House passes Thompson’s bipartisan amendment to improve TBI, PTSD treatments for troops, vets

May 22, 2012

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-1), co-chair of the bipartisan Military Veterans Caucus, on Friday secured the passage of his bipartisan amendment with Congressman Pete Sessions (TX-32) to expedite new and innovative treatments to our nations’ veterans and active duty soldiers suffering from Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The TBI [...]

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Progress on new treatment for MS sufferers

May 21, 2012

Efforts at making a medication derived from cannabis available for persons with Multiple Sclerosis have moved a step closer, with the completion of the European Mutual Recognition Procedure. Galway West Deputy Seán Kyne confirmed the news this week, saying that he had a number of representations made to him by constituents concerned at the lack [...]

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Fear looms over Pader as one dies of suspected Hepatitis E

May 21, 2012

Pader Residents of Acholi-bur Sub-county in Pader District are living in fear after one person died and two other suspected cases of Hepatitis E were reported in the area. The deceased, Christine Anek Oloya of Ogago Parish, is said to have died after last week after showing signs and symptoms similar to that of the [...]

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Help your children get springtime allergy relief

May 21, 2012

3. Watch pollen counts; if they’re very high, have your daughter play inside. 4. Get out the umbrellas and rain boots! Rainy and wet days (and cloudy and windless ones) are better for outdoor play. Pollen is less likely to be in the air. 5. Have your child wash and change after coming inside. 6. [...]

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Snoring may be linked to cancer death

May 21, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO, May 20 (UPI) — Snoring, one of the main symptoms of sleep disordered breathing, may be linked to cancer death, U.S. researchers say. Study leader Dr. Javier Nieto of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and colleagues found the study participants with severe sleep disordered breathing were almost five [...]

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Linkin Park added to growing list of performers at VMAs

May 20, 2012

HollywoodNews.com: Linkin Park are gearing up for the release of their new album “A Thousand Suns,” which hits stores on September 14. They just released the chaotic video for their first single “The Catalyst,” and now the hit rock band are going to be performing at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. They are the [...]

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Barnoldswick IBD sufferer backs awareness campaign (From Burnley and Pendle Citizen)

May 20, 2012

Barnoldswick IBD sufferer backs awareness campaign 3:00pm Friday 18th may 2012 in Pendle by Lisa Woodhouse REFLECTIONS Angela Stevenson’s condition has curtailed so much of her active life ANGELA Stevenson used to attend the gym three times a week, play badminton and swim regularly. But all that changed when she was struck down with inflammatory [...]

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Two proposed changes dropped from psychiatric guide

May 19, 2012

Two proposed psychiatric diagnoses failed to make the last round of cuts in the laborious process of revising the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — an exhaustive catalog of symptoms used by doctors to diagnose psychiatric illness. Gone from the latest revision are “attenuated psychosis syndrome,” intended to help identify individuals at risk [...]

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‘Debulked Woman’: Ovarian Cancer’s Grim Reality

May 19, 2012

Donald Gray Susan Gubar is a professor emeritus of English at Indiana University, Bloomington, and co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. Feminist literary scholar Susan Gubar was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer in November 2008. she then began her emigration “from the world of the healthy to the domain of the ill,” [...]

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Women Rejoice: Time to Bid Farewell to Your Annual Pap Smear

May 19, 2012

Screening women for cervical cancer every single year may do more harm than good. For fifty years an annual Pap smear has been the gold standard of screening for cervical cancer in women. Now a federal advisory group and the nation’s leading cancer organization have changed their tune. They no longer recommend that women have [...]

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