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Testosterone Therapy can improve sexual function in postmenopausal women

...do caution that adding testosterone to HT is not a panacea for sexual dysfunction in women and that a comprehensive approach is recommended. “Because of the complex nature of female sexual dysfunction it is often difficult to establish the meaningful steps in treatment,” they write. “Treatment options for se...

New Drug to Help Smokers Kick the Habit

...cautions smokers against considering the drug as a panacea for quitting smoking. According to co-author Dr. Robert C. Klesges, from the University of Tennessee in Memphis, "There are some important gastrointestinal side effects and, in the current studies, most people given the drug actually did not quit smo...

China Bans Illegal Stem Cell Collection, Transplantation

...ised stem cell collection and transplantation//, a panacea for a range of blood disorders. Two sets of the regulations issued by the Chinese Ministry of Health said that the sources of peripheral blood stem cells or stem cells, must be legal, registered sources that can be traced. The regulations aim to s...

Awareness about anaphylaxis crucial to prevent fatalities

Education is a panacea for many ills and who knows it better than US health experts who have set a public campaign rolling, to inform the public about the virulence// of an allergic reaction called anaphylaxis. Anaphylaxis can actually descend upon its victim silently ...

Mind in a Bind – Alternative Intervention

...s. There is no remedy that can be termed as single panacea for any given disorder. It varies according to the constitution and temperamental make up of a person. Medicines are administered orally not intravenously. Dosages are very minute and based on the principle of ‘Similia Similibus Curentur’, which is L...

All in the name of Fitness

...r. The London Marathon for instance used to be the panacea of ultra-endurance but now it seems anyone feels they can do it. "It is very difficult to gatekeep an event with up to 35,000 people participating but you should at least have been able to complete a half marathon before being allowed to join the ru...

Genetics to bring about Medical Breakthroughs

...le the genetic part of that jigsaw - it won't be a panacea for obesity but ... it will make a huge difference." Last week, researchers announced the finding of a new marker to detect the destructive prostate cancer. "The discovery would allow the development of individual treatment plans tailored to the ...

Latest Weight-Loss Pill Offers Modest Results, Blocks 'Munchies'

...t has been billed for several years as a potential panacea for the most troublesome of habits – obesity, smoking and possibly alcohol addiction. Studies on its use in smoking-cessation studies are currently under way. Curioni’s team compared its results to a previous review of orlistat and silbutramine, th...

Research 'Extraordinaire' To Restore Vision

...rching for a new treatment that will prove to be a panacea to damaged cells. For this study, advanced retinal cells, which were programmed to develop into photoreceptors, were taken from newborn mice. Five-day old mice were ideal candidates, as, in them, the retina is at the stage of formation. These cells...

Surgery vs. Non-surgical treatment for back disorders

...overbearing reason to advocate surgery as the only panacea unless a patient requests for surgery as a preferential choice. Common concerns of both patients and surgeons that nerves when under pressure may cause paralysis of closely related muscles is baseless said the editorial. MST...

Intestinal Bacteria Blamed for Rotund Figures

...sy way out to slough off the excess fat is not the panacea to be sought for by scientists.The National Institutes of Health and the W.M. Keck Foundation funded this study. MST...

'Cancer Prevention' - In Your Hands

...se. Therefore a cancer prevention program can be a panacea for prevention of many other lifestyle diseases as well. Source-Medinia SAV...

Stem Cells Use in the Future

... ourselves contradicting patients that it is not a panacea and that much of the research has many years before therapies arise from the work. Areas, which are rapidly gathering scientific credibility as therapies of the future that would involve stem cell collection and storage, include organ engineering and...

Scent of a Rose may Give More Than Pleasure

...The researchers added that smelling odors is not a panacea for developing skills needed to play the piano or to ride a bike, as these activity-related memories don't rely on the hippocampus. This experiment follows one, by the same author, using electric currents, which were found to have the same effect. ...

Promoting Circumcision to Prevent HIV is Misguided and Will Backfire: ICGI

... infants and children.” Circumcision is not the panacea the world has been awaiting. The emphasis needs to stay on proven HIV deterrents -— the basic tenets of the ABC campaign. Shifting emphasis from proven HIV-reduction programs, such as abstinence and condoms, to risky and unsafe surgeries could ultima...

Viagra Can Create Relationship Problems as Well as Solve Them

...gs are neither a mandate to have intercourse nor a panacea for every problem in the bedroom. Sexuality in Midlife and Beyond is a 48-page report edited by Alan Altman, M.D., Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, and Suki Hanfling, M.S.W., L.I.C.S.W., certified sex therapist. This report helps rea...

South African Farmers Turn to Organic Farming

...not only as a profitable enterprise, but also as a panacea for poor soil quality in growing regions. From an estimated 5 million rand ($700,000) before 2003, sales of organic food grown in South Africa - domestic sales and exports combined - jumped to 155 million rand ($21 million) in 2005, with an exponen...

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