• Effective Advice to Get Dental Insurance

    Updated: 2011-10-31 01:53:03
    It is horrible. You could not sleep at all. Having toothache is really painful. You are almost passed out in the office. It is all because of the unbearable pain. In addition, you have to give your money to the dentist. The dental works are really costly. Definitely, you do not want to have such [...]

  • Uninsured Kids Unlikely to Get Asthma Diagnosis

    Updated: 2011-10-30 15:00:00
    Children with intermittent asthma symptoms are less likely to receive a formal diagnosis when they lack health insurance, but the same was not true for kids with persistent symptoms, researchers said.

  • Asthma Patients Feel Gloomy, Stay Sedentary

    Updated: 2011-10-27 05:00:00
    Depressive symptoms along with unhealthy behaviors are common among individuals with asthma, a telephone survey conducted in Israel found.

  • Asthma UK advocates take recommendations to the NHS Future Forum

    Updated: 2011-10-27 01:00:00
    On Monday, two of our brilliant patient advocates Lehanne Sergison and Russell Dabb, attended the NHS Future Forum Engagement event.

  • MSNBC – Private, automated airship reaches ~100,000 feet altitude, photographs self

    Updated: 2011-10-26 19:35:20
    , , Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment AP , etc : Sun Quiet Not this week . Northern lights dance in Arkansas , dozens of other states’ night skies MSNBC Private , automated airship reaches 100,000 feet altitude , photographs self A private company , JP Aerospace and the initials belong to its president , has probably made no secret of a project to sling a lightweight truss between two helium balloons , put electric motors and propellers on it , and float it way , way up . But I’d never heard about that . But now we all can hear that it rose just past 95,000 feet , one balloon burst , handlers ordered the other released , and the remaining hardware came back down under a parachute . That’s sort of remarkable . This prototype craft , assertedly the

  • CHEST: Poor Quality of Life, Asthma Flares Linked

    Updated: 2011-10-26 18:02:15
    HONOLULU -- For patients with severe or difficult-to-treat asthma, as exacerbation severity increased, quality of life suffered, researchers found.

  • Journal-Sentinel: Investigative onslaught on Medtronic and spine surgery continues

    Updated: 2011-10-26 01:35:57
    : Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment New Yorker : On Malthus and us and on Armenians and cheese and nine-centimetre birds Bay Area Press : Berkeley quake swarm exposes a few of modern media’s faults Journal-Sentinel : Investigative onslaught on Medtronic and spine surgery continues The unstoppable John Fauber of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has done another investigative piece in a long series , this time indicting researchers hired by Medtronic , who , Fauber reports , failed to disclose a potential cancer risk associated with a bone-growth agent in Medtronic’s spine-surgery produce , . Infuse The Journal-Sentinel asked independent experts to review the research , and Fauber reports that they found problems with the way the researchers reported the

  • CHEST: Aerobic Exercise Good for Asthma Patients

    Updated: 2011-10-25 19:09:10
    HONOLULU -- Physical training programs involving aerobic exercise have a range of benefits for patients with asthma, an updated Cochrane review showed.

  • The Effects of Passive Smoking

    Updated: 2011-10-25 01:00:25
    Other benefits of quitting smoking - Overall health improvement: tiredness, low stress tolerance and headaches are clearly related to snuff. - Improve the senses of taste and smell. - The heart will be less tense and work more effectively. - Increase confidence in yourself, knowing who have overcome an old habit that shortens life expectancy [...]

  • Young people get it off their chests

    Updated: 2011-10-25 01:00:00
    Back in February, a group of young people with asthma got together in Manchester for our first residential weekend.

  • Kids at Increased Risk With Long Acting Beta Agonists

    Updated: 2011-10-24 14:01:00
    Children with asthma had a fivefold greater risk of adverse events with long acting beta agonists compared with the general population of asthma patients, FDA investigators concluded from a meta-analysis.

  • How Snuff Harms Children?

    Updated: 2011-10-22 01:00:20
    How snuff harms children? - Babies born to smoking mothers: - They are twice as likely to be born prematurely and with low birth weight (below 2.5 kg). - They have an average birth weight 200 gr. less than infants of nonsmoking mothers. - They have smaller bodies on average than babies born to nonsmokers. [...]

  • My day at the Conservative Party Conference with Asthma UK

    Updated: 2011-10-21 01:00:00
    Trish Martin was Asthma UK's advocate at the Conservative Party conference. Find out here how party members plan to support people with asthma.

  • At the Labour Party conference

    Updated: 2011-10-21 01:00:00
    Nichola Dunn, an Asthma UK advocate, attended the Labour Party conference. Here's what was said about supporting people with asthma

  • At the Liberal Democratic Party conference

    Updated: 2011-10-21 01:00:00
    Chris Rutherford was an Asthma UK advocate at the Liberal Democratic Party conference. Here's what was said about supporting people wiht Asthma.

  • Natural Standard Featured CE/CME: Magnesium

    Updated: 2011-10-18 04:45:07

  • Other Health Risks of Snuff

    Updated: 2011-10-18 01:00:17
    Other health risks caused by snuff - Nicotine and other substances in cigarettes are increasing the amount of cholesterol in blood, which can cause the arteries to occlude with a fatty tissue called atheroma (see section on major diseases, atherosclerosis, above). - High blood pressure, which is associated with heart attacks and strokes. - The [...]

  • Health Risks of Snuff: Cancer and Lung Disease

    Updated: 2011-10-15 01:00:45
    The cancer risk is usually greater for smokers than nonsmokers in a ratio of 2.24. This is particularly true of lung cancer, throat cancer and mouth cancer, which hardly ever affect non-smokers. If the snuff disappear occur at least 40% reduction in overall cancer incidence. Some types of cancer are particularly favored by snuff as [...]

  • Walk, jog or run: Your challenge, your way

    Updated: 2011-10-13 01:00:00
    Chris Rutherford was an Asthma UK advocate at the Liberal Democratic Party conference. Here's what was said about supporting people wiht Asthma.

  • Major Diseases caused by Snuff

    Updated: 2011-10-11 01:00:50
    Cardiovascular disease due to atherosclerosis is the leading cause of death from the snuff, increasing 1.7 times the odds of death that you have already the nonsmoker Atherosclerosis is the term used to describe the “dirt” progressive of the arteries with fatty material, making them more narrow, rigid and ultimately block, resulting in tissue infarction [...]

  • Health Risks of Snuff

    Updated: 2011-10-08 01:00:13
    Why quit? The snuff is the leading cause of death as possible to prevent the Western world, responsible for more than two million deaths each year worldwide, 50% of deaths of subjects aged 35 to 65 years is attributable to snuff. In short, each year 17,000 die as a direct result of Spanish snuff and [...]

  • Procardia (Nifedipine) - updated on RxList

    Updated: 2011-10-07 08:00:00
    Procardia (Nifedipine) drug description - FDA approved labeling for prescription drugs and medications at RxList

  • Orap (Pimozide) - updated on RxList

    Updated: 2011-10-07 08:00:00
    Orap (Pimozide) drug description - FDA approved labeling for prescription drugs and medications at RxList

  • Lexiscan (Regadenoson Injection) - updated on RxList

    Updated: 2011-10-07 08:00:00
    Lexiscan (Regadenoson Injection) drug description - FDA approved labeling for prescription drugs and medications at RxList

  • Kineret (Anakinra) - updated on RxList

    Updated: 2011-10-07 08:00:00
    Kineret (Anakinra) drug description - FDA approved labeling for prescription drugs and medications at RxList

  • FDA Approves Combination Therapy Juvisync

    Updated: 2011-10-07 08:00:00
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Juvisync (sitagliptin and simvastatin), a fixed-dose combination (FDC) prescription medication that contains two previously approved medicines in one tablet for use in adults who need both sitagliptin and simvastatin.

  • FDA Approves Cialis to Treat Enlarged Prostate

    Updated: 2011-10-07 08:00:00
    The FDA has approved Cialis for the treatment of enlarged prostate.

  • New Pill May Reduce Relapses in MS Patients

    Updated: 2011-10-06 08:00:00
    Multiple sclerosis (MS) patients may soon have a second needle-free option to control their disease.

  • Apple Founder Steve Jobs Dies at 56

    Updated: 2011-10-06 08:00:00
    The visionary co-founder of Apple Inc., Stever Jobs has died of pancreatic cancer.

  • Adele Cancels U.S. Tour Due to Vocal Cord Hemorrhage

    Updated: 2011-10-06 08:00:00
    Because of throat problems, British singer Adele has been forced to cancel a number of sold-out U.S. shows -- again.

  • Getting the flu shot

    Updated: 2011-10-06 01:00:00
    I got my flu vaccination early this winter. My local practice has arranged Saturday flu clinics for the first time, which made it so much easier to get the jab.

  • Relevance of Kids' Asthma Care Measure Questioned

    Updated: 2011-10-04 21:00:00
    Children's hospitals do very well on two of the three quality care measures for inpatient asthma care but get lower marks on the third, researchers found.

  • How is ERCP?

    Updated: 2011-10-04 01:00:51
    How is ERCP? ERCP is done in the X-ray service in a hospital. To allow the scope to move smoothly the stomach should be empty, which is achieved with a six-hour fast. - Having explained the procedure, the endoscopist sprayed the back wall of the throat with a spray that has a local anesthetic similar [...]

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