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Exposure to CT Scan Radiation may Be Equivalent to That of Nuclear Bomb

... some cases be equivalent to that received by some survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs. According to some estimates, the radiation exposure a patient receives from a full-body CT scan is often 500 times that of a conventional X-ray and about the same as that received by people living 2.4 ki...

Hurricane Katrina Still Wrecking Lives - More So With Blacks

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the survivors of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans are still struggling with financial hardship and health problems, and blacks seem to be having the lions share of this. Accordingly, more than half of the 1,504 people surveyed by the foundation after the disa...

Pain and Intensity Of Post-stroke Spasticity Decreased by Botox Treatment

...icity after a stroke. About 58 percent of stroke survivors experience post-stroke spasticity, and only 51 percent of those are receiving treatment for that condition, according to the National Stroke Association. A total of 279 patients were enrolled in the 12-month study of BoNTA to evaluate the efficacy ...

Testosterone Cream Ineffective in Enhancing Libido in Female Cancer Survivors

...cream for enhancing sexual desire in female cancer survivors did not prove very effective, a new study conducted by Mayo clinic has shown. A low sex drive is common in women cancer survivors. As an extension to a previous study which pointed a link between androgen therapy and increased sex drive in women ...

Survivors of Rare Ovarian Cancer may Retain Menstrual Function and Reproductive Ability

...t despite having reproductive and sexual concerns, survivors were more likely than their healthy counterparts t...is is the largest and most comprehensive survey of survivors ever conducted. Lead author of the study, Dr. David Gershenson, says that germ cell tumours, a di...

Girls With Cancer Given Fertility Hope

...aid: "This offers hope to many young female cancer survivors that they may have a chance in the future of re-establishing their fertility." Gillian Lockwood, head of Midland Fertility Services, the only clinic in Britain to have live births from frozen eggs, said: If it works its good news, because the big b...

Uttar Pradesh Struggles to Contain Japanese Encephalitis

...ions, high fever and respiratory distress. Many survivors are left mentally or physically handicapped. Every year, Japanese Encephalitis strikes the northern part of India, especially Uttar Pradesh, raising questions of hygiene and immunization....

Childhood Cancer can Lead to Chronic Health Problems Later in Life: Study

...ong-term study of more than 1,300 childhood cancer survivors found that 75 percent went on to develop one or more chronic health conditions by the time they reached their mid 20s, or early 30s at the latest. Close to 25 percent had multiple health problems by that point, and some 40 percent had suffered at l...

SARS Patients Experience Mental Health Decline

Canada-The many survivors of the 2003 epidemic severe acute respiratory synd...of life, but a one-year followup study of 117 SARS survivors has found 51 of them needed mental health services. Catherine M. Tansey, M.Sc., University Health ...

US Dentists Help Victims of Domestic Violence Smile Again

... the nonprofit group is putting domestic violence survivors in touch with dentists who volunteer their services. To date, 500 applicants have been treated in the United States. They are carefully screened and a counselor or social worker must confirm that the injuries were caused by domestic violence. That'...

Annual Cancer Run Draws Huge Response in US

...Cure . About 1,200 of the 16,000 participants were survivors of breast cancer, while many others were running to honor family members who had died from the disease. Survivor were in the pink T-shirts and sporting the medallions awarded by the event organizers. In fact, pink was everywhere _ in bundles of hel...

Report Shows How Children With Brain Tumors Perform at School

...time the actual grades and subjects of brain tumor survivors have been reported. These results will help us identify brain tumor survivors who are at greatest risk for school failure and may need remedial help as early as possible, said st...

Blood Transfusions Does Not Increase the Risk of Cancer Transmission

...ory of cancer, it would seem that long-term cancer survivors might be a fairly safe donor group, the studys authors concluded. The findings have been published in the journal Lancet....

Sexual Abuse Payout Re-opens Old Wounds

...hree days after the settlement was announced, many survivors said they still weren't sure of the exact amount t... Ann Hagen Webb, a Boston psychologist who treats survivors of priest sex abuse and is a survivor herself, said the settlement in her city may have some lessons...

Brain Tumor Children Poor Performance in Schools

...time the actual grades and subjects of brain tumor survivors have been reported. These results will help us identify brain tumor survivors who are at greatest risk for school failure and may need remedial help as early as possible, said st...

Survey Shows Emergency Services Of British Hospitals Doing A Good Job

...4 percent from last years figures, meaning 12 more survivors for every 1,000 heart attacks. The report states other facts such as that more patients are receiving emergency treatment within 60 minutes of suffering a heart attack, though there still exists a variation between hospitals. In England, 64 percent...

Medical Science Strides-No Guarantee For Pre-Mature Babies

... any others that size. Some facts remain, like: survivors are more likely to be girls than boys, and they are all born small for gestational age, often because their mothers had pregnancy-associated high blood pressure. A normal-size fetus at just 20 weeks' gestation weighs 11 ounces, at which point the o...

Katie Holmes in 'most Influential' Celebs List

...y queens, style setters, entertainers, newsmakers, survivors and body shapers. Actress Sarah Jessica Parker, singer/actor Justin Timberlake and model turned designer Kate Moss were dubbed the style setters because of their influence on trends. Anna Nicole Smith's 10-month old girl, Dannielynn Hope, was is ...

Live Earth: How Global Warming Became Cool

...," which conjured fears of a snowball planet where survivors eked out a troglodytic life in beaver skins. But evidence for the greenhouse effect was already trickling out. By the end of the 1970s, warming had tipped the balance over cooling in the battle for expert opinion as to which way the climate was h...

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