Paired Lab Tests Accurately Detect Patients Whose Heart Grafts Are Most Vulnerable to Clogging Soon After Bypass Surgery

February 24, 2011

Newswise — a team of heart experts at Johns Hopkins has found that dual lab tests of blood clotting factors accurately predict the patients whose blood vessels, in particular veins implanted to restore blood flow to the heart during coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), are more likely to fail or become clogged within six months. [...]

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Are Routine Pelvic Exams a Thing of the Past?

February 24, 2011

“Put your feet in the stirrups and scootch your butt all the way down. Further down. Little further. Now, try to relax.” These are the instructions that usually accompany the routine, often dreaded, pelvic exam that is de rigueur for most gynecological checkups. Some women are resigned to this exam, others find it embarrassing and [...]

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5-8DPO symptoms? Slight uterine twinges, dull soar breasts and having hot flashes.?

February 24, 2011

My typical cycles range from 29 days to 35 days, so an average of 31 days. last month I was on Clomid 100mg from days 3-7, I did ovulate but did not conceive. I do ovulate on my own, i just have very irregular cycles. I have never missed went over 35 days without a [...]

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Young man battles genetic heart disorder

February 24, 2011

Andrew Buddemeyer was pedaling as hard as he could on astationary bicycle at Washington University’s Center for AdvancedMedicine. He had a clip holding his nose shut, a tube shoved into hismouth, a blood pressure cuff squeezing his upper right arm and ahalf dozen or so wires running from his chest to echocardiogram andelectrocardiogram machines. W. [...]

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Wii-Type Video Games May Help Elders Beat Depression – New America Media

February 24, 2011

The Atlantic, News Feature, Aylin Zafar, Posted: Feb 22, 2011 For years, increasingly sophisticated video games came with increasingly daunting controllers. Anyone who grew up with Pong or an NES could be forgiven for fearing today’s byzantine rigs. So perhaps it’s not surprising that the new, more intuitive interfaces of the Nintendo Wii and Xbox [...]

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Nuhu Ribadu Trust » Data on Pancreatic Cancer Symptoms

February 24, 2011

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CAMBODIA: Diabetes – the silent killer

February 24, 2011

Source: Content partner // IRIN PHNOM PENH, 7 February 2011 (IRIN) – When 46-year-old Cambodian motorbike taxi driver Gao Savvy broke his leg, he did not realize he would have to have it amputated, but he has had diabetes for five years and recently developed a condition called stenosis, a narrowing of the blood vessels, [...]

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Hanky-panky during pregnancy generally safe

February 24, 2011

THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO—Women and their partners who are unsure about sex during pregnancy can breathe easier: hanky-panky doesn’t necessarily have to be on hiatus during those nine months. a primer published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal said sex during pregnancy is generally safe and with few, rare exceptions, poses minimal risks or complications [...]

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What would cause allergy symptoms to come on only at dusk?

February 24, 2011

Every evening my eyes get kinda slimey feeling, kinda burn and i get drainage in my throat that makes me need to clear my throat often. it comes on every evening around 6pm or so and i usually wake up with it. What could be causing this?

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Cholera alert reaches Venezuela via Dominican Republic

February 24, 2011

26 January 2011 last updated at 18:05 ET Share this page Cholera is spread by contaminated food or water More than 20 Venezuelans have contracted cholera after visiting the Dominican Republic, the Venezuelan health ministry has said. The patients were taken to hospital in Caracas after showing symptoms and were being kept in quarantine. They [...]

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