Pregnancy :: Pregnant women should avoid contact with sheep during lambing season
Pregnant women should avoid close contact with sheep during the lambing season, advised by the Health and Safety Executive, UK.
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Chiropractic :: Chiropractic group stresses safety of adjustments for children
A report published in the January issue of Pediatrics journal may cause unfounded concerns about the safety of chiropractic for children, according to the World Chiropractic Alliance (WCA), an organization representing doctors of chiropractic around the world.
Face Transplant :: Royal college issues revised guidelines for face transplantation
In the light of new information on facial transplantation?including the psychological and ethical aspects of the controversial procedure?a Working Party of the Royal College of Surgeons of England now endorses moving cautiously forward in performing further face transplants, according to a report published in the Jan_27 issue of Transplantation.
Heart Failure :: New international study to test exercise in heart failure patients
Cardiologists at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center are helping to lead a large international study involving 83 other sites that will test 3,000 patients in an effort to determine whether exercise really is good for heart failure patients.
Hypertension :: Differences between blood pressure medicines and newly-diagnosed diabetes
Researchers at Rush University Medical Center analyzed the data from 22 randomized clinical trials, and have found significant differences between antihypertensive drugs. ACE-inhibitors and the newer angiotensin receptor blockers, or ARBs prevent people from getting diabetes, and the older diuretics or beta-blockers, increase the chance that a person becomes diabetic, compared to either placebo (inactive sugar-pills) or calcium channel blockers according to a study published in the January 20, 2007 issue of the Lancet.
Heart Attack :: Aspirin saves lives of cancer patients suffering heart attacks
Many cancer patients who have heart attacks often are not treated with life saving aspirin given the belief in the medical community that they could experience lethal bleeding. Researchers at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, however, say that notion is now proven wrong and that without aspirin, the majority of these patients will die.
Diabetes :: New blood pressure medicines are less diabetes risky
Modern blood-pressure treatments are less likely to be associated with new cases of diabetes than older medicines — William Elliott of Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, and colleagues reported in the Lancet medical journal.
Lung :: Carbon monoxide protects lung cells against oxygen-induced damage
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have demonstrated that low-dose carbon monoxide administered in conjunction with oxygen therapy markedly inhibits oxygen-induced damage to lung cells. These findings, being reported in the Jan. 19 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, have significant implications for the treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS, according to the study’s authors.
Women :: Eye surgery, cosmetic surgery, other health issues to highlight Women’s Health Symposium
UT Southwestern Medical Center?s 2007 Annual Women?s Health Symposium, scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb_6, will focus on health strategies for women of all ages.
Stomach Cancer :: Napoleon’s mysterious death unmasked
A new investigation into Napoleon Bonaparte?s cause of death might finally put to rest nearly 200 years of lingering mysteries about the illness that killed the French emperor during his island exile, a UT Southwestern Medical Center scientist reports.