The economic cost of advanced liver disease

November 18, 2011

Health care costs for hepatitis C patients with end-stage liver disease are nearly 2.5 times higher than those in the early stages, according to a Henry Ford Hospital study. Although infection with the hepatitis C virus increases health care costs overall, the specific impact of the disease’s progressive severity on health care costs has previously [...]

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Battle the winter blues

November 18, 2011

The summer has passed and so, we turn our sights to darker nights and a colder climate. while some people love the onset of winter, there are still more that are severely affected by Seasonal Adjustment Disorder (SAD), writes Kate Murray Also known as winter blues or seasonal depression, SAD occurs at the same time [...]

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Friends, family offer support to 17-year-old battling Crohn’s

November 18, 2011

Tuesday, Nov 8 2011, 8:19 am : Want to help? The Walk for Madison will be Nov. 12 in uptown Shelby, beginning at the Cleveland County Chamber, 200 S. Lafayette St., Shelby. Registration is at 8:30; walk at 9. Each team walker will raise donations through sponsors. if a child is the walker, parents are [...]

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Liver Pancreas Surgery,Liver Biliary Surgery,Liver Biliary Pancreatic Surgery

November 18, 2011

Gurgaon, Haryana — (SBWIRE) — 11/16/2011 — The liver is the largest organ in the human body. it is also one of the most important ones. Liver Biliary Pancreas Surgery practice offers a multidisciplinary approach to surgical and non-surgical treatment strategies for patients with complex liver, biliary and pancreatic disease. Liver Biliary Pancreas Surgery compiled [...]

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Link between sunlight and multiple sclerosis

November 18, 2011

For almost 30 years, scientists have known that multiple sclerosis is more ordinary in higher latitudes than in the tropics. As sunlight is more abundant near the equator, many scientists have wondered if the high levels of vitamin D engendered by sunlight could put in plain words unusual pattern of frequency.Vitamin D may reduce the [...]

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Sinovac Biotech reports positive phase 2 results for EV71 vaccine, prepares for phase 3

November 18, 2011

9th Nov 2011, 2:20 pm by Brad Lemaire Sinovac Biotech (NASDAQ:SVA) posted Wednesday preliminary phase two trial results for EV71, the biopharmaceutical company’s hand, foot and mouth disease vaccine, which elicited a positive immune response and showed a favourable safety profile. According to results, the EV71 vaccine showed “good immunogenicity” and a favourable safety profile, [...]

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Autism’s early child

November 18, 2011

In a sunlit garden in Dorset, a middle-aged man is looking at photographs of his life. He pauses on a family group beside a caravan, a faded black-and-white snap stained with streaks of tea, and gently touches his forefinger to the face of a woman, pretty but careworn. She is in her 30s, with her [...]

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Fresh dispute about MMR ‘fraud’

November 17, 2011

Andrew Wakefield’s discredited theory linking vaccination and autism stirred public fears.L. MACGREGOR/REUTERS It is one of the most serious allegations that could be made about a doctor: manipulating patients’ histories to make money. so it is no wonder that the charges, levied by editors of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in January against medical researcher [...]

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Support for Children with Autism

November 17, 2011

KINGSTON — Families affected by autism will, over the next two days, have the opportunity to learn from experts and access resources to assist their loved ones with the condition, during 'Autism Splash'. the event, which got underway yesterday at Emancipation Park in Kingston, is hosted by the Maia Chung Autism and Disabilities Foundation, through [...]

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Former teacher’s charity hoping to break £100,000 mark (From Watford Observer)

November 17, 2011

Former teacher’s charity hoping to break £100,000 mark 3:30pm Tuesday 15th November 2011 Skip social links Print Email Comments(0) A charity set up after the death of a Croxley Green school teacher is hoping to break through its £100,000 mark at a fundraising dinner. the Nicki’s Smile Charitable Fund will be holding the inaugural dinner [...]

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