Medical Research Excellence – Health-e-Child

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A European Project.

The work, which lasted about 2 years, is developed with the collaboration of the Pediatric Hospital Giannina Gaslini of Genoa, the London Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital and the Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris. Since January 2006 Health-e-Child was financed by several partners for a total budget of almost 17 million, most of them from the European Union.

Current limits.

Many diseases that affect childhood are particularly complex both for diagnosis and for treatment a difficult situation made worse from the rarity of certain diseases. The search for a appropriate cure can become a real ordeal for young patients.

Health-e-Child aims to facilitate the overcoming of these obstacles, helping to optimize the existing procedures, many times unsatisfactory.

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Osteoarthritis – Medical Research – A Laymans Point Of View

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Someone very close to me suffers from Osteoarthritis.

What is arthritis. Simply put, arthritis is inflammation (redness, swelling, pain or heat) within one or more of the joints.

I was thinking about the condition and wanted to express myself from a laymans point of view. I won’t attempt to get into the professional, medical or academic details of this condition. The more research that I did the more I found medical terms that are presented without consideration of regular folks. So my submission here is not meant to be an academic presentation in the least.

What I have been able to gather from research is that there are about 100 different kinds of arthritis that could be grouped into 5 major categories. They are (1) Osteoarthritis, (2) Rheumatoid arthritis, (3) Lupus, (4) Gout (5) a general category of other.

Whats is the best treatment for arthritis What is the worst form of the disease Can arthritis be prevented and if so how Does exercise help Is there a recommended diet that would help Good questions all. I am not qualified to answer these questions. What I can do is share my personal experience in dealing with health issues.

I think I am like most people in that I don’t give much attention to the definitions, causes, or remedies for serious health problems or issues until they effect me personally. I think this is normal. So what do you do when you or someone you love dearly is confronted with a serious health situation. You do as much research as you possibly can. If you are not up to deciphering all of the medical terms, get someone to help. Doctors have come a long way in seeing the need to not talk over the heads of their patients, but when reading medical literature there seems to be the need on the part of the writer to sound as educated as possible and therefore use as much professional terminology as possible. As professional and precise as these terms may be they are obscure to regular folk like me. It’s almost like code that does indeed need to be deciphered.

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