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Anthrax hammers immune system

...ts the anthrax bacteria were able to fly under the watchful radar of his immune system and proliferate. As the 2001 anthrax crisis spread, physicians wondered how the weaponized bug was working. In the new study using mice, researchers at Emory University in Atlanta, the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Removal Of Tonsils Questioned

...ildren had the surgery, and half were allocated to watchful waiting. Within six months of surgery, the number ... that adenotonsillectomy has no major benefit over watchful waiting in children with mild throat symptoms. They add that these results can only be generalized f...

New guidelines for dealing with post traumatic stress disorder

...is stage the medical practitioners are asked to be watchful and waiting and not jump into early psychological intervention. Only after this the physicians need to intervene when the patients are diagnosed with depression, suicidal tendencies, addiction, medically unexplained physical symptoms, or dissociative...

Worlds Largest Cord Blood Bank to be started in India

...ll transplant centers, which all operate under the watchful eye of an ethical review board. Together with the Hyderabad based Apollo Hospitals Group. Histostem plans to establish canters in India. Shen said usage is currently limited to research and treatment, but might be expanded to other application “based...

Legal Action against Authority Regarding Outbreak of Legionnaires’ Diseas

...tem at the factory. There would have a period of watchful waiting before any decision or opinion can be raised regarding the charges. ...

Delaying Hernia Surgery Is Considered A Safe Option

... month follow up period was adopted in the case of watchful waiting patients, while in the case of surgical re... the pain related to the condition. In the case of watchful waiting patients, hernia complications were not very common. A watchful waiting strategy is consider...

Additional Responsiblities To Be Taken Up By Allied Healthcare Professionals

...ew of the above situation, it would be a period of watchful waiting for both doctors and paramedical proffesionals before any such proposal can be implemented. ...

Ex-Wife Lodges Case Against Husband For Infecting Her With HIV

...d about his ex-girlfriend. It would be a period of watchful waiting for the ever-inquisitive media till the issue is resolved....

Burn Injuries More Common In Small Boys

Parents need to be more watchful when taking care of their boys under 3 years of age as a new study has revealed that they are more likely to suffer from burn injuries than girl children of the same age. // Researchers at Malmo University in Sweden looked at 148 children up to th...

Hospital Withdraws McDonald's Reward Scheme

... certificate and were always distributed under the watchful eye of the parents. However, even MPs have criticized the scheme, "I very rarely criticize the NHS, but in this instance I really do think something has gone very badly wrong. This practice of encouraging children to eat highly-processed food, likely...

New Study To Determine "Watchful Waiting" Period For Prostate Cancer

...risk prostate cancer patients who are eligible for watchful // waiting and can avoid the stressful chemotherapy treatments. "With the advent of the PSA test, we see prostate cancer detected much earlier but there is no evidence that early detection means longer survival. Because of the sensitivity of the te...

Aggressive Treatments for Prostate Cancer Not Required in Elderly

...sexual dysfunction, compared with men who received watchful waiting or hormone treatment."...

New Discovery Shows That Brain Could repair Itself After Stroke

...nous cells." Giving the research findings a very watchful welcome, a spokesman for the Stroke Association said last night that this is a very interesting research and seems very exciting, but felt that it would probably take a lot of years before there would be any practical function for this line of treatm...

Research Finds Lesser Rectal Cancer Risks Associated with Prostatic Irradiation

...ith the disease are radiation therapy, surgery and watchful waiting – each of which has its benefits and disadvantages. Researchers have hypothesized that one disadvantage of using radiation to kill the cancer cells in the prostate is that it might also make men more likely to develop cancer in the nearby rec...

Watchful Waiting Effective for Low Risk Prostate Cancer

...Cancer Institute. Their studies have revealed that watchful waiting or "expectant management" which includes r... lower risk cancer. Although good candidates for a watchful waiting approach, 55 percent underwent immediate treatment with 45 percent of them having received r...

When Type 1 and Type 2 Are Mouthed By Babes ...

...t households. Parents will need to be cautious and watchful of early symptoms which could show up as excessive thirst, or fatigue, which needs to be checked by a specialist without delay. Both types of diabetes are extremely dangerous for children and if undetected can even turn fatal....

Survival Rate Better In Men Treated For Prostate Cancer Than Who Opt For ‘Wait And Watch’ Approah

...eatment. "In previous years, it was thought that watchful waiting was the safest approach in older men given the uncertainty of the benefits of treatment and the slow growth of some prostate cancers," she said. However urologists who have treated many men with prostate cancer said – the side effects assoc...

Don’t Let Symptoms of Whooping Cough Escape You, Parents Warne

Parents in Toronto have been alerted to be watchful for symptoms of whooping cough in children; this alert has been sounded after recent reports, of increase in such cases in// the previous year. A recent report has established the increase in cases - from 178 cases in 2005 to 669 cases in 2006. ...

Chinese Government Warns Its People About Stomach Flu

...health care clinics in China have been asked to be watchful about Norovirus infection and to be prepared to handle cases. //The Ministry of Health has also requested the hospitals to report about any unusual rise in diarrhea cases. As Norovirus infections are highly contagious, people are asked to exercise ...

Ear Fluid Does Not Impair Development

...rs or four to five months in one ear now calls for watchful waiting for at least six additional months when fluid is present in both ears and for at least nine additional months when fluid is present in only one ear,” he said. His contributions have advanced pediatric medicine worldwide in the diagnosis and...

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