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| | Peter M. Marcuse, M.D. / Disease |
 | | Disease is an imbalance between the individual organism and the environment, according to Dr. Peter Marcuse. | | | He looks to both the past and the future to show the achievements and limitations of medical science, offering all who read his book a new appreciation of the nature of disease and a greater awareness of their own responsibility. | | | In graceful, lucid prose, Marcuse draws on his more than forty years of experience as a pathologist to show the reader how important it is to exercise individual responsibility in lifestyle choices in order to maintain or improve the organism-environment balance. |
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http://www.press.uillinois.edu/s96/marcuse.html
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| | Ménière's Disease [Mar 1995; 13-1] |
| | Watanabe's [5] paper on the incidence of Ménière's disease in Japan also has some interesting historical data on incidence from the UK in the 1950s and 1960s; results from Oxford in the mid 1950s suggest an incidence of about 560 per million, though higher figures are also quoted. | | | This paper is also important because the authors examined the effectiveness of treatment with regard to duration of Ménière's disease in a post-hoc analysis. | | | In the 1970s nation-wide surveys on the incidence of Ménière's disease were carried out in Japan. |
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http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/band13/b13-1.html
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| | Menieres%20disease.html |
| | Ménière's disease, first described in 1861 by the French physician Prosper Ménière, is characterized by multiple symptoms, all associated with excessive fluid in the inner ear involving both the hearing and balance organs. | | | About 80 percent of patients with Ménière's experience the problem in only one ear or more. | | | In patients with severe Ménière's uncontrolled by medical management and where hearing is no longer adequate for communication, a labyrinthectomy has a 95 percent success rate in eliminating major spells. |
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http://depts.washington.edu/hearing/Menieres%20disease.html
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| | MENIERES DISEASE |
| | "Meniere's disease: a 3-year follow-up of patients in a double-blind placebo-controlled study on endolymphatic sac shunt surgery." Adv Otorhinolaryngol 30: 350-4. | | | Ménière's disease usually starts confined to one ear but it often extends to involve both ears over time so that after 30 years, 50% of patients with Meniere's have bilateral disease (Stahle et al, 1991). | | | Another interpretation of their data is that they may simply not have had an appropriate marker for autoimmune involvement, as well as unilateral Meniere's may have less autoimmune cause than bilateral. |
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http://www.dizziness-and-balance.com/disorders/menieres/menieres.html
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| | M. D. Anderson Cancer Manager Disease Management! |
| | The M. Anderson approach to disease management is comprehensive, based on the research, expertise and experience on the centers faculty. | | | The Cancer Manager Disease Management team continuously monitors each patients regimen, staying abreast of where a patients treatment stands, following what diagnostic test comes next and knowing what therapy should be prescribed. | | | Led by a medical director who is a seasoned practicing oncologist and staffed by career oncology nurses, M. Andersons disease management team is proactive, multidisciplinary and attuned to the needs of each patient. |
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http://www.mdanderson.org/depts/caman/disease_mgt.htm
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| | Meniere's Disease |
| | Meniere's disease is an abnormality of the inner ear causing a host of symptoms, including vertigo or severe dizziness, tinnitus or a roaring sound in the ears, fluctuating hearing loss, and the sensation of pressure or pain in the affected ear. | | | The symptoms of Meniere's disease are associated with a change in fluid volume within a portion of the inner ear known as the labyrinth. | | | Many experts on Meniere's disease think that a rupture of the membranous labyrinth allows the endolymph to mix with perilymph, another inner ear fluid that occupies the space between the membranous labyrinth and the bony inner ear. |
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http://www.fhma.com/menieres.htm
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| | eMedicine - Inner Ear, Ménière Disease, Medical Treatment : Article by John Li, MD |
| | Destruction of the vestibular end organ renders the brain insensitive to fluctuations in inner ear pressure brought on by Ménière disease. | | | A familial predisposition seems to exist; approximately half of the patients have a notable family history of this disease. | | | Ménière disease refers to endolymphatic hydrops with unknown etiology; it is the catch term for idiopathic endolymphatic hydrops. |
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http://www.emedicine.com/ent/topic232.htm
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| | eMedicine - Hansen Disease : Article Excerpt by: James M Arrington, MD |
| | Pathophysiology: Hansen disease is caused by a bacillus, Mycobacterium leprae, first described by G. Amauer Hansen, MD, of Norway in 1874, that multiplies very slowly and mainly affects the skin, nerves, and mucous membranes. | | | It is a chronic granulomatous disease of the skin, mucous membranes, nerves, lymph nodes, eyes, and internal organs such as the liver, spleen, and testicles. | | | However, all those cases in the Bible may not have been true Hansen disease as even today it is a frequently missed diagnosis and some patients are treated for years for a disease of a similar presenting picture. |
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http://www.emedicine.com/oph/byname/hansen-disease.htm
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| | Meniere's Disease Information Center -- Extensive information about Meniere's Disease. |
| | If one wished to explore whether one's Meniere's Disease might be responsive to immuno-suppressant drug therapy, such as Enbrel, one might want to consider one (or more) of the co-authors of this study. | | | Nancy Freudenthal, famous Meniere's Disease patient, has surgery. | | | Meniere's Disease is a disorder of the inner ear and the vestibulocochlear (8th cranial) nerve. |
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| | Meniere's Disease |
| | Intermittent pressure therapy of intractable Ménière’s disease using the Meniett device: a preliminary report. | | | Ménière’s disease was named after the French physician Prosper Ménière, who, in 1861, theorized that attacks of vertigo, ringing in the ear (tinnitus) and hearing loss came from the inner ear. | | | Many people with Ménière’s disease are thrust into the role of educator since they must teach themselves, their family, friends, coworkers, and sometimes even health care professionals about the disorder and how it impacts them. |
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http://www.vestibular.org/menieres.html
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| | Heart disease (Steve Harris, M.D.) |
| | And with heart disease taking a lot of the scapegoating (for example, for many large pulmonary emboli, which show up in an astonishing fraction of autopsies, and were not expected or suspected). | | | Coronary disease was certainly well advanced in the American population by that time (as shown by autopsies on Korean war causualties vs Korean enemy casualties, a famous study). | | | In 1960 how many patients do you suppose who died in the hospital after being admitted ill with one disease or another, did so while being actually hooked up to an EKG machine (when there might be one or two machines in the entire place?). |
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http://yarchive.net/med/heart_disease.html
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| | Meniere's Disease |
| | This is considered when the patient with Meniere's disease has poor hearing in the affected ear. | | | Meniere's disease is one of the most common causes of dizziness originating in the inner ear. | | | The symptoms of Meniere's disease are episodic rotational vertigo (attacks of a spinning sensation), hearing loss, tinnitus (a roaring, buzzing, or ringing sound in the ear), and a sensation of fullness in the affected ear. |
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http://www.entcolumbia.org/meniere.htm
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| | Ear Surgery Information Center-Meniere's Disease |
| | In the past several years, studies have been conducted placing specific antibiotics into the inners ear to treat Meniere's Disease. | | | Meniere's Disease is a very disturbing illness, presenting patients with hearing loss, pressure in the ear, tinnitus, severe imbalance and vertigo. | | | The vertigo in Meniere's Disease is thought to result from an accumulation of excessive fluid in the inner ear. |
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http://www.earsurgery.org/meniere.html
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| | MENIERES.ORG -- Coping support site for Meniere's Disease. You are not alone! |
| | We're providing our members with free online journals to chronicle their experiences with Meniere's Disease on a regular basis. | | | There's many other websites out there that provide excellent information on the technical and medical aspects of Meniere's Disease -- plenty of them (see links above). | | | It can't hurt, but please keep in mind that Meniere's Disease is very difficult to diagnose at times, and is also difficult to treat since it's an incurable disease so far. |
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http://www.menieres.org
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| | Meniere's Disease Treatment Remedies |
| | Because of the chronic nature of this condition, the Meniere's Disease Treatment Course consists of two separate and distinct remedies and is only supplied in units of 12 weeks. | | | This remedy is extremely successful in treating the cochlea damage tinnitus associated with Meniere's Disease. | | | This combination of remedies has achieved remarkable success at relieving the ear pressure, nausea, vertigo and tinnitus associated with Meniere's Disease. |
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http://www.t-gone.com/menieres-disease/menieres.asp
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| | Meniere's Page - Symptoms |
| | Ménière's disease most commonly affects people in their 40's and 50's, although individuals from 20 onwards may be affected, as in the picture below. | | | The incidence of Ménière's disease has been estimated to range from 0.5 to 7.5 per 1000, although this figure depends upon a number of factors, such as the diagnostic criteria used to define the disease. | | | And some of the surgeries are so radical, you think they came from a horror movie about a mad doctor. |
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http://oto.wustl.edu/men/mn1.htm
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| | Meniere's Disease and Allergies |
| | You may need to go to a medical school library and get a copy of M. Jennifer Derebery's article, The Role of Allergy in Meniere's Disease, Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America, Volume 30, Number 6, December 1997. | | | My endeavor here is to try to make Meniere's sufferers and their physicians aware that they should not limit themselves in their quest to find the cause of the disease in the traditional but search the possibilities in "non-traditional" areas such as allergies. | | | I have been diagnosed with bilateral Meniere's disease that has its etiology in food allergies. |
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http://www.vcnet.com/lmiller/default.html
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| | THYROID DISEASE |
| | (This "bug-eyed" appearance is common to all hyperthyroid patients; it is enhanced by the ophthalmopathy of Graves's disease.) | | | Tertiary hypothyroidism (i.e., disease of the hypothalamus; this is uncommon) | | | Thyroid disease is common and easy to treat effectively, but its onset is insidious and it is often overlooked. |
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http://www.pathguy.com/lectures/thyroid.htm
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| | Virtual Hospital: Aging Begins at 30: M.S., A Disease in Search of a Cure |
| | Assessment of new treatment is very difficult because of patient and doctor bias and variability of the disease. | | | They are often victims of multiple sclerosis (M.S.), a disease that damages the central nervous system (brain, eyes and spinal cord) with scattered areas of inflammation as if they had been peppered by grapeshot. | | | The disease is most common in temperate climates, suggesting an environmental factor. |
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| | Mad Cow Disease and the M cell |
| | Their continuous research had led to a new theory about how this disease may be transmitted. | | | Exactly how the disease-causing prion was transmitted from cattle to humans has been the focus of recent research. | | | This belief was challenged again when people in Great Britain started coming down with similar symptoms, resulting from a human variant of the prion that caused "mad cow disease." The human version of the disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, seemed to have been transmitted through the consumption of beef. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/physiology/81466
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| | Meniere's Disease |
| | The most troublesome aspect of Meniere's disease is that an attack can happen out of the blue, with no warning signs. | | | The diagnosis of Meniere's disease is based on the history of the attacks and associated pattern of symptoms. | | | Meniere's disease is a disease of the inner ear, which is characterised by attacks of dizziness, nausea, vomiting, deafness and a buzzing in the ears (tinnitus). |
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http://www.irishhealth.com/index.html?level=4&con=481&var=print
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| | NEJM: Articles on Parkinson's disease -- deep-brain stimulation, dopamine, and pallidotomy |
| | A Five-Year Study of the Incidence of Dyskinesia in Patients with Early Parkinson's Disease Who Were Treated with Ropinirole or Levodopa | | | Use of Placebo Surgery in Controlled Trials of a Cellular-Based Therapy for Parkinson's Disease | | | Low-Dose Clozapine for the Treatment of Drug-Induced Psychosis in Parkinson's Disease |
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http://content.nejm.org/cgi/collection/parkinsons_disease
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| | Free Online Medical Diagnosis by Symptoms |
| | Symptoms are manifestations or causes of a disease or group of diseases. | | | Symptoms are those complaints or problems that bring a patient to the doctor or other health care provider. | | | Your use of this site is subject to certain terms and conditions. |
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http://MyElectronicMD.com
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| | Meniere's Disease -- familydoctor.org |
| | Meniere's (say "men-ears") disease is the name of a problem of the inner ear. | | | People with Meniere's disease don't have symptoms all the time. | | | In difficult cases of Meniere's disease (when attacks can't be controlled by diet or medicines), surgery may be necessary. |
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| | basic meniere's disease |
| | Associates in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery: Meniere's Disease | | | Interesting web site that links allergies with Meniere's disease. | | | AAFP Patient Information Handout...How to Cope with Meniere's Disease |
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http://www.audiologynet.com/basic-menieres-disease-and-dizziness.html
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| | Meniere's Disease: What You Need to Know |
| | Ménière’s Disease, unmatched in scope by any other work written for the general public on this subject, includes 40 chapters covering anatomy and physiology, symptoms, examination and testing, treatment, coping strategies, safety issues, research, support organizations (including those on the Internet), and all other aspects of the disease. | | | "I have been amazed at how little information is available to the non-professional person who has to face this often debilitating disease. | | | This book will provide the lay reader consolidated information on Ménière’s disease and how to contend with the problems it presents." |
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http://www.vestibular.org/mbook.html
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| | Tim Boysen's Meniere's Disease Page |
| | This and all pages written by me are intended to be used as general information on Meniere's Disease and should not be construed as a substitute for proper evaluation and diagnosis by your MD. This information merely represents my own opinions and my own experiences. | | | Info from MIC-KIBIC at the Karolinska Institute on Meniere's Disease and other ear disorders. | | | This is a disease of the inner ear which causes intense symptoms of vertigo, hearing loss and tinnitus (ear ringing). |
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| | Department of Neurology - Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
| | This collaboration has enabled the Department to recruit leading neuroscientists to study Parkinson's Disease, establish state-of-the-art research programs, develop new medical and surgical therapies for Parkinson's Disease, organize conferences that disseminate information to physicians and scientists, and establish a mentoring program for young investigators. | | | With the Foundation's support, the The Robert and John M. Bendheim Parkinson's Disease Research Center has provided a nucleus for multi-disciplinary translational research studies, and a forum for collaboration that successfully attracts young physicians and investigators to the field. | | | The Department also has been able to build an infrastructure to develop an interdisciplinary research team whose research is focused on determining the cause of cell death in PD and developing better treatments for PD patients. |
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http://www.mssm.edu/neurology/parkinsons
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| | Deafness, Awareness and Menieres Disease |
| | 4.What as your occupation at the time of the diagnosis of this disease? | | | Is there a connection with this disease due to stress caused by work? | | | I am trying to ascertain the links to this disease and respectfully ask for your help. |
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