Patients with meningococcal infections generally develop symptoms including a high temperature, vomiting and a stiff neck. But they might also just have a bad stomach ache. It can be so severe that they are sometimes wrongly ...
Apr 27, 2018
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We're all human beings, but we're not all alike.
Apr 25, 2018
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An estimated 2 million people in the U.S. are addicted to prescription opioids—powerful doctor-prescribed medications for chronic or severe pain. The drugs are commonly prescribed to treat gastrointestinal pain caused by ...
Mar 30, 2018
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Early detection is key for managing metastatic brain cancer. Above, a secondary brain tumor originating from melanoma skin cancer.
Mar 14, 2018
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Researchers from Children's Minnesota (Children's) and HealthPartners Institute have developed a new pediatric appendicitis risk calculator (pARC) to aid in the diagnosis of appendicitis. The calculator was developed as part ...
Mar 13, 2018
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Australia is facing a critical public health issue of poorly managed pain. The combination of poor health outcomes, inappropriate prescribing for pain and non-prescription use of opioids has resulted in opioid-related deaths ...
Feb 2, 2018
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The searing abdominal pain came on suddenly while Dr. Rana Awdish was having dinner with a friend. Soon she was lying in the back seat of the car racing to Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, where Awdish was completing a fellowship ...
Jan 4, 2018
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A woman believed she was suffering from Crohn's disease for six years until doctors performed surgery and discovered a ketchup packet in the lining of her intestine.
Jan 3, 2018
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(HealthDay)—Ozempic (semaglutide) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a weekly injection to treat type 2 diabetes in adults.
Dec 6, 2017
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(HealthDay)—A case of a 16-year-old presenting to the emergency department with acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is described in a case report published online Dec. 5 in Pediatrics.
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