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Novel Vaccine To Prevent Ear Infection In Children

... soon have an effective solution for prevention of ear infection in young children, in the form of a vacc... behind this discovery. Next to the common cold, ear infections are the most commonly diagnosed childhood illness. More than three out of four children i...

Facts about Common Cold and Flu

...th the flu are Pneumonia sinusitis, bronchitis and ear infections. This occurs when the flu virus or bacteria gets into the lungs when the body’s defence system is weakened by the flu. <br...

Children Of Smoking Parents Face Increased Risk Of Bacterial Infection

...nd colonization can lead to minor ailments such as ear infections and other severe diseases. The researchers analyzed the samples obtained from over 200 children. The samples were then analyzed for the amount of bacteria it contained. Alarmingly, 76% of the children exposed to smoke were found to carry t...

Measles Resurges Due To Drop In Immunization With MMR

... include severe coughs and breathing difficulties, ear and eye infections and pneumonia. Rarely, there can be serious complications affecting the brain and nervous system. The Health Protection Agency urges the parents to have their children vaccinated with MMR. ...

Kids Overcome Behavioral And Sleep Problems After Tonsillectomy

... breathe, and most of the rest because of repeated ear and throat infections. Almost all of the children who had surgery in the new study were thought by their surgeons to have symptoms of sleep apnea. “These findings help support the idea that sleep-disordered breathing is actually helping to cause be...

New Healthcare Scheme For Rural Areas Launched

...to handle small cases like cataract surgery, minor ear surgery and tumours on external body parts. To facilitate the programme, the NBE has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) to use its network across India. 'Apart from providing direct ...

Aspirin to Prevent Deafness caused by Antibiotics

...rom the destruction of the tiny hairs in the inner ear whose job is to detect sounds at different frequencies. Researchers found that aspirin did not decrease the action of the antibiotic although some stomach problems were reported in a few patients. The Sha team still considers the benefits to out...

Research Throws Light On Regeneration of Hearing Cells

...the length of the cochlea – the organ of the inner ear that senses sound – where they convert sonic vibra...ects of Rb deletion on the hair cells of the inner ear finds differences between the auditory portion of the organ, which controls hearing, and the vestibu...

Doctors Performed A Rare Ear Surgery On A One-year-old Kid

...out the operation. The 24-layer middle and inner ear surgery took two and half-hours to be completed. "Freedom Cochlea implant is the latest technology in this field and we hope by the time the kid is four years, she can hear and speak like any other normal kid," Sharma told IANS. He said up to one...

Red Wine May Reduce The Risk Of Age Related Deafness

...could help protect the delicate hairs of the inner ear that are vital to hearing. Scientists are suggesti...dants that protect the delicate hairs of the inner ear that are essential for hearing. According to an article in New Scientist magazine by Andy Coghlan,...

Electrosurgery Ensures Integrity Of Cochlear Implant Following Adenoids Removal

...Saline was infiltrated into the cochlea and middle ear to ensure contact between the electrode and surrounding tissues, then the wound was closed with running locked silk suture. Nasopharyngeal Electrosurgery: The palate and posterior wall of the nasopharynx were treated with either monopolar electroco...

Study Offers Hope In Prevention Of Facial Paralysis

...s such, it comes into close contact with the inner ear and balance organs which also reside in the tempor...e can be seen directly in the floor of the ‘middle ear space,’ the space just behind the human ear drum. Usually the nerve has a bony covering over it that...

Shocked out of drugs?

...se of self-adhesive electrodes inserted behind the ear through which electric pulses are sent into the brain. This is known to bring about a reduction in the urge to consume drugs. Professor Neil McKeganey, who is quite an expert on drugs said” One of the reasons it's terribly difficult for addicts to ...

Hearing May Be Regained: Research Provides Hopes

... challenged by deafness//. These tiny hairs in the ear are capable of detecting vibrations, which is then... revealed that the supporting cells from the inner ear could differentiate into sensory hair cells. "This research tells us that the supporting cells i...

‘Biofilms’-Clumped Bacterial Slime Cause Ear Infectin

...ms are the cause for the widespread and persistent ear infections// that irritate kids, which supports th..., Milwaukee said, “We need to start thinking about ear infection in a different way.” It was explained that the researchers had stated to suspect the role...

South African Siamese Twins to be Separated in Four Months

...as discovered that the twins were joined above the ear and that they had their own brain and blood vessels. This meant that they had a better chance for survival when they are separated. Kribashnee gave birth 36 weeks into her pregnancy. According to the Post, Wale Adedipe, a neurosurgeon, will lead ...

Drugs for Postoperative Nausea May Not Help Most Patients

...terectomies, breast surgery, surgery of the middle ear and surgery to correct crossed eyes, he added. A more important factor in determining which patients are at greater risk is whether they have a previous history of nausea and vomiting after surgery, said Gan, who was not involved with the Cochrane ...

Wide Support for Breast feeding

...the first year of life. They're less likely to get ear infections, to get sick in general. For the mom, she's less likely to get h." It has been estimated that in Vermont, 81 percent of mothers breast-feed their babies and for that number to increase mothers need all the support they can get. McCormick...

New York’s Secondhand Smoke Exposure Continues to Declin

...nfant death syndrome (SIDS), respiratory problems, ear infections and asthma attacks in infants and children. The study of the Clean Indoor Air Act found that prior to implementation of the law, no smoking was observed in 31 percent of New York’s hospitality venues. One month after the law took effect ...

Bariatric Surgery: A New Hope for Treating Obesity

... Gastrectomy here Aug 4. Today, Saha is grinning ear to ear. The man finally hopes to shed his extra pounds - after paying Rs.250,000. With seven percent of Indian children growing up as obese, the scourge is likely to hit hard the youth population. But Bariatric surgery, also known as obesity or ...

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