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Varicose Vein Treatments Turn Out To Be A Viable Health Investment

...ich often appears in the legs, can be cosmetically troubling for patients or progress to cause symptoms like heaviness, itching or even a breakdown of the skin. In the United Kingdom, the high demand for varicose vein treatment has led to some “rationing” of therapy and long health-service waiting lists, Mich...

Socialization A Serious Trouble For Childhood Cancer Survivors

...g-term outcomes of these treatments and unearthing troubling findings for these children's development. Though studies are small and limited to leukemia’s and central nervous system tumors, the findings suggest increased risk of some secondary cancers and decreased quality of life and psychosocial adjustment. ...

Women and Black Patients have less chances to survive a Heart Attack

...s who are clinically appropriate for treatment are troubling and raise obvious concerns about under-treatment," said first author Viola Vaccarino, M.D., associate professor of cardiology and epidemiology at Emory University. "Differences in treatment were not explained by patient age, risk factors or other cli...

Heart Patients Use Alternative Medicine

...them heal or ease their symptoms. But particularly troubling was that 42 % of the patients were taking at least one blood-thinning prescription medication and one dietary supplement that could also reduce clotting. Most heart patients have a prescription to take aspirin or other blood thinners to prevent clo...

FDA approves new device to treat women's bleeding disorder

.... Millions of women suffer menorrhagia, benign but troubling menstrual bleeding so excessive they can require more than 20 tampons in a single day. Thousands of women every year get hysterectomies to cure menorrhagia, while other women try hormone treatment.// The other option is to destroy part of the linin...

Are cancer patients being taken for a ride?

...lways raises many uncomfortable questions and more troubling answers is that of drug trials. Drug testing has always been an ethical issue and has kindled a lot of heated arguments for and against it. Recent studies have revealed that cancer victims suffer the most when it comes to drug testing when sometimes ...

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