]> http://www.healthedia.com/latest Feet Sector - Latest Blog Articles at http://www.healthedia.com en http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/923693?rsstype=latest&cid=115 Thanks to its modular design, this new OR table from TRUMPF can accommodate almost all known surgical positions, and can provide an optimal operating environment for all kinds of cases, from hip pinnings to robotic prostatectomies.In surgery, no oper... Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:58:40 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/923693?rsstype=latest&cid=115 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-wes/923889?rsstype=latest&cid=115 I really don't like it when policy wonks use the term stakeholder in the health care debate. I mean, what do they mean? Do they mean someone holding a stake?Or maybe it's someone holding a steak, and they just misspelled the term.I suppose we all k... Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:33:10 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-wes/923889?rsstype=latest&cid=115 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-helen/923770?rsstype=latest&cid=115 I read with interest an article entitled, In Ethnic Enclaves, The U.S. Economy Thrives (Hat tip: Newsalert):Dr. Alethea Hsu has a strange-seeming prescription for terrible times: She is opening a new shopping center on Saturday. In addition, more ama... Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:32:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-helen/923770?rsstype=latest&cid=115 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/diabetes-notes/923839?rsstype=latest&cid=115 As a way to bring awareness to diabetes, the Hannibal Regional Hospital s Diabetes and Wound/Ostomy Center in MO will be offering a free diabetes screening on Nov. 24. Two sessions will be held that day: from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Hannibal Regional... Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:28:18 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/diabetes-notes/923839?rsstype=latest&cid=115 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/natural-holistic-health/924001?rsstype=latest&cid=115 Individuals who are very active are at risk for tendonitis especially if they perform repetitive tasks. Computer users, athletes, golfers and tennis players are all prime candidates for tendonitis.Tendonitis occurs when the tendon suffers a small tea... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:34:59 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/natural-holistic-health/924001?rsstype=latest&cid=115 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dbs-medical-rants/923657?rsstype=latest&cid=115 The Obama Health Plan Emerges I expect significant, if not radical change, in health care payment over the coming year. This WSJ article gives useful perspective on some possible directions.If the Obama White House decides that reorganizing the 1... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:45:21 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dbs-medical-rants/923657?rsstype=latest&cid=115 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/happy-feet/923768?rsstype=latest&cid=115 I meet too many athletes whobelieve losing toenails after an event is normal. Many athletes are simplyprone to black toenails.Thebest means of preventing black toenails is to wear shoes with a generous toeboxand the proper length for your feet. Some ... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:27:04 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/happy-feet/923768?rsstype=latest&cid=115 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/all-ears/923739?rsstype=latest&cid=115 As the holiday travel season approaches, people will be heading to the airport for destinations unknown, especially since it is too expensive to drive anywhere now. Most air travelers will not have problems with their ears when the cabin is automatic... Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:42:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/all-ears/923739?rsstype=latest&cid=115 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/923643?rsstype=latest&cid=115 Want to be healthy? Perhaps you should move to Burlington, Vermont.Rachael Voorhees via FlickrThe home of the healthy: Burlington, Vermont Of all the U.S. metro areas examined by the CDC recently, Burlington had the largest proportion of people 9... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:43:56 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/923643?rsstype=latest&cid=115 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/kevin-md-medical-weblog/923630?rsstype=latest&cid=115 The front-page story in today's Boston Globe takes aim at the disproportionate payments that Boston's nationally ranked Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's Hospital receive. Together, they form an entity known as Partners Healthcare.A com... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:05:55 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/kevin-md-medical-weblog/923630?rsstype=latest&cid=115 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/effect-measure/923611?rsstype=latest&cid=115 The team of investigative reporting team of Susanne Rust and Meg Kissinger at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel just keeps rolling along, this time with an amazing story about how microwave safe plastics are leaching bisphenol-A (BPA) at potentially uns... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:22:47 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/effect-measure/923611?rsstype=latest&cid=115 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923449?rsstype=latest&cid=115 Neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote about animal scientist professor Temple Grandin as an anthropologist on Mars and she has referred to herself as an anthropologist from Mars -last night, we went to Mars.Ok, it was Mars 2112 on 51st and Broadw... Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:03:46 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923449?rsstype=latest&cid=115 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/behind-the-headlines/923436?rsstype=latest&cid=115 One of the most common causes of foot pain in adults, plantar fasciitis is estimated to account for about a million patient visits to a doctor each year.... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:42:13 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/behind-the-headlines/923436?rsstype=latest&cid=115 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/923426?rsstype=latest&cid=115 You walk into your yoga or Pilates class with a slouch, then for 60 to 90 minutes you focus on your body, your spine, your alignment. But when class ends, does all that postural awareness leave when you walk out the door? One Brooklyn-based yoga inst... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:30:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/923426?rsstype=latest&cid=115 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/923448?rsstype=latest&cid=115 You walk into your yoga or Pilates class with a slouch, then for 60 to 90 minutes you focus on your body, your spine, your alignment. But when class ends, does all that postural awareness leave when you walk out the door? One Brooklyn-based yoga inst... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:30:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/923448?rsstype=latest&cid=115 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/923373?rsstype=latest&cid=115 I don't think about my skin that much, except on sunny Summer days when I coat myself with sunscreen or when I get the occasional blemish on my chin. More than just a fleshy covering for our muscles, skin is an organ and without it, we would evaporat... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:00:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/923373?rsstype=latest&cid=115 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/923427?rsstype=latest&cid=115 I don't think about my skin that much, except on sunny Summer days when I coat myself with sunscreen or when I get the occasional blemish on my chin. More than just a fleshy covering for our muscles, skin is an organ and without it, we would evaporat... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:00:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/923427?rsstype=latest&cid=115 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/beauty-brains/923294?rsstype=latest&cid=115 In this week s Chic Clicks, some of our favorite beauty blogs continue the Trick or Feet theme from Halloween, while other s dare to invoke Gilligan s Island. Yes, that s right - we said Gilligan s Island. Happy clicking!Shoes, stilet... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:01:49 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/beauty-brains/923294?rsstype=latest&cid=115 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/weighting-game/923346?rsstype=latest&cid=115 Back in 2001, I wrote a story on orthorexia - an obsession with healthy eating - for The Chicago Tribune. I interviewed a recovering orthorexic named Kate Finn, then a 34-year-old Venice, Calif., yoga instructor,whose descent began as an experime... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:14:20 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/weighting-game/923346?rsstype=latest&cid=115 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/time-goes-by/923135?rsstype=latest&cid=115 It is difficult after the many months of our long presidential campaign to get my mind back around the subject of aging day to day. If you sense a bit of stumbling about this week, you are not wrong. My past routine was replaced for most of this yea... 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