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Emotional callers hamper speedy ambulance dispatch

...t and Emergency Medicine. Nearly 2,000 emergency calls were monitored at West Midlands ambulance service ...urban and a rural mix. A total of 26.3% of all the calls were subject to communication difficulties. Of those, 33.4% were attributed to the emotional state o...

Health Officials Recommend Flu Vaccine

...thrax panic. "We're getting a tremendous amount of calls and a tremendous response'' to flu vaccination clinics, said Cindy Schulte of the Schenectady County Health Department in upstate New York. "People are anxious to get it, and I think it's a year of great anxiety because of all that's in the press." /...

Research of Ritalin

...t children with ADD and ADHD, has prompted renewed calls for research into its long-term effects.Dr John Walker and colleagues from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York have found that relatively high doses of the drug methylphenidate, the generic form of Ritalin, changed the expression ...

Less sodium,less pressure

... and remove the salt shaker from their tables. She calls upon the food industry to reduce the amount of salt added to food products and to make more low-salt food items available....

Appropriate treatment for breast cancer

...reported sexual discomfort and vaginal dryness. It calls into question whether it's worth having chemotherapy or tamoxifen in the case of a very small - less than one centimeter in diameter - tumour. For larger tumours, these treatments have a definite survival value that would be set off against any long-...

Robots craft medical history

...ical device provider, Computer Motion, for what it calls the new world of possibilities in minimally invasive surgery (MIS).According to Computer Motion, Zeus will help decrease patient pain and trauma, and shorten convalescent periods. The company says using the Zeus system, surgeons have greater dexteri...

Composite fillings to hasten work procedures

...l cavity under or adjacent to the filling. Dr. Don calls this a major advancement since more than half of fillings are necessitated by secondary tooth decay. “Compared with conventional composites, the ACP is weaker mechanically and cannot be used for major restorations,” says Dr. Don. “We are working on...

Interference helps Heart Patients

...ording to a study, intervention as simple as phone calls from a nurse can help keep heart-failure patients ...nted educational material and an average of phone calls from a nurse checking on their health and offering advice. Calls began within five days of hospital ...

Computer Program can assist to detect Heart Attack

...l Annals of Emergency Medicine. Based on telephone calls made to patients a month after they had been treated in the emergency department, the screen was almost 95% accurate at detecting heart attack, identifying100 to 150 cases. Thus the author concludes that the artificial neural network has the potenti...

New cholera strain identified

...ined till Indians made the discovery. “We received calls from the US asking us to help them identify what was causing a new type of cholera and diarrhoea in coastal areas of the country. The germ was simultaneously active in coastal areas of Japan,” said director of National Institute of Cholera and Enteri...

Herbal supplement ephedra posing threat to people's health

...l Centers. Researchers claim that out of the total calls received, an// estimated 80 per cent of calls were taken from the general public. The researchers compared the number of adverse events among ephe...

Use of sunbed is harmful

...regulation exists for their use. A report from WHO calls for an urgent need to reduce the health and environmental impact of increased ultra-violet exposure. A tan, even without burning, always means that the skin has been damaged.// A suntan is not nature's own sunscreen, it does not protect you from ultr...

Brain Temperature Tunnel dicovered

...in called the brain temperature tunnel. In what he calls a remarkable discovery, he says this precise area of the brain controls the key function and critical factor for life preservation and human performance -- brain temperature. Through his research, he has discovered that a small area of skin near the ...

Anemia Treatment for Cancer Patients

...se control when manifest cancer is irradiated." He calls for further research on the drug to include careful measures of cancer control and survival, along with additional study into why treatment for anemia would impact these factors in the first place...

Anemia Treatment for Cancer Patients

...se control when manifest cancer is irradiated." He calls for further research on the drug to include careful measures of cancer control and survival, along with additional study into why treatment for anemia would impact these factors in the first place....

Atkins Diet Damaging to Heart

A doctors' group has announced what it calls the second heart-related death in a person on the Atkins diet, and is calling for a government //investigation into the safety of that and other high-protein, low-carbohydrate weight loss plans. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine sta...

Self-Management Program Beneficial for Back Pain

...exercise sheet// handouts, and telephone follow-up calls may help patients improve and manage their back pa...ing exercises for their back pain. Follow-up phone calls were done at four, six and eight weeks after the first class to reinforce what was taught and discus...

Self-Management Program Beneficial for Back Pain

..., exercise sheet handouts, and telephone follow-up calls may help patients improve and manage their back pa...ing exercises for their back pain. Follow-up phone calls were done at four, six and eight weeks after the first class to reinforce what was taught and discus...

Reducing Depression In Seniors

...vention. The program consisted of visits and phone calls from a therapist as well as treatment that encouraged the seniors to increase their physical activity and become more social. After one year, participants who received the intervention were about five-times more likely to have at least a 50-percent r...

Eliminating Eye Infection With Antibiotics

...g the infection in a community works. The practice calls for everyone in a community where the infection is endemic to be treated with an oral dose of azithromycin. Researchers treated nearly 98 percent of the people living in the community with the medication or, if they could not tolerate the drug, with ...

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