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Is acupuncture safe?

...ding to two reports, they provide one of the first serious safety assessments on acupuncture. In the first, 7...and February 2000. During this time, there were no serious adverse events and 671 minor ones occurring per 1,000 consultations. Some of these were avoidable, a...

Coronary stent leads to complications

...event, affecting one per cent of patients. It is a serious complication, though, which often causes heart attack or sudden death. At the Dutch University Medical Center in the US, a new analysis was carried out by doctors which revealed that the clotting rate was three per cent more. Their investigation cov...

A height problem

...ay have. If a child is too short, it may be due to serious underlying disease, malnutrition or even abuse, so it is important that doctors correctly identify the cause. The researchers noted: "We suggest that few paediatricians are aware of the need to allow for regression and these data demonstrate that d...

A rare complication of bowel disease

.../ Two patients with ulcerative colitis developed serious upper airway inflammation. One involved the larynx - or voice box - the other the trachea, which is the tube leading from the nose to the lungs. Such inflammation leads to painful swallowing, hoarseness, shortness of breath. When examined, the airway...

Wonder drug - could end in disaster

...s also concerned that his research has uncovered a serious problem with the way drug trials in general are carried out. Drug trials, Dr Healy says, are designed to test whether a drug can treat a condition, not to uncover evidence of side effects. However, pharmaceutical companies argue that because no evi...

Drug abuse leads to long standing changes in the brain

... on Drug Abuse (NIDA). "The results underscore the serious nature of methamphetamine abuse and emphasize the need to alert users and potential users to the long-lasting, profound effects of this drug." Methamphetamine, also known as "speed," "meth" or "chalk" (and, in its smoked form, as "ice," "crystal" o...

UV Radiation induces Melanoma

... young mice went on to develop melanoma - the most serious form of skin cancer - in adulthood. A single dose of UV radiation was enough to induce melanoma in the young mice. In adults, 30 times more UV was needed to achieve the same effect. Glenn Merlino, chief molecular geneticist at the institute, said t...

The new born nightmare

Newborns are more likelier to develop a serious intestinal disorder if they are given the commonly prescribed antibiotic erythromycin, say US scientists. A research team from Lousiana University has linked use of this drug to pyloric stenosis, a condition that affects about 1 in 400 newborns and ...

FDA's control is inherently weak

...w how many such tests are not reported.// " It's a serious problem, it's growing, there needs to be something done about it right away," George Grob, a deputy HHS inspector general, said. In recent weeks, the FDA has opened a criminal investigation into irregularities in a Nigerian drug trial sponsored by...

Hepatitis G May Boost HIV Survival

...s C virus. But unlike hepatitis C, which can cause serious liver disease, hepatitis G is not thought to cause illness. Nearly 2% of healthy blood donors test positive for the virus, and more than one third of HIV-positive individuals may carry the virus. The findings may open the door to new types of HIV tre...

The patient's voice

...ort groups. It's planned to include all the common serious diseases in DIPEx in due course, as well as gathering patients' experiences in other cultures and countries....

Toxic effects common with AIDS treatments

...ent of those with laboratory adverse symptoms were serious or severe. Fatigue and headache were reported by 37 and 22 per cent of the patient population, respectively. The researchers identified specific associations between different compounds, including lipodystrophy and high creatine phosphokinase conce...

Avoid stress to have strong babies

...hat even small variations could have a potentially serious impact on health in later life. Small babies are more likely to develop coronary heart disease, diabetes and depression in later life. Dr Glover said more research was needed to determine why stress should impact on development. "One possible rea...

Health Officials Recommend Flu Vaccine

...ots only to those patients most at risk of getting serious complications from the flu. Those patients include people over 65 and those with chronic respiratory and heart conditions. Because flu season usually does not get into full swing until late December and vaccine is expected to be plentiful by early ne...

Hydroxyurea derivatives kill colon cancer cells

...king the same cell targets as hydroxyurea, but had serious side effects. This prompted the researchers to synthesize similar drugs with different structures that they hypothesized would be less likely to cause complications. The researchers tested the drugs against colon cancer implants in mice. One of the ...

Smoking Delays Pregnancy

...rtality, the increased risk of the baby developing serious respiratory infection, and lower birth weights. Many women may not know that quitting improves their chances of becoming pregnant and adopt a healthier diet....

Older men 'father' schizophrenics

...er to test for. Schizophrenia is the most common serious mental illness. It affects one person in a hundred at some time in their life, and the rate is the same in every country.Most people are affected when they are in their late teens or early 20s, though it can start at any age. Schizophrenia is a psych...

More about HIV

...une system continues to deteriorate, more and more serious illnesses damage the body and eventually leads to death. Stress, according to current research, can increase severity of infectious viruses such as mononucleosis and can activate dormant viruses such as genital herpes, cold sores, and HIV. Studies h...

New Way To Treat Lupus

...--usually referred to simply as lupus--is the most serious type. It is an incurable disease marked by inflammation and damage to tissue and organs throughout the body, including the joints, skin, heart, kidney and central nervous system. Lupus is an autoimmune disorder, meaning the immune system mistakenly a...

Bronchitis in the young

...cterial infection, and can eventually lead to very serious problems with the respiratory system.// The researchers, led by Professor Roberto de Vinci, of the University of Verona, Italy, uncovered wide variations in the rate of chronic bronchitis. 50% of the centres showed chronic bronchitis rates of over ...

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