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announces the opening of his new office

using human growth hormone treatment
to help limit or reverse
body changes that occur over time

Providence Medical Center - Farmington Hills
30055 Northwestern Highway, Suite 210
Farmington Hills, Michigan 48334

For a free consultation or for further information
please call (248) 865-9448; fax (248) 865-4295

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7071 Orchard Lake Road
S Building, Suite 215
West Bloornfiekl, MI 48322
Just North of 14 Mile

NEW LOCATION

• Wheelchair accessible
• Ample parking

(810) 851-0610

Satisfaction or no fee

Mill Floor

MIGRAINE

HEADACHE & SINUS BREAKTHROUGH
HPI pioneers "risk-free, drug-free" treatment

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Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
The Headache Prevention
Institute and research facility
has developed a breakthrough
treatment for patients who have
been suffering with some of
the following symptoms:
--frequent mig.rain e pain;
--chronic headaches, usually
upon awakening;
--sinus and neck symptoms;
--a normal medical workup.

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A health care first, HPI pa-
tients who feel they have not
received satisfactory relieffol-
lowing treatment pay no ifee.

"Our patients literal y have
nothing to lose but their
headaches", says Dr. James
Boyd, DDS, former migraine
sufferer and director at HPI.
- For a free consultation, call
(810) 258-6182. For more in-
formation 1-800-80-PREVENT.

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The Midwife
Alternative

The current issue of (beginital)
Statistical Bulletin (endital) re-
ports that midwives attending the
labor and delivery of mothers who
are at low risk of developing ob-
stetric complications are a safe,
cost-effective alternative to physi-
cian-assisted delivery.
Most midwife-attended births
are by certified nurse-midwives
and take place in a hospital set-
ting. In 1994, 3.9 million babies
were born in the United States,
of which 218,466 were delivered
by midwives. The use of midwives
is most common in the West and
the South, and least common in
the Midwest.
California has the highest birth
rate and the most babies deliv-
ered by midwives. New Mexico,
however, has the highest per-
centage of babies delivered by
midwives (19 percent).

and now there are several effec-
tive ways to battle the pain.
According to (beginital) Men's
Confidential (endital) newsletter,
the injectable drug sumatriptan
is effective in 75 percent of pa-
tients, stopping the pain in as lit-
tle as 10 minutes. The drug is
about 50 percent effective in tablet
form.
Another effective drug is lido-
caine, which delivers relief in the
form of nose drops.

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While these treatments can
be very effective, the newsletter's
editors warn that migraines ac-
companied by visual disturbances
and motor difficulties limited to
one side of the body could signify
a stroke and should be treated im-
mediately by a doctor.

Physicians
Need To Know

According to an American Med-
ical Association survey, half of all
family-practice patients rely on
some form of alternative medicine
in addition to traditional treat-
ment, but less than half of them
share that information with their
physicians.
Many patients, who have
sought such treatments as
acupuncture, chiropractic, home-
opathy, naturopathy, massage
therapy, vitamin and herb ther-
apy, prayer and folk remedies, say
their traditional
doctors are simply too narrow-
minded to accept the possible va-
lidity of alternative medicine.
The problem, according to re-
searchers who surveyed patients
of family practices in the Portland,
Ore., area, is that physicians need
to know all treatments their pa-
tients seek.
"Open and nonjudgmental
questioning of patients may help
increase physician knowledge of
this use and lead to improved pa-
tient care," say researchers.

Modern Ways To Stop
Pain W Migraines
Preventing
Migraine sufferers will seek treat- Eye Disease
ment wherever they can find it,

2380 Orchard Lake Road

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in our Classified Section

medication following the surgery.
The surgery is a minimally in-
vasive procedure that is usually
performed on an outpatient basis.
The surgeon uses a small lighted
telescope to view the sinuses in
order to drain any infection and
remove blockages and chronical-
ly inflamed areas. Kennedy adds
that close post-surgical monitor-
ing is key to long-lasting relief.

For those who prefer a more
natural approach, the New York
Headache Center has found that
injections of the mineral magne-
sium are effective 85 percent of
the time. In some patients, it has
stopped the pain for up to five
months after just one treatment.

Baby boomers approaching their
golden years should take steps
now to prevent age-related mac-
ular degeneration of the eye and
cataracts later in life.
"We know there is nothing
we an do to reverse ARMD and
cataract processes once they
have begun," says Lawrence J.
Alexander, 0.D., chairman of
the Eye Disease Prevention
Task Force. "What we hope to
do is find individuals with a
family history of these condi-
tions, catch them in their 30s
and 40s, and help them modify
their lifestyles."
Because the development of
these conditions is associated
with oxygen free-radical dam-
age to eye tissue, Alexander rec-
ommends taking anti-oxidant
supplements. Zinc and vitamins
C, E and A are especially im-
portant. People at high risk
should start taking supplements
by the time they turn 40 and
continue taking them daily.
Ultraviolet damage from the
sun also contributes to ARMD
and cataracts, so the task force
also recommends wearing sun-
glasses whenever you're out-
doors. ❑

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