Children With Severe Burn Injuries Are At A Much Higher Risk Of Health Complications And Death
Medical News Today Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:28 AM PST
A study published Online First by The Lancet has found that children with burn injuries covering 60% or more of their total body surface area (TBSA) are at a much higher risk of experiencing severe complications or death. The authors urge the need for more attention to be given to such patients, with more vigilant and improved forms of therapy... |
Are All Itches The Same? - Probably Not
Medical News Today Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:27 AM PST
Gil Yosipovitch, M.D., Ph.D., professor of dermatology at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and a world-famous itch expert, who has proven the pleasure ability of itching in his previous studies, has now published a new study online in the British Journal of Dermatology ,in which he analyses itch relief at different sites on the body and the associated pleasure, showing that how good scratching ... |
Eco Vita LLC Provides Tips on How to Achieve New Year's Diet Resolution with Herbal Teas
PRWeb Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:15 AM PST
Eco Vita LLC offers some tips to New Year's diet resolution in the form of their delicious, highly effective herbal tea TEN-CHI CHA that can increase a human body's ability to lose weight and help people feel great while they do it. (PRWeb January 31, 2012) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/1/prweb9148273.htm |
Cops: Alleged cannibal to be arraigned Wed.
Greenwich Time Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:08 AM PST
Tyree Lincoln Smith, the man accused by police of hacking to death a Bridgeport man and cannibalizing part of his body, on Juan. 12 slit his wrists in the CVS pharmacy at 1968 Black Rock Turnpike, police said Thursday, and then referred the case to the Greater Bridgeport Community Mental Health Center. |
FDA Approves First Targeted Drug Against Cystic Fibrosis
Scientific American Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:07 AM PST
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a new drug that tackles the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis (CF) in 4 percent of patients. The drug, called ivacaftor (brand name Kalydeco), acts by helping the body make better use of a protein that works incorrectly in cystic fibrosis patients. The underlying research behind this [...] |
Demi Moore Hospital Visit Related to Whip-Its
ThirdAge Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:03 AM PST
Demi Moore was recently released from a Los Angeles hospital after inhaling “whip-its†and losing consciousness, the Periscope Post reports. The 49-year-old actress inhaled the nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, before passing out and convulsing. Nitrous oxide is popular among teenagers as a quick way to get high and have an out-of-body experience, said Jane Allen of ABC News ... |
Redskin London Fletcher’s fitness regimen
Washington Post Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:32 AM PST
Let’s say your job is to take off at a sprint, get moving about 20 mph and slam yourself full speed into a brick wall â€" 60 times in a single afternoon. We’d give you a helmet and lots of padding to protect yourself. Because of the toll this would take on your body, we’d make you do it only once a week. And we’d reward you handsomely. Read full article >> |
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