This Doctor Helps Himalayan Women Ward off Cervical Cancer
Nordan Otzer during a cancer awareness event in a village in Ladakh, India. Credit: Athar Parvaiz/IPSBy Athar ParvaizLADAKH, INDIA, Nov 29 2023 (IPS) While working as a doctor in the initial months of his medical career in southern India, a telephone call from his home in the Ladakh Himalayas convinced Nordan Otzer to involve himself with cervical cancer awareness.
“While I was working in a hospital in rural Tamil Nadu (in 2007), one day I received a distressing call from my family informing me that my mother’s health had deteriorated and she urgently needed my presence back home,” says Otzer, an ENT surgeon who ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 29, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Athar Parvaiz Tags: Asia-Pacific Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Sustainable Development Goals TerraViva United Nations Women's Health India IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Source Type: news
Are Edibles Actually Good for Sleep?
About 14% of U.S. adults said they used marijuana edibles as of 2022, and research suggests many of them do so in search of better sleep. One small 2021 study of cannabis users found that more than three-quarters of them thought they slept better thanks to the drug.
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But despite the popularity of using edibles for sleep, the data on how well they help people drift off are surprisingly mixed. Using edibles is “very helpful for some people,” says Deirdre Conroy, clinical director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program at Michigan Medicine. But “for some peop...
Source: TIME: Health - November 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
DR ELLIE CANNON: Is this pain in my gut down to IBS... or my recent back injury?
DR ELLIE CANNON: As IBS is a chronic condition it can be difficult to ascertain whether it is to blame for a new pain. The agony related to IBS is very specific and recognisable by sufferers. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
EXCLUSIVE: Woman, 21, needs a life-saving blood transfusion after vaping ONCE caused 'acute chest syndrome'
The woman, who was from India, started to suffer pain in her back and ribs shortly after using the vape. She suffered from sickle cell anemia, which raises the risk of complications with vapes. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Comparison of intermittent theta burst stimulation and high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on spinal cord injury-related neuropathic pain: a sham-controlled study - Kim JK, You JI, Son S, Suh IH, Lim JY.
OBJECTIVE: To compare the effects of intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) and high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on spinal cord injury-related neuropathic pain with sham controls, using neuropathic pain-specific evalu... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 22, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Pain interference and depressive symptom severity across 10 years in individuals with long-term spinal cord injury - Clark JMR, Cao Y, Krause JS.
OBJECTIVE: To examine change in pain interference and depression over a 10-year time period in individuals with long-term traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) and to identify the extent to which changes in pain interference over time predicts change in depre... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 22, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
CT-guided procedure shows promise for restoring smell after long COVID
A CT-guided, minimally invasive procedure called a stellate ganglion block shows promise for restoring the sense of smell in patients with long COVID, according to research to be presented at the upcoming RSNA meeting.Parosmia, or impaired sense of smell, is a known symptom of COVID-19, and research has shown that up to 60% of patients with the disease are affected by parosmia. Most recover their sense of smell over time, but some continue to experience parosmia months or years after the initial infection, the team noted."Post-COVID parosmia is common and increasingly recognized," said study lead author, Adam Zoga, MD, of ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - November 20, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Subspecialties Neuroradiology CT 2023 Source Type: news
CRISPR Therapy Gets U.K. Approval, the First in the World
Britain’s medicines regulator has authorized the world’s first gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease, in a move that could offer relief to thousands of people with the crippling disease in the U.K.
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In a statement on Thursday, the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency said it approved Casgevy, the first medicine licensed using the gene editing tool CRISPR, which won its makers a Nobel prize in 2020.
The agency approved the treatment for patients with sickle cell disease and thalassemia who are 12 years old and over. Casgevy is made by Vertex ...
Source: TIME: Health - November 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: MARIA CHENG / AP Tags: Uncategorized Drugs wire Source Type: news
Herniated discs can be repaired with biologic patch one day, researchers say
New, preclinical research by Penn Medicine and others revealed how a biologic patch activated by natural motion could become a key weapon in repairing herniated discs in the back and relieving pain. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - November 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New Approaches Show Promise in Helping People With Lower-Back Pain
Often there is no clearly identifiable physical cause for low-back pain, leaving patients to veer from one ineffective treatment to another. Millions of adults struggle for years with chronic low-back pain—a disabling ailment that has no easy fix. Common causes include injury, arthritis and… (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Barclays is stuck in a ‘killing ground’
Plus, the UK’s Takeover Panel feels the dealmaking pain and an Austrian property mogul’s debts come back to bite#takeoverpanel #austrian (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
'I’m a chiropractor - this is the one stretch that will cure your lower back pain’
Chiropractor Doctor Karam Khodian is the TikTok sensation who has shared the best stretch to ease lower back pain while at home. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - November 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Los Angeles Pain Management Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Specialists at FullRange Spine & amp; Ortho are Recognized as a 2023 Top Patient Rated Practice
At FullRange Spine & Ortho, the team of spine and orthopedic specialists treat a wide variety of injuries and conditions. They provide advanced pain management solutions, using non-invasive, regenerative therapies to avoid the risks of surgery. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7, 2023 /CNW/ - With a... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - November 7, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: AWD Source Type: news
Should We End Obesity?
It’s unusual for a medication to become a household name; even more uncommon for its branding to become, like Advil, shorthand for an entire class of products; and rarest of all, for it to change not just U.S. medicine, but U.S. culture.
Ozempic has done all three.
Approved in 2017 as a type 2 diabetes medication, Ozempic has largely made its name—and a fortune for its manufacturer, Novo Nordisk—as a weight-loss aid. Novo Nordisk knew early on that diabetes patients often lost weight on the drug, but even company executives couldn’t have guessed how widely it would eventually take off as both ...
Source: TIME: Health - November 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized Drugs feature healthscienceclimate Magazine TIME 2030 Wellbeing Source Type: news
I suffered a migraine in ballet class - it turned out to be a spinal infection that's left me paralyzed for life
Sarah Todd Hammer, now 22, from North Carolina, was eight years old when she started feeling severe pain during dance class. The next morning, she was completely paralyzed from the neck down.' (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
