Tag: "reassure" at medical news

More Indian Doctors Questioned in Australia as UK Terror Plot Inquiry Widens

...the medical profession."What we want to do is just reassure people this is not an investigation into the medical practitioners per se. It's an investigation in support of the investigation by the London Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism command," Keelty said. Seven people have been arrested in Britain o...

C- Section Does Not Affect an Infants Health

...eir first 18 months of life. "The findings should reassure parents whose children were delivered by caesarean in that we could not find any substantial adverse impact in terms of health services use," Dr. Gabriel M. Leung, the study's lead author. Some researchers believe that children born through c-sectio...

Study Finds That Lincoln Suffered from Smallpox During Gettysburg Speech

...n became ill. "Lincoln's physicians attempted to reassure him that his disease was a mild form of smallpox, but that may have been to prevent the public from fearing that Lincoln was dying, said Dr. Goldman. While almost a third of those contracting this serious form of smallpox in the mid-19th century di...

Infections in UK Hospitals Drive British Patients to India

...ountry. "The government is not doing anything to reassure the public, particularly when we know key people are being lost from hospital infection posts and cleaning budgets are being cut". According to a survey by the website Treatment Abroad, dentistry is the most popular service with treatments such as c...

Hospital Infection Deaths Continue in UK

...new chief executive Adrian Pennington has moved to reassure the public in the past week. The hospital has invested an extra ￡400,000 in an intensive cleaning program with bleach, known to kill the bug, and additional cleaners have been taken on in the last couple of months. Mr Pennington said: “In healt...

New Placenta Screening for High-risk Pregnancies

... Gynaecology at the University of Toronto. “We can reassure those with normal test results that their placentas are functioning well and they can expect a healthy pregnancy and birth.” If the placenta is not functioning properly it could be a potential danger to the health of the mother and fetus. Abnormal...

Vaccines Effective in Preterm Babies too

...ct in Pediatrics this month. "I'm happy be able to reassure my colleagues and parents that it is OK." The study, which included 16 term and 16 extremely preterm (born before about 6 ? months of pregnancy) infants born between May 2002 and May 2005, is the first of its kind to examine the antibody levels of ...

Researchers Study Safety of Assisted Reproductive Technologies

...ically important. The results of this study should reassure couples that there appears to be no increased risk of increased mutations as a result of ART methods. Source-Neswise SRM...

Mid-day Naps Healthy for Your Heart

...further investigation. "Right now, we would only reassure those who take a siesta that this may actually be not simply pleasant and relaxing, but also a healthy habit”, Trichopoulos adds. AN...

'Drug Holidays' Increases Death Risk in HIV Patients

... HIV and AIDS patients. The study is expected to reassure many patients who are worried about the toxicity of their HIV treatments. "The SMART study shows that stopping or interrupting therapy is not smart," says Carlos del Rio, director for Clinical Sciences and International Research, Emory Centre for AID...

A New Ultrasound Technique to Detect Breast Cancer

...duce the number of unnecessary breast biopsies and reassure women that their tumors are harmless,” he said .Richard Barr is a radiologist at Southwoods X-Ray and Open MRI in Youngstown, Ohio, who lead the study. Radiologists found that breast lesions that appeared smaller using the elasticity ultrasound wer...

What a Boy Needs

...eloping boy.” Finally, he emphasises the need to reassure boys about their sexuality and to encourage pride in their own masculinity. “The need for sexual reassurance is a normal stage of development, which, if frustrated, may increase the incidence of abusive sexual behaviour,” he says. “Boys need to b...

Maternal deaths due to poor working practices

...g of what happened," she added. "I would like to reassure them, and the local community, that lessons have been learned and that we continue to do all we can to avoid tragedies of this nature happening again." A record of failings including poor working practices and quality of care was found by an invest...

Cystatin C Test- A Reliable Test to Detect Chronic Health Risks

...tant message: A normal creatinine level should not reassure you that your patient has normal kidney function," says lead author Michael Shlipak, MD, chief of general internal medicine at SFVAMC and an associate professor of medicine, epidemiology, and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francis...

"Serious Failings" Led To Spread Of Lethal Hospital Bug

...th staff on the issues raised by the report and to reassure patients that they are in safe hands."...

Toddlers' Delayed Speech not Due to Parenting Faults

...learly not the case and I hope these findings will reassure many parents that delayed language is not a reflection on their parenting or the child's intelligence. "What we also know from this study is that most children who are late talkers do in fact fall into the normal range of language development by th...

Diagnosis On a Fourth Patient Confirmed To Be E.Coli

...fety of his customers. He stated that he wanted to reassure the public that they were totally committed for doing all that is necessary and required to provide the highest standards of food safety and hygiene. He went on to explain that they do follow a very rigorous system to ensure the best quality of fo...

Bedwetting A Problem Among Almost 1 In 50 Children

...ence. Yeung said he hopes that his findings will reassure parents of children with mild bed wetting problems, but stress the importance of seeking advice in severe cases, which can often be caused by underlying medical problems and continue into adulthood. ...

Melbourne Cluster Of Brain Tumour Not Due To Radiation From Phone Towers

... take the precaution of evacuating the building to reassure workers while testing was undertaken. But he was of the opinion that given the high concentration of mobile-phone antennae throughout Australia and other developed countries, many brain tumour clusters would be expected if radiation were responsible....

European Medicines Agency (EMEA) Recommends Herceptin For Early Stage Breast Cancer

...confirm the drug's importance, it should also help reassure those who may have previously doubted its effectiveness and safety," said Chief executive Jeremy Hughes. "We hope that in light of today's decision, any PCT still wavering about prescribing Herceptin, should now have the confidence to make it availab...

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