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Spirituality helps lessen arthritic pain

...am, North Carolina and colleagues have published a paper in April issue of the Journal of pain. Patients who use religion or spirituality to cope with the chronic pain of rheumatoid arthritis can reduce their pain and boost their sense of well being, the researchers say. Dr. Francis says, "One might expec...

Dark skin protects

...er than white at fending off fungi and bacteria. A paper by Sydney-based biologist James Mackintosh says it could explain why dark skin evolved in humans and animals living in tropical environments. A popular theory on why darker skin prevailed in some areas and lighter skin in others, is that// the extra...

Women find difficulty in calling it 'Quits'

...iew offers several reasons for this disparity in a paper published in the May 2001 issue of CNS Drugs.// Dr. Perkins says that one of the intriguing observations that emerged from his review is that some forms of nicotine replacement therapy may not be as effective in women as in men. In some of the ...

Lecithin lowers cholesterol absorption in body

...hi Jiang and Sang K. Noh. A peer-reviewed research paper by the three researchers, “Egg phosphatidylcholine decreses the lymphatic absorption of cholesterol in rats,” as in the Journal of Nutrition.// Many people believe that dietary cholesterol directly raises blood cholesterol. Because eggs provide abou...

Music in link with epilepsy

...es exposure improved their spatial skills, such as paper cutting and folding. Studies on rats showed that those that had listened to the K448 sonata were able to negotiate a maze faster than those that had been played minimalist music or left in silence.// In other tests, children who were taught a keybo...

FDA approves first pocket-sized EKG machine

... the electrocardiogram's traditional spike-covered paper printout....

Effective And Economical Agent For Anthrax

...dustry and its widespread agricultural use. Eighty paper strips, each containing as many as 100 million spores of the anthrax-like surrogate, were placed in walls, under carpets, inside computers and file cabinets, and in other hidden places that might harbor spores in an actual anthrax contamination. The ...

Surgery-Rigged pulley helps patients

...l bones can be extended as much as the length of a paper clip. Poll doesn't have long-term data yet proving the children will never need additional surgery. But the technique already is widely used for easier cleft palate repair, and Poll says only 5 percent of those patients relapse, fewer than with tra...

No explanation on schizophrenia gene

...e for new approaches to researching the illness. A paper by Douglas F. Levison and colleagues report that despite earlier findings to the contrary, there is no close link between schizophrenia and genes on the long arm of chromosome 1.// The researchers scoured the chromosome in more than 1,900 patients b...

Stem Cells Have Few Mutations

... be enough to develop medical treatments. ``This paper highlights an issue that we have known about,'' he said. ``Because of the accumulation of mutations in cell lines that have been in culture for a long time, the 78 cell lines are not likely to be maximally beneficial'' for medical treatments.'' Dr....

Vitamin E is healthy for all

...e linked with reduced dementia risk. And finally a paper from this week's Archives of Internal Medicine shows that men who ate at least one ounce of nuts a week were less likely to suffer a sudden heart attack. Almonds are an excellent source of vitamin E, say the researchers. They contain more of the vita...

Caffeine is not the only culprit in coffee!

...While some substances appear to be captured by the paper of a coffee filter, others - like caffeine - filter through to the brewed coffee. The authors suggest that the metabolism of one of these substances may slow down the body's ability to clear homocysteine from the bloodstream. The researchers conclud...

Food May Trigger Life-Threatening Asthma

...lergy in this population." Dr. Sampson hopes this paper "stimulates an awareness of the importance of food allergy" in connection with severe life-threatening asthma....

New Test for HIV Patients

...nfected patients. Blood spots were dried on filter paper and CD4 cell counts were measured. Researchers the...ed on this study, the dried blood stored on filter paper may be a field-friendly alternative for CD4 cell count assessment. Study author Alimuddin Zumla from...

Crooked teeth may be due to evolution and overcooked meals

...f George Washington University, while presenting a paper at the AAAS Meeting in Washington,// US, chopping of vegetables to bite size pieces and cooking them to into mashed textures may be one of the reasons that our teeth are growing crooked and badly formed. Thus congenital bad shaped teeth may be a dire...

Study Proves That MMR Vaccine Is Not Connected To Autistic Babies

...tion of the journal Lancet in 1998 had published a paper relating the MMR vaccine to rise of autism in chil... Ten of the original 13 researchers of the initial paper linking autism and MMR have decided to retract their study. Their retraction will be published in th...

Prevent Cardiac Problems And Laugh Your Way To Good Health

According to a paper presented at American College of Cardiology, laugh.../to good healthy heart. The chief presenter of the paper Michael Miller, MD, director of the center for preventive cardiology and associate professor of medi...

More Errors From Computerized Prescriptions

...linked to drug interaction warnings. Plus, no more paper could translate to big savings for many health institutions. It was found that computerized order systems resulted in reducing medication errors by as much as 81 percent. However, handwriting aside, the new systems are leading to other kinds of medi...

Acrolein may be the key to halting spinal cord damage

... you control the acrolein levels," Shi said. "This paper suggests that the body is generally pretty resilient but that acrolein may be something it can't handle." Shi said that some drugs already under development for other conditions could be used to treat neurodegenerative diseases as well. "Hypertensi...

Burning energy and its impact on health during exercise can be of genetic origin

...lucose in the body etc. According to the research paper publishing the works of scientists from Washington University School of Medicine, exercise can help the scientists identify regions in chromosomes 6, 7 and 19 that are linked to pre-diabetes. Pre-diabetes or the condition of glucose intolerance prec...

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