Posted in Headaches on May 27th, 2008
I am not sure how many of you who have headache problems have heard of pheochromocytoma, it is a tumor of the adrenal gland. This can cause the following symptoms:
Headaches (severe)
Excess sweating (generalized)
Racing heart (tachycardia and palpitations)
Anxiety / nervousness (feelings of impending death)
Nervous shaking (tremors)
Pain in the lower chest or upper abdomen
Nausea (with or without [...]
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Posted in Headaches on May 23rd, 2008
Contrary to some reports, the epilepsy drug oxcarbazepine does not appear to prevent migraine, according to recent research.A study involved 170 men and women at clinics across the United States with half of the group receiving a daily dose of oxcarbazepine; the other half took placebo. Both groups included people who had three to nine [...]
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Posted in Health on May 17th, 2008
For a class I am currently taking, I am working on a project with a team of other students on distributed computing. For those who do not know what it is I feel that it is a worthwhile endeavor to consider getting involved with. It is a way of connecting thousands of computers and making [...]
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Posted in Health on May 14th, 2008
What is a Narcotic?
A narcotic is an addictive drug that reduces pain, induces sleep and may alter mood or behaviour.
In US legal context, narcotic refers to opium, opium derivatives, and their semi-synthetic or fully synthetic substitutes as well as cocaine and coca leaves, which although classified as “narcotics” in the U.S.
Drug effects depend heavily on [...]
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Posted in Life on May 9th, 2008
So today I logged in to Google analytics to check some of the ways that people are find my site and was surprised to be greeted by a pop up asking me to accept some new terms.
So what exactly was I accepting? I decided to did a little deeper. On the Google Analytics blog it [...]
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