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Mother Has the Right to the Placenta, US Court Rules

...adness that researchers believe is brought on by a severe hormonal plunge. So Swanson didn't want to go through that again when, three weeks ago, she gave birth to her daughter, Maxanne by emergency Caesarean section. <br She had planned to home birth, but complications required her to be hospitalize...

Good Times Over For Ivory Coasts Ill

...ience in Man confirms it." In Man, treatment for severe malaria can cost more than two months' average income, according an unpublished MSF report. A Caesarean section costs eight months' income. According to Vavasseur, health fees also diminish the public's use of health services. MSF found that in 20...

Scientists Demonstrate Heart Cell Replication in Mice

...th congenital heart disease. "Many patients with severe congenital heart disease eventually hit a place where the heart isn't pumping adequately," Kuhn says....

Purdue Pharma Agrees to Pay $600 Million Fine for Misbranding Oxycontin

...istration to reclassify OxyContin for use only for severe pain. The drug currently can be prescribed for moderate pain. Purdue has said it accepted responsibility for its employees' actions and has put in place training and monitoring programs to ensure overpromotion of OxyContin doesn't happen again. Bu...

Self-harming Among Teens More Common Than Thought

...or and moderate/severe forms of self-injury, since severe forms of NSSI may be predictive of more serious outcomes. Minor forms of NSSI consisted of behaviours such as pulling out hair, biting self, or picking at areas of the body to the point of drawing blood. Moderate/severe self-injurers were more likely...

Humanized Antibody Therapy Found Highly Effective in Easing RA Symptoms

... significant promise to patients with moderate and severe RA, said lead researcher Dr. Josef Smolen. The r...y involved 623 patients with sustained moderate to severe RA despite long standing treatment with methotrexate. The subjects were permitted concurrent treatme...

Risk of Water Intoxication in Endurance Athletes

...ding in the process. If identified quickly, even severe cases of acute water intoxication can be treated relatively easily. As you might expect, the condition can be rapidly reversed by the intravenous administration of hypertonic saline. The issue remains controversial, however. Some trainers and sport...

New Technology Makes Diagnosis of Abnormal Pregnancy Cheaper

... complications, the doctors explained. It causes severe bleeding and in many cases endangers the mother's life. Most such pregnancies lead to stillbirth, they added. "People pay at least Rs.7,000 for such tests but our technology will certainly be 10 times cheaper. Many people in rural India earn less t...

Increase in the Rate of Food Allergy

...proven allergic reactions soon after food, such as severe facial swelling and rashes, vomiting and in some cases, potentially dangerous difficulty breathing or collapse (anaphylaxis). Even when a reaction isnt dangerous, its often frightening for those involved. There is an urgent need for coordinated sys...

Premature Vascular and Bone Changes Occur in COPD Patients

...elocity and COPD severity as important. The more severe the flow limitation, the higher the pulse wave vel...oporosis and this was not restricted to those with severe COPD. Although the editorialists termed the relationship between COPD and osteoporosis in the stud...

Animal Research Uncovers Another Mechanism of Cholesterol Lowering Drug

...rom the gallbladder to the intestine, resulting in severe abdominal pain, liver damage and nutrient malabsorption. The fact that Zetia works in two locations is positive because it makes it more effective as a cholesterol-lowering drug, said Temel. But our research suggests the potential for having too mu...

Genetic Variations Leads to Fever After Smallpox Vaccination

...cal issue, but in rare cases they can lead to more severe complications. Individuals who get a fever after t...yocarditis, raising the question of whether a more severe complication of smallpox vaccination might be associated with variations in these genes. Stanley h...

Autism Case Hearing Still to Produce Clinching Evidence on Vaccine Linkage

...ers from a long list of health problems, including severe autism, inflammatory bowel disease, glaucoma and e...eated a persistent infection in her gut, causing a severe inflammation that resulted in brain damage and other injuries. Aposhian, who has more than 100 pub...

Etanercept Reduces Psoriasis

... period during which 618 patients with moderate to severe psoriasis were randomly assigned to receive either...re, where zero means no disease and 72 is the most severe disease. 'Exposure-adjusted rates of adverse events, serious adverse events, infections and seriou...

Frostbite can Be Treated by Bloodclot Drug

... stroke victims to bust blood clots may help treat severe frostbite and reduce the risk of amputation, accor...nogen activator (tPA) on six patients who suffered severe frostbite between 2001-2006. The six, who were found to have abnormal blood flows, were given tPA w...

Weizmann Researchers Developed Control Switch for Protein Activity

...be possible to replace damaged proteins that cause severe diseases with genetically engineered proteins, and to control these proteins activity levels in a precise manner by giving appropriate doses of the drug. Another potential future application is in agricultural genetic engineering. The method might ...

Even Pre-diabetes can Kill, Australian Study Says

...hile diabetes could lead to blindness, limb loss , severe heart disease and early death, a new Australian study says that people displaying merely the earliest signs of diabetes, a condition known as pre-diabetes, are more than twice as likely to die of cardiovascular disease after five years. Researchers...

Advanced Cancer Patients Have Sleep Disorders

...Results showed that study participants experienced severe difficulty with "state maintenance," or the ability to maintain both the sleep and waking states. Overall they had reduced quantity and quality of nocturnal sleep and episodes of sleep scattered throughout the day. Increased amounts of daytime sleep ...

Severe Human Bite Wounds are 12 Times More Common in Men

Men are 12 times more likely than women to sustain severe human bite injuries for which surgery may be necessary, according to a study published in the July issue of the Emergency Medicine Journal . Injuries are most likely to occur during brawls at weekends or public holidays and in most cases alcohol is...

Dengue Cases in Singapore Crosses Alarming Levels

...ease is manifested by a sudden onset of fever with severe headaches, muscle and joint pains, and rashes....

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