The violent shake of the infant's head causes brain damage and, as a result, the infant stops crying. For this reason, this behaviour may be repeated in…
The results of the study, available online and in the October issue of the journal Nature Medicine, also may explain why hormone replacement therapy fails to…
It is administered twice daily, according to a simple weight-based table, allowing for easy prescribing. It can also be ‘snapped in half’ and dissolved in…
The violent shake of the infant's head causes brain damage and, as a result, the infant stops crying. For this reason, this behaviour may be repeated in…
For Americans, fatigue and depression are two different independent states, while for the Russians, they make up two indivisible parts of a single asthenic…
Professor Eamonn Ferguson and Dr Helen Cassaday, with colleague Dr Jane Ward of the University of Loughborough, described their findings to fellow academics…
Curtis Donskey and colleagues from the Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Ohio, US, collected stool samples from inpatients and analysed these for S….
Breastfeeding does not protect children against developing asthma or allergies, says a new study led by McGill University's Dr. Michael Kramer and funded by…
The medication tamoxifen, best known as a treatment for breast cancer, dramatically reduces symptoms of the manic phase of bipolar disorder more quickly than…
Whilst a diagnosis of brain death is made using factors including fixed and dilated pupils, lack of eye movement, absence of respiratory reflexes, the social…
Dr Jos Vandelaer, World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland, say: “Although easily prevented by maternal immunisation with tetanus toxoid vaccine, and…
Approximately 13 per cent of Swedish women between the ages of 20 and 29 say that they have had a prolonged period of coital pain, something which prevents…
The University’s Centre for Mental Health Recovery which is the first centre of its kind in a higher education institution, has joined forces with the…
In the field of nutrition, miracles do not exist: in the same way we gain weight as years pass by, weight loss should be equally progressive, states Professor…
A serious complication of pregnancy marked by soaring blood pressure and swelling of the hands and feet, preeclampsia is the leading cause of premature…
“A V/Q scan can be the first choice—but the CT angiogram is the classic choice—for diagnosing a pulmonary embolism,” noted H. Dirk Sostman, a professor of…
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