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Cosmetic Eye Enhancer may Lead to Disfigurement

...njected superficially, especially around the eyes, says study author and dermatologist Greg Goodman. This ...lves have been recently trained in the procedures, says Goodman. Goodman also cautions patients against trying the newest products on the market. New proc...

Arthroscopic Treatment of Tennis Elbow is Successful

...l study of arthroscopic treatment of tennis elbow, says lead investigator Champ L. Baker, III, M.D., an orthopaedic resident at the University of Pittsburgh. The initial success from our original short-term study was maintained long term. I am happy to say that arthroscopic release is a good treatment o...

Poor Short Term Recovery from Knee Surgery in Women

... osteoarthritis also did not do as well as others, says principal investigator Peter Fabricant, BS, a medical student at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. The factors associated with a poorer long-term outcome, such as larger tear size, greater amount of tissue removed, advanced pa...

Mayo Clinic Physicians Have Adapted Real-time 3-D Ultrasound Imaging Devices

...e that keeps patients medicated and in their beds, says anesthesiologist Steven Clendenen, M.D., who helpe...fat, so they easily reflect back ultrasound waves, says Dr. Clendenen. They tested two different Philips transducers (the hand held probes held by physicia...

Rounding Up Rodeo Injuries Helps in Prevention

...round the world are seriously hurt. As of today, says Butterwick, anyone, anywhere in the world can access this database and report a catastrophic injury. By catastrophic we mean life-changing, losing a major organ, paralysis, even death. We need to know how these injuries occur and how often before we ...

President Bush Not for Expansion of Child Health Insurance

...billion an amount the Congressional Budget Office says is too little even to keep covering the number of children enrolled now. The program is going beyond the initial intent of helping poor children, Bush said at an appearance in Cleveland last week. Its now aiming at encouraging more people to get on...

Determining the Sex of the Baby in Wild West Way

...e mind set. It's sort of a Wild West out there," says medical geneticist Diana Bianchi of the Tufts-New ...or Blue at Consumer Genetics in Sunnyvale, Calif., says nearly 2,000 pregnant women have taken the test since its launch in May 2006. About 30 including ...

Food Poisoning at the Chicago Food Festival

...eria. Tim Hadac, of the Chicago Health Department, says a young boy is still undergoing treatment. The Pars Cove Persian Cuisine booth served a cucumber salad over hummus. Reports of salmonella infection started to come in on Monday morning. By the end of the day officials found that the Pars Cove Persia...

New Target for Muscular Dystrophy Drug Therapy Discovered

...y and Member of the Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, says the removal of silencing by drug intervention may ...vity of utrophin's N-box in muscle cells of mice," says Dr. Tejvir S. Khurana, 7senior author of the study. During the study, the researchers noted that ...

New Genetic Clue to Type 1 Diabetes

...etes, which were compared to 1,146 healthy people, says the study, published online Sunday by Nature. Type 1 diabetes occurs when the immune system destroys cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, the hormone that regulates blood glucose. It is also called "juvenile" or "childhood" diabetes, becau...

Move To Ban Asbestos Welcomed

... that asbestos-related diseases can be eliminated, says Barbara Whylie, CEO of the Canadian Cancer Society...related causes die from asbestos-related diseases, says Anderson."This is really harmful stuff,'' he warns....

Surgical Repair of Athletic Hernia Speeds Return to Play

...athletes to competition in more than 90% of cases, says principal investigator L. Michael Brunt, M.D., pro...ty than a primary approach could yield. Dr. Brunt says that proper management of athletes with athletic hernia requires a multidisciplinary approach includ...

Shoulder Protection by Throwing Motion in Baseball Players

...aintain external shoulder rotation as they mature, says principal investigator Scott D. Mair, M.D., associ...r motion is naturally lost through aging. Dr. Mair says that the throwing shoulder does not lose as much external rotation. An adult will never have as much...

Lower Mortality Rates in Hospitals With Good Quality Care

...Because care varies from hospital to hospital, Jha says consumers should use publicly available data such as the HQAs when choosing a hospital, since getting treated at higher-performing hospitals can increase their odds of surviving the hospitalization. These data are not just for consumers, said Arnol...

Singapore's Dr. Love Brings Good Sex to Indonesia

.... "It's a boarding pass -- it's like a journey," says the enthusiastic Australian-trained doctor as he l...ulti-media... This way we get the real questions," says Dr. Love, his trademark square-rimmed glasses pushed back on his forehead. "It's about real conten...

Double Amputee Finishes Last, but Still Looks Forward to Beijing Olympics

...pete at next year's Beijing Olympics, but the body says it is still looking into whether his blades give him an advantage. Born without fibulas, without ankles and without calf bones, he had his legs amputated at 11 months, yet played rugby as a schoolboy until an injury steered him toward running five ...

Health Insurance- Play It Safe And Reap The Benefits

... - that too without an increase in premiums. Yet says senior official from New India Assurance: Most peo...have to pay a much higher price for being insured, says Shreeraj Deshpande, head, Health Insurance, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance. The list of diseases th...

$1 Million Unpaid Bills by Health Care Cheats at Waikato Hospital

... the end of February this year. In total the board says it's owed as much as $1 million. The step of sending letters to patients had to be undertaken as most of them had not given information regarding their place of birth while filling hospital record. "The focus needs to remain on getting non-eligible...

Worms are Killing the Planet

...in home composting systems. Although Frederickson says that worm composting is a positive thing, he claims that not enough research has been done on worms releasing polluting gases. Speaking of worms, Frederickson told the magazine: "Everybody loves them because they think they can do no harm but they ...

Feeding Programme Gives Hope to Tribal Mothers

...the mothers. Subasini Panda, one of the workers, says the programme has made a major impact in tackling malnutrition. The whole village is mapped and charts are drawn to indicate the nutritional status of each child as well as the village. The maps use colour coding to the grade the child - the colour...

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