Rapid Flu Test can be wrong
Hayli Murphy hears her mother's cell phone ring, and she bounces off the couch to get it. Watching her run around, it's hard to believe that just a few weeks ago, the 9-year-old was heavily sedated in a pediatric intensive care unit, a ventilator doing the job her lungs -- ravaged by H1N1 flu -- could no longer do. "She was right there. She was at death's door," remembered her mother, Julie Murphy. Hayli spent 43 days in the intensive care unit at Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida. Looking back at her daughter's illness, one of the things that strikes her mother is that in the days before Hayli was admitted to the hospital, a test showed that she did not have the flu -- twice. Click here for full story.
Scientists able to regrow breast?
Researchers in Australia plan to test a medical "scaffold" designed to stimulate natural breast tissue to regrow following surgery. Doctors from the Bernard O'Brien Institute of Microsurgery in Melbourne, will test the technique next year in a trial involving six patients. The team say that the permanent fat found in breasts can be grown inside this contoured scaffold. They claim to have successfully tested the device in pigs. The results of that experiment were presented at a plastic surgery conference in Sydney. For the full story, click here.
Dieting keeps diabetes at bay
A period of careful eating and regular exercise can stave off diabetes for a decade, a study suggests. US researchers followed up nearly 3,000 overweight people who had taken part in a three year diabetes prevention programme. The group had initially been divided into three - assigned either to a diet and exercise programme, the diabetes drug metformin or a placebo. The Lancet report notes it was the dieters who reaped the most benefit. Click here for the full story.
Physical activity reduces breast cancer risks
In this October, the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a new epidemiological study suggests that physical activity may reduce the risk of breast cancer. Many women including many breast cancer survivors walked to streets to raise breast cancer awareness this month. Walking occasionally may be better than nothing, but regular physical activity could be more beneficial, according to the study. The new study published in the Jul-Sept 2009 issue of Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention found women doing a job that required them to stand or move most of time in a day were 34 percent less likely to contract breast cancer than those spending most of their time sitting. For the full story, click here.
Study: One swine flu shot is all you need
Early results from the first trial of a pandemic flu vaccine suggest that just one dose is likely to provide "robust" protection from the new H1N1 strain, also dubbed swine flu, researchers said Thursday. The study, sponsored by Australia-based CSL Limited, showed that nearly 97% of volunteers given a standard dose of the vaccine produced antibody levels that typically protect against flu infection, giving planners the welcome news that they may need less vaccine to save more lives. "If those data hold up, it would be a very good result," said William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, president-elect of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. "Frankly, I had anticipated it would take two doses" weeks apart. For full details of this article, click here.
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Rapid Flu Test can be wrongHayli Murphy hears her mother’s cell phone ring, and she bounces off the couch...
Scientists able to regrow breast?Researchers in Australia plan to test a medical “scaffold” designed to...
Dieting keeps diabetes at bayA period of careful eating and regular exercise can stave off diabetes for a decade,...
Physical activity reduces breast cancer risksIn this October, the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a new epidemiological...
Study: One swine flu shot is all you needEarly results from the first trial of a pandemic flu vaccine suggest that just one...
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