There is an alarming rise in obesity going hand in hand with an increase in Type 2 diabetes in Irish children and adolescents. Obviously, prevention must start early in life with very simple tools such as the facilitation of physical activity every day, parental encouragement to broaden the dietary repertoire of their children, and the [...]
Asking patients with focal epilepsy how often they have seizures does not appear to provide an accurate count, according to a report. Researchers in Germany studied 91 consecutive patients with focal epilepsy who were admitted to a video-EEG monitoring unit between 1 October, 2004 and 31 July, 2005. The patients were outfitted with electrodes and [...]
Surgical confusions– for instance, operations involving the wrong site, the wrong patient, or the wrong procedure– occur infrequently in eye surgery procedures, according to a new report. Although most surgical confusions cause little or no permanent injury, they may involve serious consequences for the patient, physician and profession, yet could often be prevented. In the [...]
The use of intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide has proliferated. Indications have included macular odema secondary to diabetes mellitus, retinal vein occlusion, uveitis and pseudophakia. Other indications are treatment of choroidal neovascularisation, proliferative diabetic retinopathy, idiopathic juxtafoveal telangiectasia and intraoperative visualisation of the posterior hyaloids. It is clear on the basis of optical coherence tomography that macular [...]
Examining a specific number of lymph nodes after colon cancer surgery, recommended as a quality indicator for hospitals, is not associated with length of patient survival, according to a study. Several studies suggested improved survival among patients in whom a higher number of nodes are examined after colectomy for colon cancer. Several organisations recently endorsed [...]
Female urinary incontinence and prolapse are common conditions. While not life-threatening, they can have a considerable impact on the quality of life of those who suffer from them. It is estimated that 25 per cent of women wait more than five years to seek treatment because they are embarrassed or assume that their symptoms are [...]
Men who take beta carotene supplements for 15 years or longer may have less cognitive decline. Researchers assessed the antioxidant beta carotene and its effect on cognitive ability in two groups of men. A long-term group included 4,052 men who, in 1982, had been randomly assigned to take placebo or 50mg of beta carotene every [...]
The medication tezosentan, which was thought could be beneficial for the treatment of acute heart failure, does not improve breathlessness or reduce the risk of fatal or non-fatal cardiovascular events. In a study, researchers tested the hypothesis that tezosentan would have a favourable effect on symptoms and clinical outcomes in patients with acute heart failure. [...]
The antidepressant fluoxetine, combined with cognitive behavioural therapy, appears as effective for treating depression among teens who also have substance-abuse disorders, as among those without substance-abuse problems, according to a new report. In the study, doctors involved 126 teenagers who met diagnostic criteria for a major depressive disorder, lifetime conduct disorder and at least one [...]
Two new studies have added further weight to the theory that pre-eclampsia and cardiovascular diseases may share common causes or mechanisms. The first study found that women who had pre-eclampsia during pregnancy had a more than two-fold higher risk of heart disease in later life, while the second study showed that women with cardiovascular risk [...]
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