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Shingles Vaccine For Older People - Panel Recommendation

...y Committee on Immunization Practices has made the recommendation on Wednesday that adults over 60 get immunised against the shingles(herpes zoster) virus.// The vaccine is called Zostavax (Merck& Co)and the FDA had given approval for its use in May. It has a live virus several times more potent than the children...

BMA Criticises Government Bid to Claw Back Doctors' Pay

The BMA today criticises a recommendation from the Departments of Health in Great Britain that NHS staff should receive below-inflation pay rises//. In its evidence to the independent Doctors and Dentists Review Body, published today, the government argues for a general uplift to doctors’ pa...

Virtual Colonoscopy in Colorectal Cancer Prevention and Screening

...eening at age 50, but current compliance with this recommendation remains well below 50 percent. Many people resist screening because of the discomfort and inconvenience caused by the standard optical colonoscopy test. "Our goal is not to take patients away from existing strategies like optical colonoscopy, but r...

New Zealand Says no to Herceptin Funding for Early Breast Cancer

... expensive and funding could not be justified. The recommendation is a responsible one, she says and has been arrived at after complete investigation of the evidence. Dr. Rasiah added that Pharmac had to consider the cost implications of the drug against the uncertainty of the available clinical evidence and also ...

New Vaccines Available For Children and Adolescents

... years of age. The AAP will be making its official recommendation on the HPV vaccine later this year. Dr. Pickering stressed that immunizations remain an important part of preventing disease. He noted, 'The organisms that cause these diseases, such as mumps, measles and pertussis (whooping cough), have not gone a...

Increased Risk of Bowel cancer after Menopause

...k factor for bowel cancer." He said that the best recommendation for both sexes was to see their doctor about any symptoms like rectal bleeding, abdominal pain, unexplained weight loss and anaemia, specifically iron-deficiency anaemia. He also recommended that they should get tested as part of the national screen...

Salad Is Even Healthier Than You Thought

...less than 50% of the US population meets the daily recommendation for vegetables necessary for healthy living. Americans do not get enough of the water-soluble vitamins of which salads are a rich source. The raw vegetables in salads also offer the added benefits of fiber for better digestion and antioxidants for bo...

Pregnancy And Alcohol Do Not Gel

...alarm pregnant women, and the Department of Health recommendation is probably safe for most women, but we do not know for sure. The only way to be 100% certain of preventing the syndrome is not to drink at all," said Susan Fleisher, founder of the National Organisation on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. RAS...

UN Communiqué encourages programs to cut down HIV/AIDS infection rate

...da Gates Foundation// communiqué has put forward a recommendation to encourage programs that include methadone replacement, needle exchange and safer injections, with a view to bringing down the rates of the disease. Taking cues from the report, countries in Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa should begin to take ...

Most Women Unaware of Nutrient Needed for Babies’ Development During Pregnanc

...althy cells and prevent certain birth defects. The recommendation for folic acid can be met by consuming enriched cereals and grains, by taking a multivitamin, or folic acid supplements. ? Calcium with vitamin D: 1,000 mg of calcium with 200 IU of vitamin D per day for strong bones and teeth. Calcium is readily a...

The Daily Struggle with Salt

...ld regulate salt as a food additive. Should this recommendation be adopted, packaged-food companies would then be forced to adhere to limits on allowable sodium levels for the various categories of food, as well as hasten the search for substitute to salt as a preservative and flavor enhancer. This initiative h...

Specialist status for breast doctors may be revoked

...ger be included in the specialist category, if the recommendation by the Medical Council comes into force//. A few radiologists who have had the opportunity of working with breast physicians understand the benefits of having them as part of the team. But the rest are still unconvinced about their contribution, s...

Sufficient intake of Calcium - a must for a healthy body

... amount can differ with age. 1000mg per day is the recommendation for people in the age group 19-50 and 1200mg per day for those who are 50 or older. GYT...

Call for Regular Testing of Kidney Function in Patients with Diabetes

...ch Institute in Melbourne, and colleagues made the recommendation in the latest edition of the Medical Journal of Australia. Diabetes is currently the leading cause of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in Australia. Despite this, Assoc Prof Thomas says, CKD is often undetected in patients with type 2 diabetes. Ki...

Prenatal multivitamins reduce birth defects

...men some concrete advice," he said, supporting the recommendation that women of reproductive age take a daily prenatal multivitamin. One in every 17 babies born in this world has a serious birth defect, according to report published earlier this year. Nearly 8 million children suffer from a birth defect annuall...

Risk Of Colorectal Polyps Recurrence Can Be Controlled By Rofecoxib

... baseline colonoscopy at age 50, then again at the recommendation of their gastroenterologist. Eighty to 90 million Americans (approximately 25 percent of the US population) are considered at risk because of age or other factors, and more women over the age of 75 die from colorectal cancer than from breast cancer3....

Differing Ideas on Management of Alzheimer’s diseas

...that further research would be needed and that the recommendation would be reviewed in several years. In March 2005, NICE recommended these drugs must be stopped from being given to new patients because they were not cost effective. The Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Association of the British Pharmaceutic...

NHS Fertility Treatment to be extended to Lesbians and Single Women

...le women as heterosexual couples, according to the recommendation by medical chiefs.// This call was made by the British Fertility Society in a series of recommendations to tackle "a wide disparity" on the social criteria used for acceptance on to an NHS programme of treatment. Their recommendations sent to the...

Salmeterol - to be used in combination & only when required

...eroid alone. "We want to build on Dr. Martinez's recommendation and encourage primary care physicians to start asthma patients on just the inhaled steroid as a regular maintenance medication and then add the salmeterol by using a combination product only if the person's asthma symptoms are not adequately controll...

Bismillah Khan frets over government ignoring request

...y can be released to any Tom, Dick or Harry on one recommendation from a Member of Parliament or even a legislator, but a similar request from an artiste like me for none other than my own grandson carries no value.' Bismillah Khan is among the very few Indians with the distinction of bagging each and every nati...

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