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Organic Farming can Feed the World, U-M Study Shows

...ic farming is less environmentally harmful yet can potentially produce more than enough food. This is especially good news for developing countries, where its sometimes impossible to deliver food from outside, so farmers must supply their own. Yields in developing countries could increase dramatically by swit...

Two Week Wait Rule Not Working With Breast Cancer Patients

...on as alarming and says: These patients are also potentially being disadvantaged by longer clinic waits and delays in diagnosis as waiting times for routine referrals have increased in the face of increasing service demands from the dramatically increased number of patients referred under the two week rule, ov...

US TB Traveler Sued Over 'reckless and Selfish Behavior'

...arnings not to board a transatlantic flight with a potentially deadly strain of the disease is being sued by seve...ease Control (CDC) had said he was infected with a potentially deadly strain of tuberculosis generally irresponsive to drug treatment and asked him to turn himself...

Lancets Report Condemns UKs Mental Health Bill

...t. The reforms (which can include the detention of potentially dangerous patients) followed a public outcry after a series of murders by mentally ill people. People with psychiatric problems commit around 60 murders per year. Yet according to the Lancet's report, , patients in mental health wards may be in bigg...

Southeast Missouri State Provides High-tech Protection Against Staph Infections

...isiting athletes alike by minimizing the spread of potentially harmful bacteria." SportsAide is part of the Sports Antimicrobial System(R) (SAS), provided by SportCoatings of Rochester Hills, Michigan. SAS is a powerful family of treatments that protect and maintain all sports facilities, surfaces and textiles...

FDA Approves Phase I Clinical Trial of Topaz Pharmaceuticals' New Head Lice Treatment

...ss effective because of lice resistance or contain potentially hazardous substances. We remain confident and optimistic that the Topaz solution will be proven safe and effective in subsequent trials, and will eventually help alleviate the frustration, inconvenience and social stigma associated with head lice." ...

Organic Farming Can Feed the World

...ic farming is less environmentally harmful yet can potentially produce more than enough food. This is especially good news for developing countries, where it's sometimes impossible to deliver food from outside, so farmers must supply their own. Yields in developing countries could increase dramatically by switch...

Genes Play Major Role in Determining Individual's Sour Taste Perception

...ste perception suggest that genetic analyses could potentially help identify sour receptors. Future studies will evaluate possible receptors by determining whether individual differences in genes for these structures - such as the recently-discovered PKD ion channel - are correlated with individual differences i...

Arthroscopic Treatment of Tennis Elbow is Successful

...opaedic sports medicine surgery. Tennis elbow, a potentially debilitating condition, is common and can be successfully managed without surgery in almost 90% of cases. When it cannot be controlled by nonoperative measures, including rest, the arthroscopic technique used in this study is one of the many differen...

Czech Authorities Kill 70,000 Birds at H5N1 Farms

... farms where the H5N1 strain of bird flu, which is potentially fatal to humans, was confirmed this week, veterinary authorities said Friday . Czech authorities have also decided to kill a further 70,000 birds, mostly chickens and turkeys, on three nearby farms even though bird flu has not been detected there, ...

Psychiatric Patients Ill-treated in Emergency Rooms, US Officials Say

...se of backlogs in psychiatric facilities, creating potentially volatile situations for those patients, staff, and other patients. Hospital officials said nurses, too, have been injured in confrontations, and patients contend that they are humiliated by policies like the one requiring them to undress. Documents...

New Genetic Clue to Type 1 Diabetes

...swifter glucose control, thus helping to stave off potentially life-threatening complications....

C -reactive Protein is the Marker for Cardiovascular Disease

...emic inflammation, as dictated by hsCRP levels and potentially the levels of other inflammatory markers, will increase the probability for decreased neurocognitive function....

Tumor Painting to Fight Against Cancer

...bute to cancer growth or patient mortality that is potentially preventable. The tumor painting technique combines a visual guide for the surgeon with the potential for significant improvement in accuracy and safety. Tumor painting has been successfully tested in mice and the pilot safety trials are complete. O...

Right Foods Could Improve Drug Effectiveness, Lower Drug Costs

...th a meal instead of on an empty stomach, we could potentially use 40 percent (or even less) of the drug. Since lapatinib costs about $2,900 a month, this could save each patient $1,740 or more a month, Ratain said. He added that drinking grapefruit juice, which is known to boost the rate at which some drugs ...

Dangers Lurking in the Garden in Britain

...ved more than 57,000 calls relating to exposure to potentially harmful plants, and 85 percent of them involved ch...information on medical management. Many of the potentially dangerous plant present in an ordinary garden include aloe, elephants ear, jade, peace lily (Spathip...

Value Meal Would Lower Drug Costs

...th a meal instead of on an empty stomach, we could potentially use 40 percent (or even less) of the drug," said Ratain. "Since lapatinib costs about $2,900 a month, this could save each patient 1,740 dollars or more a month." Topping off that meal with grapefruit juice, "which may also increase plasma concentr...

The Queen Of All Contraceptives Released

...ren need their moms at home, that the workplace is potentially hazardous to womens unborn children and that womens cycles make them less efficient workers than men. In any case, the present debate against such a pill is not a particularly profitable attitude for Wyeth, as it angles for its share of the $1.7 bi...

Colitis More Common in Hospitalized Patients

...at C. difficile colitis has become more common and potentially more pathogenic. Rocco Ricciardi, M.D., M.P.H., t...at C. difficile colitis has become more common and potentially more pathogenic.Rocco Ricciardi, M.D., M.P.H., then of the University of Minnesota Medical School, M...

Orthodontic Treatment is Better During Adolescence

Having prominent front teeth is a potentially harmful problem. If it occurs at a young age (7 to 11 years old) then the orthodontist has to decide whether to treat immediately and then again when the child is older (12 to 16 years old), or wait until the child is a teenager and perform the trea...

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