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Helmets Effective In Protecting Your Head

...say about one of 25 riders who wore a helmet had a neck injury, compared to four of 70 riders who did not ...ull base fractures and do not increase the risk of neck injuries....

Cancer Treatment Harsh On Patients

More than 40,000 new cases of head and neck cancer are diagnosed each year in the United State...nd overall loss of function. People with head and neck cancer often experience problems with eating, communicating, pain, and poor emotional well-being. Th...

Possibility Of Regaining Speech After Tongue, Voice Box Removal

...ical technique may help restore speech to head and neck cancer patients who have had their voice box and t...after being screened from a population of head and neck cancer patients who had already had their tongues and voice boxes removed. After six months, resear...

The Dangers Of Sleep Apnea

... particularly in obese patients with a short bulky neck and a large tongue, full night polysomnography should ideally be done before surgery takes place....

Air Pollution Found To Accelerate Heart Disease

... measurements of the inner lining of participants' neck arteries. It was found that participants' artery inner-lining thickness increased as pollutant amount increased. The association between the two was greatest among people over age 60, women, and those taking cholesterol-lowering medication. Thus res...

Chronic back pain may be relieved by special physiotherapy

... of the patients suffering from lower back pain or neck pain, treatment is often in the form of physiotherapy, oral and intramuscular/intravenous anti-inflammatory medications, acupuncture, epidural injections and rest. This is the time when patients are reported to have lower pain and more physical fitn...

Compound from cottonseed for neck and head cancers

...ells that are found in the head or neck. Head and neck cancers are difficult to treat as they are resista... 70% to 90%. The treated cell cultures of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma with gossypol compound have also been seen to inhibit the growth of tumors. ...

Cancer patients can now take once daily medication for infections

For patients suffering from head and neck cancer who are undergoing radiation// therapy can now take once a day medication to fight oropharyngeal candidiasis. Oropharyngeal candidiasis is a fungal infection in the mouth caused by the yeast Candida. This condition is also called thrush. The ...

Listeria Food Poisoning Can Be Dangerous In Pregnant Women And Elderly

...on include high fever, shivering, severe headache, neck stiffness and nausea. The usual incubation period for the L. monocytogenes infection is three to four weeks but can also range from one to ten weeks. The Microbiology Sub-committee, chaired by Prof Martin Cormican of FSAI has given 58 recommendati...

Gossypol helps in chemotherapy of neck and head cancer.

...e increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy// for neck and head cancer patients. This could prove benefic...y because the side effects of surgery for head and neck cancer can be particularly difficult for patients. It affects how you talk, how you swallow and how ...

Good News For Those Suffering From Excessive Sweating

...Currently this is used to treat severe pain in the neck and head from abnormal head position in the condition of cervical dystonia in adults. Primary axillary hyperhidrosis: This is a physical condition that result from excessive sweating that a person undergoes to maintain the body temperature. Patients...

Acupuncture May Be An Effective Treatment Against Tension-Headaches

...mes accompanied by a tight feeling in the head and neck muscles. Usually they begin slowly and gradually during mid-day. Non-recurrent such headaches may be dealt with the over-the-counter painkillers, but recurrence in a severe form needs intervention from the physicians. www.medindia.net/alternativeme...

Cow's vein used in man to treat varicose ulcer.

.... Dr. Hugh Beebe, the center's director says, "The neck vein of cows is very similar to the femoral vein of man. The bovine valve becomes a better fit when compared to the weakened valves of man and to prevent rejection of bovine tissue, the cows valve is pre treated with drugs."// The femoral ve...

Cholesterol in low levels are good

...ey also showed a decrease in thickness in the main neck arteries supplying blood to the brain. This main artery plays a key role in the risk of stroke and heart attack. The study is the first to show lowering cholesterol may actually reserve the signs of heart disease. Researchers studied about 130 peopl...

Research Identifies The Causes Of Snoring

..., researchers used CT scan imaging of the head and neck region to identify the structures responsible for snoring. Based on questionnaires filled out by study participants and their spouses, patients were divided into groups, with 14 non-snorers, 13 moderately loud snorers, and 13 loud snorers. The resu...

Dengue fever in Delhi after the Monsoon

...in may occur on the palms, soles of feet, face and neck with red spots may appear on the skin. These indicate internal bleeding, which is on of the symptoms of dengue with aching joints, which may appear swollen. The most dangerous period is the leakage phase, which usually takes place around the fourth o...

Children With Epilepsy Can Be Treated With Nerve Stimulation

...e VNS is implanted in the left side of a patient's neck and works by sending signals to the brain to decrease the electrical activity that leads to seizures. It was approved for intractable partial epilepsy (epilepsy that does not improve with medication) of adults (children greater than 12 years) in 1997...

Risk of Thyroid cancer is increased after Childhood Irradiation of Neck region

...euroblastoma. Patients undergoing radiation in the neck regions for treatment of central nervous system cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, Non-Hodgkins lymphoma, Ewing’s sarcoma and Wilm’s tumor develop thyroid cancer. Development of Malignant Hematological diseases is increased in children’s who had w...

New Ways To Treat Vascular Birthmarks

...e surgery. Vascular malformation of the head and neck may cause not only significant cosmetic defects bu...tients with vascular malformations of the head and neck using an alternative, minimally invasive treatment. Source: Newswise...

Dental Cysts Can Cause Infections In Head And Neck

... be the root of certain infections in the head and neck area. Dentigerous cysts are painless, considered ...ling and delayed tooth eruption. However, head and neck specialists have recently encountered several cases of dentigerous cysts presenting as recurrent hea...

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