The result is a hook or hornlike feature jutting out from the skull, just above the neck. The researchers say the cause of what are being called "head horns" or "phone bones" is a shift in posture due to modern techology. "An important question is what the future holds for the young adult populations in our study, when development of a degenerative process is evident in such an early stage of th... [Full Article...]
One patient died, one had his hands and feet amputated, and the others had areas of their flesh removed by surgeons to prevent the infection spreading. Skin and blood cultures verified a Vibrio infection. Some had gone crabbing in the Bay, while others had eaten crabs likely caught there. Excessive clotting blocked his small blood vessels, and his four limbs became "mummified" and so required am... [Full Article...]
As part of the first phase, including the reorganization of six health agencies and 14 LHINs, the government is eliminating duplicative administrative positions, almost half of which are now vacant. "We can all agree that funding frontline services instead of duplicated administration will do more good for Ontarians and is a far better use of health care dollars". [Full Article...]
Mr Hancock yesterday told the Commons the NHS had identified nine cases in seven hospitals between April 14 and May 28 "all linked to contaminated sandwiches from a single supplier". The number of people to have died because of the bacterial infection has now reached five. She added that she is wondering what opportunities may have been missed to get to the point where people are poisoned by the... [Full Article...]
Predicting Health Issues Through Facebook In a study published in the journal PLOS One , researchers analyzed the entire Facebook history of almost 1,000 patients who agreed to for their profiles to be linked to the data from their electronic medical record. [Full Article...]
Scientists suspect that the increase is recent cases is due to climate change, which has increased the temperature of the water creating the ideal condition for the bacteria. "We believe that clinicians should be aware of the possibility that V. vulnificus infections are occurring more frequently outside traditional geographic areas", the authors wrote in the report, according to CBS. [Full Article...]
Talking to WaPo, Katie W. Russell, the pediatric surgeon who treated 17-year-old Austin, compared his injuries to those seen in "high-speed motor vehicle crashes". "I never heard of this as a possibility" said Russell, who described the boy's injuries in the New England Journal of Medicine . More than 60 per cent of the patients injured were male and eight-out-of-ten of the injuries happened in... [Full Article...]
Oxiris Barbot said in a statement. Positive lab results were confirmed Tuesday. However, tourists are being advised to be careful due to an outbreak of mosquito-borne West Nile virus a year ago when there were 300 cases and 50 Greeks died. [Full Article...]