Advice on Foot Care

The Melafind® System is a hand held imaging device designed to help physicians identify malignant lesions. The device emits multiple wavelengths of light which help to examine the characteristics of suspicious lesions. The information is collected and then compared to a database within the system. The  Melafind® database consists of 6,000 lesions from 4,500 patients, which the company claims is the largest database in the U.S. The “brain” of the MelaFind® system uses sophisticated mathematical algorithms to compare the characteristics of the suspicious lesions with the characteristics of benign and malignant lesions stored in the database. The Melafind® System was developed by Electro-Optical Sciences and is currently being studied by the FDA and is not yet available for commercial use.

China’s Olympic hopeful, Liu Xiang, walked off the track before making it over a single hurdle. Liu said “I knew my foot would fail me. I felt painful when I was just jogging.” Xiang was referring to the back of his heel, where the Achilles tendon attaches to the heel bone. He had thought the injury had healed, only to have it recur a week prior to the event. His coach said that he has been dealing with the injury for six or seven years and described the condition as an inflamed bone spur. Continue Reading »

An essential oil is extracted directly from a plant or a part of a plant and contains the concentrated properties of a plant extract. The oil will carry a distinctive scent, or essence, of the plant from which it is extracted. Essential oils are concentrated substances that may be composed of alcohols, hydrocarbons, aldehydes, ketones, phenols, esters or acids. Essential oils have been used for centuries across many cultures for medicinal purposes. Today they remain very popular worldwide.

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