Adapted to pale lean persons with lax, flabby muscles; face pale, waxy. Haemorrhage; from every mucous outlet, nose, throat, lungs, stomach, bowels, uterus; metrorrhagia; vicarious; traumatic epistaxis.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued a public health advisory to alert health care providers, patients, and patient caregivers to new safety information concerning an unapproved (i.e., off-label) use of certain drugs called atypical antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are approved for the treatment of schizophrenia and mania, but clinical studies of these drugs to treat behavioral disorders in elderly patients with dementia have shown a higher death rate associated with their use compared to patients receiving a placebo (sugar pill).
Alternate constipation and diarrhoea; lienteria. Marasmus of children with marked emaciation, especially of legs; the skin is flabby and hangs loose in folds.
The Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, recently launched a ‘Telemedicine Project’ linking three hospitals in Punjab, India to the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research better known as PGI. The project is aimed at providing modern health facilities at affordable prices in remote areas.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new product to protect against leakage of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) after brain surgery.
Telemedicine is composed of the Greek word teae (tele) meaning distance and the Latin word mederi meaning healing and literally meaning distance healing. It is therefore the delivery of Medicine at a distance.
Preliminary results from a large, randomized clinical trial for patients with previously untreated recurrent or metastatic breast cancer – cancer that has spread from the breast to other parts of the body – show that those patients who received bevacizumab (Avastin) in combination with standard chemotherapy had a longer time period before their cancer progressed than patients who received the same chemotherapy without bevacizumab.
Widening waistlines may increase the chances of frequent, painful headaches, new research findings suggest. In a study involving almost 31,000 adults, researchers found that compared to normal-weight people, obese individuals doubled their risk for chronic daily headache — non-migraine attacks occurring at least 15 times per month.
A lady consulted for high blood pressure (140/98 mm Hg at the time of consultation) soon after first Cesarean delivery. She had been diagnosed with this trouble in her last trimester during a routine pregnancy check up. She did not feel any trouble at all- neither then nor now.
Constipation is common among children up to 2 years old, according to the results of a recent study. However, dietary changes and laxatives usually resolve the problem.