Longer Antiviral Treatment Prevents Lung Transplant Complications
Extending the course of treatment to prevent a common virus after lung transplantation dramatically reduces infection rates and possibly the risk of the body rejecting the new lungs, according to research from Duke University Medical Center. The most prevalent opportunistic infection in lung transplant recipients is cytomegalovirus (CMV), a virus that often has mild effects [...]
Warning Over Obesity In Pregnancy
Medical experts call for all mothers-to-be to be weighed regularly throughout their pregnancies due to health fears All mothers-to-be should be weighed regularly during pregnancy to help combat the many dangers to women’s and babies’ health from maternal obesity, a group of medical experts is urging. The National Obesity Forum (NOF) – an influential group [...]
It’s My Life And I Demand To End It When I Want
Seventy years ago today, a quarter of a mile from where I am writing, Sigmund Freud’s doctor, Max Schur, administered a third and final shot of morphine to his celebrated patient. The previous day Freud, suffering from a terminal recurrence of the jaw cancer that had cost him half his palate, and smelling so badly [...]
Easier Transplant Rules For Alcoholics
Alcoholics who do not show they can stay sober outside hospital are expected to be offered liver transplants for the first time next month. A group of experts in liver disease will propose the change despite a shortage of organs. Under current guidelines, candidates for new livers have to show they can abstain from drink, [...]
The Micro Grafting Techniques
Well, you may noticed that a quick look at political figures worldwide shows that many high profile leaders have had hair transplants to avoid baldness — some less successful than others. Hair loss is no laughing matter, and a bad or patchy hair transplant can have serious repercussions. Today there are new procedures that involve [...]
Hitting The Gym Can Be Exhilarating
Achieving weight loss results from dieting and hitting the gym can be exhilarating. Seeing results is definitely the best form of motivation there is. But what if you do everything right, eat all the right foods, exercise faithfully six days a week, and still battle pockets of bulge here and there? A sensible diet and [...]
Herbal Medicine To Be Regulated In UAE
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has announced that it has put together a list of rules and regulations on the distribution and sales of herbal based medicines in the country said Dr Amin Hussain Al Amiri, Executive Director of Medical Practices and Licensing Affairs at the ministry. In a report published in the Arabic local [...]
Legacy Of Herbal & Spiritual Healing
Tibetan medical science, a 2,000-year-old legacy of herbal and spiritual healing born in the Buddhist monasteries of high-altitude Tibet, offers cures for diseases like cancer and thalassaemia but is yet to be recognised by the Indian government, says one of its leading woman practitioners here. “This system can contribute a lot to ease suffering. If [...]
Rare Form Of A Breast Cancer
Ten-year-old Hannah Powell-Auslam is trying to remain brave as she copes with a rare form of breast cancer. “I feel like a kid inside but sometimes I feel like an adult, when I’m always at the hospital,” Hannah told ABC’s “Good Morning America” in an interview that aired Wednesday. The fifth-grader at Escalona Elementary School [...]
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