Intravenous Line No Benefit for Ear Tube Surgery
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NEW YORK  - Otherwise healthy children who  are having ear tubes inserted do not benefit from having an  intravenous (IV) line placed at the time of surgery.
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NEW YORK  - An ointment containing the   antibiotic mupirocin does not speed healing or prevent   infection when applied to clean surgical wounds before the   wound is sealed, research suggests. In fact, the ointment may   increase the risk of skin edge necrosis (death), an Australian   research team found.
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Baxter International has pulled its flu vaccine from a clinical trial in Britain because of side effects. Baxter, of Deerfield, Ill.
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There may be no benefit in putting women  with advanced ovarian cancer through a second round of surgery  to remove a tumor not taken out the first time, researchers  said on Wednesday.
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LONDON: Anti-inflammatory drugs that have been used for 30 years to treat serious head injuries are harming rather than helping patients, researchers said.
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questions over testing of a key HIV/AIDS drug before a US-backed roll-out of the treatment across the continent. Ingelheim to hide adverse effects of nevirapine when used to try to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission.
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Not  at all.  It was   given  by  the State at  their initiative. It has  now been withdrawn   at  their own initiative. I've nothing  to say  on   this matter.
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TUESDAY, Dec. 28 (HealthDayNews) -- Your toddler's been up half the night, crying and tugging on his ear, and by now you know the routine. Call the doctor, get a prescription for an antibiotic, race to the pharmacy and get him on the road to recovery from that ear infection.
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Can't sleep. Dried sinuses are nature's way of making you suffer needlessly. You can only struggle so long before beginning to question the fundamentals. Of course, those are stupid questions, so instead you get out bed, rip music from a very old computer game, and question the nature of the online forum.  Yes, I write in a highly unnecessary narrative voice. Fuck you too.
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Researchers have shown that a  common anesthetic gas can cause fragments of a normal brain  protein called amyloid-beta to clump together, which is thought  to be the main problem underlying Alzheimer's disease.  Intravenous anesthetics have less of an effect, the team  reports in the journal Biochemistry.
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Boston Scientific Corp  said on Friday it has recalled an ear implant the company acquired as part of its purchase of Advanced Bionics in June.
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Research on whether some could be weaned off blood transfusion therapy was called off after two young patients who stopped getting the procedure suffered strokes.
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Drug-releasing stents used widely to keep clogged heart arteries open may increase the risk of potentially dangerous blood clots, but there is no conclusive evidence that the devices boost the likelihood of having a heart attack or dying if used as recommended, an expert panel said yesterday.
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Patients with serious injuries are put at risk by untested and potentially dangerous treatments, experts say.
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Sometimes the numbing effect of TV can be helpful. Especially if you're a kid being stuck with a needle at the hospital.
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GAITHERSBURG, Maryland  - The broad use of drug-coated heart stents in unapproved patients came under scrutiny on Friday as U.S. advisers weighed the risks of the tiny tubes implanted in millions to keep arteries open.
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Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll are all well and good, but as the years pass they get harder to do gracefully. Well, at least the drugs and rock 'n' roll part, hangovers and amp-induced tinnitus taking longer and longer to recover from and hurting more than they did in the old days.