Did you know that non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH is a type of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease? If you have NASH you have inflammation, excessive fat and cell damage in your liver. Dr. John Goff from the Rocky Mountain Gastroenterology Centers in Denver will be discussing the scope of the problem, the effects on the liver, who is at most risk and additional injuries that can be caused and what you can do to be healthier.
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Hepatitis, Fibrosis, Cirrhosis, Steatosis – you’ve heard of all these terms before, but what do they mean? They can all be a bit confusing, though for many types of liver disease, the advancement follows the same course. Learn more about the progression of liver disease by watching our short new animated video!
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In this clip (4 of 7), Dr. Snyderman argues for a change in focus in thinking about disease and the burdens of disease.
This clip is part of a lecture, “Integrative Medicine: A Foundation for Prospective Health Care,” by Ralph Snyderman, MD, Chancellor Emeritus for Health Affairs at Duke University and James B. Duke Professor of Medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Snyderman offers an overview of contemporary health care, identifies some problems in that system, and proposes a paradigm shift to a prospective and personalized approach. Integrative medicine, he says, may make helpful contributions. This lecture, delivered at NIH in 2005, is part of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Online Continuing Education Series. Free CME/CEU credit is available to health professionals (see http://nccam.nih.gov/training/videolectures).
If you have an achy hip that medications and even cortisone shots can no longer tame, you may be headed for surgery. You’ll have a lot of company. A half million Americans have total hip replacements each year. Here’s Dennis Douda for Medical Edge.
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