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Asthma may actually be prevented by Dust and Dirt

...a role in the prevention of allergen sensitization during infancy," he said. However, if a child or adult already has asthma or allergies, the presence of endotoxin in the home can exacerbate the disease. For more information about asthma and endotoxin,e-mail: lungline@njc.org....

One in Three Heart Attack Patients Have No Chest Pains

...ird of patients never have chest pains prior to or during a heart attack, a study published in The Journal o...tely one in four patients without chest pains died during their heart attacks, compared to one in 10 patients with chest pains....

Bad News for Short People

... "Thus, genetic factors, and environmental factors during the fetal period, childhood, and early adolescence, which determine adult height, appear to be related to a person's health later in life."...

NEW ROBOTIC SURGERY ARM APPROVED BY FDA

...l, giving surgeons additional manipulation ability during laparoscopic surgery, enabling easier, more intricate motion and better control of surgical tools. The new robotic system is intended to be used in an operating room in laparoscopic procedures, for example for gall bladder disease or gastro-ensophag...

A prescription cream for unwanted facial hair

...placebo, in approximately 25% of women who used it during the pre-release clinical trials. Although Vaniqa currently appears have few side effects, when used as directed, post-release experience often modifies the safety profile for new drugs....

Thyroid hormone treatment hastens recovery after cardiac surgery

...ifficult surgeries. Following trauma or surgery or during a critical illness, thyroid hormone concentrations...response by the body to minimize metabolic demands during a time of crisis and that the best response was to do nothing. But there was never any proof of this...

Laboratory Testing Can Identify Risk of Pre-Term Labor and Delivery

... an aid in assessing the risk of pre-term delivery during the routine screening of asymptomatic patients from 22-30 weeks' gestation, and for women with symptoms of pre-term labor from 24-35 weeks' gestation. High-risk asymptomatic patients with a low fFN reading may be advised to continue with additional r...

New Way to "See" Genes, Evaluate Effectiveness of Gene Therapies Discovered

...n which the reporter gene is present to glow "hot" during a positron emission tomography (PET) scan. This will allow physicians to locate the reporter genes paired with the gene therapy and establish a picture of the treatment at work....

Sperm washing helps couples – Breakthrough in focu

..., and careful monitoring of the woman's HIV status during treatment and pregnancy. Though man hasn’t been successful in conquering the HIV with such breakthroughs at least we can prevent the virus from spreading and thereby score at least ...

What happens when Medications go wrong?

...arin — were most often linked to medication errors during the study period. During the tenure of a former U.S. president in recent history, the world was shocked when it was revealed that unwitting public were used as experimental lab animals when toxic cancer treat...

Brain death – How to cope with it

...had previous experience of relatives being present during testing felt that the relatives had benefited from this," Dr Stephen Bonner said in a report in the British Medical Journal. The intensive care specialist at South Cleveland Hospital in Middlesbrough, northern England, and his colleagues said relat...

When Celebrities Die

...lly harmed themselves increased by almost 45%. And during the month after her funeral, suicides rose by nearly 20%. The authors believe Diana's death added to existing feelings of sadness and distress in these people. For them, this public tragedy was a final, private burden that pushed some of them over th...

Heart disease in the newborn is related to maternal malnutrition

... pregnancy. They opined that maternal malnutrition during the first three months of pregnancy (the first tri...babies can be controlled if the maternal nutrition during pregnancy is optimized. Taking into consideration that women modify their lifestyles for the babies ...

New drug to treat Heart Attack and damaged tissue

...ferred as Ichemia / Reperfusion (IR) injury occurs during heart attacks. Understanding Ischemia / Reperfusion leads to the development of new drugs to save the damaged tissue and treat heart attack. During Ischemia / Reperfusion, Early growth response gene (Egr –1) level increases and acts like a common li...

Starvation in pregnant women can cause heart disease to their children

Starvation during pregnancy can lead to increased risk of heart prob...he gestational time. People whose mothers starved during the first 13 weeks of pregnancy can have heart diseases later in their adult life, Starvation during...

Fireworks can spell death for asthmatic children

...affected are children who literally choke to death during these ironically happy occasions. Almost all maj...eir emergency rooms with acute respiratory failure during these festivals where unfortunately the victims themselves give history of lighting fireworks and in...

Individuals with sleep related breathing disorders more prone to heart disease

... characterized by brief interruptions of breathing during sleep. Most individuals may have less severe sleep related breathing problem that may go unrecognized. These sleep disturbances are more conmen in men and those who are overweight. A study by American national heart, lung and blood institute-fun...

Infant receives first bloodless liver transplant

...usions. The boy received 20% of his mother’s liver during the transplantation on February 7th at the childre...s hospital in Los Angeles. To avoid complications during the surgery doctors recycled the blood lost from the infant’s body back to his circulation. Also the...

Two doctors suspended for wrong brain surgery

... Dr. Chow prepared the patient but was not present during the surgery. A few years ago, the mother of Indian film star Shridevi was operated upon the wrong side of the brain in the United States of America and the incident created a furore in medical circles both in India and the United States. Though a he...

Children suffer the most when parents divorce

...ldren. They also studied 85 divorces that occurred during the study period. They say pre-divorce marital conflicts harm the children more than the actual divorce itself. Another finding was that children of parents in high conflict relationships, who divorced, were better off emotionally than children of pa...

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