Health :: Air Travel With Infants
If you’re taking your infant or toddler on a plane trip, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center offers these safety tips:
If you’re taking your infant or toddler on a plane trip, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center offers these safety tips:
Under the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) “Consumer Health for Better Nutrition Initiative,” the Agency is announcing the results of a review of qualified health claims that green tea may reduce the risk of certain types of cancer. Based on a systematic evaluation of the available scientific data, the FDA intends to consider exercising its enforcement discretion for the following qualified health claims for breast and prostate cancer:
A Stanford University School of Medicine study using new measures of heart disease risk shows that gastric bypass surgery reduces the risk of heart disease even more than previously believed. The researchers say the finding underscores the value of the surgery for extremely overweight people, whose obesity puts them in danger of heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular illness.
In a letter sent to the Food and Drug Administration, the American Academy of Dermatology Association (AADA) called on the FDA to halt Internet sales of isotretinoin, commonly known as Accutane. To assist government efforts, the AADA is providing the FDA with a preliminary list of Internet sites from which isotretinoin can be purchased.
As state medical boards and legislatures propose regulations to restrict surgeries performed in physicians? offices, two new studies report such action would have little impact on the overall patient safety of medically necessary procedures.
While it is estimated that more than 80 percent of the world?s population is affected by acne at some point during their life, there is still no cure. Until recently, a combination of topical preparations and oral medications, including antibiotics, has been used almost exclusively with varying degrees of success to combat acne. Now, several laser and light-based technologies have recently been demonstrated to improve mild to moderate acne in a few treatment sessions, and with no known systemic side effects.
What?s a four letter word for a skin condition that affects nearly 80 percent of the population in various forms and can cause considerable emotional stress? If you answered acne, then you hit this hard-to-treat condition on the head. While a more difficult question might have been how to treat acne, dermatologists are at the forefront of using laser technology to stop acne in its tracks – and prevent the acne scars that are often a result.
In patients with locally advanced prostate cancer, a three-pronged approach to therapy can achieve a high level of tumor control, researchers at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville report.
High blood pressure, the “silent killer,” too often gets overlooked by people who have conditions that cause them pain or severe distress, a new study finds.
Drinking pomegranate juice during pregnancy may help reduce the risk of brain injuries in babies, US researchers have found.