Parents who make children wear protective eyewear for sports and teach their children about eye safety are providing help that could last a lifetime. “Much of the damage is “written in the book’ at the time of injury. There are certain things you can’t bring back,” says Dr. John B. Jeffers, a member of Prevent Blindness America’s Eye Safety Committee and director of emergency services, Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia. Read more…
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Your bags are packed, and you’ve got everything you need for vacation: plane tickets, film, plenty of sun block. But what about a first-aid kit? Every vacationer ought to have one, but especially if your traveling companions include children, who are bound to have some mishaps along the way. This year, along with the standard first-aid items – bandages, thermometer, tweezers, Tylenol, etc. – consider stocking your kit with herbal remedies. Read more…
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A prominent U.S. physician says 80 per cent of all throat cancer in North America may be due to cigaret smoking and the use of alcohol. Dr. Arnold Aronson of the Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minn. said there is increasing evidence that smoking causes organic illness affecting the voice box. Read more…
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An application to market the first inhaled drug for the treatment and prevention of influenza was made Wednesday in Ottawa. Results from clinical trials on the aerosol-delivered drug called Relenza (zanamivir) will be presented at an international conference in San Diego Friday and Saturday. Findings are expected to show that the drug prevented two-thirds of the trial participants from acquiring influenza after they had been exposed to the virus. Read more…
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Parents who smoke at home and have young children now have another reason, aside from their own health, to butt out: ear infections. A new study conclusively links tobacco smoke and middle-ear infections in pre-school-age children, showing that children who are exposed to secondhand smoke at home during the first three years of life are at almost double the risk for recurrent or persistent middle-ear infections than children who are not. Read more…
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People who believe they have been bitten by a white-tailed spider should clean the skin with antiseptic around the bite mark, according to Hutt Valley Health medical officer of health Stephen Palmer. Read more…
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Many women, encouraged by powerful advertising and media messages about what our bodies are “supposed” to look like, fall into abnormal and even dangerous patterns of dieting and exercising without realizing it. Read more…
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A new study suggests that poor writing skills powerfully predict getting Alzheimer’s disease. While it is not known how one affects the other, the study’s author believes that boosting these skills — by reading and writing — may build the brain’s ability to protect itself. Read more…
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An experimental biotechnology drug showed promise in preventing, not just treating, the symptoms of hay fever in a preliminary test in people. Speaking at a meeting of biotechnology executives here, officials of Tanox Biosystems Inc., a small, closely held biotech company, said 80% of hay fever patients in a 155-patient trial who were treated with the company’s antiallergy drug reported greatly reduced hay fever symptoms, mostly without any of the side effects associated with standard treatments. Read more…
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Blood isn’t flowing the way it used to in modern medicine. Fears of blood-borne disease and chronic shortages of donated blood have sparked a major effort to eliminate transfusions wherever possible. It’s called bloodless medicine. Read more…
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