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Lack of Timely Intervention Results in Needless Death Due to Stroke in US

...age or rupture of a blood vessel in the brain that injures or kills brain cells or is suffering from another condition. Doctors are therefore reluctant to give the only drug shown to make a real difference, tPA, or tissue plasminogen activator. It is a thrombolytic agent. It can dissolve blood clots, whi...

Too Much of Air in the Lungs Results in VILI

... the body to mount an inflammatory response, which injures the lung's epithelial lining, Bates said. At that point, doctors provide mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit until the body heals itself. Bates explains the difficulty of treating the injured lung this way: ‘Imagine you have two balloon...

Lawn Mower injuries - children needs precaution

...ntial toy – resulting in thousands of debilitating injures every year,’ said ASRM President L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS. ‘Lawn mower injuries often include deep cuts, loss of fingers and toes, limb amputations, broken and dislocated bones, burns, and eye injuries. Most of these injuries can be prevented by foll...

Watch Out! Sideswipe Elbow Injuries On The Rise

...om having any body part outside the car, sideswipe injures are still ever-present. Nine of the patients studied sustained their injuries on rural roads and alcohol intoxication was a factor in six of the accidents, remarked Dr. Kinzel, lead author of the study. The authors have further highlighted the need...

Cheerleaders run high risk of injury-US study

...treated at U.S. hospitals for cheerleading-related injures during the 13-year period from 1990 to 2002. Most of the injuries were suffered by 12- to 17-year-olds; nearly 40 percent were leg, ankle and foot injuries. The number of high school and grade school cheerleaders suffering sprains, strains, fractu...

Quit smoking for healthier gums

...ring the peculiar smokers' breath, chronic smoking injures the teeth, causing the distinctive brownish black discoloration and harms the gums as well. The frequency of tooth loss in chronic smokers' has been well documented. The reason for this is that smokers' are more prone to develop chronic periodontitis...

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