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Many NYC Pharmacies Fail to Translate Prescription Labels for Patients Who Don't Understand English

... prescription with a label in Chinese--you have no idea what it says. Many New York immigrants face such high-risk gaps in our health care services when presented with a medication bottle in English," said Linda Weiss, Ph.D, senior research associate at The New York Academy of Medicine and lead author of ...

Ignorance is Not Bliss- Patients Unaware of Stroke Risk

...lood pressure levels. Many of those people have no idea that they have high blood pressure and that their risk of having a stroke is massively increased. High blood pressure can be reduced through medication and controlled by changes in diet and lifestyle.” The writing is on the wall. Keep a check on ...

Crucial Gene may Be Indicator of Breast Cancer Metastasis

...reast cancer reappearance, and would enable a good idea to specialists about potential treatment options. The research targeted breast cancer cells which had developed resistance to a particular class of anti-hormone drug called aromatase inhibitors. These inhibitors cause the closure of an enzyme aro...

Understanding of Schizophrenia Could Lead to New Treatment Options

...f early diagnosis and preventive treatment." The idea of schizophrenia arising from white-matter defects may also help explain the timing of its emergence, Corfas notes. Recent evidence suggests that myelination of the prefrontal cortex (a brain area that has been implicated in schizophrenia) occurs not...

New York Doctors Remove Gallbladder Through Vagina

...ve than the abdominal muscles. Interest in this idea heightened after doctors from India made a video i...f World Journal of Surgery, is also critical. “The idea is superficially appealing. But, to me, violating the integrity of the stomach wall to take out the ...

Period Eliminating Pills

The idea that here will be no monthly bleeding in women or ...ing that's going on hormonally in the body but the idea that you can turn your body on and off like a tap is sure worrying”. Though there are pills in the...

Expert Warn- Odds Still Stacked Against Hormone Replacement Therapy

...k this is just more evidence that it is not a good idea to take HRT for very long because the risks do go up with duration, as with breast cancer." Professor Beral’s findings are echoed by another respected study group, which reiterates its previous conclusions that the decline in prescription of HRT ...

Red Wine Good for Nothing, Say Indian Doctors

...ading nutritionist of the capital also snubbed the idea of alcohol as a health enhancer. "When people already have so much of burden, they cannot afford more of it with wine or any other form of alcohol. What we need is a balanced diet." Chopra also said that the growing nightclubs and pubs are just pro...

Study Shows That Indigenous People are Not Genetically Prone to Diabetes

...etes is 'in the genes' for Indigenous people. This idea stems from the 'thrifty gene hypothesis' which pro...abetes that affects people throughout society, the idea that indigenous people have a 'thrifty gene' is dispelled by our research which shows that when it c...

Military Healthcare Lacks Compassion, Say US Soldiers

..."Even after I was medically retired, the VA had no idea that I was an amputee." In an interview, Ramos recalled how he informed his doctor at the VA that he had an artificial limb: "I knocked on my carbon-fiber arm and said, I'm missing an arm, buddy." Or take the case of Staff Sgt. Christopher Ed...

Physicists Unite To Develop Anthrax Detection Method

...ents, it was possible to test several parts of the idea in parallel in order to obtain a final result faster. And the excellent results, just published today in Science, were achieved in less than three years! Many experimentalists cannot believe that a ‘pure theoretician’ could lead such difficult experi...

Child Abuse - When God’s Gifts Land in Devils’ Clutchs

...Suresh’s life. As he dressed for school, he had no idea what awaited him. When he made trivial mistakes in his class, his teacher beat him black and blue. The boy was so physically abused that he needed medical help and psychiatric counseling. All of 10 years, and a small frame, Priya worked like a wel...

Gene Screening Points Way to More Effective Chemotherapy

...ast – this is very powerful,” Dr. White said. “The idea of the screen was to be able to take advantage of the new generation of technology to silence any gene we want. That’s the power of a genome-wide screen – you go in without any expectations and let the data tell you what’s important.” Soure-Newswi...

Merck's Pain Reliever Arcoxia Rejected by US Federal Advisory Panel

...n the U.S. market, it has been pointed out. The idea should not be that we need new drugs. The idea should be that we need better drugs, said Martha Solanche, a consumer representative on the advisory...

The Gen(i)e Behind Fatsos

...s do not have the complete story yet. With a faint idea of what is happening, this research could give us ...urther research in this area will give us a better idea as to why some of us stick out, despite eating in moderation....

Doctors Encouraged to Say, “I’m Sorry,” to Patients inUS

... combined with an upfront settlement offer. The idea defies a long tradition in which doctors cultivated a godlike image of infallibility and rarely owned up to their mistakes. Research has actually shown that being upset with a doctor's behavior often plays a bigger role than the error itself in pa...

Parents To Blame For Soaring Counts Of Binge-Drinkers And Smokers

... "redress the balance of advice", but rejected the idea that "abstinence only" sex education in schools would reduce teenage pregnancy or improve sexual health. There was no evidence to support claims that teaching about contraception increased sexual activity, it said. This is in contrast to tradition...

Smoking on Television is Harmful to the Health of the Nation's Youth: BMA

...em that tobacco smoke kills and that it’s a stupid idea to take up the habit in the first place. Children are very vulnerable to suggestion, and the less exposure they have to adults smoking, the better.” “The average smoker will lose about 10 years of life because of smoking. Every day, doctors across ...

Study Finds Dietary Fat Interacts With Genes

...tain diseases. But we study nutrigenomics with the idea that we can pinpoint people who may be at higher risk for certain conditions like cardiovascular disease, allowing these individuals to proactively alter the way nutrition affects their genes,” says Ordovas. “Once we are able to do this, we may devel...

Statins Linked to Lower Risk of Infection

...h laboratory studies adds a lot of credence to the idea that statins are doing something substantial to reduce risk.” “Statins are known to have an effect on the body’s immune system, but what that is exactly, and how many statin users it affects, is still not widely understood.” Statins may regulat...

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