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Health and Medical Guide to Injuries and Wound Information Bites and Stings Health information topics about Bites and Stings: Children 1. How to Stay Safe around Animals Nemours Foundation http://kidshealth.org/kid/watch/house/animals.html 2. Dog Bites: How to Teach Your Children to Be Safe American Academy of Family Physicians http://familydoctor.org/668.xml Clinical Trials 1. ClinicalTrials.gov: Cat-Scratch Disease National Institutes of Health http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/action/FindCondition?ui=D002372&recruiting... 2. ClinicalTrials.gov: Bites and Stings National Institutes of Health http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/action/FindCondition?ui=D001733&recruiting... Newsletters/Print Publications 1. NCIPC Bibliography of Articles on Dog Bites National Center for Injury Prevention and Control http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/duip/dogbites.htm Organizations 1. Poison Help 1-800-222-1222 American Association of Poison Control Centers http://www.1-800-222-1222.info/poisonHelp.asp 2. American Academy of Family Physicians http://familydoctor.org/ Overviews 1. "Don't Worry, They Won't Bite&a American Veterinary Medical Association http://www.avma.org/pubhlth/dogbite/dogbitebroc.asp Prevention/Screening 1. Animal-Associated Hazards National Center for Infectious Diseases http://www.cdc.gov/travel/other/animal-hazards.htm 2. Dog Bite Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/duip/biteprevention.htm 3. Snakebites: Reducing Your Risk American Academy of Family Physicians http://familydoctor.org/153.xml Specific Conditions 1. Animal Bites and Rabies UpToDate http://patients.uptodate.com/topic.asp?file=inf_immu/4808 2. Human Bites Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=FA00057 3. Animal Bites Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=FA00044 4. Cat Scratch Disease Nemours Foundation http://kidshealth.org/parent/infections/bacterial_viral/cat_scratch.html Treatment 1. For Goodness Snakes! Treating and Preventing Venom Food and Drug Administration http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/995_snakes.html 2. Cat and Dog Bites American Academy of Family Physicians http://familydoctor.org/203.xml 3. Bites and Scratches Nemours Foundation http://kidshealth.org/parent/firstaid_safe/emergencies/bites.html   Preventive Medicine News From Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. First Time Research On Long-term Consequences Of Intravenous Nutrition On Chi... 10 Mar 2010 at 3:00am No work is known in the literature to date which provides a long-term and generalised evaluation of the health of children fed intravenously in their own home... Research Finds Shortcomings In Comparative Effectiveness Drug Research 10 Mar 2010 at 3:00am An analysis by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) has found that only 32 percent of medication studies published in top medical journals compare the effectiveness of existing treatments. These studies, known as comparative effectiveness studies, help doctors know which therapies work best and under what circumstances they are most effective... Kidney Donors Suffer Few Ill-Effects From Life-Giving Act 10 Mar 2010 at 3:00am In a landmark study of more than 80,000 live kidney donors from across the United States, Johns Hopkins researchers have found the procedure carries very little medical risk and that, in the long term, people who donate one of their kidneys are likely to live just as long as those who have two healthy ones... Grandfathered Drug For High Potassium Has No Proven Benefit 10 Mar 2010 at 3:00am For more than half a century, products containing ion exchange resins have been used in patients with dangerously high levels of potassium. However, there is no convincing evidence that these products are actually effective, according to an article appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN)... Health Care Partnership Examined In Canadian Medical Association Journal 9 Mar 2010 at 7:00am A research team from the Laval Centre de sante et de services sociaux, Universite de Montreal and McGill University Health Centre has examined the benefits of greater collaboration between family physicians and community pharmacists for select patients... MRI Finds Tumors In Second Breast Of Women Diagnosed With Cancer In One Breast 9 Mar 2010 at 4:00am Postmenopausal women, including those over 70 years old, who have been newly diagnosed with cancer in one breast have higher cancer detection rates when the other breast is scanned for tumors with MRI, compared to premenopausal women, say researchers at the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida. They found that 3... Is Prenatal Screening For Rare Diseases Like Spinal Muscular Atrophy Too Costly? 9 Mar 2010 at 4:00am Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is one of many serious disorders for which prenatal testing is available. SMA affects approximately 1 in 10,000 live births and is the leading genetic cause of infant mortality and the second most common autosomal recessive disorder, after cystic fibrosis... Improvements Needed In Genomic Test Result Discussions 9 Mar 2010 at 3:00am One in three early stage breast cancer patients who received genomic testing when deciding about treatment options felt they did not fully understand their discussions with physicians about their test results and their risk of the disease recurring, a new study has found... Max Planck Scientists Develop A Fingerprint For Genes: New Strategy To Play M... 8 Mar 2010 at 5:00am Cells may not have a mouth, but they still need to ingest substances from the external environment. If this process - known as endocytosis - is affected, it can lead to infectious diseases or cardio-vascular diseases, cancer, Huntington's and diabetes... Physicians Come Together On National Colorectal Cancer Awareness And Screenin... 8 Mar 2010 at 2:00am Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third leading cause of cancer death among men and women nationwide, yet only half of people who need CRC screening receive it. The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute is working to educate patients about the importance of screening and to encourage everyone age 50 and older to get screened for CRC... COPPERTONE(R) Solar Research Center Unveils Studies On Efficacy Of Topical An... 6 Mar 2010 at 3:00am Schering-Plough HealthCare Products, Inc., the consumer healthcare division of Merck & Co., Inc., the makers of COPPERTONE®, announced at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology the results of studies demonstrating the efficacy of topical antioxidants in broad spectrum sunscreens... Study Examines Perceived Barriers To Care For At-Risk Patients With Diabetes 6 Mar 2010 at 3:00am Diabetes affects approximately 8 percent of the people in the United States and adults with diabetes have heart disease death rates two to four times higher than adults without diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association... Alzforum's 5-Part Series On Alzheimer's Prevention Initiative 6 Mar 2010 at 3:00am The field is abuzz with the word "prevention," but how to pull off this vaunted goal? It's been held back by a strange Catch-22 of cost, time, and biomarker validation. That might change with a bold initiative led by Eric Reiman, Pierre Tariot, and others at the Banner Alzheimer's Institute... "Tunnel Anxiety" Can Be Reduced 5 Mar 2010 at 6:00am Many people feel insecure when they drive in tunnels. However, their anxiety can be reduced. "Driving in tunnels is actually twice as safe as driving in the open air, when all factors are taken into account," says SINTEF scientist Gunnar Jensen. However, a rough estimate suggests that as many as 10 - 20 percent of the population feel uncomfortable or very uncomfortable driving in tunnels... Bacterial Balance That Keeps Us Healthy 5 Mar 2010 at 6:00am The thousands of bacteria, fungi and other microbes that live in our gut are essential contributors to our good health. They break down toxins, manufacture some vitamins and essential amino acids, and form a barrier against invaders. A study published in Nature shows that, at 3.3 million, microbial genes in our gut outnumber previous estimates for the whole of the human body...