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Another chemotherapy drug which helps treat breast cancer in its advanced stages was made recently from sea sponge. According to reports, this drug helped extend the lives of women who are suffering from metastatic breast cancer up to two and a half months. The drug, known as erubulin, was presented during the recent meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology which was held in Chicago.

The study’s author, Dr. Christopher Twelves, said that there is a big need for these therapies as they significantly improve the survival rate of breast cancer patients. This particular drug (Erubulin) happens to target the mechanisms which make cells divide. Previous agents used to treat breast cancer did not do this.

More than 750 women suffering from advanced breast cancer were randomly chosen for this clinical study. This included patients who have been previously treated using other therapies to treat their cancer. According to the study’s findings, there was a 23% improvement in survival when erubulin was taken. Compared to the average survival of 10.7 months using conventional treatments, patients who were given erubulin lived for another 13 months.

While erubulin can lengthen the survival period of women with metastatic breast cancer, there is no proof yet that it can actually cure the cancer. An expert in the meeting also cautioned that not all women who underwent the said clinical trial had access to other drugs released in the past years. Because the controlled group was also chosen randomly, the findings might not be that accurate.

Your skin is something that is very, very important and something that you should take care of.  There so many natural treatments that are out there for your skin that you can do with just simple kitchen ingredients.  That is exactly what we are going to talk about in this blog, what skin care treatments are out there that are natural!

One of the first treatments includes strawberries.  Mashing up the strawberries into mush and using it as a mask is a great way to exfoliate your skin because of the seeds.  Just scrubbing your face down with the mask will loosen up all of that dirt and will make your skin beautiful and shiny!

Another thing that you can use on your skin if you have oily skin is lemon juice, as that will clear up all of that dirt and oil on your face.

Have you ever had poison ivy?  Dry skin?  Eczema?  If you have ever experienced any of these very common skin issues, you probably already know of one extremely awesome and super natural way to help relieve some of the inching that goes with all of these skin problems.

Oatmeal.  For me, whenever I have dry skin in those winter months, I take an oatmeal bath and in a few minutes, my skin has calmed right down.  Oatmeal baths are a fantastic way to relieve inching and certainly one of the best ways that you can relieve some of the flaky and scaly skin that goes with eczema.

Now, you do not have to of course you do not have to cover your entire body with oatmeal, but dropping a packet into your bath once in a while will do wonders for your skin!

When I was a kid, I was the kid that had ear infections all of the time.  I do not think that there is anything worse than an ear infection, especially if you are a parent that is dealing with a screaming kid.  Did you know that there are actually herbal remedies that you can use that can help treat ear infections.

One thing that I have learned is that olive lead extracts are actually a fantastic way to treat an ear infection.  Olive oil actually stimulates phagocytes, which are blood cells that protect the body by obliterating atrocious bacteria, which as you know – an ear infection is all about bacteria.

Another thing that can really help with ear infections is goldenseal, this will help boost your immune system and will provide some rapid recovery for your ear infection.

Hydrangea is a gorgeous, bright flower — but that is not all. It can do more than make your garden lovely. Recently conducted research suggests that this flower can also act as a very potent drug, one which may have the ability to treat several common illnesses and diseases.

According to these findings, there is a drug located in the shrub’s root which can be extracted and used to treat problems like multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, arthritis, and even some types of diabetes.

Further, the drug may be beneficial in battling illnesses and diseases that are caused by an attack on the body’s immune system.

If this turns out to be true, and if it can be made into a viable treatment option, then many doors will open up to the possibility of treating debilitating diseases in a natural and ultimately safer way.

For those of you that have been suffering for years from Rheumatism – I can promise that there is a treatment out there and it is all natural.  Rheumatism is actually something that is very difficult to manage and treat and it is something that people have tried to cure. 

For example, lotions and ointments have been used for years to help the treatment of Rheumatism but honestly – it doesn’t work as well as Dead Sea salt baths.

The great thing about taking a bath in Dead Sea salt is that it is all natural and honestly, the minerals that are in this specific bath are absolutely incredible and they can truly help with your pain and the swelling that goes along with Rheumatism.