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Children Under Stress Develop More Fevers

...every time their children were ill. Parents also completed surveys to assess their own and their family stress over the course of the study. They were asked about psychiatric symptoms, such as depression and anxiety, and they were asked about their relationship with their children, such as whether they felt ...

Antidepressants Improve Post-Stroke Mental Abilities

...fter the study had started. A total of 36 patients completed all the evaluations. No significant differences were found between the antidepressant and placebo groups at the end of treatment. However, 21 months after the treatment ended, the placebo group showed continued worsening of the executive functions,...

Risk of Birth Complications Varies Between Racial Groups

...anisation defines post-term pregnancy as beyond 41 completed weeks from the first day of the last menstrual period. Post-term pregnancy is associated with increased perinatal mortality, and induction of labour at 41 weeks is often used to help avoid this risk. However, evidence shows that the average length ...

Total Mayhem In Online Medical Training System

...d for 22,000 posts. The short listing could not be completed last week due to the receipt of disproportionate number of applications, very short time period and a lack of proper guidance. According to Dr Jo Hilborne, chairman of the BMA junior doctor’s committee, the government has acted in haste to bring in...

Army Medical Services Gets New Chief

...n Radio Diagnosis from Pune University in 1977, he completed training in Radiation Oncology from the prestigious Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai and received MD from Bombay University. A pioneer in the field of cancer treatment in the Armed Forces, he worked at the Malignant Diseases Treatment Centers, both ...

Yale Researchers Named Ellison Foundation Senior Scholars in Aging

...cs and biochemistry from Yale University, and then completed her postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco. She is also a member of the Yale Cancer Center. The Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar program in Aging brings an award of $150,000 per year over the four years to s...

Gene Therapy Shows Promise as Treatment for Diseased Limbs

...injections into the damaged limbs. The researchers completed two studies – a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, as well as an extension study in which participants, including some who had been receiving placebo, received the active treatment. Patients enrolled at five U.S. centers had at least...

New Cost-cutting Cancer Drug Delivery System

... to promising compounds that have not successfully completed clinical trials, the [polymer-based carrier] may offer the potential to increase efficacy and safety as well as offering opportunities for successful new drugs to reach the market.” ”In this way, it is expected that it may contribute to significan...

Fish Intake Linked to Higher IQ in Offspring

... Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). The women completed food frequency questionnaires to assess seafood consumption, and the development, behaviour, and mental function of the children were measured from age six months to eight years. "Maternal seafood consumption of less than 340 grams per week in preg...

Indian Doctors Return Home from Britain, More on the Way

...sting of candidates for the jobs is expected to be completed by February 24 and interviews will take place in the first week of March. Leaders of the Indian medical community are working to ensure that the Indian applicants in the current round are not adversely affected in the recruitment process by the Feb...

Compulsive Gambling Linked to Parkinson's Disease Medications

...nd October 2005, were examined by neurologists and completed assessment scales that measured their levels of impulsivity, substance abuse, mood and anxiety disorders. An additional inventory measured the extent to which the patients displayed novelty-seeking traits, characterized by impulsive and risk-takin...

Disparities in Colon Cancer Screening Remain Among Medicare Patients

...ZIP codes of residence. The type of test screening completed by each patient (fecal occult blood test [FOBT], flexible sigmoidoscopy, double contrast barium enema [DCBE] and colonoscopy) was also noted. A total of 596,470 Medicare recipients were included in the study population with an approximately even nu...

Kolkata's Birla Hospital to Foray into Bangladesh

... Dhaka. The construction will start shortly and be completed by the end of 2008. All the eight diagnostic centres would be functional in three phases," Borar said. Of the eight diagnostic centres two each will come up in Dhaka, Chittagong and one in Jessore. "Other cities will be decided upon soon," said Bo...

Researchers Complete Horse Genome Map

...irst draft of the horse genome// sequence has been completed and is now freely available for use by biomedical ...em along the 32 pairs of horse chromosomes.” The completed gene map is currently available for researchers through the Broad Institute's Web site, and will be ...

Pharma Major Ind-Swift to Enter US, Japan

...Japanese drug market. Ind-Swift Laboratories has completed United State Federal Drug Authority (USFDA) inspection for its Clarithromycin active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing unit, its managing director N.R. Munjal said here Thursday. Clarithromycin is a macrolide antibiotic molecule used in...

New Inhaler is Child's Play

... product is in Phase I studies which are due to be completed soon, according to a company spokesperson. Source-Bio-Bio Technology SRM...

Action Video Games Improves Vision

... 360-degree virtual-reality computer lab now being completed at the University of Rochester. This research appears next week in the journal Psychological Science, and was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health. Source-Eurekalert SI...

Doctors’ Own Fear of Death Linked to Hastening Death of Very Sick Newborn

...of death. Of the 138 doctors contacted, 78 (56%) completed the questionnaire. Virtually all of them said they sometimes withheld or withdrew life-sustaining treatment in newborns with severe mental and/or physical disability and those for whom further medical treatment was considered to be “overly burdensome...

Higher Serum Selenium Linked With Reduced Risks of Prostate Cancer - in Some Men

...o remained free of the disease. All participants completed a questionnaire at enrollment regarding age, ethnicity, education, occupation, smoking history, history of cancer and other diseases, use of selected drugs, and prostate related health factors. A 137-item food-frequency questionnaire was used to as...

‘Manual on Healthy Lifestyle Choices’ Releasd

... and children 90 minutes In 2004, the government completed a review of the existing guide and decided improvements could be made as some Canadians thought parts of the guide were too vague, there was confusion about serving sizes, and the guide did not adequately reflect multicultural foods. There were rou...

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