News tagged with lancet
Against expectations, genetic variation does not alter asthma treatment response
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Studies have suggested that asthma patients with a specific genetic variation might not respond as well to certain treatments as those with a different variation. But a new study in this week's edition of ...
Preventing H1N1 spread to health care workers: Dilemma, debate and confusion
Nov 19, 2009 |
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A commentary in the December issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases brings to light the gaps in knowledge on the transmission of a common pathogen - the influenza virus - and its impact on decisions about how best to pro ...
Lifestyle changes may stave off diabetes for a decade
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Sustaining modest weight loss for 10 years, or taking an anti-diabetic drug over that time, can prevent or lower the incidence of type 2 diabetes in people at high risk for developing the disease, according to the Diabetes ...
Side effects not always due to swine flu shot
Oct 31, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Hundreds of people on any given day will die, develop the paralyzing Guillain-Barre syndrome or have spontaneous abortions, and that doesn't necessarily mean that their swine flu vaccination shot was to blame, a ...
Health experts: Kids should get seasonal flu shot
Oct 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Dutch scientists made a controversial suggestion Friday that children might be better off skipping the seasonal flu vaccine this year - a proposal flatly rejected by other health experts.
Four percent of adults worldwide using cannabis: Lancet
Oct 16, 2009 |
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Nearly four percent of adults around the world use cannabis, even though the drug raises many major health concerns, according to a paper published in The Lancet on Friday.
Giving babies Tylenol may blunt vaccines' effects
Oct 15, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Giving babies Tylenol to prevent fever when they get childhood vaccinations may backfire and make the shots a little less effective, surprising new research suggests.
Most babies born this century will live to 100
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Most babies born in rich countries this century will eventually make it to their 100th birthday, new research says. Danish experts say that since the 20th century, people in developed countries are living about three ...
Study identifies which children do not need CT scans after head trauma
Sep 15, 2009 |
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A substantial percentage of children who get CT scans after apparently minor head trauma do not need them, and as a result are put at increased risk of cancer due to radiation exposure. After analyzing more than 42,000 children ...
Sickle cell study boosts call for improved childhood immunization programs in Africa
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Children in Africa with sickle cell anaemia are dying unnecessarily from bacterial infections, suggests the largest study of its kind, funded by the Wellcome Trust. The results are published today in the journal ...
Study: New treatment may combat drug-resistant flu
Sep 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A new and unlicensed treatment for swine flu could be used in patients who have Tamiflu-resistant viruses, doctors say. In an article published Friday in the medical journal Lancet, British doctors describe how they ...
Mosquito screens found to be cheap and effective in malaria prevention
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Trials of a screen-based malaria prevention programme in 500 homes in The Gambia, Africa, have led to a 50 per cent reduction in malaria transmission and anaemia in children. A child dies from malaria in Africa ...
HIV integrase inhibitor effective for patients beginning antiretroviral treatment
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Aug 03, 2009 |
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A member of a new class of antiretroviral drugs is safe and effective for patients beginning treatment against HIV, according to researchers who have completed a two-year multisite phase III clinical trial comparing it with ...
Experts: UN program to save children didn't work
Jul 31, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The U.N. unveiled a multimillion dollar strategy a dozen years ago to save children worldwide, but a new study has found the program had surprisingly little effect in Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest countries.
Errors in diagnosis of depression lead to over and under diagnosis in primary care
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 29, 2009 |
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A meta-analysis of more than 50,000 patients has shown that general practitioners (GPs) have great difficulty separating those with and without depression, with substantial numbers of missed and misidentified.
