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Is Presumed Consent the Answer to Organ Shortages?

...rs cannot keep up with demand. Two experts in this weeks BMJ debate whether presumed consent assuming people want to donate unless there is evidence to the contrary is the answer. Surveys show that 90% of the UK population support organ donation, yet only 23% have registered their wish to donate, writ...

Cosmetic Genital Surgery may Be Fuelling Womens Insecurity About Their Bodies

...heir body parts, argue two senior doctors in this weeks BMJ. They believe that women should be warned about the risks of cosmetic genital surgery, and that alternative solutions to concerns about the appearance of their genitals should be developed. More and more women are said to be troubled by the s...

New Reforms Could Cut the Number of Unexplained Infant Deaths

...gacy emerging from tragedy, says a feature in this weeks BMJ. Sally Clark was arrested in 1998 for the murder of her two infant sons. She was imprisoned but won her appeal in 2003. She died in March this year. The consequences of the case, says Jonathan Gornall, have been devastating for her family and f...

Hypnotherapy may Help Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome

...ble bowel syndrome (IBS), say researchers in this weeks BMJ. IBS is a very common disorder, but conventional physical treatments often do not work very well and patients can feel that their symptoms are being ignored, downplayed or misunderstood. Patients with IBS are more likely to suffer from depres...

Link Between Gastric Bypass Surgery and Neurological Conditions

...y and onset of neurological symptoms ranged from 4 weeks to 18 years. Additional authors include UAMS Department of Neurology faculty members Sami I. Harik, M.D., department chairman and professor of neurology; Stacy A. Rudnicki, M.D., associate professor of neurology; and Robert L. Lee Archer, M.D., ass...

Sun Bathing Reduces Sperm Count

... to loosen up fully. However, sperm takes eight weeks to fully grow in the testes, and during that period, is susceptible to any changes in temperature. The testes physically hang outside the body to keep them cool, and locking them up in tight underwear, or dipping them in the hot tub may not be a g...

Antibiotics Highly Effective for Treating Lyme Disease

...dence shows that using antibiotics for two to four weeks is highly effective for treating neuroborreliosis. Lyme disease responds well to the intravenous antibiotics penicillin, ceftriaxone, cefotaxime, and oral doxycycline, and these antibiotics are probably safe and effective when taken for 14 to 28 days...

ECP may Be Effective in Treating Crohn's Disease

...in their disease symptoms and signs after only six weeks of treatment. "We show in this pilot study that ...atients received two treatments of ECP weekly from weeks 0-4 and two treatments every other week from weeks 6-12 with no infectious complications reported. ...

Study Tests Depression Treatment for Diabetes Patients

... down for most of the day nearly every day for two weeks or longer. Associated symptoms people experience are: a significant decrease in interest in activities they would ordinarily enjoy; changes in sleep; changes in appetite; weight loss or gain; difficulty with concentration; feelings of worthlessn...

Remicade Responders Maintain Improvement

... REMICADE 5 mg/kg, REMICADE 10 mg/kg or placebo at weeks 0, 2, 6 and every subsequent 8 weeks through week 22 (ACT 2) or week 46 (ACT 1). Patients were allowed to continue to receive conventiona...

Bronchial Thermoplasty: Boon to Severe Asthma Patients?

...r overall reduction in OCS dose was observed at 52 weeks in the bronchial thermoplasty treated patients compared with those that did not receive treatment at 52 weeks, although this difference didnt reach statistical significance. The study was not powered to show statistical significance in medication cha...

Yoga Session at North Carolina State University

...sident of the national organisation. A couple of weeks ago, graduating students of the University of Nevada were blessed with verses from the Bhagavad Gita during their second annual interfaith baccalaureate service....

Beware, America's Fast Food Consumers!

...was and how quickly it occurred. It took only four weeks for liver enzymes to increase and for glucose intolerance the beginning of type II diabetes to begin." And unlike other studies, the mice were not forced to eat; rather, they were able to eat whenever they wanted and eat they did. Tetri says the...

Suicide Among Returning US Soldiers on the Rise

...wn." Ruocco ended his life in February 2005, a few weeks before he was to redeploy to Iraq. Joshua Omvig, 22, a member of the Army Reserve from Grundy Center, Iowa, also took his own life. In December 2005, he shot himself in front of his mother after an 11-month tour in Iraq. His parents, Ellen and Rand...

Soy Nuts may Improve Blood Pressure, Cholesterol Levels in Women

...y post-menopausal women to eat two diets for eight weeks each in random order. The first diet, the Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLC) diet, consisted of 30 percent of calories from fat (with 7 percent or less from saturated fat), 15 percent from protein and 55 percent from carbohydrates; 1,200 milligrams ...

Beer Bashes of Teens Spinning Out of Control in US

...olics Anonymous meeting before graduation. A few weeks ago, four students were caught drinking at the sophomore dance, school superintendent O'Brien says. Thirty-one others have been punished for off-campus behavior in a tough new policy that has outraged parents and teenagers. The Easter tragedy was t...

American Who Set Off TB Scare Doing Well in Hospital

...oung, healthy and fit. He could be in the hospital weeks to months as doctors determine how to treat his infection. Based on information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which had been coordinating care for Speaker the hospital planned to start one oral and one intravenous antibiotic...

Older Motorists Improve Driving Performance With Physical Conditioning

...e intervention group received weekly visits for 12 weeks by a physical therapist who guided them through a graduated exercise program directed at physical abilities potentially relevant to driving based on earlier studies. They exercised for seven days a week for 15 minutes, focusing on the hips, ankles, k...

Top Iraqi Shiite Leader Returns Home

...werful parties in the parliament, spent nearly two weeks abroad in a trip that included medical tests in th...im, secretary of the politician's son Ammar. Two weeks earlier, Hakim, 57, flew to the United States for medical tests before travelling on to Tehran. On...

Diabetes Management in Schools Act Will Help Ensure Oklahoma Students With Diabetes Are Safe at School

...her daily diabetes management. Robertson spent six weeks in her daughter's kindergarten class until volunteers at the school were trained to help manage Anna's diabetes while at school. Although this Edmond school did voluntarily agree to cooperate, many other children in Oklahoma have not had the same lev...

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