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New research shows women who have weekly migraine are significantly more likely to have a stroke than those with fewer migraines or no migraine at all, but those with lower migraine frequency may face increased risk of heart attacks.

The Women’s Health Study involved nearly 28,000 women health professionals in the United States who were 45 and older. The women did not have cerebrovascular disease at the beginning of the study and were followed for an average of 12 years. During that time, 706 cerebrovascular events, 305 heart attacks, and 310 ischemic strokes occurred.

Of the 3,568 women with migraine at the start of the study, 65 percent reported migraine less than once a month, 30 percent reported one migraine a month and five percent reported at least weekly migraine. Compared to women without migraine, the study found women who had at least weekly migraines were three times more likely to have a stroke, but those with a migraine frequency of less than monthly were one-and-halftimes more likely to have a heart attack.

“Our findings suggest that migraine frequency may be an indicator for increased risk of cardiovascular disease, particularly ischemic stroke,” said study author Tobias Kurth, MD, ScD, with Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and member of the American Academy of Neurology. “Future studies are needed to address whether migraine prevention reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease.”

Overall, the study found a mixed association between migraine and major cerebrovascular disease suggesting increased risk for women with high and low migraine frequency. “Our results may indicate that the mechanisms by which migraine associates with specific cardiovascular events may differ,” said Kurth. “More research is needed to determine the reasons for these results.”

Adapted from materials provided by American Academy of Neurology.

A recent article suggests that ongoing study “links even pain-free wisdom teeth to early gum disease that worsens over time, sometimes causing havoc far beyond the mouth. Indeed, pregnant women with gum disease around their wisdom teeth appear to be much more likely to give birth prematurely than unaffected pregnant women. The latest data suggest that as many as 80 percent of people will develop problems with their wisdom teeth.”

I don’t know who came up with this but I don’t think it’s accurate. Most experts no longer believe that crowding is a concern, but the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons typically wrongfully recommends pre-emptive pulling in young adulthood, before symptoms arise, when roots haven’t yet fully formed and surgical risks are lowest. “If you have to have them out when you’re 45, you will not enjoy that,” promises Tony Pogrel, chair of the department of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of California-San Francisco. Well Tony, when you’re 20 and are disabled by getting your wisdom teeth out you won’t like that either.

Thankfully, nonsurgeons are less gung-ho about preventive pulling. “If they’re not causing pain or infection, and they’re coming in straight, I usually take a wait-and-see approach,” says Cynthia Sherwood, a general dentist and national spokesperson for the Academy of General Dentistry. Those who wait are advised to have their wisdom teeth checked yearly, since they are tough to keep clean and may get infected or shift position.

Because wisdom teeth don’t form until around age 5, Anthony Silvestri, director of dental anatomy and occlusion at Tufts University’s dental school, foresees a day when lasers will be used to prevent that from happening. He and colleagues have had success in animals. “It doesn’t make sense,” he says, “that everyone should be having surgery for a useless tooth.”

Adapted from U.S. News

Here is another contest around the net and this time it is the focus of dental care.

The contest will award the top 3 with $150 worth of wordpress theme coding. This is perfect for anyone who is starting a new blog or website or just wants a redesign. What this means is that your design that has already been done (in like a .psd file) is coded, cut up, and optimized and will then work with wordpress and be a new theme. If you don’t have a .psd file or a design you can also get one made for you.

Along with this prize other prizes include receiving free banner advertising and listing on a website. In addition free web hosting is being offered. Head over to dental blogging for your chance to enter and win one of these prizes.

If anyone suffers from a chronic illness they know that in order to help achieve better treatment options for patients and a cure for the disease it needs to achieve publicity. The following are some ways to help better make others know about certain illnesses and conditions so that additional research and knowledge can be attained.

1) Post links as soon as anything is published and share these links with others. I recommended looking at the “Share This” link on the bottom of this post to see some ideas of social networks to share with.

2) Write to doctors with columns in the papers. If you don’t hear back, write another letter. The practice is to write a 150-word ’synopsis’ of the article you want to write - a bit about the condition, and with experiences you’ve (ie. doctors who don’t believe you, treatments that made you worse, or better, and how you’re coping with constant pain).

3) Call your local TV station, explain your story, and ask if they are interested in doing a piece on it.

4) If you get on the news it’s very important to have the segment on YouTube. This can potentially reach thousands upon thousands of people. Consider making your own video if you are up to it.

5) Contact local research universities and see if anyone is interested in studying about your illness or is currently studying it. If you get a professors name you may want to contact him or her and set up a meeting to talk or send them a more detailed explanation of your illness, how it affects you, and what you would like to see done.

6) Write to Congress, explain your story, and ask them to support more money for research.

Remember persistence usually pays off. Keep trying, stay optimistic, and do not give up.

Adapted from materials posted by “BritChick” at MDjunction.

I keep up to date with website’s Alexa Rankings because they are indicator of a web site’s authority and reach. Today I noticed a major change in the way this site is ranked. It jumped significantly up in the 3 months ranking.

Alexa says on there site…

When Alexa began displaying rankings in 1998 it was with the goal of showing Alexa Toolbar users how popular any given site was within the Alexa community. We listened to your suggestions, and we believe that our new rankings system is much closer to what you asked for. We now aggregate data from multiple sources to give you a better indication of website popularity among the entire population of Internet users.You gave us many other suggestions as well, and we are working hard to implement them. We won’t tell any secrets just yet, but you can expect to see new features rolled out over the coming weeks and months.

This certainly rapidly will change the game for pricing schemes at various affiliate websites across the web such as Text Link Ads. I welcome the change though and look forward to learning more about it.