Children with severe epilepsy need special precautions at home to prevent accidents
...ini states: "The kitchen and bathroom are the most dangerous places: burning accidents should be prevented with shields for sources of heat and children should never be left alone when bathing. Beyond these precautions, the details of reasonable restrictions should be adapted to the individual child."...Coalition applauds bill to repeal cosmetic surgery tax
...s simply not the answer." The New Jersey tax set a dangerous precedent when it became the first and only state to tax medical procedures during its 2004 legislative session. The tax was predicted to generate $24 million in its first year, but fell well short of expectations and brought in only $6.8 million. De...The Valentine's Day candy dish
...rds, what makes the close candy dish nutritionally dangerous might just bring the fruit bowl back in vogue," he concluded....One in 14 men having a heart attack drive themselves to hospital
...iving during a heart attack is obviously extremely dangerous for both the driver and the general public" says lead author Sharon O'Donnell from the City's Trinity College. "People who drove themselves to the hospital said they did it because it was the quickest way to get to the hospital, they felt well enough...Home paper shredders pose serious injury risk to toddlers
...come increasingly common household items. "It's a dangerous piece of machinery and leaving it in the home unattended and accessible to young children could result in a serious hand injury," said George Foltin, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at New York University School of Medici...New survey indicates preemie parents uninformed about RSV prevention
...ay to help protect all babies from the potentially dangerous effects of RSV. On their own, parents can help decrease their baby's exposure to respiratory viruses by taking the following steps: Always wash their hands before holding their child, and insist that others do, too. Wash their baby's toys, cloth...St. Jude conducts first large-scale bird flu genome study
...ools to use in the study of these potentially very dangerous viruses," said John C. Obenauer, Ph.D., a Bioinformatics associate research scientist at St. Jude's Hartwell Center. "In the future, that might lead to effective strategies for controlling outbreaks of these viruses in birds and humans." Obenauer is ...Study reveals new player in sepsis-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome
... in patients might help to prevent or improve this dangerous complication in patients with sepsis. Future studies in patients with sepsis, and in patients with ARDS that is not caused by sepsis, are needed to clarify the roles of Ang-2 and Tie-2 in ARDS and the suitability of Ang-2 as a target for therapy....Repetition reverses med students' stethoscope shortcomings
...ital, said such skills are critical to identifying dangerous heart conditions and minimizing dependence on expensive medical tests. "It's important to know when to order a costly echocardiogram or stress test. Managed care will not continue to tolerate this scattershot approach," said Barrett. "Plus, internis...One million people in medical gamble
...lace of the UK-based lobby group GeneWatch. "It is dangerous to assume that theproject will deliver major benefits for health." She fears that spurious and misleading results will emerge because the environmental measurements will be too patchy. Despite such misgivings, the organisers of the two projects are b...Practice makes deadly perfection, FSU suicide researcher says
...ring on a daily basis. Eventually, self-injury and dangerous situations become unthreatening and mundane, accor...ost do not. There are relatively few people in the dangerous convergence zone of desire and capacity for suicide, according to Joiner, and these are the people w...Medications and cough syrups may cause cavities
...tain low pH levels and high acidity which can be a dangerous combination for a child's teeth. The sugar in the medication combined with the acids dissolve dental enamel, causing erosion. "It's important to talk with your dentist about any medications that your child is on and see what he or she recommends to ...Patient safety monitoring at Hopkins Hospital finds law of unintended consequences at work
... a central catheter, which provides an opening for dangerous bacteria to get inside the body. For this reason, the infection control experts note, staff in the PICU, like other hospital units at Hopkins, routinely review best safety practices and policies to prevent hospital-acquired infections. This includes...Drug-resistant bacteria patterns in intensive care units changing nationally
A dangerous drug-resistant bacterium is becoming more prevalent in many intensive care units, according to an article in the Feb. 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, now available online. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is responsible for...Parents' impressions of neighborhood safety linked to children's weight
...d straightforward relationship between living in a dangerous neighborhood and overweight; namely, in attempting to protect their children from harm, parents not only decrease the kind of physical activity that comes from playing outdoors in the neighborhood but inadvertently increase the likelihood of sedentar...Misdosing common for powerful anti-clotting drugs
...on insertion in the leg, but can also include more dangerous bleeding within the gastrointestinal tract or even within the brain. Also, research conducted at Duke and elsewhere has demonstrated that the transfusion of donated blood to replace blood loss is not as benign as once thought. (will link to Rao study...Study demonstrates safety of oral contraceptives in women with lupus
...clots, because estrogens have been associated with dangerous blood clots. The recently published study on oral contraceptives is one of two separate randomized, placebo-controlled studies that comprise the Safety of Estrogens in Lupus Erythematosus, National Assessment (SELENA) Trial. The other study, which s...Melanoma risk only partially associated vith exposure to UVB from sunlight
...aughter cells genetic mutations that can lead to a dangerous cancer, he says. According to the National Cancer Institute, close to 60,000 cases of melanoma are expected in 2005, along with more than 7,700 associated deaths....Drug-eluting stents may cause allergic reactions
...discontinuation of Plavix can increase the risk of dangerous blood clots. "Physicians should be cognizant that allergic reactions to the polymers in drug eluting stents can occur and all such events should be reported to the FDA. Six months after the approval of the first drug-eluting stent, the FDA issued a...Fish oil prevents potentially deadly decline in heart rate variability
... decline in heart rate variability caused by tiny, dangerous airborne pollutant particles. Heart rate variability, a measure of the autonomic nervous system's regulation of the heart, is an independent risk factor for cardiac arrhythmias, heart attack or sudden death. These findings appeared in the second issu...