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Moderate Use of Analgesics - Not Associated With Kidney Dysfunction

...occasional use of aspirin, acetaminophen, or other pain relievers for everyday aches and pains is not asso...studies have suggested that regular use of popular pain killers such as aspirin, acetaminophen, and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs(NSAIDs) may i...

Arthroscopy for Ankles

...ncluding ligament damage, bone chips and recurrent pain from end-stage arthritis. An arthroscope is a tub...last resort to relieve persistent and debilitating pain in the ankle for patients with end-stage arthritis. Stienstra says arthroscopy improves the success ...

Young womens woes

...also experience general malaise, nausea, abdominal pain and excessive fatigue. It may also be, they said, that women are more at risk of death after heart attack because of increased depression, social isolation and lack of support once they leave hospital. Because heart attacks are less common among wom...

Young women's woes

...also experience general malaise, nausea, abdominal pain and excessive fatigue. It may also be, they said, that women are more at risk of death after heart attack because of increased depression, social isolation and lack of support once they leave hospital. Because heart attacks are less common among wom...

Headache decreases appetite

...eveal, in a study,// the changes in the brain when pain takes away your appetite. From a group of migraine...r even in its absence. Then the researchers gave pain stimuli to rats and discovered that they activated not just brain cells that transmit pain signals, ...

Say "no" to x-rays

...found that giving x-rays to people with lower back pain can appear to worsen the outcome. The study track... of patients - 421 in all - who had had lower back pain for over six weeks. One group was given radiography, the other was not. Researchers found that afte...

Strong pain killers likely to cause miscarriage

... English expert says that certain over-the-counter pain killers should carry warnings that they can increase the risk of miscarriage. The comments follow a study by Danish reseacher Gunnar Lauge Nielsen and colleagues published in this week's British Medical Journal which studied the effect on women of t...

Early detection of heart attack

Researchers have found a new test to assess chest pain is accurate in more rapid diagnosis of a heart attack.Chest pain does not always signify a heart attack. It can be caused by indigestion or a panic attack. But the s...

Action of nerve cells

...an or other animal has any sensation- from feeling pain to hearing a sound or remembering something millions of neurons are sending signals in the form of neurotransmitters,Jorgensen said.The strength of a signal depends on the number of neurotransmitter filled membrane balloons released by each neuron.So...

Heart Attacks during Menstruation!

...om England. Angina is a heavy, squeezing chest pain which occurs when there is insufficient oxygen supply to the heart. It is more common in patients //with a history of heart disease. Researchers from the Cardiothoracic Centre report in the journal Heart, studied a phenomenon where angina is more lik...

New Modality in Migraine Management

...ms of valproate sodium every 5 minutes until their pain was relieved. By the end of the study, he found t...r symptom relief was 88%, and 59 reported complete pain relief. No problems with drowsiness or euphoria were reported, although most patients said they felt...

Increased Heart Attack Risk From Celebrex,Vioxx

...REX (celecoxib capsules) is used for relief of the pain and inflammation of osteoarthritis and adult rheum...cally inhibit only the COX-2 (which is involved in pain and inflammation) while not affecting the first (which is involved in protecting lining of the stoma...

Novartis files application with FDA for Zometa

...tures, compression of the spinal cord, severe bone pain and hypercalcemia.// Zometa is a new generation intravenous bisphosphonate that was approved by the FDA just two weeks ago (20 August 2001) for the treatment of hypercalcemia of malignancy (HCM), the most common life-threatening metabolic complicat...

Acupuncture provides relief

...ignificantly greater improvement in motion-related pain compared with massage, but surprisingly, not with ...re were no significant differences in mobility and pain between the groups. A related commentary in the journal points out that laser acupuncture was a go...

The feel of pain

...s for such people. If the anticipation part of the pain response can be removed, it would reduce the overall "pain load"....

New test for heart attack

...mes allows doctors to spot those people with chest pain who are really having a heart attack. Only 10 to 1...those who show up in the emergency room with chest pain are actually having a heart attack. Other causes of chest pain are gastrointestinal, kidney, rib or ...

Frozen food invite food poisoning

...he UK. It causes diarrhoea, vomiting and abdominal pain and even complications like arthritis and Guillain-Barre syndrome, a type of temporary paralysis. The Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) has done one of the first studies of the sources of Campylobacter . They examined 7,000 reported cases in ...

Cannabis for pain

.... "The cannabis extracts can produce high-quality pain relief, symptom control, and improvement in the qu...ract was given over eight weeks, and participants' pain levels monitored. Asked to rate their improvement in pain relief on a scale from one to 10, the majo...

Wake-up call for peripheral artery disease

...ful to start with, it's the best way of easing the pain and fatigue in their leg and arm muscles....

New snoring cure

...ue. This is done in an area of the palate with few pain fibres so it doesn't hurt like the more standard treatment. And radiofrequency treatment works well - most patients in the trials experienced a significant decrease in snoring, which was maintained for several months following the surgery....

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