No Swine Flu In Swine Herds Or Employees, Stresses Smithfield Foods Smithfield Foods Inc. has announced that there is absolutely no evidence of Swine Flu (A H1N1) in any of its swine herds or employees at any of its global operations. The company stressed that this includes those in the USA. This assurance follows a CFIE (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) announcement that a swine herd in Alberta, Canada, may have tested positive for H1N1 (swine flu).
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comBack Pain Treatment Needs To Catch Up With Evidence: Exercise And Other Proven Treatments Are Underused People with back pain use a lot of medical treatments, but often not the ones with the strongest evidence of effectiveness, according to a study in the April 1 issue of Spine. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals, and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health,
pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comBack Pain - A National Health Priority, Medical Journal Of Australia Four out of five Australians will suffer from back pain with one in 10 experiencing significant disability according to a report in the Medical Journal of Australia. Senior author Professor Rachelle Buchbinder from Cabrini Institute and Monash University's School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and Dr Andrew Briggs from Curtin University of Technology's School of Physiotherapy have called for back pain to be classified as a National Health Priority Area (NHPA).
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMan Delivers Baby Son With Help From Google And YouTube Royal Navy technician Marc Stephens successfully delivered his wife of their fourth baby, a son, at home in Cornwall, UK, while waiting for the ambulance to arrive, after finding out how to do it with the help of Google and YouTube. A spokesperson for the Royal Navy told thisiscornwall.co.uk that Marc's wife Jo went into labour more quickly than they were expecting.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comSetbacks In Patients With Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis Can Be Reduced If Methylprednisolone Is Added To Interferon Beta Conclusions reported in an Article published Online first, as well as in the June edition of The Lancet Neurology, and the announcement made at the American Academy of Neurology meeting in Seattle, USA, all coincide that the substantial decline of the deterioration rate in patients with relapsing-rem
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comThe Latest DRX9000™ Study Data Published In Peer-Reviewed Journal! A study titled, "Prospective Evaluation of the Efficacy of Spinal Decompression via the DRX9000™ for Chronic Low Back Pain" was published in the December issue of The Journal of Medicine. The study authored by Dr. John Leslie, Mayo Clinic, et al, was designed to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of the DRX9000™ in the treatment of chronic lower back pain. Patients enrolled in the study had suffered an overall average of 266 weeks of low back pain.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comSwine Flu Facts, Fears Lead to Increase on Purell Hand Sanitizer, Soap Sales ReStockIt.com reports purchases of hand sanitizers, liquid foam soap pumps and N95 flu masks are up 200% (PRWeb May 5, 2009)
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