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Tips to Prevent and Treat Winter Laryngitis

...ury caused to the voice, Hogikyan notes. “We can’t necessarily affect the viral infection itself, but we can try to limit the amount of irritation that it will cause to the voice, or, even more importantly, we can limit further injury that might occur by pushing the voice at a time when it’s already hoarse,” he ...

Excessive Male Hormones can Cause Bulimia in Women

...n be overeating due to hormonal imbalance, and not necessarily due to a mental disorders, explained Dr Sabine Naessén. The research entails that commonly used oral contraceptives therefore may be useful for its treatment. Bulimia nervosa is seen to affect women ten times more than men. Most bulimic women are of...

The Risk of Death from Prostate Cancer More in Obese Men

...ncer is greater in obese men. However, it does not necessarily mean that all obese men// have chances of getting the disease. The study reveals that higher body mass index (BMI) and weight gain in adulthood correlated strongly with increased risk of death from prostate cancer. However, no such association was ...

Warfarin’s Anti-clotting Property May Cause Hemorrhagic Stroke

...f Cincinnati in Ohio, said the study results don’t necessarily mean that use of warfarin should be given up, but motivate physicians to make sure that the drug is being used appropriately. "Doctors can use these findings to make sure they are weighing the risks and benefits of warfarin use for their patients,"...

Lost That Lovin' Feeling? Don't Blame the Pill

...ndrogens, including testosterone, but that doesn’t necessarily translate to a loss of libido. Chemical changes occurred, but they did not apparently impact sexual behavior for the vast majority of women,’ he said. Similarly, the effect of progestin on women’s sexual desire was not dramatic. ‘A small minority o...

Skin Clinic Doctors Fleece Medicare

...ple are taken on and given tests that they may not necessarily need to have.” Skin clinics will now be closely monitored as there have been reports of several cases in which treatment at skin clinics appears to have been aimed at increasing profit for practitioners rather than what medical peers would regard as...

Activation of a Particular Brain Region Predicts Altruism: Study

...standing the function of this brain region may not necessarily identify what drives people like Mother Theresa, it may give clues to the origins of important social behaviors like altruism," said study investigator Scott A. Huettel, Ph.D., a neuroscientist at the Brain Imaging and Analysis Center. The work wa...

Potential Threats of Bioterrorism

...d to be harmless. Our findings suggest this is not necessarily so. Therefore all health interventions including warnings about potential threats of bioterrorism should be evaluated by weighing the expected benefits against the potential risk of harm.” He adds, “With smoking, the behavior to be avoided is clear...

Low-Dose Steroids Reduce Joint Damage From Rheumatoid Arthritis

...noticeable improvements for patients: “It does not necessarily follow that patients will gain long-term functional benefit.” However, two related studies, including one by Kirwan, suggest “an important link” between the two. Because of the known health risks associated with intensive steroid use, concern pers...

Workplace Pressures, Hazards Raise Risk of Job Injuries in Youths

...panic teens, compared to white teens. “We didn’t necessarily expect that [finding] going into it,” Breslin said...teach work safety education techniques that aren’t necessarily being used on the job, he said. In 2004, almost 180,000 U.S. teens were severely injured at work. ...

Health Issues That Can Impact Sexual Satisfaction

...V, which can cause cervical cancer, condoms do not necessarily protect one’s partner against contracting the virus. 6. Stress. Got stress? If so, then you may have more trouble experiencing an enjoyable sex life. “Stress often has effects on our sex lives. When we are consumed with time management, working...

HIV-positive Individuals Have a Massively Increased Risk of Osteonecrosis

...eral other risk factors have been reported but not necessarily agreed upon between various studies of osteonecrosis in HIV: length of HIV infection, AIDS-defining illness or very low CD4 counts in the past, longer time on antiretroviral treatment (Mary-Krause 2006), and use of megestrol acetate (Megace) (Koller ...

Vasectomy Linked to Dementia

...this study Sandra Weintraub, this finding does not necessarily mean that vasectomy leads to PPA, it merely underlines the risk factors involved. PPA is a condition characterized by difficulty in understanding and remembering words which lead to difficulty in communicating. The scientists also aver that vasec...

Genetic Testing Sheds Light on Degenerative Eye Disease

... confusion is that an inconclusive result does not necessarily rule out a diagnosis for a given disease. Limitations still exist in technologies for genetic testing, explains Ayyagari. In addition, very slight genetic variations believed to be benign may have either a cumulative effect or may alter the way anoth...

Free Condoms Distribution to Prevent HIV in Washington

...d, 'But all the cool packaging in the world is not necessarily going to make up for the conversation.' Walter Smith of the DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice said, 'The good news is' that the packaging 'does have 'stop HIV' on it. It does say D.C. It does have important information.' He added that the campa...

Inflammation can Lead to Cancer

...treating people with HIV. The goal would not be to necessarily eliminate every last cancer cell, but to control the inflammation process needed for the cancer to progress to a more threatening stage. The new UCSF finding comes from studies with mice genetically engineered to carry some of the genes of the huma...

Learning to Prevent Medical Mistakes in Caring for Stroke Patients

...a patient occurring during medical management, not necessarily because of an error. Medical errors are defined as incorrect actions or plans that may or may not cause harm to a patient. Of the 1,440 stroke patients studied, 12 percent, or 173 patients, experienced an adverse event. A total of 201 events were r...

No Scientific Evidence to Support Drug Safety Recommendations

...educe the number of drug withdrawals, this doesn’t necessarily mean that too many drugs are withdrawn. Removing a few drugs from the market may be a necessary price to pay for bringing a larger number of medications more quickly to the public. The report recommends a two-year ban on advertising drugs directl...

People With Genetic Predictors of Colorectal Cancer are Not Getting Screened

...ncer death are well known, this information is not necessarily reaching patients. According to Kinney, “education and other intervention efforts, directed at both members of at-risk families and physicians, are needed to enhance the use of cancer surveillance programs appropriate for the disease and level of ris...

Industry-funded Breast Cancer Trials More Likely to Yield Positive Results

...aid. “It’s not fair to say at this point that it’s necessarily related to biased interpretation of results.” For instance, another explanation could be that industry makes smarter or safer choices about what drugs are brought to trial. However, as industry funding becomes an increasingly dominant source of re...

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