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23 May 2013

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Indian doctors reported Wednesday about their successful first round of reconstructive surgery on the skull of a baby suffering from a rare disorder that caused her head to swell nearly double in size. The surgery on the skull of one-year-old Roona Begum was carried out on Tuesday near New Delhi by the same surgeons who last week drained fluid from the youngster in a life-saving operation. ...
Source : Medindia | 8 Hour(s) AgoCategory : Health
report to be published in the iInternational Journal Data Mining and Bioinformatics/i, a new computer model could help scientists predict when a particular strain of avian influenza might become infectious from bird to human. Chuang Ma of the University of Arizona, Tucson, and colleagues at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, explain ...
Source : Medindia | 8 Hour(s) AgoCategory : Health
of older patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) suggests that new use of the long-acting bronchodilators I-agonists and anticholinergics was associated with similar increased risks of cardiovascular events. The study was published Online First by iJAMA Internal Medicine/i, a JAMA Network publication. COPD affects more than 1 in 4 Americans older than 35 years of age and...
Source : Medindia | 8 Hour(s) AgoCategory : Health
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suggests less sleep per night is associated with a significant increase in the risk for motor vehicle crashes for young drivers. The study was led by Alexandra L. C. Martiniuk, M.Sc, Ph.D., of The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, Australia, and colleagues. Questionnaire responses were analyzed from 19,327 newly licensed drivers from 17 to 24 years old who held a first-stage provi...
Source : Medindia | 8 Hour(s) AgoCategory : Health
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Intensity-modulated radiation therapy has become the most commonly used type of radiation in prostate cancer. Despite this, research from the University of North Carolina suggests that the therapy may not be more effective than older, less expensive forms of radiation therapy in patients who have had a prostatectomy. The comparative effectiveness study, published online May 20 by iJAMA Inte...
Source : Medindia | 8 Hour(s) AgoCategory : Health
new study from researchers in Canada, in ICU patients who have septic shock, the anatomic source of infection has a strong effect on the chances of survival. "Understanding the local infection source in patients with septic shock may influence treatment strategies and clinical outcomes," said researcher Peter Dodek, MD MHSc, professor of critical care medicine at the University of British Co...
Source : Medindia | 8 Hour(s) AgoCategory : Health
new study confirms the negative effects of poorly controlled asthma symptoms on sleep quality and academic performance in urban schoolchildren. "While it has been recognized that missed sleep and school absences are important indicators of asthma morbidity in children, our study is the first to explore the associations between asthma, sleep quality, and academic performance in real time, pr...
Source : Medindia | 8 Hour(s) AgoCategory : Health
Extensive medical records of over one million Israeli adolescents before military service were used in a new study which shows clearly how exposure to the Israeli sun of young, light-skinned children increases substantially the risk of cutaneous melanoma (a serious form of skin cancer). The incidence of cutaneous melanoma is on the rise in all parts of the world where light-skinned people ...
Source : Medindia | 8 Hour(s) AgoCategory : Health
Smoking is generally harmful and women who smoke during pregnancy increase the risk of both obesity and gestational diabetes, in their daughters, a recent study has found. The study is by Dr Kristina Mattsson, Lund University, Sweden, and colleagues including Dr Matthew Longnecker from the National Institute on Environmental Health Sciences at the U.S.National Institutes of Health, North Ca...
Source : Medindia | 8 Hour(s) AgoCategory : Health
amount of time that asthma patients spend in the sun may have an impact on their illness, suggests scientists. A research team at King's College London said low levels of vitamin D - made by the body in sunlight - has been linked to a worsening of symptoms. Its latest research shows that the vitamin calms an over-active part of the immune system in asthma, the BBC reported. Howe...
Source : Medindia | 8 Hour(s) AgoCategory : Health
new research, people who learn two languages at an early age seem to switch back and forth between separate "sound systems" for each language. A lot of research has shown that bilinguals are pretty good at accommodating speech variation across languages, but there's been a debate as to how, said lead author Kalim Gonzales, a psychology doctoral student at the University of Arizona. "...
Source : Medindia | 8 Hour(s) AgoCategory : Health
New University of Michigan Health System research shows that hospitals with the highest rates of cardiac arrests tend to have the poorest survival rates for those cases. Meanwhile, hospitals that do the best job of preventing cardiac arrest among their patients tend to be better at saving patients with cardiac arrest, according to the findings that appear in iJAMA Internal Medicine/i. ...
Source : Medindia | 8 Hour(s) AgoCategory : Health
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