Energy and sports drinks attack enamel
...recharge the body after a workout could cause more irreversible damage to teeth than soft drinks. A study of the effects some of these beverages had on enamel, appearing in the January/February 2005 issue of General Dentistry , the Academy of General Dentistry's (AGD) clinical, peer-reviewed journal, found that...Genetics important in age-related macular degeneration
...r degeneration (AMD), one of the leading causes of irreversible blindness among older individuals, according to an article in the March issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. About ten million people in the United States have signs of AMD, two million with decreased vision related ...Portable system offers dialysis patients 'liberating' changes
...ns, which cause a person to experience a total and irreversible loss of kidney function, leading to the eventual need for dialysis or transplantation. It can be caused by a number of conditions such as nephritis, traumatic injury, diabetes, hypertension or genetic-related disorders. For end-stage patients who do...UIC offers new weight loss surgery for obese teens
.... The band can also be removed at any time, unlike irreversible gastric bypass surgery, and the stomach returns to normal. In studies, the mortality rate for the LAP-BAND surgery is approximately 0.01 percent, compared to 0.5 percent among gastric bypass patients. The incidence and severity of surgical complicati...Mayo Clinic researcher calls for improved newborn screening
...ays after birth, some conditions can kill or cause irreversible brain damage. In addition to unresolved issues of lack of uniformity and fairness, Dr. Rinaldo addressed the problem of inconsistent performance at the analytical level leading to significant variability in quality parameters, for example false posit...'Broken heart' syndrome: Real, potentially deadly but recovery quick
...ed that none of the stressed patients had suffered irreversible muscle damage. Of greatest surprise, the team says, was that recovery rates were much faster than typically seen after a heart attack. Stressed patients showed dramatic improvement in their hearts' ability to pump within a few days and had complete...Early HIV screening prolongs life and is affordable, Stanford study shows
...f HIV. Delays in a patient's treatment can lead to irreversible immunologic damage and complications, as well as transmission of HIV through risky behavior. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that up to 20,000 new infections annually can be attributed to people who are unaware of their HIV-p...Clinical trial of Etanercept for Wegener's disease shows no benefit
...ime, each disease flare has the potential to cause irreversible damage. Wegener's granulomatosis frequently leads to kidney failure, hearing loss, damage to the respiratory tract, peripheral nerve injury, and other complications, according to Stone. Etanercept, the first of a class of drugs called tumor necros...Simple sputum test for confirmation of childhood tuberculosis
...ry three being a child. Somber statistics, but not irreversible with the combined effort of scientists, funding bodies, public-health practitioners, and national governments in the search for improved diagnostics and treatment for tuberculosis."...Chronic back pain shrinks 'thinking parts' of the brain, study finds
...said. The atrophy also may be attributable to more irreversible processes, such as neurodegeneration. Other resea...cuitry progresses, the pain condition becomes more irreversible and less responsive to therapy. Other researchers on the study were Yamaya Sosa, physiology; Sreepa......prevent the development of diseases that are often irreversible once they start. The Asian American populations in California offer a rare opportunity to avert a health disparity before it occurs." Beginning in the late 1980s, California launched what is now the largest national public education campaig...Mental incapacity among patients in medical wards more widespread than doctors realise
...true consent would be dangerous when important and irreversible decisions need to be made. Before making such decisions, the clinician should have considered the possibility that the patient is unable to give valid consent". In an accompanying commentary (p 1383), Jason Karlawish (Institute on Ageing, Philadelphi...Grants from Research to Prevent Blindness to support eye researchers surpassed $8 million in 2003
...o predict early-stage glaucoma before the onset of irreversible loss of the visual field; restoring the capacity for visual signaling in the diseased retina; developing markers for pre-symptomatic diagnosis of age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy; reanimating paralyzed eye muscles; and more....Air pollution especially harmful to lungs of obese children
...found that long-term exposure to air pollution had irreversible effects on lung function in obese children....The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania evaluates heart failure treatments for landmark study
...not a specific disease, heart failure describes an irreversible condition in which the heart muscle chambers "fail" to pump an adequate flow of oxygen and nutrient-rich blood throughout the body. As a result, many patients describe their debilitating symptoms-- exhaustion, breathlessness, and fluid accumulation-...The worldwide prevalence of glaucoma is increasing
...arly diagnosis of glaucoma is essential to prevent irreversible visual impairment, according to a Seminar in this week's issue of THE LANCET. Glaucoma is a group of disorders that progressively damage the optic nerve in the eye and without treatment can cause visual disability and eventual blindness. Glaucoma aff...University of Pittsburgh approach has lung recipients taking far fewer drugs
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... into what is called wet AMD, the leading cause of irreversible severe vision loss in older people. The scientists...e a protective effect against the leading cause of irreversible severe vision loss in older people." The study also supported earlier findings that development of t...