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Relief from common back pain

...t respond to conservative therapies and whose pain affects their everyday lives.Nucleoplasty claims to have a number of benefits over invasive surgery because this is quick and painless. ...

New treatment for diabetics

...s the most common form of the disease, and usually affects people later in life. Patients with the condition do not make enough insulin, or cannot use it properly, which means they cannot move blood sugar into the cells. Sugar then builds up in the bloodstream and causes health problems. Type 2 diabetes can ...

High vitamin A increases risk of hip fractures

.... She said previous studies also suggest vitamin A affects cells that work in bone remodeling. The adverse effects appear to be caused only by too much retinol -- the true form of vitamin A, found in such things as liver, fish oils and supplements - and not by foods rich in beta carotene, such as dark, leaf...

Early menopause- The cause

... is also known as the premature ovarian failure.It affects about 2% of the total population.// The University of Auckland team say the findings could lead to the development of a genetic test, which would allow women with a family history of the condition to know if they are at risk. They analysed DNA from ...

Early menopause- The cause

... is also known as the premature ovarian failure.It affects about 2% of the total population. The University of Auckland team say the findings could lead to the development of a genetic test, which would allow women// with a family history of the condition to know if they are at risk. They analysed DNA from ...

Alcohol decreases risk of dementia

...rdiovascular risk. Since blood vessel disease also affects the brain, might alcohol also protect against dementia. According to this study, the report on alcohol is part of the long-running Rotterdam Study, which is following over 5,000 people aged 52 and older. Those who drank alcohol were matched to thos...

Knowing how weight loss aids in diabetes

... into the first long-term study on how weight loss affects the outcome in type 2 diabetes. With about 30 per cent of the population now classified as overweight, and diabetes seemingly reaching epidemic proportions, it is never been more urgent to look at this question. Volunteers in the study will be assig...

Kidney cancer on the rise

...n by 68 per cent over the last two decades and now affects almost 6,000 people a year. Research in UK says that 5,700 people each year are affected by kidney cancer and survival rates are among the lowest in Europe.// The disease accounts for an estimated 95,000 worldwide deaths each year, 3,000 of which are...

Heriditary dental disorders

...mation. Dentinogenesis imperfecta type II, which affects approximately 1 in 6,000 newborns, is characterized by blue-gray or amber brown opaque teeth. The teeth have narrow roots, are frail and fracture easily. In dentin dysplasia, tooth color can be normal, or slightly bluish or brownish and opaque. The t...

Mutation connected to Osteoporosis

...illions of people will develop osteoporosis, which affects most elderly women and many elderly men. Up until age 30 healthy people have the ability to grow new bone but after that time the bone building cells, called osteoblasts die off and with those cells goes the ability to make bone. As the mineral cont...

Vitamin C to put off cataract

...ls in the lens of the eye become cloudy. It mostly affects people over 60 years of age.A new study states that eating a diet rich in Vitamin C could ward off cataarcts.// Researchers from the department of Clinical Nutrition looked at nearly 400 people aged between 53 and 73.They gave detailed information a...

Gleevec gets hopeful results

...hronic myelogenous leukemia, a form of cancer that affects about 4,500 people in the USA each year. A study supports Gleevec's image as a potential cure for this kind of cancer, which, although cases are rare, can be deadly. // A new study adds to the evidence suggesting that a heavily publicized drug treat...

Eyedrops for amblyopia

...es, farsightedness and nearsightedness.// Lazy eye affects as many as 3% of U.S. children and usually develops in infancy or early childhood. Eye drops are just as effective as eye patches for treating "lazy eye" and are less likely to be avoided by children. Standard treatment has been eye patches worn ove...

Heart Drug has grave side effects

...ually loses its ability to pump blood efficiently, affects nearly 5 million Americans. The condition may be chronic, but patients can develop severe attacks of breathing difficulty that require hospitalization. Dr. Ann Bolger, an American Heart Association spokeswoman, said patients studied were generally l...

Arthritis Drug May Cause Liver Damage

...ot come with the same risks. Rheumatoid arthritis affects about 2 million Americans, the vast majority of them women. It is not the kind of arthritis that plagues the elderly as their joints essentially wear out. Instead, the immune system goes awry and attacks patients' own cartilage. It typically strikes ...

Chemical in Gila monster's saliva yields Alzheimer drug

...viously unknown receptor pathway in the brain that affects memory. New York-based biotechnology company Axonyx Inc., which is developing the drug, Gilatide, plans to start human trials with it as a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease later this year. A growing number of companies are probing the mechan...

Sleepwalking has genetic roots

...r. It's not yet clear just how this immune variant affects the body's sleep cycles. But it's also interesting to note that many of these patients also suffer from REM (rapid eye movement) sleep disorder - where their muscles are not paralysed (as they usually are) during dreaming. It may be that treating som...

Elevated Ozone Levels Hurt Sperm Count

... reaction, she speculates, which in turn adversely affects the sperm. According to Dr. Larry Lipshulz, a professor of urology and chief of the division of male reproductive medicine and surgery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston., the data is far too preliminary to make any far-reaching conclusions. H...

Assessment for hearing aid implants in the process

...ng down well with those who use them. Hearing loss affects around a quarter of all adults aged over 60 in the United States. Traditionally there was one option for those with a hearing problem - an acoustic hearing aid. // Now, however, there's another choice - an implant into the middle ear which directly ...

High Altitude ‘Speeds up ageing process

...oth maturation and ageing, and that where you live affects this. “The early decline in the concentration of these hormones in women living at high altitude may suggest that women age earlier at high altitudes. “These hormonal changes might have a significant effect on the lives of women living in hihg altitu...

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