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Is It Worth Having Surgery to Remove Your Tonsils?

... main problem with the trial is that the follow-up period was relatively short, and people in the watchful waiting group reported improvement during the trial period, says Paul Little, Professor of Primary Care Research at the University of Southampton. This begs the question of whether the benefit of immed...

Maggots Rid Patients of MRSA

...RSA and found all but one were cured within a mean period of three weeks, much quicker than the 28-week duration for the conventional treatment. Professor Boulton, who published the results in the journal Diabetes Care, has now been awarded a 98,000 grant by Diabetes UK to carry out a randomized controlle...

Drinking Heavy Amounts of Alcohol Shrinks Your Brain

Drinking heavy amounts of alcohol over a long period of time may decrease brain volume, according to research that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 59th Annual Meeting in Boston, April 28 May 5, 2007. The study involved MRI scans of 1,839 people from the Framingham Offspring...

Preserving Kidneys on a Pump May Promote More Organ Sharing

...reserved kidneys were out of the body for a longer period of time (a mean of 24 hours versus 19 hours for the cold stored organs), both groups of recipients had similar survival and functional outcomes. In addition, the patients receiving machine-preserved kidneys had a 50 percent reduction in the rates of ...

New Survey List Out Cities That Take Sun Protection Seriously

...out skin cancer implying that somehow their short period of sun exposure during the summer months could not cause enough damage to their skin to develop skin cancer. "The notion that only people living in year-round sunny climates are prone to developing skin cancer is completely untrue," explained Dr. Bak...

Daily Steroids Helpful for Boys Down With Muscular Dystrophy

...roids helps them to walk on their own for a longer period of time and reduce their risk of scoliosis. Duchenne muscular dystrophy occurs in one in 3,500 boys. Symptoms start in early childhood and rapidly progress with most boys losing the ability to walk between ages nine and 11. There is no cure for the...

Many Senior Citizens in the Grips of Malnutrition

...ot help from a dietician were able to reduce their period of stay in the hospital. Associate Professor Bolin said 'What we've exposed is the tip of the iceberg. Malnourishment doesn't just happen out of the blue. I'd suggest that in these individuals, it's been going on for several years. Elderly patient...

Dabur India Q4 Profit Surges 31%

...Rs 76.91 crore, up from Rs 49.96 crore in the same period last year. Turnover for the quarter also marked a 20.1 per cent increase to Rs 576.49 crore from Rs 479.93 crore in the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal. For the financial year ended March 31, 2007, consolidated net profit soared 32.2 p...

Nexus Between Psychiatrists and Drug Firms Dangerous, Say Critics

...on weight, but it also heavily sedated her. Over a period of time she also developed a disabling knot in her back, the result of a nerve condition called dystonia. The girl has since recovered, but after discontinuing the atypical and opting for counseling. In 2006, the Food and Drug Administration recei...

Hurricane Katrina Still Wrecking Lives - More So With Blacks

...d to take a lower-paying job. The study covered a period from September to November 2006. In all, 81 percent of those in the survey said their economic or physical well being had deteriorated. More than a third said they lost access to health care, while 17 percent said their health had declined and 16 ...

Study Offers Clues to 'Broken Heart Syndrome'

...athy at two major hospitals in Rhode Island over a period of nearly 2 years. Ninety-five percent were women, and 60 percent experienced some type of stress shortly before coming to the emergency room. The intensity of the stress varied dramatically, however, ranging from armed robbery to a heated argument, ...

Aspirin can Prevent Bowel Cancer, Says UK Study

...y basis. "Aspirin at this dose over a prolonged period of time could lead to potentially serious side effects in a few people." According to another recent study, women who take aspirin in low or moderate doses reduce their risk of dying from any cause, particularly heart disease. Researchers at Mass...

Mumps Breaks Out In Canada

...e prone to the disease because they were born in a period when only one dose of vaccine was administered to children. Since 1996, preschoolers have received two doses. The agency has recommended that provinces seeing an outbreak consider offering an additional dose of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR), vacc...

Film Festival on Gender Sexuality Draws Crowds

...el dealt with the lives of four young women over a period of three months after they were severely injured in different terrorist attacks. While their physical wounds start healing, the scars remain, both physical as well as mental. "My crinkled skin scares people. I feel different from the rest now and ...

US Drugmaker Slapped Huge Fine for Misleading Doctors Over Addictive Painkiller

...n that variety the ingredients are released over a period of time for sustained effect. The drug is meant to be swallowed whole and digested over 12 hours. It was later found that the pills can produce a heroin-like high if crushed and then swallowed, snorted or injected. According to the Drug Enforcem...

American Indians in South Dakota Have More Health Problems Than Others in State, Nationwide, Health Official Says

... report, death rates from cancer for the same time period were 245 deaths per 100,000 people among American Indians, compared with 187 deaths per 100,000 people among whites. Robert Moore, a council member for the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, said the rates could indicate that American Indians either lack access ...

Female Reproductive Function Influenced by Childhood Environment

... of Anthropology, said: "The findings point to the period before puberty as a sensitive phase when changes in environmental conditions positively impact on key developmental stages. Put very simply, the female body seems to monitor its environment throughout childhood and before puberty, to gauge when and a...

Hundreds of Children Exposed to Pesticide in US

... children of small, repeated exposures over a long period of time are unclear, said University of California, Berkeley epidemiologist Brenda Eskenazi. But acute pesticide poisoning can cause nausea, blurred vision, an abnormally fast heart rate, paralysis and death. Chrissy Garavito, a 15-year-old high ...

Saliva Helps to Identify Child Victims of Chronic Bullying

...lth. However, when a person undergoes a lengthy period of stress similar to the chronic bullying experience, he shows less than normal cortisol reactions that are related to a decreased sensitivity to stress. For their study, the researchers tested the saliva of 94 sixth grade students between 9 to 14...

Albuterol may Be Helpful for Infants Suffering from Bronchiolitis

...trial involving over 700 infants over a three year period showed a clear advantage for albuterol in successful discharges from the Emergency Department. Although many smaller studies have shown either no difference or an advantage to epinephrine, this surprising result of a small but real advantage in usi...

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