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Over 500 Sudden Unexplained Deaths Every Year, Mostly in Young Men

...ry year there are potentially more than 500 sudden unexplained deaths in England, reveals a nationwide study publ...rew on cause of death judgments relating to sudden unexplained deaths in people from 117 coroners (out of 122) across England between October 1997 and May 1999. ...

Brain Images Show Hysteria Not an Imaginary Disorder

...open up a new window to understanding hysteria, an unexplained neurological disorder in which a patient complains of symptoms, but doctors can’t find anything medically wrong with them. The study involved three women with sensory conversion disorder who complained of numbness in their left hand or foot. Resea...

Babies Found with Mysterious Bone Fractures

...ho had been in hospital since birth was found with unexplained fractures to its ribs after a routine X-ray. Doctors said the breaks could have been two or three weeks old. The VU reported its incidents Wednesday last week, but released no details. Other hospitals announced increased security, closing off ...

Pulmonary Hypertension Discriminates by Race, Gender

...onary arteries. This can lead to symptoms, such as unexplained shortness of breath on exertion, chest pain, fainting, and death. In the United States, an estimated 500 to 1,000 new cases of idiopathic pulmonary hypertension are diagnosed each year. “Idiopathic pulmonary hypertension is a serious illness that i...

Increased Risk of Bowel cancer after Menopause

...any symptoms like rectal bleeding, abdominal pain, unexplained weight loss and anaemia, specifically iron-deficiency anaemia. He also recommended that they should get tested as part of the national screening program launched in August and being rolled out nationwide to people in their 50s and 60s. Criticizing ...

Child-Proof: Brain Mapping Safer for Children than Previously Thought

...s absolutely critical when a child has suffered an unexplained bleeding in the brain,” he adds. Among those studied, a single death occurred three hours after an angiogram and was attributed to bleeding in the brain that the patient had suffered before admission to the hospital, the Hopkins team said. None of ...

Mouth Cancer Develops In Two Different Ways

...presents as sores, ulcers, red or white patches or unexplained pain in the mouth or ear. Other symptoms include lumps in their necks, a persistent sore throat or difficulty swallowing. In the current study, researchers examined samples from 19 people with pre-cancerous lesions, 16 people with definite cancer and...

Menopausal Women Cautioned

...unseled to seek medical advice if they suffer from unexplained nausea, or flu-like symptoms. ...

Infertile Couples Should 'Keep Trying' Naturally

...c Medical Centre in Amsterdam studied couples with unexplained fertility problems and found that a common fertili... The researchers focused on about 253 couples with unexplained fertility problems who were estimated to have a 30-40 percent chance of conceiving spontaneously wit...

Revolutionary New Treatment Plan Developed For Treatment Of Unexplained Symptoms

...dicine, explaining that the diagnosis of medically unexplained symptoms is a major setback, which affects million...s is the doctor-patient relationship.” Medically unexplained symptoms can be frustrating for both patient and physician, Smith said. “We’re in a disease-based ...

Gene Mutations Causing Rett Syndrome Occur in Both Sexes

...severe early postnatal progressive encephalopathy; unexplained central hypoventilation or respiratory insufficiency; abnormal movements; intractable seizures and abnormal tone. Three of the four cases had definitely pathogenic mutations and the fourth was potentially pathogenic. Acute observations and knowledge ...

Fertility Technique only as Effective as the Natural Way

.... The research was conducted on 253 couples with unexplained infertility who'd been trying to conceive for over a year. These were cases where no obvious abnormalities were found. The research required half of these couples to try conceiving naturally for six months and the other half were assigned to receiv...

Possible Link between Miscarriages and Male Babies

...n child is a boy. They studied 305 women suffering unexplained recurrent miscarriages and found that 60% had first born children who were boys. Scientists believe that male genes can trigger an immune reaction that prevents later pregnancies in vulnerable women. In such cases the chance of a second pregnancy ...

Rare Genetic Disorder Could Cause Strokes In Young People

...enetic screening of over 700 adults suffering from unexplained strokes to find out whether they had Fabry disease. They found that four percent of the studied people, aged 18-55 years who had a stroke, also had Fabry disease. The strokes occurred about a decade earlier in people with the condition, they said. ...

Warning! Working For Long Hours On Your Computer Can Be Lethal

...2-year-old man in New Zealand fell a victim top an unexplained pulmonary embolism. It later emerged that he spent 12 hours a day at his computer without much movement. Bristol computer programmer Chris Simmons said that he had collapsed after sitting for 12 hours on his PC. An MRI scan revealed a pulmonary embol...

The Power of External Influence on Our Lives

...red them into the library soon after. There was an unexplained silence as the group entered the library, like a reflex action, without anybody cautioning them to do so. The article seems to establish the fact that, often underlying and hidden influences cause us to behave in a manner that sometimes we may not ...

ROZEREM? Can Be A Better Option For Insomnia Patients

...els. Health professionals should be mindful of any unexplained symptoms possibly associated with such changes in these hormone levels. ROZEREM should not be taken with or immediately after a high-fat meal. ROZEREM should be taken within 30 minutes before going to bed and activities confined to preparing for bed....

Unexplained Repeat Cesarean Deliveries On The Rise In US

... found that 10% of the cesarean births were due to unexplained reasons. According to National statistics, there has been a 63% decrease in the rate of vaginal births in women who have had a cesarean. Concomitantly, there has been a parallel increase in the rate of repeat cesarean delivery. Inspired by this fin...

Bahamas says flamingo deaths are not due to bird-flu

...ian officials are not crying fowl over a series of unexplained flamingo deaths on the Island of Inagua. They seem to have underestimated the possible spread of the bird flu virus into Bahamas, from around the globe. // Bahamian Prime Minister Perry Christie has said that the preliminary investigation of flamin...

Tinnitus: a problem which is still ambiguous

...itus is a symptom of Meniere's disease which is an unexplained condition believed to be caused by excess fluid in the inner ears. While diuretic tablets may help ease some of the symptoms, Jan has found little to ease the misery of her tinnitus. Recently she has detected that her hearing is not very sharp. Des...

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