Treatment of Tourette syndrome
Tourette syndrome (also Tourette's syndrome or TS) is an inherited neuropsychiatric disorder with onset in childhood, characterized by the presence of motor and phonic tics.
U.S. criticizes Israel's treatment of African migrants in annual human rights report
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Secretary of State Hilary Clinton presented on Thursday the State Department's 2011 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices that criticizes Israel for its treatment of African migrants, an issue vigorously debated in Israeli public discourse lately. The report states that Sudanese and Eritrean asylum seekers, which are about 85 percent of African migrants in Israel "were not allowed access to asylum procedures but were given renewable 'conditional release' documents that deferred deportation and had to be renewed every few months." The report quotes statistics provided by the UNHCR, showing that during the year out of 4,603 new asylum applications 3,692...
Published on Friday 25th of May 2012 09:43:50 AM
New treatment for prostate cancer gives 'perfect results' for nine in ten men: research
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A new treatment for prostate cancer can rid the disease from nine in ten men without debilitating side effects, a study has found, leading to new hope for tens of thousands of men. It is hoped the new treatment, which involves heating only the tumours with a highly focused ultrasound, will mean men can be treated without an overnight stay in hospital and avoiding the distressing side effects associated with current therapies. A study has found that focal HIFU, high-intensity focused ultrasound, provides the 'perfect' outcome of no major side effects and free of cancer 12 months after treatment, in...
Published on Friday 25th of May 2012 09:43:50 AM
Sentenced to death for being old: The NHS denies life-saving treatment to the elderly, as one man's
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When Kenneth Warden was diagnosed with terminal bladder cancer, his hospital consultant sent him home to die, ruling that at 78 he was too old to treat. Even the palliative surgery or chemotherapy that could have eased his distressing symptoms were declared off-limits because of his age. His distraught daughter Michele Halligan accepted the sad prognosis but was determined her father would spend his last months in comfort. So she paid for him to seen privately by a second doctor to discover what could be done to ease his symptoms. Thanks to her tenacity, Kenneth got the drugs and surgery...
Published on Friday 25th of May 2012 09:43:50 AM
Leading the Fight vs. Native America's Painkillers
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Three tribes lead the best practice initiative treating the epidemic of painkiller addiction in Native America, Oklahoma, the nation's leader in painkiller addiction. Treating all adults, Medicaid. Last month the Center for Disease Control called prescription painkiller addiction an epidemic in the country, identifying Oklahoma as leading the nation in both the addiction and related deaths. It is only fitting that the battle against such addiction in "Native America" be led by three tribal owned clinics, Absentee Shawnee Counseling Services, OKC; Keetoowah Cherokee Treatment Services, Tulsa; and Quapaw Counseling Services, Miami. Generally speaking, prescription painkillers are opiates. There are 14...
Published on Friday 25th of May 2012 09:43:50 AM
Don't give out cancer drugs if it's just to extend life: Treatment costs can't be justified,
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Patients with terminal cancer should not be given life-extending drugs, doctors said yesterday. The treatments give false hope and are too costly for the public purse, they warned. The group of 37 cancer experts, including British specialist Karol Sikora, claimed a 'culture of excess' had led doctors to 'overtreat, overdiagnose and overpromise'. Campaigners dismissed the report, saying it was wrong to write off cancer victims. 'I would hardly call this type of treatment futile,' said Rose Woodward, of the James Whale Fund for Kidney Cancer.
Published on Friday 25th of May 2012 09:43:50 AM
NHS shamed over callous treatment of elderly
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A study of pensioners who suffered appalling treatment at the hands of doctors and nurses says that half were not given enough to eat or drink. One family member said the maltreatment amounted to “euthanasia”. Some were left unwashed or in soiled clothes, while others were forgotten after being sent home or given the wrong medication. In several cases considered by the Health Service Ombudsman, patients died without loved ones by their sides because of the “casual indifference” of staff and their “bewildering disregard” for people’s needs.
Published on Friday 25th of May 2012 09:43:50 AM
Does anyone know how to treat "mega esophagous" in a dog?
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My daughter's 11 month old Red Standard Poodle has been diagnosed with "mega esophagous" which means that his esophagous is nearly twice as large as it ought to be, and the food has a hard time making into the stomach and just sits in the esophagous. He regurgitates much of his dinner daily. This is a worrisome, messy, smelly condition, but not fatal. Her vet says she should learn to manage it by keeping him calm & upright for a half hour after he eats and offering smaller meals. Obviously he's getting some nutrition because he's 49 lbs, although he's...
Published on Friday 25th of May 2012 09:43:50 AM
Girl, 4, can see for the first time thanks to miracle stem cell operation
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A little girl who has been blind since birth has seen her mother and father for the first time - at the age of four. Izabelle Evans can now see up to three feet in front of her after groundbreaking stem cell treatment in China costing £50,000. Parents James Evans and Hollie McHugh said nothing could beat the feeling of the first time their daughter looked into their eyes and said: 'mummy' and 'daddy'.
Published on Friday 25th of May 2012 09:43:50 AM
Cure or Care?
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Which do you think is less expensive, not to mention preferable: a cure for cancer, Alzheimer's disease and diabetes, or caring for people with these diseases? Wouldn't it be better medical and public policy to direct more resources toward finding a cure for diseases that cost a lot to treat than to rely on a government insurance program, such as Obamacare, which seeks mainly to help pay the bills for people after they become ill? Isn't the answer obvious? Apparently not to many politicians trapped in an old paradigm that focuses too much on hospitals, doctors and medicines and too...
Published on Friday 25th of May 2012 09:43:50 AM
Medicare to Review Cancer Treatment
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Medicare officials are debating whether the agency should cover a new prostate-cancer treatment that costs $93,000 per patient, sparking criticism from Dendreon Corp. investors and patient advocacy groups who earlier pushed the Food and Drug Administration to approve the novel therapy. A Medicare advisory panel is set to meet Wednesday to discuss Dendreon's Provenge treatment, following criticism from shareholders and some patient advocacy groups that the government might be trying to ration high-priced care. Medicare usually covers FDA-approved medicines without much debate, but in June the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said it would undertake a national review...
Published on Friday 25th of May 2012 09:43:50 AM
A Protein Killer Could Treat All Cancers, and Possibly All Illnesses
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Since last April, 19 cancer patients whose liver tumors hadn’t responded to chemotherapy have taken an experimental drug. Within weeks of the first dose, it appeared to work, by preventing tumors from making proteins they need to survive. The results are preliminary yet encouraging. With a slight redesign, the drug might work for hundreds of diseases, fulfilling the promise that wonder cures like stem cells and gene therapy have failed to deliver. The biotech company Alnylam announced in June that its drug ALN-VSP cut off blood flow to 62 percent of liver-cancer tumors in those 19 patients, by triggering a...
Published on Friday 25th of May 2012 09:43:50 AM
CANTER receives grant to help treat veterans
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SIERRA VISTA — The Cochise Area Network of Therapeutic Equestrian Resources, or CANTER, recently received a $3,280 grant from the Cochise Community Foundation. CANTER provides a variety of equine therapies and assisted activities designed to promote the independence of individuals with disabilities and improve their physical, mental and social well-being. The grant will be used to support CANTER’s Helping America’s National Defenders program, which provides equine therapies to active duty and retired military and their families as a way to assist combat veterans who are challenged with brain injuries or post-traumatic stress disorder. Through the program, injured veterans regain strength,...
Published on Friday 25th of May 2012 09:43:50 AM
Rubashkin complains about treatment in jail
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The state trial of former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin will move forward, a judge said, despite concerns from defense attorneys about the local jail not meeting their client’s religious needs. Black Hawk County District Associate Judge Nathan Callahan also denied a defense motion Tuesday to delay Rubashkin’s trial on 83 misdemeanor child labor charges until July because of pre-trial publicity and new evidence presented to the defense.
Published on Friday 25th of May 2012 09:43:50 AM
Water treatment upgrades help 500,000
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COS KALSU – U.S. Civil Affairs Soldiers and Iraqi leaders here recently inspected the renovation of the Hashimiyah Water Treatment Facility, which now provides half-a-million Iraqis with fresh, disease-free water. The project, led by 1st Lt. Gerardo Aquino, a member of the 1411th CA Company from Edison, N.J., currently attached to the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, has improved both efficiency and water quality for all served by the facility. "Before the improvements, there was an outbreak of cholera in the area due to the poor quality of water," Aquino said. "The old system was operating at...
Published on Friday 25th of May 2012 09:43:50 AM
On Distant Battlefields, Survival Odds Rise Sharply
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Under a dusty hospital tent where doctors yell over the roar of jet engines, Dr. John York studied an electronic image of a blood vessel in the neck of a soldier wounded by an improvised bomb. It looked like a balloon ready to pop. Too delicate to operate on directly. Dr. York would have to try a procedure that had rarely been attempted so close to a battlefield. Using a sophisticated X-ray machine, he snaked a tube from an artery in the soldier's leg until it reached his neck. Dr. York threaded in a feathery device that popped open and...
Published on Friday 25th of May 2012 09:43:50 AM
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