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More US Children to Be Covered by Health Insurance

...ll them, against polio, against whooping cough and ear infections, and more. The care they get in hospitals is sometimes less complete than it should be. They are less likely to have a regular physician, and more likely to use the emergency department when ill.' AN...

Healing With Music Therapy

...s and strain. Since human beings generally have an ear for music, they benefit faster this way in regard to various stress-related ailments,' he added. The patients are made to listen to various interludes like raag (melody) 'Kafi' of 'Kafi thaat' with its Komal Gandhar and Komal Nishad nuances that ha...

Computer Imaging Assists With Facial Reconstructive Surgery

... involves measuring the distance between the upper ear and chin in photographs could help facial plastic ... distance from the porion (the top of the external ear canal) to the pupil and to the pogonion (the most prominent point on the chin) was measured. These m...

Viral Enzyme Recruited in Fight Against Ear Infection

...ing the problem of antibiotic resistance. Middle ear infection, also called acute otitis media, is an inflammation of the middle ear space that can cause pain, fever, irritability, lack of appetite and vomiting. The middle ear is the...

Vaccine Helps Reduce Frequent Ear Infections

...number of infants and toddlers developing frequent ear infections, according to new study. //The research...ts whose children suffer from frequent and painful ear infections,” she said. Poehling and a team of researchers followed about 27,000 children in New Y...

Cochlear Implantation Increases Meningitis Risk

...aking cochleostomy incisions (opening of the inner ear spaces of the cochlea—the most important moment in the procedure) in the ears of 54 healthy rats, implanting cochlear devices in 36 of them, and then monitoring them for the presence of meningitis, a third of the rats with cochlear implants were stri...

Drugs for Parkinson’s May Be Useful for Stroke-related Disabilit

...strokes on the right side of the brain between the ear and the temple develop a condition known as spatial neglect that hampers their ability to notice things on their left side. Patients may seem to be unaware of their left arm, for example, or might fail to eat from the left side of a food tray. The co...

Obesity may Be Linked to Middle Ear Effusions in Children

..., which consists// of fluid build-up in the middle ear space without symptoms of acute ear infection, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surger...

Childhood Obesity may Increase Ear Problems

...n who are obese may face the risk of developing an ear problem called 'otitis media with effusion' - in which fluid builds up// in the middle ear without causing pain, fever or other ear infection symptoms. The study, described as the first one...

Retail Clinics Becoming Increasingly Popular in US

...f course they treat common ailments only — such as ear infections, allergies, or pink eye — and offer an alternative to packed doctors' offices and pricey emergency rooms. Nurse practitioners (NPs)— nurses with advanced degrees who can write prescriptions — staff most clinics. They reduce costs because...

Botox at Your Own Risk?

...p in, these procedures will be less regulated than ear piercing." Lord Hunt, the Health minister, did not budge an inch. He confirmed that self-regulation measures taken by the cosmetic industry will be scrutinized in three years. The government will intervene with a statutory regulation, only if the m...

Breast Fed Children also Likely to Gain Weight on Adulthood

...ies that are breast fed are less likely to develop ear infection, respiratory illness and diarrhea early in life. IN/V...

Scientists Make Major Breakthrough in Regenerative Medicine

...ished the biological equivalent of turning a sow’s ear into a silk purse and back again." Source-Eurekalert/...

Day Care Centres Possibly Give Rise to More Infection, an Australian Study

... respiratory infections, bronchiolitis, pneumonia, ear infection and gastroenteritis, according to the study published in the Paediatric Infectious Disease Journal . Dr Deborah Lehmann, who heads the institute's infectious diseases unit, said the results supported US studies showing infection rates w...

Animals too Affected from Heat Wake in Jaipur

... sick for two days, sits murmuring things into his ear to calm him down. "He hadn't been eating for two days and was running a fever of 103 degrees. He was also suffering from loose motions and vomiting. We brought him here where he was given four shots and put on the drip. We can see an improvement in...

A Boon to Hearing Impaired-Gene Transfer

...e hearing, into diseased tissue of the human inner ear . This important step brings scientists closer to ...gene therapy reagents are effective in human inner ear tissue. Taken together with the results from another group of scientists who showed that similar gen...

Chinas Blue Ear Virus-no Hogwash

...eat from an outbreak of the highly pathogenic blue ear virus. According to official figures, around a mil...ll then known as the high- fever disease, as blue ear disease, or Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS). The outbreak had begun last May. ...

Radical Idea of Implanting Tiny Electrodes to the Deaf

...nting tiny electronic hearing devices in the inner ear to help profoundly deaf people. An alternative that promised superior results was implanting a device directly in the auditory nerve. Now, however, scientists have shown in animals that its possible to implant a tiny, ultra-thin electrode array in...

Bionic Ear Restores Hearing to Von Hippel-Lindau Disease Patients

...ntists have for the first time shown that a bionic ear may help restore hearing in patients with von Hip... occur in the endolymphatic sac, part of the inner ear labyrinth of fluid passages. They are benign, but are invasive, and can cause hemorrhages that lead ...

Cannabinoids Regulate Inflammation Process

...olved. In scientific experiments mice are given an ear clip, so that researchers can tell them apart. In ...h our mice this was different. The skin around the ear clips became inflamed. There are genetically modified strains of mice in which both cannabinoid rece...

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