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Effectiveness of acupuncture for migraines

...reatment. All the patients were required to keep a diary for the headaches (frequency, severity and duration) from four weeks before the trials to ninth or twelfth week of the trial. The results of the trials have shown that although there isn’t much difference in the effectiveness of acupuncture and sham...

Consumption Of Red Meat Found To Double The Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis

...rticipants in the study completed a seven-day food diary and were asked about their smoking habits. Results showed those eating the most red meat had twice the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis. Patients consuming red meat as well as other types of meat had similar higher risk factors. However, hig...

More signs to an approaching migraine attack

... 97 participants were given a hand-held electronic diary to recordsymptoms of the attack on a daily basis for three months. The researchers foundthat nearly 97 per cent of the participants had recorded some kind of symptomprior to an actual attack. The most common symptoms reported were tiredness,difficult...

Eating chocolate makes you happy

...eported their feelings via a Web-based interactive diary over a week. In the chocolate group, 70 per cent said they felt happy, compared to 35 per cent in the chocolate-deprived group. In the free choice group, 60 per cent felt happy. Dr. Adrian Owen, a neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge, said...

Reduced POD linked to fatal asthma attacks

...g daily peak flow measurements and treatments on a diary card for the first month. Researchers found that patients with low POD were more likely to suffer from fatal and near-fatal asthma attacks than those with high or normal POD.The researchers said that patients identified with low POD should be monit...

Handbook cum diary on regulatory information

...n of Andhra Pradesh has brought out a handbook cum diary for the benefit of all chemists, drug manufacturer...ned drugs have been updated in such a way that the diary contains even the drugs which are brought under the list with effect from January 1, 2002. The Asso...

The superior steroids

...histamine on an as-needed basis. They kept a daily diary of their allergy symptoms and completed a quality-of-life questionnaire. Researchers looked for chemical evidence of allergic reaction, such as eosinophils, in participants' blood. Eosinophils are white blood cells involved in defending the body fro...

Genetics and cholesterol levels

...d some non-identical. The participants kept a food diary at the same time got their cholesterol measured. In identical twins, who have the same genetic make-up, the differences in dietary intake accounted for differences in cholesterol levels. But their cholesterol levels were more similar than among pairs...

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