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Fight arthritic pain with acupuncture

...f the worst types of chronic pain. Many people are immobilized and crippled because of this painful condition. But now there’s good news for the long-suffering arthritic patients. Acupuncture, which is one of the most popular forms of alternative medicine, is supposed to have magical cures for those suffering f...

Travel-Related Blood Clots Can Be Reduced By Using Flight Stockings

...ople who have had a chronic illness that kept them immobilized also have an elevated risk for blood clots during long-distance air travel.The reviewed studies did not find any serious safety issues associated with using compression stockings, and Clarke said the risks and costs appear to be moderately low.Souce...

A Mushroom Extract May Impact the Body’s Immune Syste

...d stored at –80°C. Samples were analyzed at pH3 on immobilized metal affinity capture (IMAC30) ProteinChip? arrays, using both low-performance and high-performance mass spectrometry (MS). Statistical analyses of low- and high-resolution MS data were cross-validated to determine whether changes in immunologically...

Gamma Knife Offers Noninvasive Treatment for Vascular Disorders, Brain Tumors

...e she had made of her favorite songs. Her head was immobilized in a stereotactic head frame whose coordinates provide a reference grid to allow doctors to pinpoint the radiation beams to the target area. It’s all done by computer. Ms. Coit was able to go home a few hours after the procedure. Four days later, the...

Public Libraries Turning into Shelters for the Homeless in the US

... homeless. Are they on the street because they are immobilized by severe depression or is deep depression the consequence of being on the street? Any tendency towards a psychological problem is aggravated and magnified by the constant stress, social isolation, loss of self-esteem, despair, and relentless bore...

Nanotechnology Could Treat Spinal Cord Injuries, Diabetes, and Parkinson's Disease

...th a syringe. When the nanofibers form they can be immobilized in an area of tissue where it is necessary to activate some biological process, for example saving damaged cells or regenerating needed differentiated cells from stem cells. This same work also has implications for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, bot...

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