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The feel of pain

...but nearby areas when the "pain warning" light was switched on. Stimulation of the brain's "pain anticipation" regions is known to trigger feelings of fear or anxiety as well as other mood changes, said the team's head researcher Dr Alexander Ploghaus. And unfortunately the anxious feelings can make the pain...

Nervous disorder being treated

...th SPS. Half were started on IVIg therapy and then switched to a placebo, the rest began with a placebo but were then given IVIg. In both cases, the patients had significantly less problems with stiffness and spasms when they were taking the IVIg therapy. 19 of the 22 patients who finished the study became l...

Gleevec gets hopeful results

...s their cancer had gotten worse. The patients were switched to Gleevec, which they took once a day. After 18 months, the researchers could find no visible sign of the genetic abnormality that causes the disease in 41% of the patients. That genetic flaw leads to the production of a protein that allows white c...

New treatment for muscle spasms

...th SPS. Half were started on IVIg therapy and then switched to a placebo, the rest began with a placebo but were then given IVIg. In both cases, the patients had significantly less problems with stiffness and spasms when they were taking the IVIg therapy. 19 of the 23 patients who finished the study became ...

Hyperactivity Drug Can Be Added to Food

...days of taking no medication, the study volunteers switched treatments. The researchers took blood samples before volunteers took the medication and again every half-hour to 4 hours over a 24-hour period to measure blood concentrations of the drug. Blood levels were similar for the two treatments and there w...

Machines take over the battle against hospital bugs

...he next six months of the study, the ionisers were switched on and it was found that the infections due to acinetobacter reduced dramatically. Lead researcher Clive Beggs believed that the negative ions produced by the ioniser may be removing the bacteria from the air, thus stopping the transmission of infec...

Cancer gene mystery to be cracked!

...nd become normal again. They hope that those genes switched off by RNA interference in these cells may represent a crucial group of genes, which future anti-cancer drugs could target. Dr. Downward concluded that they were confident that they would precisely find out what needs to be taken away from cancerous...

Dads to blame for longer pregnancies

...s, therisk increased to 30%. However, if the women switched partners betweenpregnancies, the the risk of a second prolonged pregnancy was reduced to 15% Thelength of pregnancy differed by more than a week in women who had changedpartners, compared with those who had not. In the group of women who had a'normal...

Leptin is "new breast cancer indicator"

...ess how leptin levels fluctuated between those who switched to a high-fibre, low-fat diet and those who changed to high-fibre diets without reducing their fat intake. The researchers discovered that if body weight and body fat together were taken out of the equation, a correlation remained between leptin and ...

Hope for First New Melanoma Treatment in Decades

...some 10, which contains the PTEN gene, temporarily switched off the tumor cell growth in mice and allowed apoptosis, or cell death normally occurring in non-cancerous cells, to resume. Apoptosis made the cells behave more like normal cells, thereby clearing away the dysfunctional and damaged cells. Of the th...

Better Diet Even Late in Life May Prolong It

...s.// "We found that within just 48 hours of being switched from a high nutrient intake to dietary restriction...y on a restricted diet lived nearly 50 days. Flies switched from being fully fed to a restricted diet on either day 14 or day 22 also lived an average of almost...

Even mid-life diet change can extend life

... also found that when heavily fed fruit flies were switched at middle age -- day 14 to 22 -- to leaner diets, then the animals converted from the shorter life pattern of the overfed to the longer-lived pattern of flies that had been on a restricted diet all their lives. The carry-home message from the stud...

Black tea said to lower cholesterol

...ed water that tasted like tea. The two groups then switched what they were given to drink after three weeks.LDL levels dropped by an average of 7.5 percent during the three weeks when the individuals consumed tea rather than the placebo blend, the researchers said. Separately, scientists also tested another ...

Evening,the best time to take Cholesterol Drug

...is the best time. Researchers found when patients switched from taking their nighttime pill to the morning, there were significant increases in total cholesterol and LDL, or the bad, cholesterol. Researchers of the study say, "Simvastatin is probably best taken at night because concentrations of total chole...

Importance of An Active Lifestyle

The focus of aging research has switched from mortality and longevity to health status and quality of life. Researchers say, “No longer is it only important that one lives longer, but the quality of life in later years must// also be considered.” A new study shows more benefits of staying...

Importance of An Active Lifestyle

The focus of aging research has switched from mortality and longevity to health status and quality of life. Researchers say, “No longer is it only important that one lives longer,// but the quality of life in later years must also be considered.” A new study shows more benefits of stayin...

Preventive Therapies Found to be More Effective in Managing Migraines

...t actually use any. A recent study of patients who switched from acute treatments to a combination of preventive and acute therapies shows office visits declined by more than 50 percent, emergency room visits decreased by more than 80 percent, and medication costs decreased by about $40 to $140 per patient. ...

Epilepsy Drug May Relieve Chronic Headaches

...d either treatment for a week, and then each group switched to the opposite treatment for a second six weeks. Results showed 36 percent of the patients taking 2,400 milligrams of gabapentin a day stopped having chronic daily headaches. Negative effects of the drug included vomiting, dizziness, dysarthria (p...

The Effectiveness Of The Breast Cancer Drug By Pfizer

... of developing another tumor by 32 percent if they switched to exemestane after two or three years of tamoxifen treatment. According to the research presented this week at a breast cancer conference , the median survival for patients taking exemestane was 10.9 months, compared with 6.7 months for patients o...

Stroke Prevention

... before and after treatment. Each patient was then switched to the opposite treatment and the tests were repeated. Researchers found when patients were on the drug, there was normal blood vessel function. However, when patients were on the placebo the blood flow did not change. Researchers feel because of t...

Mobile Phones Found To Reduce A Man’s Fertility by 30

...that the males who walked around with their phones switched on (on standby) all day had 30% less sperm than the men who had them switched off (or not on them). More alarming – they found that the rest of the sperm of them men who had thei...

Low Glycemic Diet Effective In Reducing Weight

...ovascular disease. Even after the two diet groups switched to the alternate diet for another three weeks, the rats that switched from low- to high-GI diets showed greater increases in blood glucose and insulin than rats switched ...

Epileptic Drug Found To Be Effective In Relieving Headache

...d either treatment for a week, and then each group switched to the opposite treatment for a second six weeks. Results showed 36 percent of the patients taking 2,400 milligrams of gabapentin a day stopped having chronic daily headaches. Negative effects of the drug included vomiting, dizziness, dysarthria (p...

Another Use For Epilepsy Drugs

...d either treatment for a week, and then each group switched to the opposite treatment for a second six weeks. Results showed 36 percent of the patients taking 2,400 milligrams of gabapentin a day stopped having chronic daily headaches. Negative effects of the drug included vomiting, dizziness, dysarthria (p...

Heart Disease In Women Can Be Reduced By Eating Grapes

... After a three-week washout, the two groups were switched for a second four-week period. Plasma triglyceride concentrations were reduced by 15 percent in the pre-menopausal women after they had taken the grape powder, and 6 percent in the post-menopausal women. Plasma LDL (‘bad’) cholesterol and apolipoprot...

New Blood Thinner Pill - First Potential Alternative to Warfarin in 50 years

...t it will take some time, before patients could be switched over to the new drug. The Swedish study of 1,223 patients in 18 countries tested Exanta for the prevention of recurrent clots in people who had a leg or lung clot. They entered the study after getting warfarin for six months. For the next 18 months...

Red Clover- A Future Remedy For Menopause And An Alternative To HRT

...e female sex hormone oestrogen. A lot of them have switched over from HRT due to the associated risk of stroke and breast cancer. Red clover is also used as a remedy for respiratory problems, particularly whooping cough, and for chronic skin conditions such as eczema and psoriasis. The study is thought to b...

Breast Cancer Advance

...compared to normal breast tissue, while others are switched on. These genes could be targets for the development of 'smart' drugs tailored to treat individual patients' tumours. These new findings suggest they could become robust 'markers', predicting disease outcome in breast cancer patients and identifying ...

Novartis MS Drug Shows Promising Results

... subsequent six-month extension. In patients who switched from placebo to either the 1.25 mg or 5 mg dosing ...sequent six-month extension. In those patients who switched from placebo to either 1.25 mg or 5 mg of FTY720 after six months, the annualized relapse rate was r...

High-Fat Diet Can Ward Off Inflammation In The Gut

...tylcholine. This bonded itself to the proteins and switched the immune cells off. The study authors say that this pathway may explain why the body does not reject food as a foreign invader. They also feel that it might be useful to activate this pathway after major surgeries....

Gynaecologist Faces Stiff Prison Sentence On Counts Of Sexual Abuse

...rs, who are US citizens born in Nigeria, sometimes switched identities and assaulted them. The documents also say the obstetrician-gynaecologist prescribed addictive painkillers for no good medical reason, pressured patients into surgeries and double-billed insurance companies for procedures. In all, more t...

Carbohydrate-rich Diet In Diabetes Raises Blood Pressure

...ree diets was the same. After six weeks the groups switched over to the other type of diet. During the last three days of each diet, the systolic and diastolic blood pressure was measured. Although there was no difference between high-carb diet and high-mono diet the first time around, the researchers found t...

Excess Cdk5 Enzyme Can Harm Brain

... was found that while in the mice in which p25 was switched on for only two weeks, actually enhanced learning ...nd memory, in contrast, mice in which p25 had been switched on for six weeks showed impaired learning and memory in certain tasks. The researchers said that t...

Anastrozole Is A More Effective Cancer Drug

...the research. In the case of the patients who had switched drugs, the deaths had gone down by 29%. The study was conducted on over 4,000 women across Italy, Germany, and Australia. The deaths among the 2,009 women who changed over to anastrozole was 66, while in the case of tamoxifen, it was 90. AstraZene...

Salmon's own diet sure to affect yours

...sed salmon, some fish farmers in recent years have switched to vegetable oil pellets.But a study last year found the heart-health benefits from fish like salmon were weakened when they were fed vegetable oil instead of fish oil. To determine whether the heart-health benefits of farmed salmon were worth the r...

Green Tea Consumption Found To Improve Clinical Outcome In Cancer Patients

... The four study participants are believed to have switched to green tea consumption after hearing about the possible health benefits. The observed improvement could be due to the high levels of anti-oxidants such as EDCG (substances that prevent oxidative cell damage, known to play a major role in carcinogen...

A strategic study: Soy diet makes heart disease to worsen in male mice

...nwand, noting that when the mice in the study were switched to a diet of milk protein their condition improved markedly. Female mice carrying the mutation for HCM were relatively unaffected by the soy diet, according to the study. That led the Colorado research team to believe that heart deterioration in mal...

Hwang Woo-Suk Apologizes For Fabricating Research

...erinarian stood by his assertion that samples were switched at a hospital and named three researchers he believes conspired against his work. On 11 January 2006, the government stripped Hwang of the title "Top Scientist" and the university apologized for the fraud. Prosecutors were investigating Hwang's cas...

New Gadget To Protect The Eyesight Of Children

...hem not to sit too close to the TV. The TV will be switched off if the warning goes unheeded.// The new gadget, TV Magic Tool, is an alarm system placed on top of a TV set. It uses a passive infrared (PIR) sensor to judge the distance between the TV set and the viewer. "Parents can pre-set the allowed d...

US Government Calls For Better Drug Supplies

...of thousands of beneficiaries are reported to have switched plans. The present coverage of Medicare amounts to one million prescriptions everyday. The states that have offered to come to the aid of the low-income groups are inclusive of New England, Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, and Illinois. Most people do...

Unusual Tumor-Suppressor Gene Switches Off in Lung Cancer

...aforementioned cancers. The gene, called TCF21 is switched off in tumor cells through a process called DNA me...rowing without control. When one of these genes is switched off, it could trigger the growth of cancer. In the current study, which appeared online in the Janua...

Mystery Behind The Déjà Vu Phenomenon Yet To Be Resolvd

...o such a condition. If a memory circuit is either switched on permanently or is hyperactive, as in case of chronic déjà vu sufferers, it could then lead to creation of memories, where none exist in reality. The condition can have a significant effect on the mental health of an individual. In worst cases, i...

Government Advertisement Faces Criticism For Wrong Salt Claim

...sale of healthy food, most UK citizens have indeed switched over to a diet, comprising of fruits and vegetables. Most of them have, in addition have limited or stopped the intake of salt. However, the processed foods such as bread, cereals, ready to eat meals and meat preparations contain a large proportio...

Indian Government: No Reason For Worry About Bird Flu

...restaurants have stopped making chicken dishes and switched to mutton, prices of which have increased by about 40 percent. Known to spread to human beings, the H5N1 strain of bird flu has so far resulted in nearly 100 human casualties across Southeast Asia, mostly in Vietnam. It has been reported in seven c...

Want to memorise better for the exams: stay hungry!!!

...ulation at Imperial College London, “Memory can be switched on and off, and often it is switched on at times of stress” The Yale team has discovered that this hormone seems to impact on the funct...

Whirlpool Bath Tubs Contain Potentially Lethal Bacterial Strains

...ten for long periods of time and when the jets are switched on, this water with harmful bacteria gets blown into the tub. Dr Moyes said that a teaspoon of normal tap water contains about 138 bacteria on the other hand a teaspoon of whirlpool tub water contains an average of 2.17 million bacteria. These ...

Genetic Reasons behind Change in One’s Blood Pressur

...lly between the age 14 and 18. New genes are being switched on that are involved in blood pressure. Though the exact genes responsible for blood pressure regulation are still unknown, it’s widely believed that the genes are consistent over a lifetime. but he said that further research would help in the bett...

Gene alteration observed in children turning into adults

...period of age 14 and 18. There are new genes being switched on that are involved in blood pressure and factors underlying blood pressure. I think that is the most interesting finding: the large amount of new genes that come into play.' told Dr. Sneider 'The next step is following these kids for a long period...

The Face Of Indian Health Care: A World Health Day Evaluation

...aved due to prompt action of the medical staff who switched off the power supply. The poor mother’s cry is lost in a country with a population of over a billion where the death of one single baby girl would mean nothing at all. But I bet the poor mother would dare to become pregnant again. July 2005, India:...

Craig Newschaffer of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.

..., "We do not know whether individual children have switched classifications, and of course we can never know whether a given child in a particular birth cohort would have been classified differently had they been born either earlier or later. At best, analyses of this type are merely trying to determine if tr...

Competitive Advantage Are Attained In Which Freeloaders Are Punished

.... Many of these initially punishment-averse people switched over to the punishing group and immediately adopted the established culture of cooperation. The former freeloaders contributed significantly to the group account and punished freeloaders -- even though you have to pay to punish. "You can't explain ...

Researchers Purify Protein That Could Regulate Male Hormones

...methylation was increased, the gene was silenced – switched off. It remains unclear for how many different human genes JHDM2A is a primary regulator. According to Zhang, the new findings indicate that the protein will provide another tool to enlist in studies of gene expression regulation."Given the androge...

Indian And Chinese Doctors Join Together To Prove The Efficacy Of Herbal Drugs

...in such an exercise by observing patients who have switched to herbal remedies with allopathic medicines having not provided any relief. --Edited IANS...

Is Nexium? beneficial for patients with Zollinger-Ellison syndrome?

...reated with a PPI for ZES (n=19) or IGH (n=2) were switched to NEXIUM 40 mg twice daily (n=19) or NEXIUM 80 mg twice daily (n=2). At baseline and day 10, patients received a gastric analysis (i.e., basal AO test) to measure the amount of acid secreted by the stomach. Patients with controlled AO at day 10 rema...

TV Viewing Might Increase The Risk Of Sleeping Difficulties In Children’

...set in the children's room. On average, the TV was switched on for 4,2 h a day. Children actively watched TV for a mean of 1,4 h a day and were passively exposed to TV 1,4 h a day. 2. Both active TV viewing and passive TV exposure were related to shorter sleep duration and sleeping difficulties, especially ...

An After-Dinner Nap Is A Natural Thing, Scientists Proved

...ctivity in humans and as well as in animals become switched off after eating, and thus we are in need of a small nap - researchers at Manchester University finds. A tiny protein called orexins was released from the neurons, whose action is focused on the regulation of states of consciousness. But glucose se...

Integrated Disease Surveillance Project Soon In The Country

...hildren's lives annually in the country. 'We have switched gears from the curative mode of health care to the preventive mode. We want some very viable vaccines for all communicable diseases to be given to children,'he said. (Source:PTI News)...

Low Carbohydrate Diet Still the First Choice for Diabetics

..., also reports that seven patients who immediately switched to a 20-percent carbohydrate diet from a low-fat diet in the earlier study also showed improvement. According to Richard Feinman, PhD, editor of Nutrition & Metabolism, “It is a small study, but it is the longest of its kind and it shows people com...

Enbrel Joins with Methotrexate to Cure Rheumatoid Arthritis

...py during the 3-year double-blind TEMPO trial were switched to the combination of ENBREL and methotrexate (n =...py during the 3-year double-blind TEMPO trial were switched to the combination of ENBREL and methotrexate (n = 76). Subjects receiving combination therapy durin...

Anti-Glycolytic Therapy Proved to be Effective Against Tumors

...earchers suspected that was because the cells have switched to an alternative means of producing ATP, namely glycolysis, but it was not clear if the glycolytic and mitochondrial pathways were connected in this fashion. It appears the two pathways are reciprocally linked. Fantin and her colleagues found that...