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A Drug Used To Treat Heat Problems May Benefit Stroke Patients

...rapy when they have a stroke appear to regain more functional independence than those not on the drug. For the ...with statins and 137 had not. The independence and functional level was about the same for all patients at the time of their stroke. Three months after having a ...

Effective Pain Relief For Patients Suffering From Multiple Sclerosis

...ported better quality of life with dronabinol. The functional ability of the patients was not affected. Adverse effects, dizziness being the most common, were more frequent with dronabinol than with placebo. Acute or chronic pain, including musculoskeletal pain, pain associated with spasms and central pain, oc...

Possibility Of Regaining Speech After Tongue, Voice Box Removal

...ose who had received a primary TEP did not develop functional speech....

Public Defibrillators Found To Improve Survival Rate

...x, and those who survived were similar in terms of functional status. Researchers say their results show that use of AEDs by trained volunteers is safe and effective when initiated in public locations where there is at least a moderate likelihood of a witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest....

Water Exercise Found to be Effective for Patients with Osteoarthritis

...ym and hydrotherapy interventions produce positive functional outcomes for patients with osteoarthritis. However, it seems that hydrotherapy may be more suitable for aerobic based exercise programs. Hydrotherapy provides the optimal environment for patients with osteoarthritis to exercise aerobically, and at hi...

fMRI Offers Insight Into An Infants Brain

...st immediately after birth. Researchers are using functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to study infant brain activity in response to speech. They say this is the first time fMRI has been used to study infants. It is a noninvasive way to study neuronal responses, and the doctors say it does not use r...

Tissue Transfer For Treatment Of Massive Skin Cancers

...ee tissue transfer yields acceptable survival with functional and cosmetic outcomes....

Shrinking Birthmark’s

... birthmarks get worse, resulting in disfigurement, functional impairment, or bleeding. A standard procedure called sclerotherapy is used to treat the condition, but the problem is the veins send out small extensions that are hard for doctors to see making the standard treatment often only partially successful ...

Hydrotherapy Could Be Effective For Osteoarthritis

...ym and hydrotherapy interventions produce positive functional outcomes for patients with osteoarthritis....

Acupunture relieves pain and improves function in knee Osteoarthritis

...on has shown that acupuncture reduces the pain and functional impairment of osteoarthritis of the knee," said Stephen E. Straus, M.D., NCCAM Director. "These results also indicate that acupuncture can serve as an effective addition to a standard regimen of care and improve quality of life for knee osteoarthriti...

Reducing Disabilities By Following A Healthy Diet

...and vegetables were associated with lower risk for functional limitations, such as being able to walk a quarter mile or climb 10 steps, that often precede disability. The median servings for study participants consuming the highest amounts of foods were two servings of dairy, three servings of fruit, and thre...

Gene Therapy To Treat Deafness

...e first time it may be possible to do cellular and functional damage repair of the organ of corti in deaf mammals....

Exercise can improve functional limitation of arthritis patients

...tudy was undertaken to find out how to elevate the functional limitations of elderly patients suffering from art...s, economic factors. The results showed that the functional decline was more for women; physical limitations due to arthritis of those who suffer from the disea...

Hip X-ray can help to find out progression of osteoarthritis

...e narrowing that is accompanied by severe pain and functional impairment in the elderly. Severe condition may lead to total hip replacement operation in patients who may have suffered severe damage in the hip structure in the process of disease progression. The researchers had studied 1904 men and women in th...

New insight for skin cancer discovered

...tudy of cell transformations, from simple forms to functional human tissues. It is possible to have a ready access to such tissues and hence the new study can help people develop new ways of targeting for therapy. The results of the study were published in the journal Nature Genetics....

Placebo for relief from emotions

...inistered. In the new study, researchers had used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure the blood flow in the brain in order to maintain brain activity. The results of the study showed that subjects reduced ratings of unpleasantness by about 29%. This reduction in rating unpleasant experience...

Arthritis and the Wnt Factor

...ticle by Nakamura et al., "Expression profiles and functional analyses of Wnt-related genes// in human joint disorders," will appear in the July issue of The American Journal of Pathology. The article revolves around the protein, Wnt. Wnt is a proto-oncogene since its disruption can lead to cancer in various o...

Sleep more to improve your memory

...m Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Using the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) researchers had been able to see the active and the inactive parts of the brain during sleep and wake times and how that contributes to memory. When a person gets the information inputs a new memory is formed. Howev...

Pulmonary rehabilitation program effective for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

...tion programs involve exercise training to improve functional capacity of the lungs, taking into consideration the cardiovascular, pulmonary and skeletal muscle limitations. Goals of these programs are to reduce the symptoms of the diseases, increase the physical abilities of the patients and restore the highes...

Cholesterol can be lowered using combination of Soy Proteins and Sterols

... for the combination of soy protein and sterols in functional foods, giving food formulators extra leverage in the heart health category. Officials at ADM say using both ingredients together creates the possibility for dual claims on the packaging and appeal to health-conscious consumers who seek out approved ...

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