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Tag: "alert" at medical news

The brain loves a surprise

... than would a person who needs consistency. Being alert to out-of-the-ordinary conditions, Dr. Berns noted, is important to survival. So the next time you give someone a pleasant surprise, rest assured their brains would love you!!!...

Paracetamol May Cause Live Damage Warns Consumer Education and Research Centre

...tamol cannot be brushed aside. The idea is only to alert the consumers against the potential side effects...

Sleep, snoring....stroke

...ered a stroke compared to 4% of those who remained alert during the day, even after classic risk factors which could lead to stroke were ruled out.The Stroke Association said they had found the study "fascinating" and called for more research....

Drug abuse leads to long standing changes in the brain

...of methamphetamine abuse and emphasize the need to alert users and potential users to the long-lasting, profound effects of this drug." Methamphetamine, also known as "speed," "meth" or "chalk" (and, in its smoked form, as "ice," "crystal" or "glass"), can be smoked, snorted, injected or taken orally. Th...

Caffeine keeps soldiers sharp

...ust perform complex tasks or who need help staying alert for longer periods of time, according to a new report by the National Academy of Sciences. The report, by the academy's Institute of Medicine, found that 100 to 600 mg of caffeine, the equivalent of one to six cups of coffee, can help "maintain cogni...

Plague creates panic in India

...last one week. We don't feel the need to issue any alert advising people to stay away from the area" Thakur said. The first victim died on February 4 after he had gone hunting in a forest last month and had been possibly infected by a wild rat. The highly contagious disease later killed three of his rela...

Fatty deposits affect the stomach too

...ns the artery. In fact, mesenteric ischemia should alert those who suffer from it to more serious problems elsewhere namely in the coronary arteries....

Sharing injection equipment spreads Hepatitis C

...enting messages and campaigns should be revised to alert active injection drug users to the importance of reducing or eliminating all equipment-sharing practices. Currently in the US, injection drug users are the group at highest risk for infection with HCV, with experts attributing more than 60% of new H...

Pancreatic Cancer may be linked to Diabetes

...at kind of information will help physicians remain alert to the possibility of pancreatic cancer in that age group whenever they see a new case of diabetes....

Abortion made easy pill causes alarm in state

...absolutely ruled out, the patients need to be both alert and aware, which is very rarely the case in UP. The drug requires a constant supervision and a medical follow-up, says Gupta. However, its free availability like a laxative will only prompt women to indulge in experimentation which needs to be discou...

Watching television linked to smoking

...f tobacco promotion. They say these results should alert parents, educators and health professionals to the idea that discouraging television viewing could be an effective strategy to reduce the incidence of smoking....

Flesh-eating virus

Health officials in Glasgow have issued an alert after two cases of a rare flesh-eating bug were diagnosed among drug users. They said the cases of necrotising fasciitis had come to light in the last week during routine checks of drug addicts.// Injecting drug users are more vulnerable to the poten...

Women's stroke indications vary from men's

...pain. The findings suggest that everyone should be alert to any unusual symptom, and doctors should be aware that stroke - especially among women - won't always present in the conventional way....

Taking the help of pharmacist

... herbal remedies or supplements - they can quickly alert you to the possibility of any interactions or adverse effects. And when you are prescribed a new medication, talk to your pharmacist about it. Might it interact with drugs you are already taking or with certain foods? Will it have an adverse effect...

WHO Says Toronto Going Back on SARS-Affected List

...U.S. Centers for Disease Control to issue a travel alert for Canada last week, a step short of advising against necessary travel there. The WHO designation is routine for transmission of new cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, and a spokesman for the U.N. agency said Toronto was nowhere near anot...

SARS-Free Taiwan to Mark End Phase of Global Fight

...bal travel, and prompted the WHO to issue a global alert in March. Its virulence startled the health community which is still trying to establish its origin and how it is spread. The fact that it jumps from one infected person to another easily, even in well-equipped modern hospitals where many victims hav...

Pasta sauces recalled in cancer scare

... supermarket chains Sainsbury's and Safeway. The alert follows the discovery of a red dye called Sudan 1 in chili powder used in the sauces. The dye -- classified as a carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer -- is normally used for industrial purposes in solvents, gasoline and shoe ...

Exercise Affects Alertness

...found that animals in the exercise group were more alert than those in the control group. During one training session, monkeys who exercised learned how to take a performance test much quicker than those that did not exercise. Cameron concludes, "We believe the study results show exercise causes a person t...

Aspirin Induced Asthma , A Little-Known Inducer

...viously thought. They say more needs to be done to alert patients with asthma about potential negative reactions to drugs, like aspirin. Since aspirin and NSAIDs are often self-prescribed, patients diagnosed with asthma should be alerted to the possibility of aspirin-induced asthma by their health care p...

The Importance Of “ Good ”Control Of Diabetes During Pregnanc

...fants born to women with type 1 diabetes should be alert for signs of low blood sugar in the babies....

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