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Awareness about Women's Cancers- A National Concern

...y the lump is removed and radiation is used on the surrounding tissue. Other cancer surgeries are also performed as minimally disfiguring as possible. Yearly checkups for women over 40 are advised by the WHO : however most women do not go in for them. A popular misconception about breast cancer is that it can...

Leasing of Land Owned by Health Trust

...e thing we do. There is a lot of agricultural land surrounding the Gransha and Stradreagh hospitals and obviously it is of no use to us. It is let every November and makes ￡10,000 for the Trust.” SV...

How to Prevent Bedsores from Becoming Deadly

... opportunity for infections that may spread to the surrounding skin, deeper tissue, bone, and the blood. They can also cause loss of fluid and protein, leaving patients dehydrated and malnourished. The cost of treating a bedsore is extremely high. According to one estimate, caring for a single, deep-tissue bedso...

Fewer Women Having Inpatient Breast Cancer Surgery

...ctomies, which remove the malignant tumor and some surrounding tissue, comprised 14 percent. * Between 1997 and 2004, inpatient mastectomy rates decreased by 32 percent , and lumpectomy rates fell by 45 percent. * Breast cancer hospitalizations occurred the most in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and ...

Blood Markers Predict Risk for Recurrent Stroke and Mortality

...Heights neighborhood in Northern Manhattan and the surrounding area. The ongoing study, which began in 1990, is run by the Neurological Institute of New York at Columbia University Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian, located in Washington Heights. Source-Newswise RM...

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

...s as they develop, and then eventually form a wall surrounding the plaques," he says. Lee's results have led him to formulate a provocative but as yet unproven theory about an old mystery of Alzheimer's disease: why plaques continue to increase in number over time but only grow to a certain size. "Even thoug...

Flu Shots-Do we Really Need Them?

...e flu vaccine are not as effective as all the hype surrounding it, according to a new study.// Study author Dr. Tom Jefferson, coordinator of the Cochrane Vaccines Field in Rome, Italy said, "We've got an exaggerated expectation of what vaccines can actually do. I'm hoping American and European taxpayers will ...

Cell Wall of Pneumonia Bacteria Can Cause Brain and Heart Damage

...ion) and meningitis (inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord). The St. Jude team found that pieces of cell wall from S. pneumoniae that escape from the bloodstream enter neurons (brain cells). In a previous report published in the July issue of Infection and Immunity, St. Jude resea...

American ‘wild’ birds identified as culpable for spreading bird fu

...s. David Stallknecht clarified that the suspicions surrounding the Mallard, a bird common in North America, being a common reservoir for influenza virus to be a potential danger was laid to rest with this research. For the study birds that were more likely to bring the virus to North America were studied and r...

Battle against Gum Disease Acquires new Weapon

...becomes severe and spreads to the supporting bones surrounding the teeth as well as the gums. The build up of plaque is usually the cause of all gum disease. Periodontal disease causes loss of more teeth than through tooth decay. Lead researcher Mark Reynolds at the 232nd national meeting of the American Che...

Mammograms Reduce Breast Cancer Deaths, But Increase Overdiagnosis

...ls, found in the milk ducts, will never invade the surrounding breast tissue. The problem is that researchers don’t know which of these cancers will progress and which ones won’t. As a result, all women who are diagnosed with DCIS are advised to have the lesions removed. Barlow doesn’t think the fault lies wit...

High-Energy Clamp Simplifies Heart Surgery for Atrial Fibrillation

...e atrial wall, and the devices caused no injury to surrounding tissue. The time needed for the procedure went from more than 90 minutes to about 30 minutes. The modified Cox-Maze procedure eliminated atrial fibrillation in over 90 percent of patients in a recent study, a number that compares favorably to the o...

Choice of Anesthesia in C-section

...sia, an anesthetic agent is suffused into the area surrounding the spinal cord through an injection in the woman's lower back. This is usually performed by an anesthesiologist who is well-trained in the procedure. With spinal anesthesia, the anesthetic medicine is injected directly inside the sac of fluid that ...

Partners of Men with Prostate Cancer also Need Support

... not involved partners are overlooking key factors surrounding the relationship, he says. In a new study, Dr Couper and his colleagues interviewed two groups of couples facing PCA treatment over a six-month period. They found that at the time of diagnosis it was the partners, not the patients, who showed hig...

Mystery outbreak causes Canadian University to shut down

...unt Allison University in New Brunswick and in the surrounding university town of Sackville. Public health officials have been asked by university officials to investigate the outbreak. "They spent three hours on campus and they haven't found anything that leads them to suspect anything in terms of food, but t...

Mental Health: Mind at Peace or in Pieces?

...e education and awareness programmes, the anathema surrounding ‘mental health issues’ needs redress. It is assumed that all mentally ill warrant a sequestered treatment, maybe even a lock up, to avoid violent encounters. This is perhaps the mother of all myths. Post rehabilitation, most mentally ill patients beg...

Study on Timing of Spinal Surgery

... to try to limit the damage to the spinal cord and surrounding tissues, as many surgeons believe? Or won’t it make a difference in how a patient ultimately fares, as others, citing their experiences, say? Dr. Vaccaro, professor of orthopaedic surgery and neurological surgery at Jefferson Medical College of Thom...

Simi Valley Nuclear Meltdown Effects Greater than Suspected

...wn, thereby causing no public health threat to the surrounding community. These radiations could have possibly caused some 260 cancer cases in an area near the hilltop lab. The findings are a result of studies conducted over a period of seven years with the help of technical modeling to fill in missing details ...

A Safe Drug For Safe Delivery

...a tear or trauma during delivery ,to the uterus or surrounding tissues or, if the uterus fails to contract it can result in continuous bleeding.Uterine atony(failure to contract) occurs usually as a result of a piece of placenta remaining in the uterine cavity or following onset of infections. The WHO defini...

No-smoking laws may reduce Heart attacks

...ions did not change significantly for residents of surrounding Pueblo County or in the comparison city of Colorado Springs, neither of which have non-smoking ordinances," said the American Heart Association, which published the study in its journal Circulation. "The decline in the number of heart attack hospit...

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