Tag: "argument" at medical news

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

...he authors conclude that this is not a sustainable argument within professional sport....

Experts Propose New Criteria for Alzheimer's Diagnosis

...e disease-modifying medications are available, the argument for such biologically based studies will be even more compelling," conclude the authors. "These proposed criteria move away from the traditional two-step approach of first identifying dementia according to degree of functional disability, and then ...

Snacking While Driving Doubles Accident Rates

...he results of the present study lend weight to the argument that eating or drinking at the wheel can have detrimental effects on driving safety. Since drivers do not necessarily perceive the risk, they choose not to modify their eating behaviour, and rather rely on adapting their driving. Thus snacking at the...

Navigating Healthcare

...ompanies, doctors and others made the self-serving argument that such information was too complicated for the average person to understand. They're wrong. People need information to make smart choices about medical care. They need to know that paying more doesn't ensure better results. And undergoing more pr...

Autism Case Hearing Still to Produce Clinching Evidence on Vaccine Linkage

...ne court hundreds of times. The Cedillo family's argument for how vaccines hurt their child was presented most efficiently by Kennedy, a virus immunologist at Texas Tech University. He posited that the 112.5 millionths of a gram of thimerosal contained in six vaccines administered to Michelle during her fir...

Breathalyzer Tests for Cops Involved in Shootings

...r, on an anti-prostitution operation, overheard an argument between Bell's party and another group of men. After overhearing the word "gun", the officer challenged Bell and his friends and opened fire when the car they were traveling in lurched forward and struck the officer and an unmarked police van. The ...

Even Pre-diabetes can Kill, Australian Study Says

...n Melbourne say their findings add strength to the argument that pre-diabetics should be treated with diabetes drugs before they even develop the disease. "If their risk of heart disease is this high before they even have get diabetes, it makes sense to try to divert the full impact in advance,'' said institu...

Actor Travolta Blames Psychotropic Drugs for US School Shootings

...aid. In a June 2005 interview, Cruise started an argument with Lauer about psychiatry and postpartum depression and called him glib....

Wine Packaging: Bag-in-box, Plastic Bottles, Cork Comeback?

...where they live. That campaign is linked to a long argument in the wine world about using corks versus screw caps. Antonio Amorim, chairman of the world?s largest cork manufacturer, Corticeira Amorim, said that after losing sales to synthetic corks and screw caps, the cork industry needed to improve its com...

Mothers of Children Killed in Fire Charged With Manslaughter

... says there has to be a direct connection." The argument did not quell the outrage of some in the community, nor investigators and the prosecutor. "These kids by all indications were left home alone with two 8-year-olds, and that's not acceptable conduct in this community," Zappala said. Lutual Love,...

Australian Government Charged With Under-funding Public Hospitals

...Abbott said. "The states are simply recycling an argument that they've been running ever since 2003,'' he said. Rudd himself declined to say what a federal Labor government would do to address the states' concerns. "We won't give a commitment on precise numbers at this stage,'' he told the Nine Network....

UK Doctors Demand Overhauling of Fertility Regulatory Authority

...e of BBCs Panorama. The HFEA has had a year-long argument with Taranissi about the licensing of his two London clinics. But the court ruled that the information its chief executive, Angela McNab, gave to magistrates to obtain the warrant was inadequate. Professor Robert Winston, of Imperial College, said:...

Benoits Son Suffered from Fragile X Syndrome, a Rare Mental Disability

...ed Fragile X Syndrome. He had had a tempestuous argument with his wife Nancy on who should take care of their mentally challenged son only days before he killed them and went on to commit suicide. An attorney for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), Jerry McDevitt says, ''I think it's fair to say that t...

Should Menstrual Suppression Be a Lifestyle Choice?

...al environment that is not found in nature. The argument that menstruation is obsolete is illogical and unscientific, she says. The important questions are these: is there evidence that medications are safe and effective? what are the known benefits and risks, and what uncertainties exist with regard to...

More Than Four Percent of US Adults Have Some Form of Bipolar Disorder

...e medication "The present results reinforce the argument of other researchers that clinically significant sub-threshold bipolar disorder is as least as common as threshold bipolar disorder," the authors write. "Although most individuals with bipolar disorder receive treatment owing to co-morbid disorders, ...

Killer Anesthetist Sentenced To 1933 Years In Prison

...ion for all of the victims. It dismissed Maeso's argument that he acted because he was helpless from his drug addiction, saying "in the end, he could have used the drugs in such a way that he did not cause any contagion." Evidence clearly pointed to Maeso in the infection cases, the court said, saying tha...

Myths About Melanoma Could Lead to Delayed Diagnosis and Treatment

... of the American Medical Association, supports the argument that not all melanomas follow the ABCD rule noting data which demonstrated the smaller size (less than 6 mm) and the evolving nature of some melanomas, including changes in size, shape and symptoms (commonly involving itching, bleeding or tenderness...

Brazil Slashes the Price of Contraceptives to Stop Illegal Abortions

...a debate on the legalization of abortion under the argument that it is a public health question. Religious leaders also accused the government of "fostering promiscuity" with their sex education programme and the free distribution of condoms in the schools. According to a study published last week by the ...

Doctors Condemn Any Attempt to Dilute Smoking Ban

...artistic integrity of a performance is not a valid argument to allow smoking when the whole basis of the smoking legislation is to protect the public and all workers from the dangers of passive smoking. 'We are urging politicians to throw out this amendment at the very early stages of the Bill's progress th...

Should Genetic Information Be Disclosed to Insurers?

... reasoning transparent. On the other side of the argument Professor Richard Ashcroft from the University of London says access to genetic information should not be allowed as it could lead to irrational discrimination. This arises, he says, from false beliefs about genetic information. It can be misundersto...

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