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Women and men are treated very differently by the allopathic, conventional medicine system when it comes to diagnosing and treating pain, as this recent piece by Laurie Edwards so brilliantly conveys in the New York Times (dot com, online version, links included and encouraged to go read at the source for all the fun images, etc.).  read more »

Mardy's note:  I copied this in the summer of 2010 from it's original place in the Fibro Awareness forum here at Lumigrate so that it is ALSO located here to be caught here as well.  In two months it had gotten almost 2,000 reads, and by year's end it had just over 3,000 in that original location, as well as the hundreds it had here.  That's really VERY rewarding and inspiring, and tells us what you like to have on Lumigrate.com!  And from there, we develop in the present and that turns into the future, which you are then a part of forming.  read more »

Hello my dawlinks!  It's your Yenta, you were expecting maybe Barbara Streisand?  So I just get to New York, settled in, cleaned, reaquainted with my neighbors in the building, the pace of the city; when my phone rings and it's my friend, Meril from Postville, Iowa.  Yes, kindeleh there's an actual town by that name.  As a matter of fact, there's a book out about the town and the people in it if you feel like reading something unusual.  Very interesting way of life these people have.  Buy the book, a little education couldn't hurt.   read more »

I attended the local hospital's medical CEU (continuing education unit) this week titled "Obstructive Sleep Apnea Across the Specialties", presented by local physician David Patz.  I learned a lot from it and wanted to do a writeup about it and at least start the conversation and hopefully invite others who know about sleep and sleep apnea specifically to register as users and write here on Lumigrate.  As with anything lately, new research is stretching what the experts previously believed, and it appe  read more »

I copied this from a blog post I made in the summer of 2009 so that it would be easily 'findable' here in this new Forum area --- as Lumigrate has grown we're shifting and growing where the needs are presented.  Please remember the "print" and "e-mail" buttons, below, are great tools for you to be able to share things with people YOU might want to turn onto information!  Thanks so much ~~ Mardy

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