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Afghan Children Fall Victim to a Disfiguring Disease
...mmon form, visceral leishmaniasis, can cause organ failure and death. "Leishmaniasis is one of the top neglected diseases, certainly outside Africa, and it just doesn't attract the funding that's needed," Leslie said. Doctor Faquir Amin says he's been treating leishmaniasis since the 1960s. Refugees re...New Therapies may Help to Avoid Transplant in Some Heart Failure Patients
... improved the cardiac function in many other heart failure patients. "This suggests that, while the device...es: To help keep patients with end-stage heart failure alive until a donor heart becomes available for transplantation. To serve as a long-term therapy ...Study Evaluates the Incompetence of Blacks as Living Kidney Donors
...ing kidney donors, and the reasons are obesity and failure to complete the donor evaluation. "Obesity is a ... is the social reasons for non-donation, including failure to complete the donor evaluation process. This issue is just not well understood." Donor questionn...Heavy Drinking may Trigger Stroke
...eart condition that can trip off a stroke or heart failure - but reducing alcohol consumption even a little ...creased risk of stroke, a three-fold risk of heart failure and up to a two-fold increase risk of death." For this study, all patients arriving at an arrhythm...One Pill may Be Better Than Two for Treating Patients With High Blood Pressure
...d pressure can lead to stroke, heart attack, heart failure or kidney failure. High blood pressure is defined as systolic pressure of 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic pressure of 90 mm Hg or higher. Systolic pressure is the force of blood in the arteries when the heart contracts to pump blood to the body. D...Novel Catheter Technique Successfully Patches Holes in the Heart
...s with acute VSDs may be critically ill with heart failure and perhaps be in cardiogenic shock," said Matthew...sult, patients were experiencing such severe heart failure they were short of breath at rest or with minimal activity, and were judged to have New York Heart A...Paid Maternity Leave Pushed By Australian Rights Activists
...put on the Federal Government's agenda, termed the failure to set up a universal scheme an "unfortunate policy" and plainly wrong. As of now, pregnant women in Australia are legally entitled to a year's unpaid leave, yet paid maternity leave remains a matter for the employer. Two-thirds of women have no a...Women With Heart Disease and Diabetes Less Likely to Receive Proper Care: Study
...g prescribed ACE inhibitor drugs for chronic heart failure and receiving prescriptions for beta blocker drugs following a heart attack. Women with diabetes in both Medicare and commercial health plans were more likely to have received eye exams than their male peers. The disparities were found among wom...Female Infanticide and Feticide Continue to Increase
...r from Mozambique, said: "The study shows that our failure to make an equal, more just world has resulted in the most intolerable of situations. To discriminate on the basis of sex and gender is morally indefensible; it is economically, politically and socially unsupportable."...Americans Get Least Value For Money In Healthcare
...nd promotion of a medical home for patients. Our failure to ensure health insurance for all and encourage stable, long-term ties between physicians and patients shows in our poor performance on measures of quality, access, efficiency, equity, and health outcomes. In the study, the focus was on interview...25,000 Needless Deaths Each Year Due to Failure to Tackle Blood Clots in Hospital
...000 people may die needlessly each year due to the failure to prevent blood clots known as venous thromboembo... may have died needlessly each year because of the failure to implement simple thromboprophylaxis in UK hospitals, they conclude....Quality Improvement Effort Pays Off in Diabetes Care
... percent of patients down to 15 percent, of kidney failure from 18 down to 15 percent and of coronary artery disease from 28 to 24 percent. Next they tried to place a dollar value on the benefits of the programa longer life with fewer complications. In medical cost-effectiveness analysis, a commonly accept...Quality Versus Quantity: Transforming Kidney Transplant Policy
...hat patients themselves decide what level of graft failure risk he or she deems acceptable. Recipients would only be offered kidneys that meet their own standards, rather than being directed by arbitrary allocation policies. Freeman claims that such a system would have many benefits, including better educa...New Brain Neuromarker May Shed Light on Autism and Schizophrenia
...al exchange between their brains. The success or failure of this information exchange revealed in this new brain rhythm will serve as a stimulus for the scientific community to further investigate the phi complex and its implications for understanding not only normal social cognition, but pathologies of so...Floida to Electronically Track Alzheimers Patients
... problems, including electromagnetic interference, failure of the chip to function properly and adverse bodily reactions. The FDA approval letter did not specify the severity or likelihood of these risks. "Any medical device approved by the FDA has potential risk factors listed in the approval letter. Ve...Toddler Infected With Rare Side Effect Of Smallpox Vaccination Recovering
... Over the next few weeks, the boy suffered kidney failure and lost most of his skin to the disease, eczema vaccinatum.Experts say the father, who had eczema in childhood, should never have been given the vaccine because that fact made him more susceptible to side effects like vaccinia infection. And they sa...New DNA Tests Advances Treatment of Lysosomal Storage Diseases
... eyes, a purplish-blue skin rash, distended belly, failure to grow, and muscle weakness or decline in motor skills. Type I Gaucher disease was the first genetic disorder that could be treated effectively with enzyme replacement therapy (ERT). Over the past decade, ERT has become available for Fabry disease...Are Main Rivers in Himalayas Under Threat?
...eth Conboy, describe the CIA-India project and its failure in graphic details....Denial of Treatment for HIV Infected Child Sparks Outrage
...ttention to the most reckless incidence of medical failure as three major government hospitals in Kolkata (SSKM, MCH and NRS) have refused... ("spleenectomy") a surgical procedure essential for a six-year old child, Sanu Laskar, only because the child is HIV positive," Saha wrote in his letter. "Ironical...Scientists Use Gene Therapy to Reverse Heart Failure in Animals
...al College have used gene therapy to reverse heart failure in animals. In addition, they found that this gene...dditive effects" to currently used, standard heart failure drugs called beta-blockers. Reporting in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, resea...Other Tagsscenario 2scenario 3scenario 4scenario 5scenario 6scenario 7salts 2loses 2loses 3loses 4assembly 2assembly 3assembly 4shutting 2personalized 2
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