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Roller coasters – cause “Chronic Headache?

...until it became an intolerable episode and she was hospitalized and though MRI findings were not significant, she had to be put on medications to relieve the episode and has to still continue medications to prevent recurrence. Now, that might be a drop in the ocean , but a very important one! Watch out for those...

And now live birth on the internet.com?

...difficult for them to visit their kids if they are hospitalized due to illness. This facility has come as a boon to these people and is turning out to be a big hit with Singaporeans. This is called view baby project and the web casting technology used by view baby has been used for corporate video conferencin...

New FDA Approved Drug NATRECOR For Heart Failure Patients

...ered drug called NATRECOR to ease the breathing of hospitalized congestive heart failure patients. Congestive heart failure is a condition // in which the heart can't pump enough blood to meet the needs of the body's other organs. Most of the patients with congestive heart failure suffer flare-ups in which they...

Mushroom and muscle loss

...ew England Journal of Medicine, twelve people were hospitalized for severe weakness and muscle loss after eating the mushrooms, and three of them died, wrote Dr. Regis Bedry of the poison center of University Hospital Pellegrin in Bordeaux, France.Bedry said he confirmed the mushroom's toxicity by feeding extract...

Acne Drug linked to suicide attempts

... The FDA also had reports of 110 US Accutane users hospitalized for depression and thoughts of suicide in the same period. Roche, the makers of Accutane, sent a letter to doctors three-and-a-half years ago, alerting them to a new prescribing warning that states - "Accutane may cause depression, psychosis, and ra...

New pacemaker reduces risk of heart failure

...f pacemaker have only half the usual risk of being hospitalized with worsening heart trouble.// The device, Medtronic's InSync pacemaker, has been implanted in more than 3,000 people in the US since its approval by the FDA. It is intended for people with a particular form of heart failure, a debilitating illnes...

Heart Drug has grave side effects

...short-term treatment of worsening heart failure in hospitalized patients may cause dangerously low blood pressure and abnormal heart rhythms. //The findings suggest that the drug, milrinone, should be reserved for patients who do not respond to other medication, said Dr. Mihai Gheorghiade of Northwestern Universi...

Interference helps Heart Patients

...or heart failure, the average number of days spent hospitalized was 40 percent lower than for usual-care patients. Hospital costs for patients readmitted for heart failure were 35 percent lower for the phone-call group. The study demonstrates that a relatively low-cost, low-tech method can have positive results ...

Chemotherapy Pill Has Fewer Side Effects Than IV

...the capecitabine group were also less likely to be hospitalized due to side effects....

Guard against heart attacks

...ed all patients in Quebec over age 65 who had been hospitalized between 1995 and 1998 for a heart attack. Researchers found naproxen had a protective effect against AMI when compared with other NSAIDs. The effect was strongest in chronic users. The antiplatelet effect of naproxen appears to be brief and research...

Antibiotics help heart patients

...art patients who are given antibiotics after being hospitalized have a lower risk of returning to the hospital for... For the study, researchers enrolled 300 hospitalized patients who suffered a heart attack or unstable angina. Within 48 hours after being admitted, patie...

Antidepressants could pose grave implications

...bitors, or SSRIs, were 3.6-times more likely to be hospitalized with an episode of upper GI bleeding than would be normally expected. The effect was even stronger among those who also used a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medication or low-dose aspirin. NSAID users had a 12.2-times higher risk while aspirin users...

Adult COPD or asthma could be effectively treated with Xopenex

...ggested Xopenex as a viable first-line therapy for hospitalized adult COPD or asthma patients. Lead author of the study, Terrance Truitt said that Xopenex is safe in a hospital setting, and is an effective alternative to racemic albuterol in treating the bronchial smooth muscle spasm associated with diseases such...

Scientists crack dengue fever puzzle

...uated the immune cell response of 73 Thai children hospitalized with dengue fever and found that all but two had been infected at least once before. What's more, these children had relatively low levels of infection-fighting T cells specific for the new virus. Normally infection with viruses such as hepatitis C ...

Drug Reduces Risk of Clogged Arteries, Veins

...p vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism in people hospitalized with congestive heart failure, chronic respiratory disease and other conditions that increase the risk of these conditions, claims a new study. People treated with the drug were 47 percent less likely to suffer venous thromboembolism (a condition inv...

Reducing Medication Errors

...ths from medical errors are common, people who are hospitalized face the largest risk for medical mistakes.// Studies show in adults, adverse drug events occur in five of every 100 medication orders. A new study led by researchers at Ottawa, shows computerized systems for ordering medications can reduce the numb...

Vibrating Insoles could Help Balance

... over 74 age group were 11-times more likely to be hospitalized after a fall compared to those ages 60 to 64. That study also found falls cost the National Healthcare System in the United Kingdom more than $1.5 billion. Thus researchers say noise-based devices such as the randomly vibrating insoles may eventuall...

Screening Newborns Questioned

... false-positive results were twice as likely to be hospitalized than those with normal results. Mothers of children in the false-positive group also reported higher stress levels. Researchers thus conclude, “This study highlights some of the challenges to current newborn screening practices. It demonstrates a ne...

Exposure To Tobacco Smoke Can Lead To Sickle Cell Crisis

...e about twice as likely as those not exposed to be hospitalized with a crisis. The finding held true even after researchers adjusted the results to consider other factors that could have increased the children’s risk for a flare up. Thus researchers say their data supports the hypothesis that children and adole...

Inhaled Corticosteroids Found To Have No Significant Effect On COPD

...rt in the study died, and nearly 660 patients were hospitalized for COPD symptoms. Although results from the study contradict prior research, researchers say the difference in results can be attributed to statistical biases in previous studies....

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