history 1 1

Tag: "history" at medical news

Biologics valuable treatment option for patients with inflammatory bowel disease

...estions, more research is needed about the natural history of IBD and its complications, as well as the complications biologic therapy. Additionally, long-term data about the effects of biologic therapy on hospitalizations, surgeries and other outcomes must be gathered and the relationship between disease im...

UK Sports Clubs Failing to Run Comprehensive Health Checks on Professional Players

...usculoskeletal systems, and that a general medical history should be taken. The results from this study sho... recorded before employment whether a player had a history of concussion than did football clubs. While most football and rugby union clubs carried out card...

Accused 13yr Old Admits to Stabbing Her Brother

...rl, believed to be the youngest person in Canadian history to testify in her own defense to a triple homicide. She was angry because her parents grounded her and took away her computer privileges in an attempt to cool her relationship with the 23-year-old Steinke. She told the jury she often vented to her ...

Ambitious Gastric Cancer Research Project Proposed in Singapore

...actual cause of gastric cancer, people with family history of gastric cancer, high consumption of smoked and salted food, lack of Vitamin C, and existence of a bacterium called Helicobactor Pylori are known to be risk factors of gastric cancer. If gastric cancer is detected at early stage, it is a curable ...

Former US Vice President Al Gores Son Continues to Be Dogged by Drug Abuse Problem.

...leased from the jail. The 24-year-old Gore has a history of arrests on suspicion of possession of marijuana, drunk driving and speeding. One night just before Christmas in 2003, an officer stopped him for driving without having his headlights on. The officer smelled marijuana and noticed the windows of th...

Epilepsy Increases Suicide Risks

...icide. The results showed that in a patient with a history of psychiatric disease there was a 29-fold increase in risk of suicide (OR 29.2, 95% CI 16.4-51.9, P The author Jakob Christensen, M.D., of Aarhus University Hospital, wrote in the The Lancet Neurology, "Individuals with epilepsy have a higher risk...

Women's Empowerment Key to Curbing AIDS: UN

... Summit on HIV/AIDS held in Kenya. "What entered history 25 years ago as a disease of the white gay male is now increasingly affecting women all over the world," he told some 1,500 delegates. In sub-Saharan Africa, 60 percent of all adults living with the virus are female. Piot cited the example of Kenya...

A Savage Murderer in Canada Gets Sentenced to Life

...e-crash victim. The "social misfit" with a long history of psychiatric and emotional problems hit Ross in the face, forced her to the ground, kneed her in the chest, then slammed her head into the pavement two or three times. There were more than 30 fractures to her body, including shattered ribs and othe...

Irish Outsourcing of Smear Test may Result in Cervical Cancer Being Undetected

...n EU-wide basis. "Each patient's previous cytology history was attached to the material received by the US laboratory and was therefore available for interpretation at site. "As a result the HSE is now achieving its target whereby no woman should be waiting more than four weeks to receive test results."Th...

Autism Children can Be Diagnosed Within One Year of Age

...ith autism, n=107) and low risk for ASD (no family history of autism, n=18). Standardized tests of development and play-based assessment tools were used to evaluate social interaction, communication and play behaviors in both groups at 14, 18 and 24 months of age. Researchers assigned diagnostic impression...

New Heart Disease Risk Score Will Help Minimise Health Inequalities

...nd fail to include measures of deprivation, family history of heart disease, body mass index, and treatment with blood pressure lowering drugs, despite known links between these factors and poor health. So a team of researchers, from Bristol PCT and the Universities of Nottingham, Bristol and Queen Marys, ...

Exercise Reduces Inflammation

...nts. Smokers and/or those with severe arthritis, a history of cancer or inflammatory disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, uncontrolled diabetes mellitus, congestive heart failure, recent illness or vaccination, or a positive stress test were excluded. The physical fitness of subjects was assess...

Bangladeshi Wins America's Junior Miss Contest

...is the second winner from Minnesota in the 50-year history of the Junior Miss contest. Nora's parents, Zaki Ali and Mahfuza Ali, emigrated from Bangladesh in 1977. They both earned their Ph.Ds in chemistry and got jobs with 3M. "We are very lucky. God blessed us with amazingly intelligent, talented child...

An Accurate Score to Measure Heart Risk

...nd fail to include measures of deprivation, family history of heart disease, body mass index, and treatment with blood pressure lowering drugs, despite known links between these factors and poor health.So a team of researchers from The University of Nottingham, Bristol Primary Care Trust, and the Universitie...

Selenium Supplements Could Increase Diabetes Risk

...arrow group of participants -- older adults with a history of non-melanoma skin cancer -- and wasn't designed with diabetes in mind. So further studies are needed to see if selenium supplements truly raise diabetes risk, note the researchers. In an accompanying editorial, Dr. Eliseo Guallar from Johns Hopk...

Genetic Marker That Increases Colon Cancer Risk Discovered

..., scientist compared the genetic makeup and family history of more than 1,800 colorectal cancer patients with that of 1,900 healthy people with the same breakdown of age, gender and ethnicity - either Ashkenazi Jew, Sephardic Jew or Arab/non-Jew. The study found a significant link between genetic variatio...

Smoking Linked to Lower Parkinson's Disease Risk

... is particularly low in active smokers with a long history of intense smoking; some even suggested dose-related risk reductions with increasing pack-years of smoking," the authors write. "Our analyses confirmed prior reports of an inverse association between cigarette smoking and Parkinson's disease simila...

Advancement in Gene Associated With Colon Cancer

...researchers compared the genetic makeup and family history of more than 1,800 colorectal cancer patients with...o colorectal cancer. People with a strong family history of colon cancer, especially cases that began when relatives were younger than age 50, should get gen...

Electronic Health Records Shows No Improvement in Quality of Outpatient Care

...ity of health care. By storing a patient's medical history in electronic form, such systems can eliminate errors due to bad handwriting, make it easier to follow patient information over time and enable physicians to easily share patients' records. Additionally, the more sophisticated systems can flag pot...

Los Angeles Diocese Opts for Huge Payout in Sexual Abuse Cases

...660 million, the largest such settlement in recent history . The amount, which would average a little more than $1.3 million per plaintiff, exceeded earlier reports that the settlement would be between $600 million and $650 million. Some Roman Catholic orders the Servites, Claretians and Oblates will b...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10