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Tag: "miss" at medical news

Waking during surgery

...to treat PTSD at an early stage, tahn to delay and miss out on vital treatment....

Why running noses are a good thing

... for colds and flu -- just to make sure they don't miss a case of anthrax in its early, treatable stage. But none of the five cases of inhaled anthrax so far have started with nasal congestion or runny nose. Those symptoms, of course, are common in flu and many other viruses that cause wintertime respirat...

Breast screening among diabetic women

... rest of the population, it's important they don't miss out when it comes to screening....

Memory loss always goes hand with Depression

...epression, are highly treatable. But doctors often miss the psychiatric dimension in cognitive impairment. It is well worthwhile asking about depression and so on, say the researchers, when someone presents with memory loss. Treatment will improve quality of life for the patient and their carers....

Importance of soy protein in your diet

...fortified with calcium and B vitamins so you don't miss out. Soy flour can be substituted for up to 30 per cent of the flour in baked goods. It is true there has been controversy over soy supplements and whether these might increase rather than decrease breast cancer risk. Doctors have finally observed th...

Fear of the dark could be more than just fear!

...o not have a family history of visual problems may miss the rare form of the disease called stationary night// blindness. A child with no visual problems obvious to the parents and who can see normally in well-lit conditions may not be able to see at all in the dark, even after adapting to dim lighting. ...

Depression Weighs Heaviest on the Elderly

...including caregivers and family members -- tend to miss signs of depression in older individuals, thinking it's normal to feel that way at that age....

Link Between Migraines and Behavioral Disorders

...port disruptive behavior , children with migraines miss more school and often lose sleep, which can contribute to the types of behavioral symptoms often associated with ADD, CD and ODD, but this is the first study to demonstrate there could be a direct link between migraines and behavioral disorders. Res...

Finding relief from Excruciating Headaches a challenge

...daches that often left her bedridden caused her to miss more than 100 days of her senior year of high school -- with her worst migraine lasting nearly a month.Medication and a tutor helped her make it to graduation. But, now a freshman at St. Cloud State University, she's still missing some classes and ma...

Radiation Exposure Found To Affect Intellect Later In Life

...and back parts of their brains were more likely to miss school. Researchers also say a significant dose-related response was observed in learning ability tests and logical reasoning tests. However, this response was not observed in spatial recognition tests. Researchers say young children who undergo co...

Viagra Also Found To Be Effective For Treatment of Lung Diseases

...t population might grow because doctors, who often miss the condition, are looking more carefully now that treatments are available. Though far from cures for pulmonary hypertension, the new drugs have helped improve the outlook for patients. Drug manufacturers say they would sell a pulmonary hypertensi...

Evaluating The Risk Factors Of Osteoporosis

...of -2.5 or less, many women who had fractures will miss the opportunity for treatment. Researchers say in order to reduce osteoporotic fractures doctors cannot just rely on T-scores. The second study focused on identifying women with osteopenia at potential risk for fracture within one year of bone miner...

Migraine Found To Be Linked To Behavioral Disorders

...port disruptive behavior , children with migraines miss more school and often lose sleep, which can contribute to the types of behavioral symptoms often associated with ADD, CD and ODD, but this is the first study to demonstrate there could be a direct link between migraines and behavioral disorders. Res...

Understanding The Harmful Effects Of Radiation Exposure

...and back parts of their brains were more likely to miss school. Researchers also say a significant dose-related response was observed in learning ability tests and logical reasoning tests. However, this response was not observed in spatial recognition tests. Researchers say young children who undergo co...

Cancer patients can now take once daily medication for infections

...se disruption in patients’ lives and cause them to miss their radiation appointments. Also this treatment takes a long time in healing the candidiasis. In the new treatment procedure, patients only have to take one pill of 50mg of miconazole daily. Of the 141 patients who took the tablet form had the sam...

PET Scanner detects more Vaginal cancer than CT scans

...that pass through the body's tissues. CT scans can miss small tumors, whereas PET scans detect radioactivity that emanates directly from a tumor after a patient has received a dose of radioactive glucose, which accumulates in tumors. Hence even tiny tumors will collect enough "hot" glucose to show up on t...

Attention! Spells of momentary blindness following visual disturbance

...erm memory // . As a consequence of this, we often miss visual images that pass right before our eyes when...t all. The new research indicates that we can also miss what we are searching for if we are shown an unexpected image that impacts us emotionally, by a mech...

Obese Employees Increase Costs For Employers

... frequency of absenteeism. Normal weight employees miss about three days of work per year due to illness o... obese women (those roughly 100 pounds overweight) miss more than eight days per year. To put the issue into perspective, the authors estimate that the co...

Pediatricians Need To Talk To Parents Of Overweight Kids

...in the journal Pediatrics that pediatricians often miss the opportunity to talk to the parents of obese children and help them identify the problem and treat // it to bring the body weight of children back to normal. Researchers feel that it’s really important that pediatricians identify overweight chil...

Memory-Aid To Help HIV Patients

...y active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Those who miss their medication a few times quickly develop a viral resistance to the drug, a problem since replacement options are few. Fifty-eight of 64 patients completed the four-month study. Half of the patients were given a Jerry device and attended adherenc...

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