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FRIDAY, Sept. 3 (HealthDay News) — The risk of bowel surgery for children with Crohn’s disease is much lower than reported in previous studies, according to new findings.
Crohn’s disease involves chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. The exact cause is not known, but the condition is often associated with an immune response problem.
MONDAY, Aug. 30 (HealthDay News) — Black patients are at increased risk of developing life-threatening blood clots after receiving a drug-coated stent to prop open narrowed arteries, U.S. researchers have found.
The new study included more than 7,200 patients who had stents coated with clot-prevention drugs implanted between mid-2003 and the end of 2008.
The researchers found that black patients were nearly three times more likely to develop a clot compared to patients of other races.
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 25 (HealthDay News) — Pregnant women about to undergo a cesarean delivery should be given antibiotics right before the procedure to help prevent infections, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists now recommends.
Infection is the most common complication of cesarean delivery and occurs in 10 percent to 40 percent of women who have the procedure, compared with 1 percent to 3 percent of women who deliver vaginally, according to the college.
Typically, antibiotics were only given after a cesarean delivery because it was believed that if they were given prior to birth, they would make their way into the baby’s blood and interfere with newborn lab tests or lead to antibiotic-resistant infections in the newborn.
“Based on the latest data, prophylactic antibiotics given to pregnant women before a cesarean significantly reduce maternal infection and do not appear to harm newborns,” Dr.
MONDAY, Aug. 23 (HealthDay News) — The initial treatment given to prostate cancer patients has a major impact on short- and long-term costs of care, a new study has found.
For example, while some may opt for an initial treatment that is less expensive in the short-term, the long-term costs of that treatment may actually be higher, the study authors explained.
Treatments options for early-stage prostate cancer include surgery, radiation therapy, hormonal treatment, watchful waiting, or combinations of those methods.
THURSDAY, Aug. 19 (HealthDay News) — Children with a condition called strabismus, in which their eyes aren’t straight or don’t line up with each other, may be less likely to be invited to birthday parties than other children, researchers have found.
Swiss researchers digitally altered photographs of six children from six identical twin pairs to create inward and outward types of strabismus.