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Zinc Supplements Found To Be Effective In Treating Children With ADHD

... the production and modulation of melatonin, which helps regulate dopamine function, supposed to be an impo... and researchers say dopamine, a neurotransmittor, helps the brain register feelings of reward and pleasure. Zinc is a mineral that helps the body form pro...

New Drug For Parkinson’s Disease With Less Side Effect

...esult could be a sign that the medication actually helps protect the brain cells targeted by the disease and studies have shown rasagiline appears to protect nerve cells affected by Parkinson’s from apoptosis, or programmed cell death....

New Research Has Found Another Use For Botox

Botox not only helps in smoothening out wrinkles but results from a long-term study show a Botox injection helps restore the voices of people with // a voice disorder caused by spasms in their vocal cord muscles. ...

Hope For Patients With Prostate Cancer

...xotere works by stopping tubulin -- a protein that helps cancer cells divide and grow. The drug Taxotere in combination with prednisone was found to extend the lifespan of patients by about 2.5 months.Side effects of the drug combination include nausea, hair loss, bone marrow suppression, tingling sensatio...

New Treatment For Patients With Paralysis

...g Schwann cells to preserve cyclic AMP. Cyclic AMP helps enable the growth of nerve fibers that send signals up and down the spinal cord and central nervous system. The rats also received injections of cyclic AMP to promote the growth of nerve fibers past the injury site and into the spinal cord. Speciali...

A Benefit In Disguise

New research shows smoking actually helps arteries stay open following a procedure to repair blocked blood vessels in the legs.Researchers // who conducted the study say they do not recommend smoking, but say the findings suggest the increased level of carbon monoxide in the blood stream may...

Cancer Patients and Sleeplessness

...ant to sleep deprive a cancer patient." So, Graci helps patients make other changes, starting with their daytime routine. She says, "Keep them busy. Schedule things to do. It might be going through bills, helping them get dinner ready." She also says avoid naps and do only neutral activities two hours bef...

Embryonic Cells Might Prevent Parkinson’s Disease From Worsenin

...s work by producing dopamine, a neurochemical that helps control movement. People with Parkinson’s don’t produce enough dopamine, which leads to the movement problems common in people with the condition. Researchers compared 20 patients who had cells implanted with 19 patients who underwent a sham surgery...

Thawed Ovarian Transplant

...ope that they may be able to have children one day helps them fight their cancer. ...

Genetic Breakthrough in Common Eye Problem

... be involved with this disease. The discovery also helps // researchers understand the true complexity of this disease. Researchers collected blood samples from 402 people with AMD and 429 healthy individuals. The DNA was examined for variations in genes that code for proteins called fibulins. Researchers...

The Drug Tetrathiomolybdate Found To Be Useful For Various Diseases

The drug called tetrathiomolybdate which helps Wilson's disease by controlling copper toxicity may be very useful to treat other diseases say researchers . // Researchers say that when you lower copper, you can inhibit a thing called angiogenesis, which is blood vessel growth. Cancer requires b...

Fixing the way to a Man’s Heart

... amounts of calcium deposits on artery walls. This helps patients to find out before they are in serious trouble whether they have high blood pressure and cholesterol problems or they have coronary disease. Another commonly used method is using cardiac fingerprinting. It works on the principle of breakin...

Hope For Patient With Alzheimer’s Diseas

...ile memantine is not a cure for Alzheimer’s, if it helps to keep a person with Alzheimer’s at home for six months or one year longer, then it is a victoy.”...

Genes Linked To Cigarette Addiction

...es if they carry a specific form of a gene // that helps clear nicotine out of the liver. Those with the inactive form of the CYP2A6 gene were about three-times more likely to get hooked on the habit than those with the normal form. The study authors say the interesting thing is they were also less likely...

Monitoring Blood Pressure

...up. Researchers conclude saying self-measurement helps to identify patients with “white-coat hypertension” -- abnormal elevation of blood pressure in the physician’s office therby recommending self-measurement as a complement to conventional office measureent....

Minimizing The Risk Of HIV Spread

...ss likely to be infected with HIV, and a new study helps explain why.Researchers examined tissue samples from nine specimens of human foreskin. They found each sample contained cells expressing the protein DC-SIGN, which contains receptors that make it easier for HIV to enter cells, indicating foreskin may...

Easier Tests To Detect Tuberculosis

...tract and a sputum sample is collected. The string helps the child bring up a better sample of sputum. Researchers found the string test helped to detect more cases of tuberculosis than did sputum induction alone. Thus researchers say more straightforward diagnostic procedures are needed to help reverse t...

Olive Oil Found To Offer A Protective Effect Against Breast Cancer

...astuzumab (Herceptin), which targets Her-2/neu and helps prolong the life of breast cancer patients. Oleic acid was also found to increase the expression of a tumor suppresser protein. Thus researchers emphasize it is important to be cautious about the implications of the study, as laboratory results do n...

Raising Good Cholesterol Levels Found To Improve Heart Health

...olesterol levels improves cholesterol profiles and helps prevent angiographic progression of coronary stenosis, and may prevent cardiovascular events in some people who exercise regularly and eat low-fat diets....

The Use Of Oral Steroids For Muscular Dystrophy Questioned

...bo. Results of the study have shown that the drug helps maintain muscle function in children with DMD and it also makes it easier for them to climb and run. Prednisone positively impacted muscle force in patients with the disease, which is characterized by a progressive weakness in muscles. Compared to th...

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