Treat depression and pain separately
...ened sensitivity to pain for fibromyalgia patients exist irrespective of depressive feelings. Also there seems to be very weak association between parts of the brain associated with chronic pain and those associated with emotions and depressive feelings. Researchers feel that these results stress the fact...Target of diabetes type 1 identified
...t these cells might be of different varieties that exist at different locations in the pancreas. The new research suggests that these cells that gets destroyed are nothing but parts of the insulin itself, a peptide called B:9-23. The new concept of single target leads to possibilities that targeting this s...Teen depression maybe short lived
...earch also points out that teenage depressions may exist along with anxiety disorders, and relatively poor social interactions leading to less social relationships. According to the study, children who have shown symptoms of distress, anxiety, and fear by the age of five are the ones who grow up to have ...Link found between depression and poor glycemic control
...ical treatment and be made aware of the risks that exist to their health....Diabetic retinopathy in pre-diabetes conditions
...p to the need of the body. Pre-diabetes conditions exist when there are high levels of blood glucose existent in patients, but the levels are not high enough to be called diabetes. This phase is also called impaired glucose tolerance or impaired fasting glucose. People in such conditions are at increases r...Burning energy and its impact on health during exercise can be of genetic origin
... sugar count in the blood. But the signs may still exist in the patient’s body for many years before the actual symptoms can be experienced. Researchers had taken families of non-diabetic and sedentary lifestyle for a supervised lifestyle consisting of aerobic exercise programs for a period of 20 weeks. T...Inhaled nitric oxide therapy does not reduce death risk of infants
...ants with lung infection found that there does not exist any significant difference between those infants who had received the therapy and those who were given a placebo. 60 % of the infants in the first group and 68% of infants in the placebo group had developed the serious lung infection of bronchopulmon...Pediatricians differ in their opinion of child abuse
...s of Penn State College of Medicine say that there exist severe contradictions among the doctors themselves regarding their opinion of whether the child had been abused or not. Conducting the first systematic examination of how the pediatricians report child abuse, the researchers for the study feel that ...Stem Cells, Tumor Cells Share Similar Properties: Scope For Treatment and Prevention?
...n the form of cancer. A lot of similarities infact exist between the stem cells and tumor cells in the sense that they undergo rapid cell division and closely resemble each other in their properties. Specialized cells may die through age or injuries, so the body keeps stocks of stem cells on hand to gener...Women with stress has less breast cancer risk
...cer,' the researchers said. Though controversies exist between stress and breast cancer, as researchers from NIH, has shown that lower incidence of primary breast cancer among stressed women and more research is needed to strike the balance between stress and breast cancer. Scientists warned that stress ...Health and Human Services stockpiles 20 million bird flu Vaccines
...great havoc in Asian countries and increased fears exist regarding the possible chances of the strain becoming mutated and getting adopted to infecting humans, the federal wanted to prevent a pandemic of bird flu which earlier occurred during 1918 worldwide causing death of over 50 million people. To avoid...Journal Recommends How To Improve The Performance Of Health Workers
...ountries each year, even though many interventions exist that can prevent such deaths. Health workers are essential for delivering these life-saving interventions. However, performance is often inadequate. Researchers had proposed that an international collaborative research agenda should be developed to...Commercial grape juices and vinegars found rich in antioxidants
...ecrease risk of infection and cancer. Antioxidants exist as vitamins, minerals and other compounds in foods. With the increasing interest in the function and diversity of antioxidants in foods, several methods for measuring antioxidant activity of food, beverages and biological samples have been develope...Evoprinter, a multigenomic comparative tool for rapid identification of functionally important DNA
...ifies multispecies-conserved DNA sequences as they exist in a reference DNA. Generated from multiple pair wise BLAT (BLAST-like alignment tool) alignments of a reference DNA to different test genomes, the EvoP presents an ordered, uninterrupted representation of the evolutionarily resilient sequences wit...A new approach to vaginal hysterectomy
...oute particularly where relative contraindications exist (e.g. large uterus, nulliparity, inadequate access, previous cesarean delivery pelvic laparotomy and if oophorectomy is required). Dr R. K. Purohit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Purohit General Hospital, Orissa, has developed a techniq...A New Technique For Prediction Of Adult Height
A number of methods exist to predict how tall a child can be after maturity. However, these are invasive, expensive, or relatively imprecise. Previous methods have used //secondary sexual characteristics as a marker of maturity, but they lack precision, as well as being invas...Chiron Corporation Gets US Contract To Produce Bird Flu Vaccines
...and said, 'The hard truth is that capacity doesn't exist within the United States to produce vaccines of sufficient speed and in sufficient quantity to reach every American.' Chiron corporation is to produce flu vaccine from the inactivated flu strain H5N1 through tissue culture the production will be don...Brain cells by millions die during a stroke
...roke appear.Until recently, the technology did not exist to precisely count the number of neurons lost with each passing minute that the blood supply is interrupted to the affected region, says Dr Saver. The calculation of damage was made possible by three different lines of research pursued in the past d...Mirror Neurons Connected To Autism
...to play in autism. A system of neurons is known to exist in the human brain which specialize //in the 'walking in another's shoes' function. The 'mirror neurons' are at work, when a person makes a move while watching another person. Malfunctioning mirror neurons may have a role in autistic children's soc......or our species. However, today the technology does exist to finally track down the genetic changes required to spark any of the 200 diseases we collectively call cancer. This knowledge would be crucial to develop better treatments. The time has come. The advances of technology have thrown up opportunitie...