The spirits industry is criticising a push for an alcohol advertising ban as an easy way for state governments to avoid properly addressing anti-social behaviour.

An Australian woman is blind three days out of every six because her eyes involuntarily shut and she cannot open them, a report has said.

Background:Renal failure is a frequent complication of multiple myeloma and when severe is associated with a greatly increased morbidity and mortality. The principal cause of severe renal failure in this setting is cast nephropathy, a direct consequence of high concentrations

Background:The prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) is increasing world wide and amongst factors that aggravate the risk is diabetes mellitus (DM), also in epidemic development. However, although DM is a potentially modifiable risk factor for AF, few, if any, studies

Phillip Seaton, 61, was scheduled for a circumcision to treat inflammation. He claims he told Dr. John Patterson not to remove anything but the foreskin before the medical staff administered general anesthesia.

The Times of London reported that the study shows that children and teens who drink alcohol, even in small doses at dinner time, as is done in some European families, tend to be fonder of drinking as adults, and the

Marty Himebaugh reportedly made comments to co-workers that aroused suspicion. According to CBS news, Himebaugh allegedly told one colleague about a 56-year-old Down syndrome man that "These people aren't meant to live that long. They are meant to die in

They presented their data for 90 patients who underwent laparoscopy for impalpable testes. Over 50% of the patients (46) had an intraabdominal testis identified. Nineteen patients underwent a two stage laparoscopic Fowler-Stephens orchiopexy for 25 testes. The other 27 patients

The study encompassed 767 UTI episodes afflicting 698 children. A total of 767 urinary bacteria were isolated from cultures taken. E. coli was the most common bacteria found, followed by Klebsiella spp. In the year 2000, almost 60% of E.

The latest figures published by the Department of Health show that last year the number of NHS fell by 4% (6,722 beds) - and over the past three years, more than 20,000 beds have been cut.

In a study in Scandinavia, metastatic prostate cancer has been found in 6 percent of therapeutic orchidectomy specimens by Johansson et al. (2)

Newman's early film career was during a period when cigarette smoking in movies portrayed virility, sex appeal and sophistication. He once said he was amazed he had survived all that booze, smoking and car racing.

The primary objective of this study is to examine the prevalence of depression and abuse (sexual and physical) among women with IC. The secondary objective of this study is to examine the use of different tools in extracting information regarding

More surprising is that people actually feel justified when lying using e-mail, the studies show.

At Georgia Tech, researchers from the Colleges of Sciences and Engineering have joined forces to create the Center for Bio-Imaging Mass Spectrometry (BIMS), which aims to tackle these types of challenges.

Aortic valves taken from pigs are used in thousands of human heart valve replacement surgeries annually, but they have a high rate of failure due to degeneration and calcification. It is estimated more than 50 percent fail within five to

This study, is described in research published on 21 June 2008, in the World Journal of Gastroenterology . Performed by a team led by Dr. HY Wang.P120-catenin is a member of the Armadillo (ARM)/Ã -catenin gene familyand is essential for

A research article published on 21 June 2008, in the World Journal of Gastroenterology addresses this question. The research team led by Prof. Zhang from Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery in Affiliated Hospital of medical college of Qingdao University had retrospectivly

A research article published on 21 June 2008, in the World Journal of Gastroenterology addresses this. The research team led by Prof. Gu Hongxi from Department of Microbiology of Harbin Medical University successfully constructed the eukaryotic expression plasmidspc DNA3.1(+)-HBV/C-YMDD, pcDNA3.1(+)-HBV/C-YVDD,

Lorraine Shack at the North West Cancer Intelligence Service and a team of researchers working on behalf of the United Kingdom Association of Cancer Registries used information from all eight English cancer registries from 1998 to 2003. They compared the