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More Errors From Computerized Prescriptions

...ally be leading to more mistakes. There are a few reasons to think computerized order entry systems would be better than written orders. For one, the legibility of the handwriting of many doctors has been shown to cause a few mistakes in the past. Computerized prescription orders can electronically zip to ...

Greek Study Shows Living In The Hills May Be Healthier

...yle of the people living in the plains. One of the reasons for such a lifestyle may be increase in the physical activity level by walking on the uneven terrain. http://jech.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/59/4/274...

Mercury Pollution Linked To Rise In Autism

...tion in the state of Texas in US may be one of the reasons // of rise in number of autistic children. In US, mercury is released in the environment because of the power plants that consume coal. According to the researchers, on an average, for each 1000 pounds of mercury that’s released into the environmen...

Case for dietary pattern and pancreatic cancer

...ancreatic cancer in an attempt to isolate the main reasons for the disease. The dietary patterns were taken as three types: Western dietary pattern that consists of high intake of processed meats, refined grains and potatoes, sweets and desserts; fruits and vegetables that consists of high intake of variou...

Arthritis drugs are causing skin problems

...ogical problems of clinical importance. One of the reasons for such may be the fact that the tumor necrosis factor-á-blocking drugs lower the immunity of the body and thus the patients become more vulnerable to infections like the ones that affect the skin. The research was published in the current issue of...

Ibuprofen to lower risk of Parkinson’s diseas

...mmatory drugs. The study suggests that one of the reasons of Parkinson’s disease may be neuro-inflammation of the brain cells and hence non-aspirin based anti-inflammatory drugs may be successful in lowering the incidence of the disease. But scientists are yet to explain why the result is so strong for the ...

New medicine for ovarian cancer

... healthy for the body as well. That was one of the reasons that the scientists did not target the enzyme AKT but a new enzyme. The researchers of the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia did the research and the study was presented at the 96th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Researc...

Full time workers are less health conscious than part time workers

...s their part time counterparts. When asked to give reasons for not doing any exercise, people who worked full time said that they do not have any time to exercise. Researchers feel that the people who have a normal workday should be giving serious thoughts to changing their interests to bring more physical a...

Cocaine may cause aneurysms for the coronart artery

...ired. Often high blood preassure may be one of the reasons of the artery being thus affected. Cocaine is known to affect blood pressure periodically. It may take a coronary angiography to find out the existence of aneurysm of the heart. The researchers had taken the clinical angiographic characteristics of...

Birth month can affect your fertility

... authors of the study say that one of the possible reasons of such variation may be the seasonal environmental factor influencing the oocytes’ maturation. Some other possibilities of such difference due to seasons may be the modifications of environmental temperature and sunlight that can influence foetal gr...

Depression medication can cause gastrointestinal bleedings

...ir link with gastrointestinal bleedings before the reasons of such can be further established. However, medical practitioners need to monitor patients more carefully if they happen to be using both SSRIs and NSAIDs. Reference: Digestive Disease Week, news release, May 2005...

Chronic cough can lead to depression

...than others. The researchers feel that one of the reasons for chronic coughing leading to depression may be the fact that the people who cough continuously also suffer from poor quality of life. Coughing can hamper social relationships, work environments, and public gatherings. People who suffer from chroni...

Education in women brings sounder sleep

... being reported by more women than men. One of the reasons for such may be social roles, as some roles create more stress than the others. People who are unemployed or divorced and or separated from their spouses thus report more instances of insomnia for the same reason. More number of children in the famil...

Going to GP may delay cancer diagnosis, says new study

...of breast cancer is 55.2days. The research cites reasons for bypassing GPs are if cancer is diagnosed when the patient have already been admitted in a hospital, or when they go for regular screenings. Delay of diagnosis seemed to be maximum caused by patients who themselves may have delayed a visit to the ...

Asthma linked to irregular menstruation

...an older women. The authors suggest three possible reasons for such association. Firstly, asthma medication may cause disturbances in the menstrual cycle. Secondly, irregular menstruation and its treatment may cause asthma. And thirdly, common etiological factors may trigger both asthma and irregular menstru...

Non ventilated patients in intensive care may suffer from delirium

...rience delirium. Delirium is also one of the major reasons that patients stay longer in hospitals. Delirium is a regular occurring condition of patients on mechanical ventilators in the intensive care units. Delirium is the cause for more deaths, longer hospitalization tenure and higher medical costs for th...

Childhood leukemia linked to residence close to high voltage power lines

...sh Medical Journal, say that there are no possible reasons they have been able to establish linking the high incidence of leukemia in children and close proximity to the high voltage power line, in spite of the study results....

Heavy drinking may not be good for the mental health

...t needs to be further probed to find out the exact reasons for the association....

People with low birth weight may help themselves in diabetes

...th weights of infants are often due to a number of reasons other than the nutritional intake of the mother. Factors like the health of the mother, multiple fetuses etc can all compound the problem of babies being born with low birth weights....

New diseases require holistic outlook to treatment

... People, transport and global animal trade are the reasons of spread of the virus that have started infecting the people from the animals. Some of the recommendations of the committee in tackling the new disease are better observation of wildlife diseases to prevent their outbreaks, mking the animal traders...

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