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Is It Worth Having Surgery to Remove Your Tonsils?

...s of sore throat after tonsillectomy, which can be severe in many patients. Other disadvantages include the ...operation they are likely to have about 13 days of severe pain immediately after surgery, and then on average half a day of sore throat in the next six months...

Indoor Air Pollution Biggest Health Threat

...ing eyes, nose, and throat irritation, bronchitis, severe asthma, decrease in lung function and even cancer in children and adult alike. Solutions are available, and it is our international responsibility to promote the health and well-being of those affected., and the prevention potential is enormous' sa...

Should the UK Adopt Dutch Rules on Euthanasia in Newborn Babies?

...ccur annually; of these, 10-20 babies mostly with severe congenital malformations are thought to be actively killed. Yet between 1997 and 2004 only 22 such deaths were reported to the authorities, writes Kate Costeloe, Professor of Paediatrics at the University of London. To regulate neonatal euthanasia...

New, Less Painful Wound Treatment for Pediatric Patients

...sure wound therapy is a new innovation in treating severe and complex wounds in children that decreases the need for frequent and stressful dressing changes. A new study in Wound Repair and Regeneration shows that this technique has a wide range of applications with children, and can be life-saving. This...

New Clues for Treatment of Disease That Causes Accelerated Aging

...tios: the more abnormal protein you have, the more severe the disease," Miner says. "And apparently we don't have that far to go to tip that ratio in progeria patients' favor." Researchers at other institutions have been developing a treatment for progeria that blocks lamin A from binding to its guide mol...

Recent Research Holds Wealth of Promise to Bone Marrow Patients

...er cent. Sufferers may face acute skin infections, severe abdominal pain, and liver failure. This antibody developed by researchers will enable a warning to doctors when dendritic cells just about begin their destruction activity. This will allow for treatment to commence much earlier, than later, giving ...

When Smell Cells Fail They Call In Stem Cell Reserves

...ckup supply of stem cells that can repair the most severe damage to the nerves responsible for our sense of smell. These reservists normally lie around and do nothing, but when neighboring cells die, the scientists say, the stem cells jump into action. A report on the discovery will appear online next week...

Experts Call for Warning Lables on Fruit Juice to Save Kids' Teeth

...ions, dentists in that country say. In the most severe cases, pediatric dentists are being left with no option but to remove all 20 baby teeth. "It's a tragedy when we see this, but it's not unusual," specialist pediatric dentist Philippa Sawyer said. At least 1000 children aged four and under were...

Irish Teenager Fights for the Right to Abort

... fetus she is carrying suffers from anencephaly, a severe deformity that means that a major part of the brain, scalp and skull is missing. If the child is carried for the full term, it is only expected to live for a maximum of three days after birth. Despite the gradual erosion of the Catholic Church's ...

Ostracized HIV Victim of Bihar Commits Suicide

...ed kerosene oil and set himself ablaze. He died of severe burns," a villager said, adding that at the time of the incident his aged parents had gone to a village fair while his wife was at her parental home with her two children. "The family used to go without food due to poverty and he was treated badly ...

Honey, I Shrunk The Abscess!

...mented on a 79-year-old diabetic patient who had a severe abscess that was not responding to any of the conventional treatments. When all treatment measures had failed, honey helped in healing the wound. Following the success of this therapy, a controlled trial has been initiated to get more people to use...

Despite Being Effective Electroconvulsive Therapy is Underused for Severe Depression

...lectroconvulsive therapy (ECT) helps patients with severe depression who don't respond to other treatments, ... and even life-saving treatment for persistent and severe depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia," writes Dr. Stephen Taylor of the University of Lou...

Focus on Paediatric TB

...tion Programme (UIP) in the country which prevents severe form of TB in children. Management of paediatric TB is one of the activities under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme. This information was given by the Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare, Smt. Panabaka Lakshmi on 4th M...

Afghan Children Fall Victim to a Disfiguring Disease

...ite transmitted by a tiny sandfly that can lead to severe scarring, often on the face. Clinics crowded with children with sores in the Afghan capital, Kabul. The most common form of the disease is not fatal but it causes untold misery. Victims with scarring on their faces are stigmatized: children are exc...

Childhood Strokes Linked to Whiplash, Other Traumatic Injury

... blood vessel ruptures. Watch out for: Sudden severe headache followed by confusion. Sudden weakness on one side of the body. Sudden drooping of the face on one side. Mental confusion. Slurred speech or absence of speech. Seizures affecting one side of the body followed by weakness in the affec...

British Scientists Discover New Protein to Treat Epilepsy and Schizophrenia

... difference to the thousands of people living with severe mental illnesses like schizophrenia. "We would like to see continued investment in such research that will lead to a third generation of antipsychotic medicines with fewer side effects."...

Human Rights Activists Sleepless In Seattle

...shley was diagnosed with static encephalopathy, or severe brain damage, after she had feeding problems and developmental delays shortly after birth. The now 9-year-old girl's hysterectomy was part of a series of treatments sought when she was referred in 2004 to Dr. Daniel Gunther at Children's when she sho...

Trade Center Collapse Caused Lung Ailments in Rescuers

... a majority of the recovery workers were down with severe cough and respiratory infection. This study is the most recent peer-reviewed study, and therefore is more authentic. The annual check-ups conducted by Doctors made it possible to draw a comparative study of the workers health pre and post 9/11....

Nature Unleashes Terror Across America

...f America and in the Midwest regions, two forms of severe weather have put citizens to the extreme test. While wildfires have been raging across southern Georgia for three whole weeks now, in its wake scorching 167 square miles of forest and swamp, wet storms across the Southeast are currently churning the...

Pregnant Irish Teenager Wins the Right to Abort

...foetus she is carrying suffers from anencephaly, a severe deformity that means that a major part of the brain, scalp and skull is missing. If the child is carried for the full term, it is only expected to live for a maximum of three days after birth. Despite the gradual erosion of the Catholic Church's in...

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