is diagnosed with the disease can affect how much they spend during their lifetime. For example, a man diagnosed with type 2 diabetes when he is between 25 and 44 will spend $124,700.
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CE Lectures on the Dental Treatment of Snoring and Sleep Apnea Include Rochester, Cleveland and Ft. Lauderdale, as Sleep Seminar Destinations

By stabilizing the airway, oxygen is able to pass through without an obstruction, or blockage. Oral appliances, such as The Respire Blue Series , hold the mandible in place, and keep the tongue from creating further obstructions. Dr. Hnat hosted a free webinar this week on the topic, to offer dental professionals a sneak peak of what to expect during his upcoming seminar. The webinar is available to the dental industry, here . To increase existing knowledge of dental sleep medicine, or to learn it for the first time, attending a dental continuing education course with Sleep Group Solutions is a great starting place.
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Snoring can be embarrassing for women, can be tackled

Sleeping pills and other cough medicine relaxes the body muscles and can lead to snoring,” says Dr Sunaina. Blockage of the nasal passage: Blockage in the nasal passage or a cocked bone leads to snoring as well. “Crooked nose bone in medical language is the deviated septum, yes this can cause snoring. Such cases should be consulted with the doctor,” suggests Dr Sunaina. Back sleeping: This comes from the grandmothers that sleeping on the back leads to snoring. “Yes, in early days grandmothers used to say that sleeping on the back is not ladylike and one should sleep on the sides but the truth is that it leads to snoring in most cases,” agrees Dr Sunaina. Soft pillows: “Partially correct that soft pillows leads to snoring, because again a little slant of the neck causes the air block and causes snoring.” Cold and blocked nose: A very common thing seen is usually when one has a bad cold or blocked nose then a person tends to snore.
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Snoring: A New Tip-Off To Stroke and Heart Disease

NOT putting others down. August 14, 2012 at 09:15 | Report abuse | Reply ser August 14, 2012 at 12:24 | Report abuse | Reply Portland tony Certainly hope this study was peer reviewed, because it contains more “may cause’s” than a political ad. Sounds like a research project by a bunch of bored underemployed PHD’s with an pretty lax government grant. Maybe adjusting a child’ sleeping position could eliminate this “snoring” problem. The youngster in the photo certainly doesn’t look too comfortable at all. Oh well! August 14, 2012 at 13:08 | Report abuse | Reply anna My boy snored like a drunk sailor til he was 3, then we had his huge tonsils and adenoids removed and he is a quiet, still, happy little sleeper, successful in preschool and ready to conquer kindergarten.
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Snoring in kids could mean other problems, doctors say

Deeb, the studys lead author, hopes his research will lead people to treat snoring as a reason to visit the doctor and discuss cardiovascular health and stroke prevention. And he hopes doctors will now add snoring to the list of risk factors which currently includes high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and family history they use to initiate testing and treatment. Our study adds to the growing body of evidence suggesting that isolated snoring may not be as benign as first suspected, Deeb said in a statement. Patients need to seek treatment in the same way they would if they had sleep apnea, high blood pressure or other risk factors for cardiovascular disease. While obstructive sleep apnea (which often develops from snoring) has long been known as an indicator of cardiovascular disease, theres been little evidence up to now to show the damage starts earlier with snoring. While Deeb and Yaremchuk studied the carotid artery, thickening of one type of artery is considered an indication of atherosclerosis in general. Hence the conclusion that snoring is also a tip-off to coronary artery disease, or CAD.
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