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Best Wart Treatment: Cryotherapy, Salicylic Acid, or Nothing?

Best Wart Treatment: Cryotherapy, Salicylic Acid, or Nothing? If you have warts in your hand or in your feet, you should not worry too much about them because they cannot kill you. But if you want to get rid of them, you have three treatment options to choose from: kill the warts with cryotherapy, use salicylic acid, or simply ignore them.

Interestingly some researchers, who recently published their study in the Canadian Medical Association Journals or CMAJ, experimented on these three methods to find out which one of them is the most effective in the war against warts.

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Leukemia Stem Cell Therapy in Seattle for Mandi Schwartz

A Yale Hockey player successfully underwent a stem-cell transplant on Wednesday to save her life from severe leukaemia. Twenty-two-year old Mandi Schwartz was infused with umbilical cord blood during the procedure at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance at the University of Washington Medical Center.

Schwartz is likely to stay in the hospital for a month so that her doctor will monitor her white blood cell count.

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Gilenya Multiple Sclerosis Drug: What Are Its Side Effects?

What are the side effects of the newly approved anti multiple sclerosis drug, Gilenya? Read the write-up below.

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An oral pill which treats the underlying causes of multiple sclerosis or MS has gained the approval of the US Food and Drugs Administration.

Gilenya, from Swiss drugmaker Novartis, gained the unanimous endorsement of the FDA which voted 25-0 to approve the drug.

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Quality Care in U.S. Hospitals: Good, Bad, or Improving?

Quality Care in U.S. Hospitals: Good, Bad, or Improving? Quality of care in hospitals and other health centers across the United States has shown improvements over the past eight years, a national health care accrediting organization revealed.

According to a report from Businessweek, The Joint Commission found that there is a big improvement on US hospitals in caring for patients with heart attack, pneumonia, surgery and children’s asthma.

Their findings in their annual rating activity shows that the care result for children’s asthma increased from 70.7 percent in 2007 to 88.1 percent in 2009; pneumonia care result rose from 72.4 percent in 2002 to 92.9 percent in 2009; surgical care result improved from 77.4 percent in 2004 to 95.8 percent in 2009.

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Is Avandia Safe for Diabetics?

Consumer Reports is questioning the recent decision of the US Food and Drugs Administration to just restrict the use of diabetes drug Avandia instead of outrightly banning it due to its proven cardiovascular risks.

In a prepared statement, Consumer Reports Director Dr. John Santa, expressed fears that, with the FDA’s refusal to ban Avandia, doctors and patients will continue to be exposed to a risky drug – without being fully alerted to its risks.

“The evidence we have to date does not support the use of Avandia as a first, second, or even third line drug for treating type 2 diabetes. This latest effort on the part of the FDA to deal with a drug that’s unsafe will only confuse consumers,” Dr. Santa’s statement said.

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Dangerous Chemicals in Tap Water: Manganese in Quebec Water Lowers IQ

Is your tap water safe? Or is it like the water in some Quebec towns which contains manganese. The manganese, according to recent research findings has negatively affected the IQ of kids who were exposed to it.

The presence manganese in drinking water negatively affects the intelligence quotient of a child who drinks it, a study says. The study conducted in the rural areas of Central Quebec, Eastern Township and Lotbiniere regions, where manganese is found in the tap drinking water, concluded that manganese lowers IQ level.

Between June 2007 and June 2009, the researchers from Universite du Quebec a Montreal and Ecole Polytechnique examined 362 children, age 6 to 13, from 8 municipalities in the above-mentioned regions.

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