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Women and Black Patients have less chances to survive a Heart Attack

...inherent part of the health care system that isn't remedied by simply increasing awareness of these differences." Rathore said that while some may suggest bias, there may be other explanations, such as beginning to examine differences in how these patients receive care, including possible differences in th...

Antibiotics Given Too Often For Sore Throat: Study

...is over-prescribing of antibiotics could be easily remedied by following known guidelines, which include doing a simple, inexpensive strep test before giving antibiotics," study author Dr. Jeffrey Linder of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School said. "Strep testing is underused…. Instead of ...

Mothers’ diet during pregnancy may cause child obesit

... According to researchers, this situation can be remedied if pregnant women were made aware of a balanced diet required during pregnancy. Professor Steve Bloom, an obesity expert at Imperial College London, said that genes did contribute in some measure, but it cannot be blamed on genes alone. He said: "T...

Brain Surgery Without the Surgery?

...t few years. The opportunity to have the condition remedied without surgery is a tremendous relief to many patients, says Thompson, especially those whose families seem “cursed” by an inherited risk for aneurysms that have killed many of their relatives suddenly and without warning. “Because it’s a relative...

Herceptin Use May Enhance Cardiac Toxicity, Study

...ing is that much of the damage to the heart can be remedied with treatment. The study, published online August 14 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, concludes that use of Herceptin in patients with metastatic breast cancer "is an acceptable risk," says the study's lead author, Francisco J. Esteva, M.D., ...

Skin Lightening Products Carry Risk of Cancer

... blemishes, freckles, sun or age spots are usually remedied with these skin lighteners. In some countries, skin lighteners have been over used with disastrous results.In fact, hydroquinone has been banned in some European countries, including Australia and Japan.Dr. Avram does use skin lighteners on some of ...

Common Falls In Bath Among Older Adults Can Be Prevented

...eight," Murphy says. "This problem could be easily remedied by educating older adults not to use the door as a support or possibly replacing it with a shower curtain, which was used only rarely by older adults in this study."Participants in the study were residents of two congregate housing facilities and had...

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