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Nerve Conduction Studies Safe for Patients with Implanted Cardiac Devices

...t research, electrodiagnostic testing was found to pose minimal or no risk to patients with implanted cardiac devices such as permanent pacemakers and implanted cardiac defibrillators. Nerve conduction studies (NCSs) are done to detect and evaluate damage to the peripheral nervous system, which includes...

Transmission of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Linked to Previous ICU Room Occupants

...eria “suggests that levels of contamination do not pose a high risk for transmission or that current cleaning methods generally reduce contamination below levels required for transmission,” the authors write. “Based on our findings, the prevention of one case of acquisition due to room contamination could...

Revised Pregnancy Counselling Item Still Flawed

...is relieved that the new version is less likely to pose privacy concerns than the original. The Government previously said the new Medicare item number – due to come into effect from 1 November 2006 - would be available for counselling patients who were uncertain about their pregnancy, a process that the...

Perception Stabilized – Thanks to Your Brains

...of all the challenges that real life visual scenes pose – that objects are obscured or are moving, and so on," says Hafed. Source-Newswise SR...

Identifying Bottlenecks to Breastfeeding

... opened up a host of attitudinal challenges// that pose a major hurdle to ensuring more number of breast fed babies. Among western countries, Ireland has one of the lowest breast feeding rates. Internationally acclaimed breastfeeding specialist, Dr Jack Newman of the University of Toronto, said, “In the ...

Understanding Stress Triggers for African Americans

... comprehensive 'Living While Black' stress factors pose a substantial public health issue for all states. Coordinated public health strategies at the economic, health and social levels will pay for themselves over the long run." Source-Eurekalert SA...

Consumption of Raw Oysters Cause the Death of Two Women in Savannah

...t their lives.” In his opinion, raw oysters do not pose a major health threat. The DeKalb Farmers’ Market reiterated that they have always been enabling a fresh lot of oysters. According to Frank Velasquez, a sea food buyer, raw oysters are safe for consumption only during certain months, ideally betwee...

National Survey Shows Patients are Unaware of Serious Heart Risks of Triglycerides

...endent risks unhealthy levels of triglycerides may pose to heart health. Triglycerides are a type of fat ... men. Despite the fact that elevated triglycerides pose a greater threat to women than to men, significantly fewer women reported having discussed the risks...

All Intravascular Devices Pose Risk of Bloodstream Infection to Patients

All types of intravascular devices (IVDs) pose a risk of bloodstream infection to exposed hospita...son, says the findings offer “hard data” that IVDs pose a risk to all recipients. “We thought this analysis might provide a unique opportunity to wave the...

Infection Risk High With All IVDs

...son, says the findings offer "hard data" that IVDs pose a risk to all recipients. "We thought this analys...h care workers and patients that all types of IVDs pose a risk," Dr. Maki says. "Clinicians and quality assurance experts need to understand that these risk...

Kashmir Grapples with Growing AIDS

...the difficult terrain and socio-cultural diversity pose a tough challenge to spreading awareness about the... weather conditions and the difficult terrain also pose major hurdles. "Since several languages and dialects are spoken in the state - Kashmiri, Urdu, Dog...

Cell Operators Claim that Mobile Towers Pose no Health Hazards

Mobile telephone towers do not pose any health risk, cell operators said Wednesday add...," he said. Structurally too, the towers did not pose any threat to life and property as stringent precautions are taken before their installation, Ramach...

Singapore Warns Consumers Against Indian Medicine for Treating Piles

...the pills. Excessive amounts of lead and mercury pose serious health risks, as the toxic, heavy metals can accumulate in vital body organs, said experts. Symptoms of toxicity include abdominal pain, vomiting, bloody diarrhoea, kidney damage and impairment of the nerves and mental functions. Source-I...

Major Hurdle towards Development of Bird Flu Vaccine in India.

...actor in safety because it involves organisms that pose a serious threat to humanity. These are usually constructed air tight with negative air pressure. BSL 3 labs require researchers to wear "moonsuits" inside air locked labs. In addition the surfaces of all floors, walls and ceilings are sealed and, ...

Bisphenol A (BPA) linked with breast cancer

...ery case, have concluded that BPA is not likely to pose a carcinogenic risk to humans." Hentges sees serious flaws in the study."First of all, it's an in vitro study," he said. "You can't extrapolate from a cell culture and say much of anything about breast cancer." And, he said, tests conducted recentl...

Ignorance - the main reason behind deaths on Mount Everest

...ACE) and high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) also pose a serious threat, because many climbers take too long to reach the summit. Dr. Andrew Sutherland, a Wellcome Research Training fellow in the Nuffield Department of Surgery, in Oxford, was a part of an Everest expedition this summer. He was shocked ...

Beware of Chikungunya !!

... From water stored in buckets to open tanks, all pose a threat to become the breeding area for mosquitoes. Hence, we should get rid of them. "The Aedes mosquito is like a pet dog. It only bites those who allow it to breed. It does not travel very far, tries to find its meal in the vicinity of its orig...

Cooling Towers may Cause Severe Respiratory Diseases

...gs hold a high number of infected amoebas that may pose a threat to human health, says a new study.// Sharon Berk and colleagues of Tennessee Technological University sampled 40 cooling towers in hospitals, universities and industries and 40 natural environments including lakes, rivers, creeks and ponds...

Foot and Mouth Disease within Control

...ent if an outbreak was allowed to spread, it would pose a serious risk to the country’s herds and wildlife. However he said that the outbreak detected near Punda Maria was within the vaccination area of the foot-and-mouth disease buffer zone next to the Kruger Park and thereby posed no danger to herds f...

Discovery In "Bubble Boy" Disease Gene Therapy

...apy for other forms of genetic blood diseases will pose significantly less risk for causing cancer than was previously thought, according to Brian Sorrentino, M.D., director of St. Jude Experimental Hematology Division and co-director of Transplantation and Gene Therapy. Sorrentino is senior author of a r...

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