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Antibiotic Ear Drops Favored Over Oral Antibiotics for Ear Infections

...ith the whole regimen. ? They tend to cause fewer gastrointestinal problems, such as diarrhea, gastroenteritis, dermatitis or complications from yeast infections than the oral antibiotics. ? They lead to less antibiotic resistance, a major goal of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since 1995. Source-N...

Quarantine Hits 3 More Hospitals In San Mateo

... Mateo County health officials said today that the gastrointestinal virus outbreak, which has already sickened dozens of people in a Belmont senior living center, has caused 45 people to become ill. The doctors added that the outbreak is being reported more this year than past. Health Officials reported that nearl...

Echinacea: Cold-Season Cure or Risk?

...fects of a botanical supplement on bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract, research at the University of Arkansas sugg...ormation about their effect in vivo – in the human gastrointestinal tract. Research conducted by Jerald C. Foote, assistant professor of food and human nutrition, and g...

Homeless Youths Need Health Insurance

...ommon conditions such as respiratory illnesses and gastrointestinal problems that could have been treated in an outpatient setting. The most common predictor of outpatient service use was whether the youth had health insurance, which those aged 18 and older were likelier to have compared with their younger peers. ...

New Treatment Offers Hope for Systemic Sclerosis

...nnective tissue affects the blood capillaries, the gastrointestinal tract, the lungs, and the heart. In SSc patients, fibrosis frequently leads to organ dysfunction, serious illness, and death. Researchers have yet to determine the underlying cause of this disfiguring, debilitating condition or find an effective anti...

Robotically Assisted Colo-resection And Gastric Bypass Surgeries Are Becoming Popular

...ccessible places in the body such as abdominal and gastrointestinal areas. As a result, laparoscopic surgeons expect the robotic procedures to grow in popularity for colon, gastric and esophageal operations, said Dr. Edward Livingston, chairman of GI/endocrine surgery. In addition, UT Southwestern was part of a lan...

Nothing Fishy About This

... When a woman consumes fish, it is absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract and enters the bloodstream. The trace elements of mercury, or methyl mercury, the commonly found form of mercury in fish, pass through the placenta and then to the fetus. Elevated mercury levels have been linked to learning disabilities and d...

Vision Loss Can Be Prevented in People With Diabetes

...rve damage and stroke; foot and skin problems; and gastrointestinal disorders and hypoglycemia. Another major complication, affecting up to 24,000 new people per year, is permanent blindness due to diabetic retinopathy, a degenerative disease of the retina (the sensitive area at the back of the eye). Overall, diabet...

Intervention Can Cut Job Stress While Protecting the Heart

... such as difficult sleep, pounding of the heart or gastrointestinal problems. Compared with controls, the stressed workers had altered values in an ECG measurement which assessed the low frequency component of the "RR interval variability," which assesses nervous system regulation of heart rate. So, as expected, wo...

Chinese Government Warns Its People About Stomach Flu

...tels. These viruses are one of the common forms of gastrointestinal viruses. The indications could vary from nausea, vomiting, severe abdominal pain and diarrhea which may be accompanied by fever too. They begin typically after 24-48 hours of infection and last for a minimum of a day to a maximum of three days depend...

Link Found Between Periodontal Disease and Pancreatic Cancer

... cancer. Michaud, senior author Charles Fuchs, a gastrointestinal oncologist at Dana-Farber, and their colleagues believe that further studies should be done to investigate the role of inflammation from periodontal disease in pancreatic cancer. However, Michaud notes that the underlying mechanisms for this associat...

Clues to the Cause of Difficulty With Swallowing

... a treatment center for children with eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders. The research team studied biopsies of the esophagus from children with an initial diagnosis of EE who had not yet been treated, comparing them to biopsies of children with acid reflux disease as well as those of children with normal eso...

No Evidence to Support Many Off-label Uses of Atypical Antipsychotics

...e, tremors, significant weight gain, sedation, and gastrointestinal problems. The new review was produced by AHRQ’s Effective Health Care program. It was authored by AHRQ’s Southern California/RAND Evidence-based Practice Center. The center examined 84 published studies on atypical antipsychotics and summarized evi...

Stomach Banding Surgery Effective for Adolescents

...table, and requires no cutting or rerouting of the gastrointestinal tract. By comparison, during the gastric bypass procedure the surgeon divides the stomach and reshapes it into a small pouch. It is then connected directly to the middle portion of the small intestine, bypassing the rest of the stomach and the upp...

MDCT Accurately Locates Bowel Perforation: Study

...urgeons to do exploratory surgery of the patient's gastrointestinal tract to locate the problem. In the past, the best way to find a perforation in the bowel was to administer oral or rectal contrast media then watch to see if and where the contrast media leaked from the bowel, said Bernard Hainaux, MD of Centre H...

28% Lower Mortality Rate In Top U.S. Hospitals

...dominal aortic aneurysm repair, bowel obstruction, gastrointestinal bleed, pancreatitis, diabetic acidosis and coma, pulmonary embolism and sepsis. · For those same procedures and diagnoses, Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical excellence had more than twice as much improvement in hospital complications as all other...

Coffee: Is It Good or Bad for You?

..., irritability, tremors, sleeplessness, headaches, gastrointestinal symptoms and abnormal heart rhythms. In some individuals, caffeine can increase blood pressure. Some people are extra sensitive to even slight amounts of caffeine. For most people, it appears that a moderate daily intake of coffee -- two to four c...

A New Arthritis Drug With Fewer Side Effects

...gular drugs, a proton pump inhibitor to reduce the gastrointestinal side effects. Heart patients were encouraged to take a lower dose of aspirin. There were fewer instances of ulcers reported. But Joost Drenth and Freek Verheugt of Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands felt that the extent of safety of the COX-...

A New Two-gene Test to Discern Similar Gastrointestinal Cancers

...enter. The analytical technique employed to tell gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) from leiomyosarcoma (LMS) wit...e both originate in the smooth muscle cells of the gastrointestinal tract. However, GIST is treatable with the targeted medication known as Gleevec and is relatively un...

Blood Marker Helps Predict Prognosis Among Those With Abdominal Infection

...ce of another condition, such as a puncture in the gastrointestinal tract that allows the spread of bacteria, and generally this underlying condition must be treated surgically. However, continuing or new-onset abdominal sepsis continues to be a major problem for these patients following surgery, placing them at risk...

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