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Tag: "summer" at medical news

Sunburnt Holiday-makers Boost Their Chances of Fatal Skin Cancer

...developing the most fatal form of skin cancer this summer because they plan to get burnt on the beach. // A...ds said they were certain to get sunburnt on their summer holiday. And a further 30 per cent said they might get sunburnt. The survey questioned 2000 men an...

Sultans of Suntans Warned

...larium light was five times as dangerous as midday summer sun. He has seen patients develop melanomas after 18 months of intensive solarium use.Professor Kelly supports WHO calls for the practice to be regulated if not banned. A...

Doctors in Tamil Nadu Reluctant to Serve in Backward Pockets

...s needed to combat water-borne diseases and common summer diseases had been sent to district warehouses of the Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation. "From now on, there will be no shortage in the event of an outbreak of any known diseases. The headquarters in Chennai will have ample stock of medicines ...

Chicken Pox Rears Its Head in Tamil Nadu, Yet Again

It is summer time and hence the incidence of chicken pox cases is on the rise. District administrations in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu//, especially in the southern districts, are gearing up to tackle the problem. Doctors caution that brain membran...

Mobility can be improved in elders with exercise

...hooked. His interests were further piqued during a summer research experience, where he had the opportunity to work with wheelchair athletes. 'People with severe spinal cord injuries have limited cooling because they can't perspire below the site of injury,' Knight said, so their core body temperature can...

Want a Healthy Colon? Eat a Rainbow!

...your red meat intake to special occasions like the summer barbecue or a great steak restaurant. Choose a Rainbow of Vegetables and Fruits o Vegetables and fruits of all colors are loaded with anti-cancer, immune-system-strengthening properties. Eat a rainbow! Increase Your Fiber Intake o Fiber is ...

Schools Help Hold the Line Against Childhood Obesity

...when kindergarten and first-grade students were on summer vacation than when they were in school. And obes...did during the school year. It was only during the summer that overweight children gained weight more quickly than average. “We really can’t blame schools f...

Vitamin D Deficiency Widespread During Pregnancy

...h groups, vitamin D concentrations were highest in summer and lowest in winter and spring," said senior auth... more than three times as common in winter than in summer for all women of childbearing age in the United States. Even so, the Pittsburgh researchers' study i...

Autism Expert Creates Innovative Intervention Program

...ren with ASD since 2003. What started as a 10-week summer course has become a highly-successful year-round preschool program that continues to revolutionize the way children with autism are educated. This innovative program serves children three to five years in age. Each child has a personal instructor t...

Naltrexone also Treats Crohn's Disease

... Hershey Medical Center, received NIH funding last summer to initiate a phase 2 trial of low-dose naltrexone and Crohn's. In the pilot study, patients with diagnosed Crohn's disease were treated with a low dose of naltrexone and monitored for improvement of symptoms for 12 weeks. Quality of life surveys w...

US Student Raising Funds For Cancer-Ridden Indian American

...l became a regular customer at Kaffecino over last summer while fulfilling his prerequisite requirements for Loyola's medical school, Pierce developed a relationship with the senior Patel when he kept visiting the coffee shop in the course of business-related visits to the area. "The whole idea is to prov...

Skin Needs “Winterizing” To Head Off Damae

.... “Winter is no friend to the skin any more than summer is,” says Rebecca A. Kazin, M.D., assistant professor of dermatology and director of the Johns Hopkins Cosmetic Center. “Keeping warm is a priority, but it sucks the moisture out of your skin.” Kazin’s prescription for preventing skin damage inclu...

Connections Program Offers Hope to Children With Asperger's Disorder

...al significance outside the program, and after the summer program ended. Evidence of social significance was reflected in anecdotal reports by parents. For example, many parents reported that their children had been invited to participate in a range of social activities such as visiting a peer’s house and a...

An End to Periods?

...lls. An implantable device was approved during the summer for use in the United States, and injections, patches and vaginal rings are other methods of suppressing menses. Ernst points out that suppressing one’s menstrual cycle is not very different from taking the three-weeks-on, one-week-off cycle of bi...

Sex Ends as Seasons Shift and Kisspeptin Levels Plummet

...and sex behavior compared to hamsters in simulated summer conditions. Winter hamsters, however, were just as responsive to kisspeptin, elevating a key hormone -- luteinizing hormone -- as much as hamsters in simulated summers. This finding indicates the ability of this hormone to turn on the reproductive...

Swap Sun For Siesta

... stay out of the sun.// “With the arrival of the summer holidays more Australians will be spending time outside in the sun. This puts them at serious risk of developing life-threatening skin cancers,” Dr Yong said. “Each year 1,500 Australians die from skin cancer, and hundreds of thousands will be trea...

Durable Critters Provides Better Way to Human Egg Preservation

...glucose, to tolerate frigid temperatures until the summer thaw. While humans don’t naturally produce trehalose, researchers think they can use it to safely preserve human eggs – and those of endangered species – giving better options to young women facing cancer therapies that may leave them infertile and...

Free Plan B Faces Controversy

...of sperms, and by inhibiting implantation. This summer the FDA sanctioned the sale of Plan B across the counter as a contraceptive measure for women who are 18 or older. This has raised an uproar from many quarters. Since Plan B ECP contains a very high percentage of hormones, its safety has been questio...

Triumphs and Hurdles for the New HPV Vaccine

...gnificant progress in women’s health was made this summer when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first vaccine to prevent cervical cancer//. The vaccine was given the green light for use in younger women, as a way to protect against human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted v...

Naturally Occurring Enzyme Can Break Down Key Part of Alzheimer's Plaques

...chool of Medicine in St. Louis showed earlier this summer that the enzyme, matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9), degrades abnormally aggregated proteins known as amyloid fibrils, a main ingredient of brain plaques. In the brain, MMP-9 is made by support cells known as astrocytes. MMP-9 is already well-known...

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