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Abstinence from Alcoholism Pays Off, Says New Study

...de to seek help and stop drinking," he said. "The sooner they do it, the better," Bartsch added. Source-Newswise...

Study Underway to Identify Genes Contributing to Heart Attack Risk

...ge their risk factors for heart disease and stroke sooner and more aggressively,” said David Herrington, M.D., M.H.S., professor of cardiology at Wake Forest and lead investigator. Other participating centers are Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Louisiana State University (LSU) Health Sciences Center in New O...

Anorexia Nervosa – Uproot the Disease by Understanding Key Triggers and Motive

... consideration are likely to elicit resistance and sooner or later fail in their treatment attempts. We therefore emphasize the importance of encouraging patients to express their personal values and to explain how their eating disorder both fulfills and compromises their values." <B...

School of Medicine, GE Introduce Ultrasound Pilot Study

...e said. “Doctors will be able to diagnose problems sooner or perhaps relieve patients’ fears. These benefits are just around the corner, and I’m proud to say our graduates will have played a key role in improved medical care for people in South Carolina and throughout the worl.” Source-Newswise SRM...

Study on Timing of Spinal Surgery

...imal studies on spinal cord injuries show that the sooner pressure is removed from a compressed spinal cord, the better the recovery of function. “We believe that compression causes electrolyte changes, cell death and apoptosis,” he says. “From an experimental standpoint, the data is unequivocal: operate ea...

Allergy OTC Medicines–Speak With Your Pharmacis

... off, the congestion comes back, and it comes back sooner after each dose.” Plus, a dependency could develop. Pseudoephedrine is a commonly used decongestant that is administered orally. While some companies have changed their formulations to replace pseudoephedrine with phenylephrine, Hussar feels that p...

Despite The Governments Vow Drug Death Rates On The Rise In UK

...om 1,571 in 1999, to 1,255 in 2003, which was much sooner than the estimated target. But in 2004 the death toll suddenly rose by 14 per cent, to 1,427. It was reported that heroin led the pack by increasing its toll from 591 in 2003 to 744, followed by cocaine, from 113 to 147 and ecstasy from 33 to 48. T...

Cancellations of Operations touch 22,000

...e back to the need for extra hospital beds and the sooner the HSE and the Minister for Health, Mary Harney, realised this, the better. NLA...

Study Revels That Women Of Italy Are High-Risk Drinkers

...ent groups in different parts of the world because sooner or later we will find differences in susceptibility based on genetic differences.” Meanwhile, said May, “the average reader should continue to heed the U.S. Surgeon General's warning that there is no known safe level of drinking during pregnancy, p...

Pensioner wins over a US healthcare giant

...have been negotiating with another bidder". “The sooner the arrangements for GP services in this part of Derbyshire are sorted out lawfully and finally, the better for everyone” said Lord Justice Keene, Appeal Court judge. This ruling reverses a high court decision in June, according to which, there had...

New Approach to Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer

... early ovarian cancer screening might be developed sooner rather than later. Scientists at these institutions have used sophisticated computer-modeling programs to interpret data from nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analyses of blood samples and produce cellular profiles that show the identities, structu...

Aggresive Therapy Needed for Cervical Spinal Cord Injuries

...how they do and maybe put a permanent pacemaker in sooner rather than later.” Although essentially all patients with cervical spinal cord injuries have problems maintaining an adequate heart rate for a time, amazingly, even some with severed cords will not need a permanent pacemaker, Dr. Ruiz-Arango says....

New Tool to Diagnose and Treat Breast Cancer

...most effective tool in fighting breast cancer. The sooner the cancer is detected, the more options a woman has for treatment and the better her chance for survival. Methods for detection include mammography—a safe, low-dose x-ray of the breast—that can be a vital tool in helping to discover small lumps up t...

Age difference: Gaping 'age' divide between the rich and the poor

...rch seems to show that it catches up with the poor sooner than the rich.// The social class affects the ageing process, researchers found. According to their study, the caps on chromosomes, termed as telomeres, are much shorter in the poor, therefore they show signs of ageing faster than the higher inco...

Early Diagnosis and Treatment Slows Progression of Dementia

... have Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia, the sooner you’re evaluated and diagnosed, the more options you’re likely to have in improving your symptoms. While Alzheimer’s is a progressive disease with no known cure, drugs may slow the progression of the disease or improve symptoms. And an early diagno...

Life Expectancy Determined by Place of Birth

...ally. It argues that getting people back to work sooner reduces the chance of them going on to invalidity benefit and becoming long-term unemployed. The Scottish Executive has proposed that the NHS resources must by targeted to bridge the gap between the health of the rich and the poor. Health Minister ...

Pediatricians Resignations Cause Concern at Sale

...on. "I hope that the new pediatrician would come sooner than the six months, maybe in three months, in which case the gap that exists in the service will be minimized," he said. "But in the meantime that will be a situation that's very unfortunate and we'll have to deal with it as it comes." At presen...

Intake of Vitamin E Supplements During Pregnancy May be Harmful

...hose found in supplements, developed pre-eclampsia sooner and had a more severe form of the illness, the study found. Nineteen babies were stillborn to mothers taking vitamin E supplements, compared with just seven in the group, which did not take the pills. In addition, the birth weight of the babies ...

The myth about government hospitals

...ould be rushed to the nearest hospital because the sooner they get treated, the better are the chances of their survival. Dr J.N. Pande, internal medicine expert and former head of medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) said that government hospitals have the capacity to manage emergen...

Medicos In Punjab, Haryana Contemplating 'Drastic Steps'

...Government. If it is sustained the Government will sooner or later have to listen to us,'Dr Subh Mohan Singh of Youth for Equality - spearheading the protest - told PTI here. He, however, refrained from spelling out the 'drastic step' which the doctors were contemplating to take in future. 'But I must assu...

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