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Drug for pediatric brain cancer

...mors, including cancerous brain tumors. Studies in adults with brain tumors showed fotemustine was at least partially effective in about 20 percent of patients. In this study, researchers from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto tested the drug in 14 children under age 20 with various types of malign...

Drug for pediatric brain cancer

...mors, including cancerous brain tumors. Studies in adults with brain tumors showed fotemustine was at least partially effective in about 20 percent of patients. In this study, researchers from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto tested the drug in 14 children under age 20 with various types of malign...

Cure for Bacterial Meningitis

...ed to treat inflammation can have good effects for adults diagnosed with bacterial meningitis. Dexamethasone...biotics for these patients.// The death rate among adults diagnosed with bacterial meningitis is high, especially in patients who also have pneumonia. Researc...

Obesity risk for immobilized adults

...one or more forms of disability showed that 25% of adults with disabilities, compared to 16 per cent without... greater than 32. The study also highlighted that adults with lower limb mobility difficulties and those who had not received exercise counselling had 2.5 ti...

New oral antiviral treatment of cold sores approved

...gh, it is estimated that that 20 to 40 per cent of adults develop cold sores at some point in time, it is not clear as to why some people get cold sores while others do not. Several factors like stress, exposure to sun, a cold, fever or flu could trigger the herpes simplex virus, which starts reproducing al...

Lamictal as add-on therapy for children with epilepsy

...already-approved indications for adjunctive use in adults with partial seizures, and for the generalized seizures of Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome in children two years of age and older. Partial seizures are the most common type of epilepsy and they begin with abnormal electrical activity in a particular locatio...

Do you heed to healthy eating advice?

...ious diseases. The survey included nearly// 15,600 adults and 4000 children. Very interesting but disturbing trends were revealed by the study. The survey indicated that there is a strong link between healthy eating and household income. Almost 40% of women in the highest earning households eat five portio...

Stroke also in list of common childhood ailments

...rdination anyway, though the symptoms of stroke in adults and children are similar. She suggested that an MRI could assess the level of brain damage and confirm a stroke. Dr. Ferriero said that when a child favours one side of the body, like holding the bottle with one hand very often, then it is time for t...

Televisions ruling baby's world!

...They also use emotional information picked up from adults around them to make decisions. Donna Mumme, assistant professor of psychology at Tufts University, and her team tested //babies, showing actors reacting on a videotape to objects such as a red spiral letter holder, a blue bumpy ball, and a yellow ga...

Life expectancy lessened due to obesity

...eys. The data was used to derive YLL estimates for adults aged 18 to 85 years. Body Mass Index (BMI, [weight...It was thus concluded that the recommendations for adults to avoid obesity gained a lot of support in the light of this study....

Abuse of prescription drugs among youths on the rise

...// 3 million adolescents and about 7 million young adults from ages 18 to 25 had used prescription drugs for non-medical purposes at least once in their lives. Researchers also found that pain relievers are among the most abused prescription drugs, while use of stimulants and tranquilizers were also rising....

Untreated Scoliosis patients found to lead productive and active lives

...versity of Iowa in a 50-year study have found that adults with LIS appear to experience only little physical// impairment apart from back pain and cosmetic concerns. The study involved 444 patients diagnosed with scoliosis between 1932 and 1948, whose follow-ups started from 1992. Researchers compared 117 ...

New ways to help children with trauma

...ers said that children are being treated like mini adults and put through assessment tests that were designed for adults. So now, they are also trying to find better ways to assess children after traumatic brain injury, such as how they function, walk, talk, speak, and perform other daily activities. Dr. Ad...

Obesity linked to cancer death

...r Society researchers conducted a study on 900,000 adults who were initially cancer free. By the end of the study, researchers had identified more than 57,000 cancer deaths. They looked at weight while controlling for factors such as smoking. Overweight and obese men and women had a higher risk of death //f...

New Gene Identification Help Asthma Treatments

...hma variant of PHF11 is found to be most common in adults with severe asthma, but it may also be involved in milder asthma and even allergic eczema in children. The gene appears to regulate B cells that produce the antibody immunoglobulin E. These findings could help switch off immunoglobulin E to prevent a...

Baby born to SARS mother is healthy

...he antiviral drug ribavirin, which is usedto treat adults with severe acute respiratorysyndrome. Two of the mothers died after giving birth, but the surviving mother was in a stable condition in PrincessMargaret Hospital, the statement added....

Music training and Ginkgo biloba benefit memory

...ry to recall as many as possible. They found that adults with music training learned significantly more words than those without any music training. Music training in childhood may therefore have long-term positive effects on verbal memory. Early music training, however, did not turn out to be associated w...

Folic Acid helps Kids with Diabetes

... has been shown to improve endothelial function in adults //with type 2 diabetes. Researchers say it could also benefit kids. Thirty-eight children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes were included in the study. They each received eight weeks of five milligrams of folic acid and eight weeks of a placebo, w...

Let Anger go, Save the Headache

...nger more than those without headaches. Of the 422 adults who participated in the study, 171 suffered from headaches. Investigators measured trait anger (how much anger experienced in daily life), internalized anger, hostility, anxiety and depression. Participants also provided information about their heada...

Let Anger go, Save the Headache

...ger more than those without headaches. Of the 422 adults who participated in the study, 171 suffered from headaches. Investigators measured //trait anger (how much anger experienced in daily life), internalized anger, hostility, anxiety and depression. Participants also provided information about their hea...

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