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Thoughts
by Mieke Mosmuller
02-11-2016 2 comments
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In ancient times, wisdom was not conveyed in plain thoughts, but clothed in images. These images are not to be understood by our intellect as plain truths. Wisdom is given, but given in pictures. Everyone who is living in our stressful world will recognize the ‘gifts’ from Pandora’s box: cares and troubles ... read more...
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The beginning of a cure
by Mieke Mosmuller
26-10-2016 5 comments
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If we can believe the truth in a story like the one I told last week, we are confronted with a riddle. In my practice as a doctor and also in reports from colleagues I know about several cases that are more or less similar to the one I told last week. Once in a while a tumour, even a tumour with metastases, vanishes without ... read more...
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Cancer and culture
by Mieke Mosmuller
19-10-2016 7 comments
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This Autumn is a time for me of many seminars - in more than one country. There is no fixed programme that is the same everywhere; it has, rather, a very rich and growing theme. In Amsterdam and Bern I will speak about dementia. But in Hamburg the theme will be 'Cancer and culture'. I will give a kind of preview here, as I d... read more...
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Enjoying life
by Mieke Mosmuller
12-10-2016 2 comments
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It is said that the problem of dementia is growing. 20 percent of western people are said to be facing a future with dementia - which is a very, very large number. Investigations into populations in which dementia is rare, and in social and educational groups in western society that show little dementia at an old age will ma... read more...
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Alzheimer
by Mieke Mosmuller
05-10-2016 6 comments
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It is said that 70% of all dementia cases are 'Alzheimers'. This form of dementia is thought to be an illness based on changes in the nervous system of the brain. These changes are manifest, but the scientists are not sure about the truth of their suppositions. The symptoms are a progressive loss of the cognitive functions... read more...
