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Religious Activities Could Promote Obesity

...o use religious media resources, Ferraro says. One limitation of the study was that specific forms of media were not distinguished, so the researchers are not sure if this group is composed of people who only watch television, listen to religious radio programming or read religious materials. Watching televisio...

Stubborn Ulcerative Colitis Responds to Arthritis Drug

...Dryden praised the review. However, Higgins said a limitation was the small number of studies and Dryden said that the review didn’t offer a comparison with cyclosporine. “Looking at the published studies, infliximab appears to be less effective than cyclosporine, but less toxic,” Higgins said. “However, the ...

Scottish Prisons May Get Needle Exchange Programs

...d. "This measure does rather suggest that a damage limitation exercise is being deployed, rather than any real drive to get drugs out of our prisons." RAS...

Ukrainian Invents a Musical Condom

...e of musical tones during sex. The condom's main limitation is primitive sound quality, similar to tones produced by first-generation mobile phones. Testing has shown no danger of electric shock to users of the device, Chausovsky claimed. "We are working on ways to improve this (the quality of the condom's ...

Allergy OTC Medicines–Speak With Your Pharmacis

...ly and are highly effective; however, an important limitation is that they should not be used for more than three days. “Otherwise, there could be a response called ‘rebound congestion’ when the effect of a dose wears off, the congestion comes back, and it comes back sooner after each dose.” Plus, a dependenc...

Joint Effort: Striking ‘Bone’ Homie with Arthrits

...round pain, swelling and stiffness, accompanied by limitation in the movement of joints. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is caused by inflammation of the joint lining in free moving joints, technically called the synovial joints. This can afflict any joint, but peripheral joints, such as the hands, fingers and toes a...

India-Born 'Dr Death' Faces Civil Suits

... as the Australian government has not fully waived limitation and has not accepted liability," said solicitor Harrison. Former surgery director at Bundaberg Base Hospital in Queensland, Patel fled to the US last year after he was linked to the deaths of 17 patients. Former attorney-general Linda Lavarch had...

Large Variations in Cost Has No Effect on Length of Stay or Mortality

... The authors acknowledged that the study’s major limitation is that it evaluated only one ICU. While this may raise “concern about the generalizability of [the] results,” Drs. Garland and colleagues noted that the nature, organization, operation, staffing and case mix in their ICU was similar to others in lar...

Stem Cells In Brain Have Potential For Sensing Damage And To Repair

...x weeks later. This was suspected to be due to the limitation of the technique-some neural stem cells escaped gene deletion, thus allowing the Numb protein they synthesized to remain intact and some neural stem cells had continued to function. As a response to the damage sensed in the region, these cells had,...

Living Liver Donor Who Saved Life of Mother-in-law Represents Cedars-Sinai in Rose Parade

... its normal size within four to six weeks, with no limitation of function. Still, because any surgery involves an element of risk, potential donors are carefully screened and educated. At Cedars-Sinai, Karzin was interviewed by a psychologist, a social worker, surgeons and other transplant specialists. “It was...

Reactions to 'false-positive' Prostate Cancer Screenings Assessed

...course of care," he said. However, Katz noted, a limitation of the study is that the researchers were not able to obtain baseline data on how the men originally felt about their health prior to screening. In addition, the study focused primarily on Caucasian men. Source-Eurekalert...

Asthmatic Children Still Not Breathing Easier, Study Says

...r children to experience no symptoms of asthma, no limitation in function and no serious exacerbations. "That's a lofty goal to dangle before patients," Halterman said. "We wanted a closer look into why so many children weren't reaping the benefits of today's therapeutic advances." Current guidelines recomm...

Study Attributes Elevated Liver Enzymes in HIV/hepatitis to Coinfection Rather Than Antiretrovirals

...an females. The authors noted that one potential limitation of the study was that HCV-positive patients who were non-viraemic were analysed as being HCV coinfected; but, in a sample of the cohort, there was only a small proportion of patients with HCV antibodies and undetectable HCV RNA. Data on alcohol intak...

AAWL Affects Quality of Life

...cts 46 million people. Arthritis-attributable work limitation (AAWL) can have substantial social and economic im...rofessional; it may be difficult to attribute work limitation to arthritis, especially if the person is suffering from multiple chronic conditions; the wording of...

Hip Resurfacing Fever Catches on in US

...es friction between the bones, leading to pain and limitation of joint mobility. But young athletes too are prone to osteoarthritis. Growth plate injuries are most common in boys aged 14 to 16 and girls aged 11 to 13 and are often associated with gymnastics, long-distance running, baseball/softball pitching, ...

Standards for Measuring Narrowing of Carotid Arteries too Aggressive

...the inner opening of blood filled structures. The limitation with angiography is that you had to guess how far the outer wall of the artery was beyond the arterys channel to determine the precise degree of artery blockage, he says. That was a guess, an estimate. Based upon that subjective estimate, formulas we...

Stress of Deployment Increases Risk of Child Abuse, Neglect in Military Families, UNC Study Shows

... this study was conducted using population data. A limitation of this study is that it just used aggregate data on maltreatment and deployment. This study tells us only about population patterns. We did not study individual families she said. To fully understand what is happening within military families, we n...

Meditation May Fine-Tune Control Over Attention

...ionally catch the second signal suggests that this limitation is not strictly physical, but that it may be subject to some type of mental control. Led by postdoctoral fellow Heleen Slagter, Davidson's research group in the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior recruited subjects interested in medi...

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