...children admitted with H1N1 had asthma compared with 6% of those admitted with seasonal influenza. Asthma was determined as a prior diagnosis of asthma or reactive airways disease, or a history of wheeze with the use of inhalers. Almost half...

In this article: Asthma, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Cough, Diarrhea, Vomiting, and Toronto, Ontario

...mother and child, researchers say, while providing a clear treatment target to help reduce the burden of asthma in the United States. Asthma is the country 's leading pediatric chronic illness, affecting 6.5 million children under the age of...

In this article: Asthma, Depression, Johns Hopkins Children's Center, Medical advice, Mental disorder, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, and United States

...findings of this study, which she describes as "quite sobering". There is currently an opt-out policy for HIV testing even though the HIV prevalence in Uganda is 6.4 percent. One year after the implementation of the opt-out policy,...

In this article: HIV, Transmission, Uganda, AIDS, Syphilis, Africa, Southern Africa, and Washington

AUTISM has been getting more of the attention it deserves in the last few years, and the once-grim landscape for people with autism is changing. Recent developments include a task force appointed by the governor, mandatory health insurance...

In this article: Autism, Joseph Roberts, Asperger's syndrome, Americans with Disabilities Act, Multiple sclerosis, and Charlotte Vandervalk

...in cash. The companies are also granting each other distribution rights to certain products, including HIV hepatitis C tests, and flu tests. OraSure now expects a fourth-quarter loss of 10 cents to 11 cents per share because of the...

In this article: HIV, FLU, Hepatitis, Thomson Reuters, Church & Dwight Co., Bethlehem, and Pennsylvania

...who take steps to curb these risk factors in their 50s and 60s might have a better shot at avoiding Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia in their 70s and 80s. "People need to know that quitting smoking or controlling high blood...

In this article: Dementia, Reuters Health, Minneapolis, New York City, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Neurosurgery, Cholesterol, Alzheimer's disease, and Pasteur Institute

In this article: Dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Group Health, University of Washington, Antioxidant, Medical advice, and Fruit

The NMC has been addressing many of the issues raised in the Alzheimer's society report Counting the Cost: caring for people with dementia on hospital wards as part of our review of pre-registration nursing education. Our review, which...

In this article: Dementia, Alzheimer's, and Medical advice

Cancer -stricken husband killed dementia -suffering wife and then himself 'so she didn't become a burden on family' Last updated at 4:59 PM on 18th November 2009 An elderly husband killed his poorly wife then committed suicide because he...

In this article: Dementia, Cancer, Suicide, Power of attorney, Blunt instrument, and Stroke

In this article: Asthma, Forward Ventures, Thomson Reuters, Domain Associates, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and San Diego

... C. difficile , even ending addiction to cocaine and nicotine. Success on some vaccines in development, particularly for Alzheimer's and AIDS , likely would bring billions a year in sales. Just this fall and early next year, the swine flu...

In this article: FLU, Alzheimer's, GlaxoSmithKline, AIDS, U.S., Johnson & Johnson, Cervical cancer, Meningitis, Rotavirus, and Wyeth

...syndrome can achieve academically, we may still need more support than our peers." The Welsh Assembly Government published an autism spectrum disorder strategic action plan in 2008 and set up a task group to look at the needs of...

In this article: Autism, Asperger syndrome, and Anxiety

A Bundaberg teenager who was wrongly told by Queensland Health she may have contracted HIV says the error caused her to lose her only source of income. Gabrielle Carruthers , 16, was one of 33 patients treated at the Bundaberg Hospital...

In this article: HIV, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis, and Hepatitis C

...who has asthma , ended up being hospitalized with complications from H1N1. What parents of kids with asthma need to know about influenza : • Flu vaccine by injection is recommended by the CDC , not nasal mist. • Make sure you have an...

In this article: Asthma, Influenza, Oseltamivir, and Fever

...health. - 54% of carers said being in hospital had a significant negative effect on the person's dementia. - 36% of people with dementia who go into hospital from living in their own homes are discharged to a care home. - 89%...

In this article: Dementia, Alzheimer's Society, Alzheimer's disease, UK, Medical advice, Angela Rippon, and Northern Ireland

...are occupying up to a quarter of hospital beds yet there are scandalous variations in the quality of dementia care in hospitals. Some people with dementia are not able to eat or drink due to a lack of appropriate dementia care and many...

In this article: Dementia, Alzheimer's Society, Alzheimer's, and Northern Ireland

...No new safety signals in pediatric studies * Safety questions remain about Xolair's use in children (Adds details, background) An asthma drug from Roche <ROG.VX> and Novartis <NOVN.VX> has "somewhat modest" benefits for kids aged 6 to 11,...

In this article: Food and Drug Administration, Asthma, Xolair, Novartis, and U.S.

...with dementia , an incurable brain disease that worsens over time and whose most common form is Alzheimer's disease. There is no cure for dementia and the costs of illness are forecast to rise dramatically in the coming decades. Experts...

In this article: Dementia, Antipsychotic, Alzheimer's disease, Britain, Risperdal, King's College London, Zyprexa, Haloperidol, Chlorpromazine, and Seroquel