http://www.drdonnadouglas.com/blogs Health news you can use from the 'guru of good for you" Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:47:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you’re planning to have cancer surgery in the near future or recently had surgery, your thoughts undoubtedly move to how you can minimize the trauma and scarring associated with treatment and speed the healing process.  Healing wounds whether from accidental injury or surgical intervention requires a delicate interplay of ... http://www.drdonnadouglas.com/blogs/>>http:/www.drdonnadouglas.com/blogs/saying-goodbye-to-surgery-scars/ Researchers at Charité-Universitätsmedizin in Berlin, Germany have developed a new way to focus tumor killing heat treatment on the prostate gland.  Using futuristic techniques, doctors inject metallic nanoparticles into the prostate gland.  A magnetic field then excites the particles causing them to heat the surrounding tissue to temperatures as high ... http://www.drdonnadouglas.com/blogs/>>http:/www.drdonnadouglas.com/blogs/putting-cancer-on-the-hot-seat-hyperthermia/ Are you finding that you can’t read those street signs so well anymore or that fine print has gotten smaller?  Well, you’re not alone.  Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness and vision impairment in mature North Americans.  There is no cure for AMD, and treatment does ... http://www.drdonnadouglas.com/blogs/>>http:/www.drdonnadouglas.com/blogs/move-over-lutein-omega-3%e2%80%99s-shown-to-protect-vision/ I raise my kids on organic foods and apparently so do an increasing number of parents.   Pesticides used in agricultural production have been shown to cause leukemia associated (cancer type) changes, lower the anti-oxidant fighting ability of our body’s enzymes while genetically engineered   foods raise other health concerns.    Although most ... http://www.drdonnadouglas.com/blogs/>>http:/www.drdonnadouglas.com/blogs/can-we-still-trust-organic-food/ When I first began my oncology training a number of years ago, the most startling statistic I encountered was that only 5-8% of cancers have been linked to genetics, while more than 90% can be attributed to lifestyle and environmental influences.  This means that lifestyle choices—what you do for a ... http://www.drdonnadouglas.com/blogs/>>http:/www.drdonnadouglas.com/blogs/best-anti-cancer-lifestyle-habits/ Once upon a time individuals facing cancer felt they had to choose between one of two options- surgery and chemotherapy or alternative treatment.  But a new breed of medicine is emerging, one that bridges the gap between the two worlds and offers the best of each.  It’s called integrative medicine ... http://www.drdonnadouglas.com/blogs/>>http:/www.drdonnadouglas.com/blogs/a-peaceful-co-existence-alternative-and-integrative-cancer-treatment/