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If The World Wide Web is Your Self Proclaimed Physician, Trouble Could be Just a Click Away

...et. She had diagnosed herself with chronic fatigue syndrome and then used the internet to self-medicate with oral steroids which she procured over the internet. She had been altering the dosage herself over a four year period. The steroid use led to serious cataract in both the eyes and glaucoma, which are si...

Childhood Stress May Cause Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

... at any period in life may develop chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), a severe health disorder, according to recent studies. // CFS is a complicated condition that causes a person to become so lethargic that he or she can't perform normal tasks. The condition is difficult to diagnose. It affects between 400,000...

Babies with Cleft Conditions, Pierre Robin Sequence May Need Extended Treatment for Poor Feeding Skills

...ent at 14 months. At 2 weeks of age, babies with a syndrome or PRS were 15 times more likely to have poor feeding skills than those without syndromes. In addition, parental reports of feeding efficiency were found to be predictive of poor feeding.The study results suggested that early detection and management...

The Tech Savvy Patient Knocks on the Doors of Telemedicine and Virtual Clinics

...ir doctor. Back pain, sciatica and irritable bowel syndrome seems more common nowadays because our modern and hectic Western lifestyles are playing some part in the illnesses we get." According to the Dr.Hamilton, though a website cannot take the place of a Doctor’s personal consultation, the website sure d...

Vaccine may overcome Common Infections: Researchers

... endocarditis, severe lung infections, toxic-shock syndrome and food poisoning. In US hospitals around 90,000 people die each year from hospital acquired infections costing about $4.5 billion, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 80 percent of these hospital infections are cause...

Brain stem Defects associated with SIDS

... infant’s risk of cot death or sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is increased by the brain defects that affect breathing and temperature control. // U.S. researchers conducted the study on babies who died of SIDS. The findings were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, in which, th...

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome More Prevalent in Overweight Women

... of the JAMA/Archives journals. Polycystic ovary syndrome occurs when the ovaries malfunction and levels of ...ications for reproductive health, polycystic ovary syndrome is also associated with sleep apnea, poor quality of life and an increased risk for diabetes and car...

Cinnamon extract in reduction of risk of metabolic syndrome

... of type-2 diabetes and heart disease. Metabolic syndrome causes central obesity, hypertension, and unstable glucose and insulin metabolism and affects approximately 32% of the Americans. The current study was presented this month at the 47th annual meeting of the American College of Nutrition. According ...

IBS Sufferers Benefited by Non-Absorbable Antibiotics

...ffective long-term treatment for irritable// bowel syndrome (IBS) according to researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The study has been published in the October 17 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine It is the first to demonstrate benefits from antibiotic use even after end of the course of trea...

Low Doses of Anti-Depressant May Help PMS

...men who experience moderate-to-severe premenstrual syndrome may benefit from treatment with low doses of anti-depressant medication, according to a new study led by a// Virginia Commonwealth University researcher. In the October issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, researchers reported that low dose...

Gene Involved In Common Birth Defect Also Regulates Skin Biology

...showing that mutations in IRF6 cause Van der Woude syndrome (VWS), a rare, dominantly inherited form of cleft ...te as normal. Although humans with Van der Woude syndrome do not have skin defects, a similar human condition, called popliteal ptyergium syndrome (PPS) that ...

Nerve Conduction Studies Safe for Patients with Implanted Cardiac Devices

...lp diagnose nerve disorders, such as carpal tunnel syndrome or Guillain-Barre syndrome, and find the location of abnormal sensations, such as numbness, tingling, or pain. The prevailing view among electrodiagnostic physicians and cardiac electrophysiologists, is that electrodiagnostic testing on patients wi...

Structural Abnormalities in Brains of William Syndrome Patients

...lar brain area of patients afflicted with Williams syndrome according to a study conducted// at the Laboratory... Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Williams syndrome is a rare genetic disorder where children love music and, will therefore spend hours listening to or...

Researchers Uncover Critical Player in Cell Communication

...gical and behavioral conditions. Williams-Beuren syndrome is associated with craniofacial defects, problems ...ing problems re-creating patterns in drawings. The syndrome occurs in roughly one in 25,000 births and is caused by a deletion of a small section of chromosome ...

Scientists Make World Breakthrough

... responsible for an outbreak of haemolytic uraemic syndrome (severe food poisoning) in South Australia. Subtilase cytotoxin is so potent that it is a potential bio-terrorism agent. Dr Paton and her colleagues published their findings today in Nature, the prestigious international weekly scientific journal. ...

Williams Syndrome, the Brain, and Music

...ow.” Identified more than 40 years ago, Williams syndrome arises from a faulty recombination event during th...make much more sense than objects do. “Williams syndrome is a perfect example where a genetic predisposition interacts with the environment to sculpt the bra...

One third of Infant Deaths from Premature Births in U.S.

...well as other conditions like respiratory distress syndrome commonly occurring in "preemie" babies.With this approach, the CDC team concluded that prematurity was the underlying cause of 34.3 percent of infant deaths in 2002. The researchers added that over 95 percent of those deaths involved premature babies...

New Angiogenesis Finding May Help Fight Cancer Growth

... NK-B also plays a role in a mysterious but common syndrome called preeclampsia, in which soaring blood pressure and low blood oxygen levels harm or even kill pregnant women and their babies. Philip Lowry, at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, has found that NK-B levels spike in preeclampsia, an...

High Resolution CT Accurately Diagnoses Shin Splints

...ly. According to the study, medial tibial stress syndrome is one of many overuse lower leg injuries that may be found in athletes and accounts for between 13.2% and 17.3% of all running injuries. For the study, high-resolution CT of both tibiae (shin bones) was performed on 41 subjects: 20 distance runner...

Restricted Fetal Growth Increases Risk of Irritable Bowel Syndrome

...icantly greater risk of developing irritable bowel syndrome or IBS, suggests research published// ahead of print in the journal Gut. The Norwegian authors base their findings on 3334 twin pairs, 1250 of whom were identical. The twins completed a comprehensive questionnaire about their health, including whet...

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