First of all, let me explain. I have a rare disease where my body cannot produce any hormones on its own. So after years of unsuccessful hormone therapy I went to a new doctor who put me on birth control. I’m 23 now and since using the birth control since June, I have reached physical and sexual maturity. I am now sexually attracted to guys like crazy but I have self control and I’m a virgin. Anyway since the birth control I’m always happy and calm. I never get mad and I never get sad nor suicidal anymore. Life just seems better.

Anyway I’ve asked on here and my Christian friends how to deal with these new sexual feelings. They said to get off of them right away! Wtf?? When I ask secular people they are happy for me and tell me how to deal with it!

Do Christians want me sad and depressed and suicidal and mad instead of being normal and healthy and happy?? I don’t get it!!
Also I’m not constipated anymore and I can easily gain weight. Also I no longer sleep for 12+hours anymore.
God won’t help me on this. He works through doctors.

I’m a Christian too and yes I rely on Jesus but I doubt he’d rather I be suicidal and crap than be healthy and be on the birth control. I do believe in saving myself before marriage.
I am extremely modest and I’m not alone with any guy anymore.

CheckOrphan NewsFlash for Wednesday, November 4, 2009 – breaking news about rare diseases, orphan diseases, orphan drugs, and neglected diseases. Today’s broadcast highlights topics about: Mount Sinai School of Medicine, diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, IPF, lung disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, PSP, ImmuneWorks, Zeltia, PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, malaria, Gamma Knife, glioblastoma multiforme, HIV, AIDS, neglected tropical diseases, worms, protozoa, bacteria, fungi, viruses, Health Affairs, Project HOPE www.checkorphan.org http www.healthaffairs.org

they have so many cancer/disease out there? virus here, illness there, i have suffered from acne and vitiligo, and i dont get how there is no cure. if something comes can’t it go away, i wonder. i eat tons of fruits and veges, rarely meat, but with all the antiobiotics they put in meat, and the pesticides in food, in wonder. tomorrow isnt promised. but how can i prevent illness.
also i dont smoke, i dont drink, i dont use drugs, and i dont have premarital sex. i wash my hands a lot too.

Marine Phytoplankton: Environmental Microbiology

Marine phytoplankton are tiny open water sea plants, animals or bacteria with limited or no swimming ability that drift with the tides and currents of the oceans. They require sunlight to multiply and in high nutrient and right conditions they multiply rapidly.

Environmental microbiology is rich enough to feed some of the largest mammals on earth which are many species of whales including Blue, Bowhead, Baleen, Grey, Humpback, Right and the largest of all, whale sharks.

Why Marine Phytoplankton is Unique
Dr Jerry Tennant is founder and Director of the Tennant Institute Of Integrative Medicine. Educated at Harvard University, he has over 15 years practice in Energetic Medicine treating thousands of terminally ill patients. Of all the products he has come across he had this to say of Marine Phytoplankton.

“This is the most exciting product I have come across. It contains almost everything necessary to sustain life and build healthy new cells. When you give the body everything it needs to produce trillions of healthy new cells then you get well”.

Another very important reason that makes marine phytoplankton unique and very effective is that it’s composed of single cells that bypass the liver and digestive system. This is highly significant and is one reason Dr Tennant believes results have been seen so quickly, particularly with critical and chronically ill patients who have sick livers. Whereas other products took months to see significant results, results were being noticed within days of taking marine phytoplankton.

Marine phytoplankton provides a rare, complete food that will give the body virtually all the raw materials it needs in one single source to produce healthy new cells and neuro-chemicals for the brain such as dopamine and serotonin. Because it works at the deepest level of the cell, it seems to work for a wide variety of diseases and imbalances including chronic illnesses. What makes phytoplankton unique is the exceptionally high success rate that has been experienced in overcoming a variety of health conditions and chronic diseases, enabling the body to heal itself. It is believed by many including Dr Tennant that this is because it contains all the raw materials necessary in one source in near perfect proportion.

The composition of human plasma or fluid surrounding cell membranes is similar to that of sea water and micronutrients and electrolytes in plankton are exactly what human cell membranes need to carry out their metabolism.

8 SPECIFIC BENEFITS OF SEA PLANTS

1. Immune system enhancer.
2. Enhances macrophages.
3. Has anti HIV effects.
4. Stimulates building of blood cells.
5. Makes iron more available.
6. Decreases nephrotoxicity.
7. Approved in Russia to treat radiation sickness.
8. Anti carcinogenic, by increasing endonuclearase enzymes to fix DNA damage.

To your glowing health.

CheckOrphan NewsFlash for Friday, January 15, 2010: breaking news about rare diseases, orphan diseases, orphan drugs, and neglected diseases. Today’s broadcast highlights topics about: surveillance colonoscopy, colonoscopy, colorectal cancer, University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, pre-cancerous lesions, polyps, DNA damage, cellular mitochondria, nuclei, Friedreich’s ataxia, ataxia, FRDA, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, gait disturbance, neurodegeneration, muscle wasting, speech problem, heart enlargement, arrhythmia, heart failure, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, molecular abnormality, Translational Genomics Research Institute, memory loss, Alzheimer’s, Alzheimer, BMC Genomics, tau, neuron, Travis Dunckley, tau dysfunction, University College London, Cell Death & Disease, brain cell death, neurodegenerative disorder, PKD Foundation, Polycystic Kidney Disease, Kansas City, Missouri, www.checkorphan.org http www.pkdcure.org

Dr. Ryszard Kole is a researcher whose work led to a discovery that splicing provides a novel target for gene based therapies of numerous disorders including rare genetic diseases and metabolic disorders. Hear his views on the importance of bridging patients and researchers to advance research in the field of rare diseases. About Dr. Ryszard Kole Dr. Kole is a pioneer in the use of oligonucleotides for the modulation of splicing. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. As a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Sidney Altman at Yale University, he provided early evidence that an RNA component is essential for the activity of a tRNA processing enzyme, RNase P. Subsequent discovery that RNase P is a ribozyme was recognized by a Nobel Prize for Dr. Altman. After joining the Department of Pharmacology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a faculty member, Dr. Koles work led to a discovery that splicing provides a novel target for gene based therapies of numerous disorders including cancer, genetic diseases and metabolic disorders such as obesity. He is currently participating in developing this technology into treatment for DMD at AVI Biopharma. More info: www.rarediseaseday.org

He died on July 5th. He was the best dog I’ve ever had. He wasn’t even a dog, he was like my baby. A big, beautiful yellow lab. He developed a rare disease in which fluid fills around the dogs heart and crushes it, sending him into heart failure. We had to put him down, because he was in so much pain and he was literally gasping for air. He was one week away from turning 5. He was my baby. I would cry to him and he would lick my tears away. I miss him so much I don’t even know how I can function. It’s like losing a child. I miss the comfort and security he brought to me. It makes me so sad that it happened to such an excellent dog like him. Is there anyway for me to overcome my grief? Can you please help? PS.) I’m a 15 year old girl, and I’ve had him since I was ten.

WHVL reporter, Tara Berardi features the Penn State Chapter of Uplifting Athletes and the 2010 event, Lift For Life, benefitting Kidney Cancer research.

This rare and quite disgusting condition is known as myiasis, an infection or infestation of the body of animals are more rarely, humans, with the larva of botflies and related species. In other words: maggots in your body.

Primarily a veterinary issue with livestock, human infestations is rare in the United States. It is more frequently seen Central and South America.

A relatively large fly, the botfly would find it very difficult to place its eggs on a person. To rectify the situation, the clever botfly hijacks a much smaller mosquito in flight. It then releases the mosquito and it goes on its way looking for a blood meal.

When the mosquito does take a blood meal, either on a human or an animal, the body heat of the mammal causes the eggs to hatch. At this point the newly hatched larvae burrow into the host and reside in the tissue.

Some species of dipteran flies may actively try to place the eggs in the eye (ocular myiasis). This sometimes occurs to people working with livestock in underdeveloped countries.

In the skin or eye the larva matures to a relatively large size over a period of a couple of months. When completely mature, the larva emerges from the tissue and drops to the ground where it becomes an adult fly and the cycle repeats.

The symptoms in the person begin with a nodule that contains one larva. The nodule continuously seeps blood and pus because the larva needs to keep the wound open to breath.

The can be itching and occasionally serious pain when the larva moves. Secondary bacterial infection can occur.

To treat botfly infestation is to remove the larva. Cutting off the air supply (using Vaseline, tape, etc.) causes the larva to emerge and can then carefully be pulled out with tweezers. They can be difficult to remove because of backward facing barbs that secure it in the hole. Some people choose to let the larva develop and emerge naturally.

Surgery in not usually necessary unless the larva dies in the tissue and cannot be removed. The use of insect repellent and protective clothing that prevent mosquito bites can help prevent infestation.

What do doctors call this condition?

Diverticular disease, diverticulitis

What is this condition?

In diverticulosis, bulging pouches (called diverticula) in the stomach or intestinal wall push through the surrounding muscle. Usually, the pouches are in the lower intestine, but they may develop anywhere from the top of the stomach (rare) to the anus. An inherited form, called Meckel’s diverticulum, is the most common genetic disorder of the intestinal tract.

Diverticulosis takes two forms. In one, the pouches are present but don’t cause symptoms. In the other, the pouches are inflamed and may cause potentially fatal intestinal blockage, infection, or bleeding.

What causes it?

Diverticulosis is most common in men over age 40. In these individuals, pouches probably result from straining, which pushes the intestines against weak spots in the gastrointestinal wall.

Lack of dietary fiber may be a contributing factor. Without adequate fiber, fecal matter solidifies and the bowel tunnel narrows, requiring higher abdominal pressure during bowel movements. This theory is supported by the fact that diverticulosis is most prevalent in industrialized nations, where processing removes much of the fiber from foods.

How the pouches become inflamed

Undigested food mixed with bacteria accumulates in these intestinal pouches and forms a hard mass. This condition restricts blood flow to the thin walls of the pouches, making them more susceptible to attack by the bacteria in the colon. Inflammation follows, possibly leading to perforation, abscess, peritonitis, obstruction, or bleeding. Occasionally, the inflamed segment may produce a fistula, or tunnel, by sticking to the bladder or other organs.

What are its symptoms?

Usually, diverticulosis produces no symptoms; however it may cause recurrent pain in the lower left abdomen that disappears after bowel movements or passing gas. The person may have alternating constipation and diarrhea and symptoms similar to those of irritable bowel syndrome – or may have both disorders at once. In rare cases, some elderly people develop bleeding in uninfected pouches, but this is easily controlled with medication.

A mildly infected pouch produces some pain in the lower left abdomen, mild nausea, gas, irregular bowel movements, and a low