By Ron Stucky Believe it or not, but the Ice Cream Diet has been turning a lot of heads, lately, and for a lot of reasons, too. The creator mentioned, in Prevention magazine, that you'll experience the weight loss you need and be able to chow down on ice cream each day. We really wanted to know what was up with this diet, and we found out; so keep reading to hear our review of the Ice Cream Diet. First, we have to give credit because the Ice Cream Diet actually tells you that you need to eat good quality fruits, vegetables, and get proper fiber. What is surprising about the Ice Cream Diet, the name kills us, is you will be eating a daily diet consisting of healthy whole foods that are low in calories. The diet instructions, or suggestions, contain solid information for what you can safely eat to accomplish your objectives, and they'll help you out with what you can order when you're out eating. It's interesting that some are surprised, and maybe dismayed, that the ...

By Essie Osborn There are many different types of therapists around today. A neuropsychological assessment New York is taken by someone who has been trained in this department. It can be for a child or an adult who has had problems with the brain for a very long time or someone who has just recently had various issues that need to be dealt with. It helps describe the brain better in terms of what is going on with different hemispheres. Sometimes a child may have fallen on their head and things may have been unsettled in the brain. They could develop at a different rate to the average child. Their personality and the way they act would alter slightly. Someone who has been diagnosed with attention deficit disorder will also have to take a test like this because it helps the therapist determine what their strengths and weaknesses are and how badly affected they are. There are different tests they can take. There are also different forms of this condition. A neuropsychologist will...

By Carol Turner Once the clinicians detect an illness that necessitates an exposed operation, the idea could be dreadful. The lengthy terror mixed with nervousness in the majority of instances will result in even more complicated problems. Horror and worry if not taken care of could be a fatal illness. Nonetheless, because of the modernized technology, there are proceedings that a clinician can conduct without the need to get the most dreaded exposed surgery. Though, with the advanced laparoscopic specialists New York, you will have the choice to receive the substitute procedure rather than the conventional method. The process has a decrease in threat and will lessen the size of your worry and terror. Laparoscopic surgery is a variety of technique that is usually used to monitor inner body parts that are in the abdominal area. It is a minor method enveloping as the doctor only makes tiny incisions using a laparoscope. It is a small tube with a photo camera at the facade which is ins...

Dr. Stephen Rose, the Chief Research Officer of the Foundation Fighting Blindness has just written an article about emerging treatments for retinal diseases, including the use of stem cells, gene therapy and new pharmaceutical approaches. I feel it is important for those of you on the front lines fighting these diseases and those of you who have them, to know that we are getting closer and closer to solving some of the questions about saving sight, and perhaps even bringing back lost sight. Please take a look at Dr. Rose’s words and dig deeper into the resources available on the FFB website. (I have not included the links that were included with some of his remarks, but you can go to the original on the web and check them out for yourselves.) What Emerging Treatment Will Work Best for Me? Written by Stephen Rose, Ph.D., Chief Research Officer, Foundation Fighting Blindness November 8, 2011 - Hope has never run higher in the fight against retinal degenerative diseases, thanks to clinica...

Over the past several years, I have written about new technologies for treating retinal diseases, including the use of drugs (Avastin, Lucentis and Eylea for wet AMD), laser treatment (Ellex’s 2RT - Retinal Regeneration, for dry AMD), and the use of stem cells and gene therapy for a wide range of ophthalmic diseases. Earlier this year, I became aware of a new company, jCyte, who was investigating the use of retinal progenitor cells to replace damaged or destroyed photoreceptors to restore vision to those whose photorecptors had stopped working, especially in those with the latter stages of  retinitis pigmentosa (RP). I was aware that Advanced Cell Technology was also in the early stages of doing research with retinal progenitor cells. I decided the best way of learning about this unique approach to restoring photoreceptor activity (and perhaps, vision) to those afflicted with RP and other retinal degenerative diseases, was to undertake some research and write about it. In doing the...

This is the7th of a series of eight articles chronicling the development of Customized Ablation or Wavefront Directed Lasik. This column was written following the 2002 ASCRS meeting and was published in the August 8, 2002 issue of Ocular Surgery News. ASCRS Report: What's New in Customized Ablation and A New Treatment for Hyperopia and More Irving J. Arons Managing Director Spectrum Consulting Much has happened since the last time I addressed the subject of customized ablations in January (my AAO reports in the January 1st and 15th issues of OSN). More thought has been given to the inherent problems -- some of which are now starting to be addressed -- and more data has been collected by several of the companies involved in wavefront-guided custom ablation. As I wrote in January, the results with "classic" LASIK have gotten much better thanks to improved lasers, trackers, and keratomes. Most patients today can obtain uncorrected visual acuity close to or better than 20/20....

By Selena Chery Most men and women will experience the restrictions of back ache at some stage. Limitations related to the lumbar region can result from severe injuries, obesity, and spinal joint degeneration. The Las Vegas chiropractor aids in determining the underlying source for symptoms and safe modern methods to improve physical function. To determine the causes for back ache, a chiropractic examination will have to be performed. This includes mobility tests and digital imaging to detect the presence of spinal misalignment. The assessment will aid in determining whether additional factors such as muscle strain and degeneration are present and aggravating symptoms. A misaligned spine can be tended to with manually based therapy. The poor state of the spinal column can occur because of trauma, the force of an injury, obesity, and poor posture. When the vertebrae are no longer in an aligned state, it can lead to nerve compression and an inability to perform operations in a regul...

By Marci Nielsen Also known as bariatrician, a bariatric doctor is one who practices bariatric, a medical field aimed at weight loss. Getting qualified bariatric doctors requires some specified knowledge and a good guidance. Before you begin your quest for ideal doctor, it is wise that you have a good understanding of competencies that are possessed by surgeon and any side effect that you may experience. Be sure of how the treatment is suitable to you, compare steps involved and choose the most suitable to you. The difference between bariatric surgeons and bariatric doctors (bariatricians) is that the former perform surgery in their treatment while the latter do not essentially perform surgery. The bariatricians are the ones who are normally preferred. Your family doctor should offer you with what is suitable to your case. City New York is flooded with these doctors, and it is all up to you to assess them and come up with the ideal one. Finding a doctor who lies within your insur...

About a year ago, a colleague put me in touch with a Boston-based venture capitalist who was interested in a new method for restoring vision to the blind that was under development at Cornell University. I did some cursory research about the technology and wrote a brief report about what I learned. I really didn’t understand the front end of the technology – how the research team was able to acquire and manage a useful visual signal that could be converted into sight by the brain, but since the back end involved the use of gene therapy, which I was very interested in, I began a file to collect information about this technology. Then, about a month ago, I learned that Dr. Sheila Nirenberg, the team leader, would be giving a presentation about her technology at an Optogenetics Conference that was being held in the Boston area. I contacted the symposium director and obtained an invitation to sit in on Dr. Nirenberg’s talk. On May 1st, I went to the conference, met Dr. Nirenberg, listened ...