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Alberta Most Affected By Influenza

...c// Health Agency on Dec 16. Flu season normally runs from October to late March or early April and the Calgary Health Region monitors likely outbreaks during this time. Symptoms of influenza A are; sudden headaches and fever, dry coughs and aching muscles. “One thing about influenza is that it’s qu...

RSV Hits Winnipeg Childrens Hospital

...tubated probably for about a week as their illness runs its course," said Greenberg. The hospital intensive care unit is busy removing children on a daily basis, leaving room for others, she added. "If we do have difficulties in keeping beds vacated in our pediatric intensive care, and currently we ar...

Getting Nosey About Cold

Seattle – The common niggling sensation that runs you down, and cannot be wished away - COLD, is known to be a wet blanket on the one it descends//. The government also coughs up billions on over-the counter medication and vitamins to remedy this common infection- deluge in the olfactory organ! C...

Childhood Obesity Linked to Foot Pain

...aining the plantar fascia, a band of tissue, which runs from the heel to the base of the toes, causing heel pain. Because the heel bone is not fully developed until age 14 or older, overweight children are more prone to Sever’s disease. Although not an actual disease, according to FootPhysicians.com, it...

‘Sweet Revenge’ on Inflammatory Bowel Diseae

...ontrolling how much xylan they eat; when the xylan runs out cytokine production stops. Carding believes this discovery could even lead to further applications in medical science, like treatment of colorectal cancer. He says,” Treatment of diseases elsewhere in the body might also be possible as most th...

Liposuction, Quick Fixes for the Obese

...ording to BAAPS. The Harley Medical Group, which runs 13 cosmetic surgery clinics nationwide, says the true total is at least three times as high, at 90,000 procedures. The BAAPS figures represents operations performed by its 180 consultant plastic surgeon members and are the "tip of the iceberg," it...

US Student Raising Funds For Cancer-Ridden Indian American

...relationship with Nikit's father Pravin Patel, who runs the Kaffecino Coffee Shop in the university's Lake Shore campus. The Patels emigrated from Gujarat in India to the US in 1991 and opened the coffee shop in 2003. Both Hill and Pierce developed close ties with the Patels as they were frequent custom...

UCLA Find Yields Further Insight into Causes of Parkinson’s Diseas

...of familial Parkinson's disease — Parkinson's that runs in families. Conventional wisdom has held that parkin is recessive, meaning that two copies of the mutated gene were required in order to see the clinical signs of Parkinson's disease. But the researchers, led by George Jackson, M.D., Ph.D., UCLA a...

Umbilical Cord Blood Industry Matures

...tching donor," Verter wrote on a Web site that she runs as a guide for parents. Cord blood is a rich source of stem cells, the building blocks that produce blood and can be transformed into other cell types. The growing number of parents who bank their children's cord blood believe it is a form of biolo...

France Bans Smoking in Public

...for businesses who permit smoking in the workplace runs to 135 euros. Some 175,000 agents will be deployed throughout France to survey the public areas and offices affected by the ban. Source-IANS...

On the 'Fast Buck' Trail: Kidneys on Sale

...eir health deteriorates and the ‘new- found’ money runs out ? The health and social issues concerning the donors are not satisfactorily addressed ? Several instances have been reported of wives being coerced into selling kidneys, because their husbands have eyed the ‘booty’ ? Due to the commerci...

Ultrasound Technology - Boon or a Bane?

...n abortions are performed. The revenue earned thus runs into at least Rs.5 billion (assuming that one sex determination and abortion costs Rs.5,000)." Coming to the cautionary warnings against ultrasound, a recent study by Pasko Rakic, chairman of the neurobiology department at Yale University School o...

Funds Increased for Treating Bhopal Gas Victims

...re damage to the body," said Satinath Sarangi, who runs a clinic treating patients in the gas-affected areas. The government has also resolved to lobby hard to get 20 municipal wards of Bhopal declared gas-affected. At present, only 36 of 56 municipal wards are considered gas-affected and people living...

Youngsters- Beware of Marijuana!

...n 2006 by psychiatry professor, Ronald Kadden, who runs the Health Center's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center, showed that marijuana was more addictive that originally thought. A study on the connection between alcohol and smoking marijuana revealed that, "the more alcohol someone drinks, the more...

Health Disorders Linked To Astrological Signs

... Science (AAAS) Conference in San Francisco, which runs from Feb. 15 to 19, 2007. What he found was that even though each astrological sign had its own unique disorders, his initial results were not reproduced when they were explicitly tested in a second population. “Scientists take pains to make sure ...

Organ Transplant Patients May Die When Insurance for Medicine Runs Out

...n families do have coverage after a transplant, it runs out 36 to 44 months post-transplant or when the child reaches adulthood. Schnitzler and his team studied the medical records of 1,001 children who underwent kidney transplants between 1995 and 2001, half of whom lost their health insurance. He say...

GMC Disapproves Internet Doctor

...e// General Medical Council. Dr. Julien Eden who runs an online medical service e-med.co.uk is charged with a list of accusations like prescribing sixty sedatives to a teenager with a history of psychiatric disorder. The boy consumed an overdose of the same drugs later. The General Medical Council (GM...

An Anti-rabies Campaign With Bite

... the non-governmental organisations like PFA which runs Asia's biggest animal hospital ASHARI here besides a huge cat shelter. Said WHO chief spokesman H.K. Pandey: "Since over 90 percent of the rabies cases are due to dog bite, what India needs to do is to vaccinate dogs. The dog population in India is...

Study Uncovers Clues for Why Graves’ Disease Attacks the Eye

...t often strikes during the childbearing years, and runs an average course of one to two years. No cure exists, though surgery can be done at the end stage to correct disfigurement. Source-Newswise SRM...

Hope for Obese Canines

...sed by pouring it over the dog’s meal. The course runs over 8 weeks and sets the dog owner back by 50 pounds. Yarvitan is given twice a day for 3 weeks, then after break of 2 weeks, it is continued for another 2 weeks. Positive feedback has been reported from happy dog owners such as Cassie from UK, w...

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