Higher Suicide Risk for Men Reporting Anxiety Than for Women

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The "coronary stenting" procedure undergone by the Duke of Edinburgh is a treatment to unblock an artery which supplies the heart with blood.

The technique, a type of procedure known as angioplasty, is used to treat coronary heart disease or angina where the blockage or narrowing of arteries prevents enough blood from reaching the heart and risks damaging the muscle.

A thin tube known as a catheter is passed into an artery in the patient's arm or their groin under local anaesthetic, and pushed through until it reaches the problematic section.

At this point, a tiny balloon at the tip of the catheter is inflated with air, clearing any blockage and returning the artery to the correct width to allow blood to flow freely again.

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Genetic Test Predicts Risk of Cancer Coming Back if Radiation Is Skipped

A test that categorizes very early breast cancers by their genetic fingerprint can tell a woman the likelihood that cancer may come back if she does not have radiation, researchers say.

More than 45,000 women in the U.S. are diagnosed with this early form of breast cancer, called ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), each year. The tumors are confined to the milk ducts, meaning they have not invaded the rest of the breast.

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People With Cat Allergies May Also Be Allergic to Pork and Other Meats

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If you think of your body as a building, your bones are the framing. Without strong bones the whole thing would collapse. And that's a good analogy for what happens when we don't take good care of our bones. Over time, the body loses more and more bone, until we develop osteoporosis and it "collapses," in the form of bones fracturing.

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Study Shows Daily Multivitamin May Cut Risk of Preterm Births, Low Birth Weight, Neural Tube Birth Defects

Women who take a multivitamin every day around the time of conception appear to have a reduced risk for delivering low-birth-weight babies, a new study shows.

Daily multivitamin use was also associated with a lower preterm birth risk among normal-weight, but not overweight, women.

pregnancy risk,” she says.

 

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STD Trichomonas May Be More Common Than Thought

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Child receiving polio vaccine The new oral polio vaccine could help to finally eradicate the virus

A new vaccine against the polio virus has helped reduce the number of cases by more than 90%.

Research published online in the journal The Lancet, shows that the new vaccine is significantly better at protecting children against polio than the current popular vaccine.

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Study Shows Avastin Helps AMD, but Is It as Good as Lucentis?

Avastin  improves vision for people with the wet form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a U.K. study suggests.

That's no surprise to the 60% of U.S. doctors who already use tiny doses of the cancer drug instead of the vastly more expensive Lucentis.

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MADINAH — There are some mothers who are unaware of the sexual abuse of their children at the hands of a member of their family until it is too late. By then, physical and mental scarring may have well set in.

Umm Khalid recalled how her five-year-old son would wake up nightly crying and terrified. Not understanding what was wrong with her son, she decided to take him to a psychologist only to discover the bitter truth; her son had been molested. The offender was her 18-year-old nephew.

“I was shocked beyond belief and didn’t know what to do to keep my son away from my nephew without causing my son to have any shock or guilt. I followed the psychologist’s instructions and managed to surmount this catastrophe, thanks to Allah,” said Umm Khalid.

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