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Sea Snail Venom Paves Way for Potent New Painkiller

.... It is a very powerful drug, as it was created to lessen chronic pains in individuals that no longer responded to morphine therapy. The treatment is expected to block the calcium channels of the nerves that transmit pain signals in the body. It targets a particular subgroup known as N-type calcium channe...

Kids With Crohn's Disease are at Ease Now

... and comfortable reclining chairs all designed to lessen the emotional stress young patients sometimes experience during the two to three hours required to administer intravenous treatments. The center is one of only a few pediatric IBD centers in the North America that conducts research activities and p...

Apple a Day Keeps Asthma Away

...mponent. However, it may be that certain foods can lessen or prevent asthma symptoms, said Dr. Burns. The most important thing to remember is that diet can have a significant impact on teens respiratory health. I would encourage them to make healthy eating a part of their daily routine, and stress to the...

Drinking More Milk may Lessen Type 2 Diabetes Risk

...e of calcium and vitamin D in the diet, could help lessen the risk of type 2 diabetes by nearly 15 percent. In the detailed analysis of previously published studies, the researchers found that persistently low levels of vitamin D were linked to as high as 46 percent greater risk of type 2 diabetes. Howeve...

Highway Robbers-Stealing Your Hearts Health

...more than damage your peace of mind, it could even lessen your lifespan . Researchers from University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany say that long-term exposure to air pollution from a nearby highway or busy road can raise the risk of hardening of the arteries, which in turn could lead to heart disease and str...

Vitamin C may Not Help You from Getting a Cold

...nt make sense to take vitamin C 365 days a year to lessen the chance of catching a cold, said co-author Harri Hemila, a professor in the Department of Public Health at University of Helsinki in Finland. Vitamin C was discovered in the 1930s, and its use was made popular in the 1970s by Nobel Prize-winning...

Chain Smokers Prepared to Lessen Their Daily Cigs Rather Than Quitting

...e of quitting smoking, but are prepared to try and lessen the number of cigarettes they smoke each day . However, after studying healthcare literature, a team of Cochrane Researchers could find that very little attention has been given to this alternative of cutting down the number of cigarettes. The ma...

Alzheimer's-associated Enzyme Linked to Seizures

...that treatments that might block this enzyme could lessen the incidences of seizures. Alzheimer's disease is marked by toxic amyloid-beta protein plaques in the brain which are formed when the larger amyloid precursor protein (APP) is clipped by two enzymes, BACE and gamma-secretase, which release the amylo...

Taking Animals Out of Laboratory Research

...ust continue to find treatments for diseases which lessen the quality of human and animal life. New consumer products, medicines, and industrial and agricultural chemicals must be adequately tested in order to identify potential hazards to human and animal health, and to the environment. Boots plc contrib...

Cord Blood may Hold Potential Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes

...or type 1 diabetes. We hope these cells can either lessen the immune system's attack on the pancreas or possibly introduce stem cells that can differentiate into insulin-producing cells," Haller said. "This isn't a cure-all. We think that giving these cells is essentially providing some immunotherapy and...

Mice can Produce Embryonic Stem Cells Similar to That of Humans

...believed that a steady supply of animal cells will lessen the need for stem cells taken from human embryos, a practice that is mired in controversy because harvesting the cells from embryos leads to their death. Stem cells are master cells that can change into every type of tissue. They are seen as a 're...

Adopting Healthy Lifestyle in Middle Age Lowers Heart Disease Risk

...p healthy lifestyle behaviours, could considerably lessen their risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and reduce their death rate. Investigators saw a 35 percent drop in CVD frequency and a 40 percent decrease in mortality once this age bracket achieved 4 healthy behaviours: eating at least 5 fruits and ...

Doctors Call for Opt-out Approach to HIV Testing

...ny people have HIV, but would cut infection rates, lessen the stigma surrounding testing and reduce the number of people being diagnosed in the later stages of HIV. They point to America where guidelines from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention now recommend voluntary opt-out testing as the stan...

Art in Hospitals to Enhance Patient Care

... has demonstrated that an artistic environment can lessen the requirement for pain-killing drugs in a hospital setting. Arts has always been associated with a positive effect on both health and wellbeing research by the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital found that live music helped to ebb the levels of an...

UN Agencys Checklist on Health Care Error

...ant to improve patient safety around the world and lessen the number of health care related accidents that affect millions. Patient safety is a primary concern in both developed and developing countries. The nine key points listed by the World Health Organization (WHO) include double-checking similar-soun...

Pain and Intensity Of Post-stroke Spasticity Decreased by Botox Treatment

...ows that treatment with botulinum toxin type A can lessen these disabling symptoms without treatment-limiting side effects, which in turn improves the ability of stroke patients to perform such essential activities of daily living as dressing themselves, maintaining good personal hygiene, and reaching for a...

Risk of Lymphoma Increases With Hepatitis C Virus Infection

...t step in finding ways to reduce its incidence and lessen mortality." HCV causes hepatitis, which is an inflammation of the liver. The HCV virus is carried through the blood and is passed from person to person through the exchange of bodily fluids - via shared needles, open wounds, and sexual contact, amo...

Common Pain Killer may Reduce the Risk of Brain Damage in Premature Babies

...hilip Morris Organization, the team started out to lessen the risk, focusing much of their endeavour on a molecule known as VEGF, which is mainly in charge for answering the brain's call for more oxygen by vigorously building new blood vessels. The goal was to make the germinal matrix a little hardier in...

Aggressive Treatment for Whiplash Does Not Promote Faster Recovery

...tion or believing that they couldnt do anything to lessen the pain had a slower recover than those who did not use such strategies. Unlike the previous study, the current one did not show a slower recovery for patients who consulted a general practitioner and a specialist. This suggests that the insurance...

Suicide Among Returning US Soldiers on the Rise

...rted in January at Fort Bragg, N.C., which aims to lessen the stigma associated with post-traumatic stress disorder. It brings behavioral health staff directly into primary care clinics instead of making soldiers go to a separate mental health facility for help. Earlier this month, a Pentagon task force w...

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