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Candida Albicans Treatments – 5 Sure Shot Tips Proven To Work Every Time!
If you’ve been struggling with Candida for longer than you care to remember, or just recently discovered it to be the culprit for all that ails you, the good news is that, either way, you can give Candida the boot. There are plenty of natural Candida albicans treatments that work very well. The trick is to find the ones that provide permanent relief. With that said, here are 5 Candida albicans treatments that are among the most popular:
Olive Leaf Extract
This herbal anti-fungal agent obliterates yeast and fungus of alls shapes and sizes. When going to war against the yeast, a good idea would be to supplement 3,000 mg per day.
Probiotics
Probiotics are beneficial bacteria that not only demolish yeast, but at the same also work to boost your immune system.
Oil of Oregano
This popular natural Candida albicans treatment really packs a powerful punch. It’s been touted for almost time immemorial for its ability to knock out everything from the common cold to holding back the charge of both fungal and viral infections. Keep in mind that is stuff is kind of hard to swallow – it can be a bit harsh. But that’s the source of its strength. You can’t go wrong reaching for this first at the onset of yeast infection.
Garlic
Effective either as a supplement or using the garlic clove itself, this is a staple in the arsenal when fighting yeast infections. Garlic works much the same way as oregano, and can also be almost unbearable to take orally – in other words; it smells rank and burns going down. Once it’s down, though, the yeast have to deal with it – and their chances aren’t good!
Grapefruit Seed Extract
Grapefruit seed extract is one the best and most versatile Candida albicans treatments. A naturally potent anti-fungal agent, it can be diluted in water and applied directly to the affected areas, drank in the same manner, or even used in the washing machine to kill germs and bacteria on your clothes. For cases of thrush, or yeast infections in the mouth, it can be used in a liquid dropper, from which you add to drinks and gargle.
While all of these Candida albicans treatments do a great job, none of them have the ability to eliminate the Candida albicans for good. Why? Because these treatments don’t have the ability to get to the deepest levels of the body where the yeast spores are allowed to remain dormant, only to flare up again down the road. To get a job like this done, you’re going to need a treatment with a bit more of a kick to it
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BridgeHead Software Research Reveals: Healthcare IT Professionals Investing in Electronic Patient Record Systems Resiliency
BridgeHead CEO says Vendor-Agnostic Healthcare Data Management (HDM) and Healthcare Storage Virtualization (HSV) Can Make IT Managers' EPR Resiliency Dreams a Reality
World of Health IT, Barcelona - 15th March 2010 - Preliminary results from the BridgeHead Software Data Management Healthcheck survey suggest health IT managers are looking for resilient solutions for managing their electronic patient record (EPR) systems that can grow and evolve as their organisations' storage needs change over time.
Respondents to the survey, which is still underway at http://www.bridgeheadsoftware.com/hdm-survey, said their top three spending priorities for the next 12 months were backup (including business continuity and disaster recovery) (46.2%), Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS, 38.5%), and archiving (36.5%). Other answer choices included digitizing paper records (34.6%), server virtualization (30.8%), storage virtualization (19.2%), cloud storage (11.5%) and green IT (7.7%).
Tony Cotterill, CEO of BridgeHead Software, said the results indicated "a professional understanding of the complexities of migrating from paper to electronic patient records in the modern healthcare environment. Backup and archiving are fundamental to any data management strategy, so it's clear that health IT managers are doing their homework before starting the EPR migration process."
Cotterill added that BridgeHead Software's vendor-agnostic healthcare data management (HDM) and healthcare storage virtualization (HSV) suite has helped over 1,000 hospitals take control of their data by creating fully integrated and interoperable platforms for viewing and accessing electronic patient records.
"Healthcare storage virtualization [HSV] helps hospitals realise the full potential of electronic patient records systems because HSV empowers hospitals to meet their growing storage needs without compromising on current hardware brand or media type," explained Cotterill. "HSV separates applications from the storage device, allowing multiple applications to tap into the same resources and increasing overall utilization of the storage resource."
Cotterill added, "Vendor-agnostic solutions for HDM and HSV free hospitals to negotiate better service contracts on better terms with their application and storage vendors, hence making the most of their current storage infrastructure and systems investments."
Preliminary findings from the Data Management Healthcheck also confirmed the existence of a growing healthcare data burden. A majority of respondents said they expected their data volumes to increase by up to 25 percent over the next year, and a whopping 90 percent said over half of the data contained within their organisations was over six months old.
"Although backup is one of the keys to an effective and efficient data management strategy, it is by no means a catch-all solution," said Cotterill. "The integrated, vendor-agnostic HDM and HSV approach puts hospitals back in control of their clinical data, freeing them from supposed obligations to their imaging and storage vendors while enabling them to deliver quicker, more efficient, and better informed healthcare at the same time as reducing costs within the hospital."
Press briefings
Journalists, bloggers and analysts attending World of Health IT are invited to register for a press briefing to discuss the research, its healthcare storage virtualization and its European expansion plans with CEO Tony Cotterill or other available BridgeHead Software spokespeople.
If you would like more information or to schedule a briefing, please do not hesitate to contact Rose Ross at rose@omarketing.co.uk or on-site at +44 7976 154597
Data Management Healthcheck 2010
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About BridgeHead Software - www.bridgeheadsoftware.com
BridgeHead Software is the leading provider of Healthcare Storage Virtualization (HSV) technology, providing backup, recovery, and archiving solutions to over 1,000 hospitals worldwide. BridgeHead HSV enables organizations to eliminate data silos and separate applications from storage. A storage- and vendor-agnostic approach, BridgeHead HSV provides customers with a scalable platform that works with their current and future systems infrastructure. To learn more about BridgeHead Software, visit http://www.bridgeheadsoftware.com.
About Healthcare Storage Virtualization (HSV)
Healthcare Storage Virtualization (HSV) gives IT the power to say "yes" to the growing storage needs of the organization at large by creating a flexible storage management framework that separates the application from the storage device, allowing multiple applications to tap into the same resources, thereby increasing overall resource utilization. HSV creates common pools of shareable storage hardware that can be accessed as needed, regardless of the application or data type.
Healthcare Storage Virtualization is a scalable solution that supports your healthcare data management challenges over time. HSV enables you to focus on solving your highest-priority problem first (e.g., implementing a vendor-neutral DICOM archive) while establishing a platform that positions you to address other issues (e.g., email archiving) as your time and budget allows.
HSV puts you in control. Your data, your storage, your choice.
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Bhagwan Chowdhry's FAB Campaign Aims to Put $100 in Bank Account for Every Baby
Bhagwan Chowdhry, a Professor of Finance at UCLA's Anderson School, outlines his organization's mission to give every newborn in the world access to financial legitimacy. The most stunning part of the FinancialAccess@Birth (FAB) campaign isn't the remarkable impact that participants would get from a mere $100 starting balance or even the GNP metrics envisioned to fund this campaign, its the idea that this could help erase poverty. Here's the organization's plan in full.
The FAB Campaign, by Bhagwan Chowdhry, Joshua Coval, Paul Hudnut, Vijay Mahajan, and Peter Singer
Imagine putting your life savings into a piggybank or
under your mattress. That would be crazy, since neither offers much
security, nor any interest to make the account grow. Yet, nearly half
of the world's population does not have access to any formal financial
services. Their savings are kept in small jars or trunks, or through a
patchwork of informal methods. Nandini, a village woman in India who
deposits 5 rupees every day for 220 days with her village deposit
collector, only accumulates 1000 rupees after 220 days--an astonishing
APR of minus 30%, notes Stuart Rutherford in his book "The Poor and
Their Money." If Nandini had access to a simple bank savings account
that paid a modest interest rate of 4% per annum, she would have
instead saved 1113 rupees. This loss of 113 rupees may not appear to be
significant, but consider the following scenario. Her young daughter,
Krupa, gets ill and needs life saving medication which costs 100
rupees. If she does what any desperate mother would do, she may have to
pay 5% a day to the local moneylender paying him 150 rupees month after
month and still continuing to owe him 100 rupees. Lack of access to
formal financial services, forces Nandinis of our world into a cycle of
constant indebtedness, preventing them from building up household
resources for security or investment, and perpetuating their poverty.
The emergence of the microcredit industry, with innovators such as
Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, ACCION in Latin America and more recently
Kiva in cyberspace, has begun to address the issue of financial
services for the poor. But microcredit is only one piece of the puzzle
of financial inclusion, and while these early leaders provide inspiring
examples, they help only a small fraction of the world's poor. The poor
also suffer because they are inadequately insured against unanticipated
shocks and contingencies caused by events such as illness or death of a
family member, and natural calamities such as floods, droughts or
earthquakes. Any security provided by savings and assets is grossly
compromised for the poor who are excluded from the formal economy, as
emphasized by Hernando DeSoto and former U.S. Secretary of State
Madeline Albright in a recent U.N. report. Even during catastrophic
events, such as tsunamis, earthquakes, floods and droughts, attempts to
provide social insurance in the form of aid and charity are often
inadequate and inconsistent.
What is required to bring billions into the formal economy, and start them
on the path out of poverty? We believe there is a relatively simple
solution. It isn't easy and it isn't fast, and we need your help. But
the proposal is feasible, and comprehensive enough that it will lead to
financial inclusion for every child and young adult by 2030. We propose
that starting November 11, 2011 (11/11/11), every child born in this
world will start life with a Financial Access at Birth (FAB) bank
account. The opening of these "FAB" bank accounts would be integrated
with the official birth registration process and perhaps with
electronic banking. Governments, with the help of
institutional/individual donors will make a deposit of US$100 in each
FAB account.
This will entice parents into
registering the birth of every child. An initial deposit of $100 could
significantly change lives for people in poor countries. The deposit
cannot be withdrawn until the child reaches an age of 16 - preventing a
parent or another adult from misusing the money. Use of new technology,
such as biometric identity systems, could further minimize the
possibility of fraud and manipulation.
How much will it cost and where will the money come from? Currently, 134
million children are born worldwide each year. Assuming that 25% of
parents will voluntarily forgo the initial $100, this would require a
funding of $100 per child for approximately 100 million children every
year, which amounts to a total of $10 billion. It would seem sensible
to require the host governments to share part of this burden
themselves. This could be managed by a multilateral agency such as the
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in which all member countries
could contribute an amount that is proportional to their GNP and would
receive a transfer that is proportional to the number of children born
in that country.
The total requirement per year of $10 billion is about one-fiftieth of one percent of the world GNP of about $50 trillion, and this would be the contribution level for
each country. So, for instance, Rwanda with a GNP of nearly $4 billion
would contribute less than one million dollars, and would receive a
transfer of nearly $30 million for FAB accounts of nearly 300,000
children born every year. India with a GNP of nearly $1 trillion would
contribute $200 million and receive $2.5 billion for FAB accounts for
nearly 25 million children born in India every year. Developed nations
such as the United States with a GNP of $14 trillion would contribute
less than $3 billion - raised by a partnership between the government,
private banks, and charitable giving - for FAB. These amounts would
require prioritization, but are within the ballpark of many other
development initiatives.
Once the FAB account is set-up, a number of useful benefits become feasible.
Relatives, private donors, other social organizations could design
plans in which regular payments are made to FAB accounts to provide for
education, training, health-care. Imagine that, at the time of Krupa's
birth, Nandini opens a FAB account for her. A retired teacher in
Germany might like to sponsor Krupa's school fees for middle school. By
using the FAB account, this can happen easily, with the bank
transferring payments directly to the school. Imagine further that your
teenage daughter Emily decides to contribute $10 a month for Krupa for
her college education. Krupa's initial $100 deposit plus a $10 a month
contribution from Emily accumulates interest until Krupa turns sixteen.
At a (real) interest of 4% a year, Krupa would have accumulated nearly
$3000 or Rupees 150,000 that can pay for her college education in
India. Another direct mechanism could be to pledge a small amount every
time those who wish to give use a credit card. Supported by electronic
banking, these transfers could occur automatically, at very low cost,
and at limitless scale.
The interest earned on the initial deposit could either be reinvested or used for
providing critical services such as immunization, health-insurance or
catastrophe insurance. Perhaps most importantly, delivery of aid or
charity in times of emergency can be targeted to individuals and
communities in affected areas. When FAB accounts are integrated with
mobile telephony, those to whom the aid is directed, such as Krupa and
her mother Nandini, could withdraw (only) emergency funds donated by
private citizens or aid agencies, or direct payments to the FAB account
from catastrophe insurance, in time of need almost immediately and
without any slippage or loss that is often associated with traditional
aid.
This would require a serious commitment and
coordination among many. Governments will have to agree to fund the
initiative and allow the official birth registration process to be
integrated with setting-up online bank accounts. Banks would have to do
their part and determine business models to implement such accounts.
Technology companies will have to develop and provide the necessary
hardware and software support. The telecom industry will have to
integrate mobile banking with telecom services using mobile phones.
Civic and charitable organizations will have to assist with financial
education and enrollment systems that would make it simple for
individuals to participate in making donations and sending targeted
aid. Furthermore, we would need to ensure that funds are transferred in
their entirety to the recipients, which means that institutions
involved must agree to bear additional administrative and transactions
costs as acts of corporate social responsibility.
All of the required pieces to make this happen, in fact, exist today.
Korea, Singapore, Canada and the U.K. have all tried opening bank
accounts at the time of birth. Individual Development Accounts (IDAs)
in the United States, pioneered by Michael Sherradan, provide
mechanisms to match, through a variety of government and private sector
sources, savings accounts of low-income families. India is embarking on
an ambitious unique identification program (UID), headed by Nandan
Nilekani, a co-founder of Infosys, for its entire resident population,
using biometric technology. Online access for banking is the norm in
many countries. Mobile banking using cell-phones has arrived in Kenya,
Philippines and other countries. Organizations such as Kiva and United
Prosperity have made it easy to identify people in need, and companies
such as Paypal make transfer of even small amounts of money easy and
instantaneous. Large amounts of financial aid from rich to poor
countries already occur though organizations such as the World Bank.
The time has come to integrate all of these together and provide
financial access to every child that is born in the world.
The idea is simple, transparent and universal. Many details need to be
worked out. We invite the world community to come together to work on
the implementation challenges, think creatively and persuade each other
on the simplest ways to achieve various parts of the concept. You can
support the FAB Campaign by visiting the Web site FABCampaign.org and
signing your name. We urge leaders of technology and telecom companies,
banks, non-profit foundations, microfinance institutions and government
and multilateral agencies to support and join the FAB Campaign team by
writing to us through the FABCampaign.org Web site. The FAB Campaign
team will study the implementation of the idea by identifying a country
or two to get started, and showing that this can work. For instance, it
would take $30 million a year to get every child born in Rwanda a FAB
account. Let's make financial security a reality for Nandini and
billions just like her. Let's put our resources to work and help the
poor gain another foothold on the slippery path out of poverty.
To read more about the names behind the FAB Campaign, and to include yours visit FABCampaign.org
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