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Patients Undergoing Tonsillectomy Shows No Change of Taste

... deterioration during aging but can be weakened by disease or medications. Accidental nerve damage during some medical procedures, including radiation treatment, middle ear surgery, dental or oral surgery or tonsillectomy, also can cause taste dysfunction. Christian A. Mueller, M.D., of the University of Vi...

Smokers may Be Motivated to Quit During Interventions in Hospital Stays

...sks of many health problems, such as cancer, heart disease and lung disease and many patients with these conditions end up in the hospital. A hospital stay is a good time to...

Probable Health Monitor Sends SMS of Emergency Alerts and ECG

...he ECG by cell phone text message. Cardiovascular disease is kills almost 20 million people each year, with around 22 million people at risk of sudden heart failure at any one time around the world. Lives can often be saved if acute care and cardiac surgery are carried out within the so-called golden hour. ...

Avandia Improves Quality of Life in Diabetes Patients

...st that the drug might worsen complications of the disease such as weight gain, swelling, bone fractures and ...ially those who are known to have underlying heart disease or who are at high risk of heart attack, should talk to their doctor about this new information. Th...

Punjab University Reserves Seats for AIDS and Cancer Students

...cer patients) have equal rights to get educated. A disease shouldn't stop anyone from getting educated," said Kanval Chaddha, another college student....

High Nonfasting Triglyceride Levels Linked With Cardiovascular Risks

...dial infarction (MI; heart attack), ischemic heart disease (IHD), and death, the authors write. Brge G. Nordestgaard, M.D., D.M.Sc., of Herlev University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark, and colleagues tested the hypothesis that very high levels of nonfasting triglycerides are associated with an increased risk o...

CT Scan Radiations may Lead to Cancer

... for women and younger patients. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in men and wom...ticle. Attempts to improve the diagnosis of this disease has led to the development of noninvasive methods for CAD diagnosis, including the 64-slice computed...

Playing Music Helps Women Relax During Colposcopy

...an remain calm. Cervical cancer is a very serious disease and it is important that we encourage women to take part in screening tests. Using the best ways of helping women relax during the process makes it less unpleasant and could consequently help increase the numbers of women who take up the offer of scr...

FDA Approves First Artificial Cervical Disc

...sc for the treatment of cervical degenerative disc disease , one of the most common causes of neck and arm pa... means that people with cervical degenerative disc disease now will have another surgical option for treating this condition," said Daniel Schultz, director, C...

Gardasil Could Be Effective, but Aggressive Marketing Raises Ethical Concerns

... vaccine.' ... This is a vaccine that will prevent disease in women of all ages. So the target, and the extreme emphasis on twelve-year olds, is misleading to the public in making them feel that this is a vaccine that you have to get before anyone ... has touched your genitals." Dr. Harper adds, "We also h...

Less Information on Dietary Treatment in Type2 Diabetes

... heart. When people are first diagnosed with this disease they are given dietary advice in the hope that this will enable them to take more control over the level of sugar in their blood. However, after searching published scientific literature, a team of Cochrane Researchers was unable to find high quali...

Chemotherapy Better for Non Small Cell Lung cancer

...dition, many patients are only diagnosed after the disease has progressed, so survival rates across all stages of disease tend to be fairly low at around 14%, with only a quarter of patients being suitable for surgery. Th...

Chemical Compound in Turmeric Helps to Fight Alzheimers

...rmeric may help beat Alzheimer's, which is a brain disease that impairs memory . Researchers isolated the c...ky News. The study might explain why Alzhimer's disease is so rare in India. Turmeric is frequently consumed in India and some other Asian countries as a di...

Americas Preparations For Flu Outbreak Still Incomplete

...government still has limited capacity to detect a disease outbreak and track its progress across the country...of trouble determining when we have an outbreak of disease in a community here in the U.S., Dr. Venkayya said. We need to have uniform biosurveillance capabili...

HIV Drug Combo can Boost Immune Marker in Long-term Patients: Study

... of a patient's ability to fight off opportunistic disease and death. Previous research in this field has been more pessimistic, suggesting that CD4 counts tend to plateau after several years of treatment. But those studies used less strict criteria for determining whether the drugs were working. Their...

Gene Variants for Crohn's Disease Identified

...sociated with the adult form of the disease.Crohns disease is a chronic and painful condition attributed to i...on of the gastrointestinal tract. Because Crohns disease is complex, with multiple genes interacting with each other and with environmental factors, its impo...

Texan Battles Flesh-eating Bacteria Contracted While Swimming

...ighting necrotizing fasciitis, a tissue-destroying disease caused by a bacterium called Vibrio vulnificus. Th... suffering from multiple organ failure because the disease has caused a blood infection, his physician said Tuesday. Gilpatrick was listed in critical but st...

Disquieting Slow Down in Heart Disease Deaths Among Under 55s

The fall in deaths from heart disease among younger Britons is slowing down, pointing to...ors assessed death rates for coronary artery heart disease in England and Wales between1984 and 2004, using national figures.They used the data to calculate he...

PETA Hails McCartney for Boycotting Animal-testing Charities

...r charities since his first wife Linda died of the disease in 1998, recently revealed that he is planning to decline financial support to organisations that practice vivisection. McCartney said that he took the decision after discovering that a number of charities close to his heart promote the practice. ...

People Living Near Nuke Facilities at Higher Risk of Leukemia

...s, the study said. Childhood leukemia is a rare disease and nuclear sites are commonly found in rural areas, which means that sample sizes tend to be small. The advantage of carrying out a meta-analysis is that it enables us to draw together a number of studies that have employed common methods and draw w...

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