http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Snakebite injuries account for around two phone queries every week to the UK National Poisons Information Service, indicates an audit published online in Emergency Medicine Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-queries-week-uk-poisons-snakebites.html Health Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:30:02 EST news275158160 (Medical Xpress)—Witnessing a car wreck or encountering a poisonous snake are scenes that become etched in our memories. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-rem-emotional-memories.html Neuroscience Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:37:17 EST news275042062 Giving low-dose adrenaline to patients who have been bitten by a poisonous snake before treatment with the appropriate antivenom is safe and reduces the risk of acute severe reactions to the treatment, but giving promethazine has no such effect and giving hydrocortisone may actually be harmful. These findings from a study led by Asita De Silva from the Clinical Trials Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya in Ragama, Sri Lanka, are important because in some countries where snake bites are a major health problem, acute allergic reactions to poor quality antivenoms are common and often fatal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-adrenaline-snakebite-anti-venom-treatment-allergic.html Other Tue, 10 May 2011 17:37:54 EST news224267847