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Birmingham Hip Resurfacing System, Another Option To Hip Replacement Surgery

...after total hip replacements. ‘This procedure is intended for younger, active patients who live a non-sedentary lifestyle who may be suffering from hip pain due to osteoarthritis, dysplasia or avascular necrosis,’ says Kurt Rathjen, M.D., orthopedic surgeon on the medical staff at Baylor Dallas trained to p...

Hospitalized patients better of with help from Pharmacists

...nveniences and other factors that might affect the intended use of the medication. For patients with dementia, health illiteracy or other problems that could affect use of medications, the pharmacist also can meet with family members or other helpers for medication planning. Carl Hensely II, pharmacy bene...

Electrosurgery Ensures Integrity Of Cochlear Implant Following Adenoids Removal

...trosurgery. Conclusions: The study findings were intended to evaluate the cochlear implant device integrity, not support the safety of monopolar or Coblation electrosurgery in respect to the patient. The study also did not evaluate the effects of either treatment modality on auditory neurons. Further evalua...

Meth Addiction On The Rise, US Health Authorities Concerned

...ia in its users. Discovered in 1919 and originally intended for the treatment of nasal decongestion, the drug is now being used by college students, athletes and truck drivers. Sadly, the drug is no longer used for its therapeutic benefit. Soldiers who had participated in the World War II are said to have u...

New Home New Blessings

...e buyers in each diocese whose special prayers are intended to cover almost every eventuality. The Rev Chris Painter, a vicar in Eccles, Greater Manchester is the pioneer behind this initiative. The clergy hope to reverse the ongoing interest in practices such as feng shui, demonstrate Christianity in this ...

Health of Mothers and Children Show Improvement after Use of Insecticide-Treated Bed Nets

...ring delivery. The parasites also hijack nutrients intended for the developing fetus, threatening its development and survival. The review appears in the most recent issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Sy...

Heart Patients Can Now Benefit From Asthma Drug

...as now found that the drug clenbuterol, originally intended for treatment of asthmatics can now help patients with heart failure // as well. The last step for many heart failure patients is a heart transplant. But with a worldwide shortage of organ donors, many patients have to survive on heart pumps, repor...

Alcoholism Drug Vivitrol Approved By FDA

...vitrol, the once-a-month injectable medication, is intended for outpatients for treatment of alcoholism. The patients should be able to abstain from drinking in an outpatient setting when initiating the treatment. Also, the drug should be used in coordination with psychosocial support such as counseling or gr...

Premature Babies In ICU Can Be Viewed Online: Parents Rejoice

... medicine and Singapore Telecommunications was not intended to replace parental contact but to complement it, department head Yeo Cheo Lian said. It 'supplements parental contact and allows other family members to bond with the baby and be involved in his care right from the beginning', Yeo said. The serv...

Green signal for the 21st century super hospital

... MP Gisela Stuart said that the facility is mainly intended to provide a state-of-the-art unit and better care for psychiatric patients. ...

Global Fund Demands Account from Kenya For $10 million

... the $10-million received// from the Global Fund’s intended 134 million. The fund was provided to Kenya to assist in combating Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Now, Kenya would have to provide the accounts of how the money was utilized, failing which it might stand to lose $100 million. Kenya has been ridden w...

Doctor Grilled In Court For False Report About Vioxx Health Risk

...unds of product liability. The product, originally intended for arthritis treatment was withdrawn from the market in the September of 2004. The case was taken up for hearing recently. Attorney Mark Lanier questioned the motivation and educational qualifications of Merck expert witness Dr. Barry Rayburn duri...

Jets Can Now Be Propelled By Coal-based Fuel

...he Air Force likes," says Schobert. "This fuel was intended to be a high heat sink fuel, which it is, but it can also be used in existing engines." The project now targets coal-based replacement for existing fuels with the hope that this will interest both commercial and military users. So far the Penn Sta...

Sodium Hyaluronate Shows Promise In Treatment Of Shoulder Pain

...nter has shown that sodium hyaluronate, originally intended for use in osteoarthritis, could be effective// in the treatment of chronic shoulder pain as well. Until now, drug treatment with Cox-2 inhibitors or surgery was the only treatment options left for patients with chronic shoulder pain. Approximately...

An urgent need for prison reforms: California!

...eferring to Arnold. He also added, "Prisons are intended to deprive inmates of their liberty. Anything more--unnecessary deprivations, indignities, and ill treatment--represents gratuitous pain and can have harmful psychological consequences." He has written a book, Reforming Punishment: Psychological L...

Needed, more space for women's sexual identity on marquees

...feels that "somehow 'English, August,' which I had intended as a satire, gave a few rich kids the license to make poor, self-conscious, look-at-me-I'm-so-smart comedies. None of their movies has any contact with reality." For these filmmakers, making a film for a multiplex crowd is about arranging for some f...

Brinda Karat Receives Legal Notice over Ramdev Issue

...oyed the faith of people in ayurveda and yoga’ and intended to ‘outrage the religious feelings of the particular community of Brahmins and pure vegetarians', it added. Karat and the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), the labour wing of the CPI-M, had alleged that Ramdev's Divya Yog pharmacy in Haridwar w...

Anticancer Properties of Vitamin D Could Be Separated From Other Functions

...protect against colorectal cancer, but high dosage intended to take advantage of its anticancer properties might lead to calcium toxicity. “We found that we might be able to separate the two functions at the molecular level, and this raises the possibility that vitamin D can be chemically modified into a dr...

Government, Aids NHS, Re-focus On Sexual Health Initiatives

...and local practical action. It is clear that money intended for the improvement of sexual health services is, in many cases, not reaching the intended target and if continued this will have long term consequences for the sexual health of the country."...

Private Health Care in Canada May Not Be A Distant Dream

...st move came about by the Quebec government, which intended to remove the ban on private health insurance for elective surgeries. The government has now offered to chip in and pick up costs for such procedures at private clinics, when the same procedure demanded undue waiting time in the Public Health System....

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