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Parents often wait too long to treat children's asthma symptoms
Parents of young children with asthma often recognize signs that their child is about to have an asthma attack but delay home treatment until the attack occurs, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 11, 2010 |
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'Subjective time' can improve your bottom line
Time flies when you're having fun, but minutes can feel like hours in a dentist's waiting room. Our ideas of "time" are highly subjective and can depend on a stimulus — or the lack of one — in our environment.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 04, 2010 |
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Use of acetaminophen in pregnancy associated with increased asthma symptoms in children
Children who were exposed to acetaminophen prenatally were more likely to have asthma symptoms at age five in a study of 300 African-American and Dominican Republic children living in New York City. Building on prior research ...
Feb 04, 2010 |
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More than 50 percent of injury-related deaths in rural Ontario occur before patients reach hospital
It's known that people who live or work in rural areas are more likely to suffer and die from serious injuries compared to those in more urban environments. But while time and distance play a role in these higher mortality ...
Jan 26, 2010 |
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New smog rule could be a surprise to some counties
(AP) -- Parts of the country that haven't worried about air pollution may soon be in the fight California has faced for decades: cleaning up smog.
Jan 08, 2010 |
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What's in health care proposals for 5 Americans
(AP) -- As Congress gets closer to a final health care bill, many Americans want to know: What's in it for me?
Dec 20, 2009 |
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Doctors' bedside skills trump medical technology
Sometimes, a simple bedside exam performed by a skilled physician is superior to a high-tech CT scan, a Loyola University Health System study has found.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 18, 2009 |
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The Medical Minute: New toy safety standards bring parents confidence
The holiday season is here and for many kids that means one thing: toys. About half of all toy purchases in the United States occur between the Friday after Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Dec 16, 2009 |
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Researchers develop drug interface to save lives
A drug information interface system developed by two University of Alberta researchers has been shown to help in dealing with visual and motor impairments, which can make sorting, holding and indentifying pills a challenge ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Shape shifters: Researchers create new breed of antennas
(PhysOrg.com) -- Antennas aren't just for listening to the radio anymore. They're used in everything from cell phones to GPS devices. Research from North Carolina State University is revolutionizing the field ...
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Parent mentors can improve the asthmatic care of minority children, researchers find
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found that informed adults can help families stave off complications associated with asthma. The findings, available online and in the December issue of Pediatrics, suggest that i ...
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Auditory illusion: How our brains can fill in the gaps to create continuous sound
It is relatively common for listeners to "hear" sounds that are not really there. In fact, it is the brain's ability to reconstruct fragmented sounds that allows us to successfully carry on a conversation in a noisy room. ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 25, 2009 |
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Study: CT scans rule out heart attacks faster
(AP) -- A new study suggests that a type of "super X-ray" can give a faster, cheaper way to tell whether a chest pain sufferer is really having a heart attack.
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Surgical errors remain a challenge in and out of the operating room
Despite a national focus on reducing surgical errors, surgery-related adverse events continue to occur both inside and outside the operating room, according to an analysis of events at Veterans Health Administration Medical ...
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Swine flu prompts hundreds of schools to close
(AP) -- The number of students staying home sick with the flu is multiplying nationwide and normally quiet school nurses' offices suddenly look like big city emergency rooms, packed with students too ill ...
Oct 28, 2009 |
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