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Less Pain After Tonsillectomy

...ection procedure expressed less pain three to five days after the procedure. Jonathan Perkins, D.O., and Ravinder Dahiya, M.D., lead authors of the study, conclude, "Without any increase in complications, subjective and objective measurement showed that the use of the microdissection needle resulted in s...

Reducing The After Effects of Tonsillectomy

...ection procedure expressed less pain three to five days after the procedure. Researchers of the study, conclude, "Without any increase in complications, subjective and objective measurement showed that the use of the microdissection needle resulted in significantly less postoperative pain by day three."...

New Hope for Kidney Failure

...ch lower degree of kidney damage after injury. Two days later, their kidney functions had almost completely returned to normal. Mice with high levels of HGF were also much more likely to survive after kidney injuries than mice with normal levels. Kidney failure commonly occurs in intensive care units fol...

Hope for Patients With Kidney Failure

...ch lower degree of kidney damage after injury. Two days later, their kidney functions had almost completely returned to normal. Mice with high levels of HGF were also much more likely to survive after kidney injuries than mice with normal levels. When the researchers examined the kidneys of the geneticall...

Ultrasound Screening Could Improve The Outcome Of Critically ill Patients

...e unit stay of eight days, and an additional eight days in the hospital. After calculating the costs, researchers say the ultrasound strategy costs $8,688 per quality adjusted life year gained, $5,305 per pulmonary embolism averted, and $98,286 per pulmonary embolism death averted. Overall, researchers...

Epilepsy Drug May Relieve Chronic Headaches

...cruited 133 patients who had headaches at least 15 days every month that lasted more than four hours at a time. The patients were randomly selected to receive gabapentin or a placebo for six weeks. After that period, none of the patients received either treatment for a week, and then each group switched t...

Few Simple Steps to Lower The Incidence Of SIDS

...died of SIDS were put to bed in a separate room 26 days earlier than those who did not. The investigators say they are not sure why sleeping in a separate room would increase the risk for SIDS. Thus researchers conclude that avoidable risk factors such as those associated with inappropriate infants’ sle...

Exercise The Best Treatment For Low Back Ache

...articipated in the exercise program missed only 58 days of work, compared to 87 missed days of work for those receiving usual care....

Antibiotics Found To Increase The Risk Of Developing Breast Cancer

...tibiotics , or who took the drugs for at least 501 days -- faced double the risk of // developing breast cancer over an average of about 17 years, compared with women who didn't use the drugs, the study showed. Also, since antibiotics are widely used to treat a variety of common infections caused by bact...

Drug to stop HIV spread to babies may Indirectly harm The Mother

...arts and then giving a second pill to the baby two days after birth.About 8 percent of babies catch the virus after nevirapine, compared with about 20 percent of those who get no treatment. From their study researchers found that women who had gotten nevirapine during pregnancy were much less likely to d...

A Combination Of Drugs Effective In The Treatment Of Hormone-Refractory Prostate Cancer

...e on day 1, followed by 20 mg/m2 of vinorelbine on days 1 through 8. This cycle was repeated every 3 weeks. The patients also received 12.5 mg daily of prednisone. A total of 95 cycles were given, with a median of 7 cycles per patient and a range of 5 to 9 cycles per patient. Two patients repeated the tre...

Help For Kids With Difficulty In Sleeping

...f life before the testing and then again about 120 days after the operation. Results showed significant improvements in quality of life for the children after the surgery. The greatest change was seen in the score for sleep disturbance, which dropped by about 11 points from pre-surgery levels.Researchers ...

New Hope For Skin Disease

... light is how Mary Tibuni begins her morning three days a week. She suffers from a disease called morphea , it can affect any area of the body, and around joints it can cause decreased motion of the joints, also known as localized scleroderma. She says: “I had a bunch of bumps on my legs, and it gradually...

The Best Way To Decrease Post-Mammogram Stress

...positive mammograms, women who had to wait several days to receive their results reported more stress and anxiety than the women who had received immediate results. Also, more than half of the women who had the immediate follow-ups reported their mammograms had been normal. Researchers say this suggests t...

New Findings Could Reduce The Extent Of Spinal Cord Injuries

...secondary" cell death that occurs in the hours and days after a spinal cord or brain injury. During this period, cells surrounding the injury can become inflamed and die, a cascading response that worsens disability. The research showed that up to 50 percent of the motor and sensory nerve cell death co...

A Loving Relationship Found To Improve Heart Health

..., average age 60. They were screened three to four days after having a heart attack and were monitored for 12 months to assess their risk of a later heart attack. The researchers studied the degree of intimacy in close relationships rather than the number of contacts.The study revealed that having a shou...

Is Obesity Preventable ?

...p, consumption of carbonated drinks over the three days decreased by 0.6 glasses a day. Consumption in the control group decreased by 0.2 glasses a day.Even though the reduction of carbonated drinks was modest in the intervention group, the percentage of overweight and obese children decreased 0.2 percent...

Relief From Migraines

...king placebo. Coenzyme Q10 patients also had fewer days with nausea. Researchers say they found that the only side effect appeared to be an allergic skin rash in one patient , compared to the side effects of fatigue, weight gain, dry mouth, and other side effects found with other methods to prevent migra...

Exercising Good For Stroke Survivors

...weak muscles, should be done at least two to three days a week and include eight to 10 different exercises...aerobic or strength training sessions two to three days a week and balance or coordination exercises two to three times a week since stroke survivors often ...

Education Levels Found To Predict Stress

...ured by level of education, report fewer stressful days than those with // higher socioeconomic status, bu... health. While those with more education have more days of stress, they are not as affected by it. For the study, more than 1,000 adults were interviewed d...

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