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Studying The Causes Of Autism

...n are diagnosed around the age of 3 or 4 when they fail to develop normal social and communication skills. Several studies have shown autism runs in families, leading researchers to believe the disease has a genetic basis. Others have suggested a role for obstetric complications. Researchers studied the...

Early Detection Of Facial Abnormalities in a Fetus

A cleft happens when the tissues of the face fail to fuse during gestation. It is a repairable birth defect. Cleft lip and palate are the most common facial malformation in newborns. It affects about one in 700 babies.//New research shows fetal magnetic resonance imaging may be more accurate at dete...

Steroids Effective For Treating Carpel Tunnel Syndrome

... pain relievers like ibuprofen. When those methods fail to help, many patients undergo surgery to decompress the nerve. However, another option is to receive steroid injections to relieve symptoms. In a recent study researchers compared results between people who had been experiencing symptoms of the con...

Twisted bypass grafts work better

... can cause health problems. That is why shunts may fail in a number of cases where they have been grafted. The result to this problem is shunts with helicals twists. These are being called SwirlGrafts that just mimic the twists of the normal blood vessels. Researchers from Imperial College of London, w...

Statins Not Effective In Treating Calcific Aortic Stenosis

... high doses of cholesterol-lowering drugs actually fail to treat calcific aortic stenosis. For the study researchers from the United Kingdom found that a high dose of 80 milligrams of atorvastatin (Lipitor) reduced low-density lipoprotein cholesterol but did not stop or slow down the disease of the heart ...

Hypertension can be caused by Inhalation of Salt

... and waste builds up in the blood. The kidneys may fail altogether. Heart Attack: High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart attack. The arteries bring oxygen-carrying blood to the heart muscle. If the heart cannot get enough oxygen, chest pain, also known as "angina," can occur. If the flow ...

Language Delays May Not Be Normal In Children

...: A developmental delay happens when the children fail to achieve the developmental milestones at the right age. This can affect the language skills, motor skills and social skills development of the children. Incase the children are having overall developmental delays, this may signal the causes being d...

Hyaluronic Acid – A Boon To The Problem Of Premature Infant

... cord) throughout life. In some cases, these cells fail to mature and cannot repair damage to the white matter of the brain. The white matter is made up of long nerve fibres wrapped in myelin. Different kinds of white matter injury cause cerebral palsy and learning problems in children born prematurely ...

Trust In Doctors Can Affect Taking Medications

...ent of them used insulin. People with diabetes who fail to take their medication as prescribed may have poor blood sugar control and a higher risk of heart attacks, strokes, blindness, kidney failure and amputation. Source: Newswis...

Good News For Those Of You Suffering From Rheumatoid Arthritis

...ound to decrease pain and swelling in patients who fail to respond to standard treatment. At the end of the 6-month trial, 43 percent of all subjects on adalimumab plus methotrexate had achieved a 50-percent improvement in symptoms, compared with 9 percent of all subjects receiving placebo plus methotre...

Attitude Towards AIDS Patients – Time For A Change

...munity, and people, out of fear of stigmatization, fail to declare their health status, the potential is great for the epidemic to gather pace. Everyone, including those who now stigmatize, is at risk.It would therefore only practical to support the government’s initiative to adopt a positive attitude tow...

Obesity Surgery May Not Work All The Time

...incompletely studied complications and results may fail to clearly draw conclusions about the efficacy and...data suggest that a significant number of patients fail to sustain clinically meaningful weight loss. Scientists participating in the last year’s IFT Obesi...

Patient Negligence - Significant Problem In The Early Detection Of Breast Cancer

...cal evaluation regarding the issue as to why women fail to report. An initiative by the breast cancer registry to follow up patients on a long-term basis would be appropriate....

Chronic Pain Syndrome May Be In The Genes

...uding breast cancer. Cells depleted of SEPT9 often fail to complete normal cell division. HNA is the first genetic disease found to be caused by a mutation in a gene of the septin family. According to the authors of the SEPT9 gene mutations study, SEPT9 has particular structures that distinguish it from ...

PET scans may help deciding surgery for epilepsy

...nal PET measurement of brain glucose. When drugs fail to control epilepsy, brain surgery is often the only remaining therapeutic option. However, identifying the correct spot for surgery has traditionally required a separate preliminary -- and inherently risky -- surgical procedure. Epilepsy is a chron...

Glimepiride in the medical management of Type 2 diabetes

... without insulin, are added when diet and exercise fail to normalize glucose levels. Various pharmacologic agents are available for the management of Type 2 diabetes, including first- and second-generation sulfonylureas (glimepiride, glipizide, and glyburide), biguanides (metformin), á-glucosidase inhibit...

Math Learning Disorder Higher in Boys

...ifying children with poor reading achievement will fail to identify and provide educational services for many children with Math LD. Source EurekAlert...

Math Learning Disorder Higher In Boys

...ifying children with poor reading achievement will fail to identify and provide educational services for many children with Math LD. Medindia on Learning Disorder The British medical literature has the first description of a specific reading disability in 1896. A "bright and intelligent boy" who had ...

Morphine Withdrawal Complicates Hepatitis C Infection in Drug Abusers

...ht on explaining why so many HCV-infected patients fail to respond to IFN-alpha treatment. These results suggest that opioid abusers experiencing periods of drug abuse, followed by periods of withdrawal (due to lack of supplies) may lead to immunocompromised liver. The study also underscores the necessi...

New Drug Found To Improve Driving Performance In Young Adults With ADHD

... the fact that adolescent and adult patients often fail to appreciate the effect that ADHD symptoms such as inattention have on daily activities such as driving. The researchers hence studied the effect of ADDERALL XR, a major ADHD therapy, on driving performance in young adult patients with ADHD. Parti...

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