Trauma Patients Suffer Even 12 Months After Injury
"The findings of this study suggest that interventions to decrease chronic pain in trauma patients are needed. The high prevalence of pain, its severity and its effect on functioning warrant such interventions. This may consist of interventions ... [... more]
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Surgery Only Works For Some Kids With Sleep Apnea
The study included 40 children, aged 7-13, who had adenotonsillectomy surgery to treat nightly snoring. Most of the children showed improved sleep scores six weeks after surgery, but the rate of relapse at one year had no correlation with the ... [... more]
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Woman And Cat Shared 'Super Bug'
About 25 percent to 30 percent of Americans are colonized with staph bacteria, but only about 1 percent are colonized with MRSA, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most MRSA infections occur in health-care settings, ... [... more]
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Gulf War Illness Strongly Linked To Chemical Exposure
"Some of this has been stated for a while," said Joy Ray Miller, an assistant professor of pharmacy practice at the Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy at Texas A & M Health Science Center. "This article pulls it all together. It's ... [... more]
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Deficit In Brain Function Puts Teens At Risk Of Drug Abuse
"We found that individuals who exhibit a high amount of ND -- that is, do not have a good ability to manage their impulsive responses -- have less brain activity in the frontal cortex, the region of the brain responsible for ECF, during the ... [... more]
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Adhd Drugs Won't Raise Risk Of Substance Abuse
"This study is a continuing effort to explicate the factors that mediate risk. It is methodologically sound and suggests that, as always, things are more complicated than we want them to be. The study demonstrates that the use psychostimulants ... [... more]
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Newborn Screening Suggests Decline In Cystic Fibrosis
Dr. David Orenstein, director of the Antonio J. and Janet Palumbo Cystic Fibrosis Center at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, said, "This study raises an interesting possibility. There have been some other geographic areas where this same trend ... [... more]
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Adult Stem Cells Help Those With Immune Disorders, Heart ...
The review found that in 26 studies involving a total of 854 patients with autoimmune diseases there was a treatment-related death rate of: less than 1 percent (two of 220 patients) for nonmyeloablative (not causing bone marrow suppression); less ... [... more]
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Anemia Drugs For Cancer Patients Increase Death Risk
Due to these concerns, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last year had the drugs' manufacturers add a "black box" warning to the medications. The warning indicates that the medications should be used at the lowest possible doses to avoid ... [... more]
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Drug-Coated Balloons Keep Leg Arteries Open
Drug-coated stents are not used routinely in the United States for PAD, Clair said. Two trials for PAD done in Europe showed initial advantages of drug-coated stents over the bare-metal kind, he said, but the differences had disappeared after two ... [... more]
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Fixing Poor Vision Boosts Preschoolers' Test Scores
"It has been theorized that when young children have early vision problems that are undiagnosed and uncorrected, their development and performance in school are impacted," Stuart I. Brown, chairman of ophthalmology and director of the Shiley ... [... more]
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Learning Disabilities May Presage Later Language Problems
Patients with primary progressive aphasia were more likely to have had learning disabilities or a close family member with learning disabilities than were those with other forms of dementia or without dementia. The review of patients with both ... [... more]
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