Notice : Who Needs The Influenza Vaccine? .

Mark Crislip, MD, Infectious Diseases, 11:20PM Jan 6, 2011 This is a break from the usual short romp through pus that characterizes this blog.  Parts of this screed have been published over at Science Based Medicine. Do Healthy Adults Really Need a Flu Shot?  The evidence for influenza vaccination is like the evidence for evolution: there are multiple lines of evidence that demonstrat...

Notice : Policy related to rhinoplasty in publicly funded elective surgery programs: a systematic review

 EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS Alan Pearson RN, ONC, DipNEd, DANS, MSc, PhD, Rick Wiechula RN, OrthCert, BA, BN, MNSc, DNurs, Zoe Jordan BA, MA and Victoria Henstridge RN, BN Joanna Briggs Institute, Royal Adelaide Hospital and The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Correspondence to  Ms Zoe Jordan, The Joanna Briggs Institute, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South...

Notice : Updates Guidelines on Management of 2009 H1N1 Influenza

H1N1 Influenza A (Swine Flu) Alert Center  From Medscape Medical News CDC Updates Guidelines on Management of 2009 H1N1 InfluenzaLaurie Barclay, MD September 9, 2009 — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have updated its guidelines on the reporting and management of the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) virus, according to a media briefing yesterday. Topics covered include charac...

Notice : Swine flu travel update

Thursday, 09 Jul 2009 09:32 Swine flu spreads around the world Printer friendly version Recommended ...  Looking for hotels?Whether a luxury hotel break or budget accommodation, book your hotel reservations online and find competitive hotel rates for the hotel room of your choice.While it may have slipped from the national headlines, swine flu still poses a threat to British travellers prepar...

Notice : The Seven Great "Medical Myths"

 By Peter Griffiths LONDON (Reuters) - Reading in dim light won't damage your eyes, you don't need eight glasses of water a day to stay healthy and shaving your legs won't make the hair grow back faster. These well-worn theories are among seven "medical myths" exposed in a paper published on Friday in the British Medical Journal, which traditionally carries light-hearted features in i...

Notice : How religion can help HIV/AIDS patients

After a University of Cincinnati (UC) study revealed that people living with the HIV virus felt alienated by their churches following diagnosis, researchers began to explore the feelings of religious leaders and congregations about the illness. Previous research showed among other things that black patients claimed to have become more spiritual and that more white than black patients felt alienat...

Notice : Genetic Risk Factor For Smoking-Linked Head And Neck Cancer

A simple blood test may be able to identify those most at risk for developing head and neck cancer as a result of smoking. This was the finding of a recent study by Prof. Zvi Livneh, Head of the Weizmann Institute's Biological Chemistry Department, Dr. Tamar Paz-Elizur of the same department, and their research team that worked in collaboration with Dr. Rami Ben-Yosef of Tel Aviv-Sourasky Medical ...

Notice : Salivary gland mass as the only manifestation of tuberculosis

Mycobacterial infections (including diagnosis)Salivary gland mass as the only manifestation of tuberculosisP. Hashemi, E. Razmpa (Tehran, IR) Objectives: Salivary gland involvement is included among the les commonly encountered forms of cervicofacial tuberculosisHowever, since the incidence of extrapulmonary tuberculosis at all sites has been increasing steadily since 1985, the diagnosis of Mycob...

Notice : More dangerous strain of bird flu

By Mark HendersonPreparations for a flu pandemic are being undermined because health authorities have become obsessed with a single strain of the virus at the expense of a potentially more dangerous version, a leading scientist said yesterday. Chris Potter, of the University of Sheffield, said that although the H5N1 avian flu virus is clearly a threat, its spread has led researchers to ignore an...

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