Avoid Halloween Horrors With Food Allergy Safety Tips From The AAAAI

Avoid Halloween Horrors With Food Allergy Safety Tips From The AAAAI
For the 3 million children with food allergies, Halloween spooks and scares are not limited to vampires and witches. Candies containing peanuts or chocolate can be just as frightening. To replace the fear with fun, the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) has developed a checklist of safety tips for food-allergic children.

Heartburn Home Remedy

A lot of people have experienced heartburn, but most people don't know exactly what is happening internally. Basically the acid in your stomach is making it's way up the esophagus. Your stomach acid is actually quite strong and is meant to be in the stomach because there is a special lining in it. When it goes into the esophagus, it actually burns away at it. If left untreated over a period of time, it can even burn your esophagus away completely. This is known as acid reflux disease.

Predicting Success Of Treatment For Atrial Fibrillation Aided By Novel Imaging Approach

University of Utah researchers have developed a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based method for detecting and quantifying injury to the wall of the heart's left atrium in patients who have undergone a procedure to treat atrial fibrillation. The results of the study are published in the Oct. 7, 2008, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. More at...

Endosense, a medical technology company focused on enabling the broad adoption of catheter ablation for the treatment of cardiac rhythm disorders, has launched the TOCCATA (TOuCh+ for CATheter Ablation) clinical study to evaluate the safety of the TactiCath™ system with enrollment gaining momentum. TOCCATA is a 70 patient European multi-center safety study. More at...

Recent studies indicate that infusing hearts with stem cells taken from bone marrow could improve cardiac function after myocardial infarction (tissue damage that results from a heart attack). But in a recent systematic review, Cochrane Researchers concluded that more clinical trials are needed to assess the effectiveness of stem cell therapies for heart patients, as well as studies to establish how these treatments work. More at...