Adolescent Girl Athletes More Likely to Injure Knees Than Boys
...anding, or quick stops and turns—more cases of ACL injuries are being seen," says Dr. Ahmad, director of the Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Sports Medicine at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital and assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. The...Sports Doctors too few for 2012 Olympics
...specialist each, for the treatment of treat sports injuries as well as to help tackle the rising problem of ob...ills in the community; not going to A&E with their injuries then waiting for weeks for physiotherapy, then having a chronic problem that costs a lot to treat an...Lighten Up! Heavy Backpacks a Weighty Load for Children to Bear
...cks and book bags with approximately half of those injuries occurring in children 5 to 14 years old. “Parents should remember when they help their children to pack their backpacks, the heaviest items should be placed closest to the child’s body and as close to their center of gravity as possible,” Kramer ex...Egg Throwing – Not a Laughing Matter anymor
...ncy Medicine Journal which revealed that grave eye injuries could result from lobbing raw eggs at people. R...mber 2005. Among them 13 patients had sustained injuries following assault with a raw egg. Twelve of them were men, with an average age of 27. Nine of the...... other medication errors. Many of these deaths and injuries could be avoided if the full medical records of patients were available to their treating physicians. Decades after virtually every significant enterprise in the developed world turned to computers to keep records, computers still remain astonishin...Vaccines, tobacco taxes and condoms in disease control
...t dangerous intersections to check traffic-related injuries and treatment of tuberculosis. Pan American Health Organization is division of the United Nations' World Health Organization. GYT...High Resolution CT Accurately Diagnoses Shin Splints
...l stress syndrome is one of many overuse lower leg injuries that may be found in athletes and accounts for between 13.2% and 17.3% of all running injuries. For the study, high-resolution CT of both tibiae (shin bones) was performed on 41 subjects: 20 distance runners with no symptoms of shin splints, 11 dis...Journal of Craniofacial Surgery Publishes Research by Iraqi Surgeons
...tical role // in treating many of the most serious injuries caused by the ongoing conflict in that country. An...iaa M. Muna on their experience in treating facial injuries caused by the Iraqi conflict. The "bizarre nature" of the conflict—a combination of conventional war...Using Contrast Enhanced Sonography Improves Diagnosis of Liver and Spleen Injuries
...ontrast-enhanced sonography shows liver and spleen injuries better than non-contrast enhanced sonography, acco...st-enhanced sonography depicted 20 (91%) of the 22 injuries while non-contrast-enhanced sonography revealed 11 (50%). “The main focus of sonography for patient...Injury Severity Is Possible Risk for PTSD, Depression
...he most severely wounded of those receiving combat injuries from March 2003 to September 2004. Of those soldiers, 243 completed assessments at the one, four, and seven month time frame after being injured. The rates of PTSD and depression were 4 percent at one month, 12 percent at four months, and 19 percent ...Low Birth Weight Babies May Have Mental & Physical Problems
... for their age group. Those who were male, who had injuries to the white matter (nerve tissue) of the brain on neonatal ultrasound and who spent more days on a ventilator as an infant were more likely to have motor difficulties. Social disadvantages, a lower fetal growth ratio (calculated by dividing birth we...Study on Timing of Spinal Surgery
...reduce pressure on the spinal cord. Two types of injuries occur when the spinal cord is damaged, says Dr. Va...ding to Dr. Vaccaro, animal studies on spinal cord injuries show that the sooner pressure is removed from a compressed spinal cord, the better the recovery of f...Does C-Section Stand for ‘Concern’? Study Reveals One in Hundred Babies ‘Hut’
...ndergo some sort of injury during the process. The injuries range from slight skin bruises to even severe fractures in the skull or collar bones. To understand the nature and magnitude of damage caused, Dr. James M. Alexander and colleagues analyzed data from nearly 37,110 cesarean deliveries during 1999 an...Awake Surgery to treat Brain tumours
...s, brain defects and disease, spinal tumours, head injuries and epilepsy.” Mr Donnacha O’Brien, consultant neurosurgeon at Beaumont Hospital, said, “More has to be done to continue to improve survival times and quality of life for patients with brain tumours.“It is now appropiate to look at combining surger...Yet Another Reason not to Smoke
...cuff tears involve one or more of the tendons. The injuries are more common as people age and more common in the dominant arm. The true incidence of the injuries is hard to determine because between 5 percent and 40 percent of people who may have a torn rotator ...Cigarette Smoking Impedes Tendon-to-Bone Healing
...cuff tears involve one or more of the tendons. The injuries are more common as people age and more common in the dominant arm. The true incidence of the injuries is hard to determine because between 5 percent and 40 percent of people who may have a torn rotator ...Some Prescriptions Can Lead to Chronic Drug-Induced Liver Injury
...ingle prescription medication, while 21 percent of injuries were related to a combination of prescription drugs and complementary/alternative therapies. During a six-month follow-up, seven percent died and 23 percent exhibited chronic DILI. “Our study represents an extensive and a systematic effort that is ...Three Teslas magnetic resonance imager acquired. Shot in the arm for research
...-radiology, imaging diagnosis in muscular-skeletal injuries and angiography by Magnetic Resonance. Besides, there exist other areas of the body the study of which will also be enhanced by the use of 3 Teslas resonance such as the abdomen, the breast and the heart, amongst others. Likewise, the greater stren......he handle bar impacting on the stomach. Even small injuries to the abdomen could result in an infection of the...ker. Other causes of the illness are infection or injuries to the bile duct. Source-IANS......could do it. Very young children who suffer lung injuries increase elastin expression and produce new elastic fibers inside the alveoli, Woods said. Adults do not have that ability and that has led physiologists to conclude that the elastin gene must shut off after we reach a certain age, ending elastin fib...