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Early Monitoring Of Diabetes among Teens

...blems among adolescents. Hence to tackle the issue frequent blood glucose and lipid testing is necessary. //This in turn would detect and prevent the development of the disease and other complication among adolescents. Arlan L. Rosenbloom, M.D., Children’s Medical Services Center, Gainesville, Fla., said that...

Kid's Headaches Not to be Treated Lightly

Recent findings have revealed that frequent or severe headaches in children are associated wit... about 6.7 percent of the children had experienced frequent or severe headaches over the previous 12 months. They were mostly white, non-Hispanic, older childre...

Mental Hospitals Offer More Problems than Solutions

... among nurses of mental health diagnoses and their frequent unit changes leading to unfamiliarity with individual patients was also a point of concern Investigators were startled in December when they observed Patton patients with tardive dyskinesia, a generally irreversible side effect of long-term use of h...

Dispensing Drug Dosage To Children Through Computers

...correct, with an error rate of 6 per 100. The most frequent errors in handwritten orders were wrong dosage and...ccur and what the potential for harm was. The most frequent errors were misidentification of patients and entering incorrect patient information, such as weight...

Reaping the Benefits of Tomato

...odies. And there has been mounting evidence that frequent intake of such products is also associated with reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, prostate cancer), diabetes, male infertility and even osteoporosis. Lycopene prevents the oxidation of low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol as well as red...

Post Partum Blues Often Treated with Drugs

...rs and soon-to-be mothers have become increasingly frequent with at least one in six women experiencing mental distress. It has been found that almost 25 per cent of all maternal deaths are due to psychiatric causes. Symptoms of depression include constant tiredness, feeling lonely lack of interest in your ...

Introduction of Microbial Organisms: A Possible Treatment for Asthma

...arance of early signs of asthma, such as wheezing, frequent runny nose, and eczema. Lactobacillus GG is a common bacterium found in yogurt and many other foods and often is given to treat diarrhea. The three-year study will include about 280 healthy full-term babies with either a mother or a father with ast...

Australia Set To Implement A national Strategy Tackle Cannabis Abuse

...st potent part, is being used increasingly. Very frequent use is also being reported among young people. Evidence suggests that heavy cannabis users are more likely to experience educational, social and employment difficulties, and long-term smoking of the drug may cause physical illnesses, as with smoking ...

Link Established Between FSD and High Blood Pressure

... Among those with hypertension, FSD was also more frequent in treated (47.8%) as opposed to untreated (32.5%) women. Inadequate control of hypertension was associated with FSD, as women with uncontrolled hypertension had significantly higher prevalence of sexual dysfunction (51.8%) compared to women with con...

Hypertension linked to Female Sexual Dysfunction

... Among those with hypertension, FSD was also more frequent in treated (47.8 per cent) as opposed to untreated (32.5 per cent) women. Source: PTI News...

Bladder Pain Suppressed By Marijuana-Derived Drug

... the bladder and pelvic area, and an urgent and/or frequent need to urinate. In IC, the bladder wall may become scarred or irritated, and pinpoint bleeding may appear on the bladder wall. Source: Eurekalet...

Erosive esophagitis healing connected to acid control

...cretory therapy in GERD." Acid reflux disease is frequent persistent heartburn (burning pain and pressure in the center of the chest) on two or more days a week. It occurs when the valve between the esophagus and stomach stops closing properly, allowing acid to leak back into the esophagus. About one in thr...

Unnecessary Catheterization Puts Elderly Patients at Risk

...ed with a geriatric condition such as confusion or frequent falls. The study appears in the December, 2005 issue of the Journal of Patient Safety, which has just been published. The study authors note that, in previous research, catheterization has been shown to cause urinary infection in one fourth of patien...

Heroin Addicts Chained For Cure

...ry for the parents of inmates to be present at the frequent therapy 'fellowship' sessions to demonstrate their involvement. The parents' wishes are unconditionally obeyed by all, Dousel added. Dousel has 'treated' over 1,700 addicts since 1987. And though their subsequent progress had not been monitored, in...

Daily Intake Of Alcohol Reduces Heart Disease In Men Than Women

... contrast, for men, risks were lowest for the most frequent drinkers. For example, men who drank on one day a week had a 7% reduced risk, while men who drank daily had a 41% reduced risk. This suggests that it doesn’t matter how much men drink, as long as they drink every day. To try to minimise bias, early...

Court Dismisses 143-Crore Claim Against Hospital In Kolkata For Alleged Negligence In Treatment

...orted as septic shock with systemic candidiasis, a frequent side effect of excessive steroids. Months later, in correspondence with Pharmacia-Upjohn in the US, who are the makers of the steroid, Saha learnt that the correct dosage was 40 to 120 mg once every two to four weeks. The NCDRC in its judgement whi...

Breast Cancer Mortality Rate is Higher Among Black Women

...that the basal-like subtype was more than twice as frequent in younger African American women with breast cancer versus everyone else,' Perou said. Among premenopausal African Americans with breast cancer, this type makes up 39 percent compared with postmenopausal African Americans (14 percent) or Caucasians ...

Studies Show Combination Drugs As A Poor Substitute For Anti-Coagulants In Stroke

...ternative. The patients using warfarin had to take frequent blood tests to make sure that the dosage is precisely right, due to the high risk of major bleeding episodes is always present. It was explained that the management of the treatment with warfarin is very difficult. Dr. Anthony J. Furlan, head of th...

US Teens turn Wiser to Risky Behavior

...n the others. Use of drugs and tobacco were less frequent among the Black students than their white and Hispanic peers. But they reported the maximum number of risky sexual encounters as well as sedentary habits such as watching TV three or more hours a day. ‘The data dispels myths that African-American y...

Increased Risk of Ovarian Cancer in Overweight Women

... are childless, the effects of excess body fat and frequent ovulation combined raise the risk of ovarian cancer. According to American Cancer Society estimates, Greer noted, at least one third of all cancer deaths in the U.S. each year are attributable to excess weight and obesity....

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