Archive for November, 2010



New vitamin D guidelines divide health experts

Tuesday 30 November 2010 @ 3:20 pm

A major new U.S-Canadian report calls for an increase in the daily recommended intake of vitamin D, but not to the levels many health organizations have been urging because of mounting evidence linking the “sunshine vitamin” to the prevention of chronic disease.




Perceived bad boys receive less pain medications in ER

Tuesday 30 November 2010 @ 2:11 pm

If you should find yourself running from the police, watch your step. If you fall and break an ankle, chances are you’ll receive less pain medication when they take you to the ER for treatment. That’s one of the findings from a study who collected the data and is an emergency department doctor in California.




Perceived Bad Boys Get Less Pain Medications

Tuesday 30 November 2010 @ 11:45 am

If you should find yourself running from the police, watch your step. If you fall and break an ankle, chances are you’ll receive less pain medication when they take you to the ER for treatment. That’s one of the findings from a study by Case Western Reserve University sociologist Susan Hinze, and Joshua Tamayo-Sarver, who collected the data and is an emergency department doctor in California.




Perceived bad boys receive less pain medications

Tuesday 30 November 2010 @ 9:44 am

( Case Western Reserve University ) If you should find yourself running from the police, watch your step. If you fall and break an ankle, chances are you’ll receive less pain medication when they take you to the ER for treatment. That’s one of the findings from a study by Case Western Reserve University sociologist Susan Hinze, and Joshua Tamayo-Sarver, who collected the data and is an emergency …




New vitamin D guidelines divide health experts

Tuesday 30 November 2010 @ 9:20 am

A major new U.S-Canadian report calls for an increase in the daily recommended intake of vitamin D, but not to the levels many health organizations have been urging because of mounting evidence linking the “sunshine vitamin” to the prevention of chronic disease.




Cheyenne man pleads guilty in girlfriend’s death

Tuesday 30 November 2010 @ 8:30 am

CHEYENNE — A Cheyenne man pleaded guilty earlier this month in federal court to charges that he gave his girlfriend drugs that led to her death. Brannan B. Hoover, 29, will be sentenced Jan. 24 by U.S. District Judge Alan B. Johnson.




Welcome relief: Neurostimulation offers respite from chronic pain

Tuesday 30 November 2010 @ 4:35 am

“On a scale of 1 to 10, the pain was always at least a 5 and sometimes hit a 9 or a 10,” shares 72 year-old Manalapan resident Lucille Veltri of her condition after breaking several discs in her back in 2005.




After years of suffering, Watauga woman found treatment for rare disease

Tuesday 30 November 2010 @ 12:13 am

Expensive medication brings relief from the pain and swelling associated with hereditary angioedema.




Doctors give different levels of pain meds for different people: study

Monday 29 November 2010 @ 5:17 pm

(PhysOrg.com) — If you should find yourself running from the police, watch your step. If you fall and break an ankle, chances are you’ll receive less pain medication when they take you to the ER for treatment.




Celebrex Shows Potential in Preventing Some Skin Cancers: Study

Monday 29 November 2010 @ 4:03 pm

MONDAY, Nov. 29 (HealthDay News) — The prescription painkiller Celebrex might help prevent non-melanoma skin cancers, a small study suggests.




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