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Aggressive Treatment for Whiplash Does Not Promote Faster Recovery

...hey note that effective care, if medically needed, improves the prognosis of patients and that practice guidelines recommend treatment shortly after the injury. However, it may be that doctors responding to pressure from patients use treatments, schedule follow-up visits and refer patients to specialists when...

Fat Screen Delivers Plant-derived Chemical With Antidiabetic Effects

...oth promotes fat cell differentiation in vitro and improves glucose tolerance in vivo," Tontonoz's team concluded. The biological activities of harmine and TZDs underscore the fact that links between fat tissue and insulin resistance are complex and are likely to involve not only changes in fat tissue differe...

New Wireless System Developed to Detect Esophageal Reflux

...s. We always want to come up with something that improves what we do on a daily basis, said Dr. Shou Jiang Tang, assistant professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern who specializes in therapeutic endoscopic and endoscopic innovations. According to the American College of Gastroenterology, approxim...

Aerobic Exercise Helps Maintain Muscle in Elderly: Research

...e aerobic exercise reduces cardiovascular disease, improves glucose uptake, and improves endurance," Volpi said. "Now it looks like it may also slow the rate of muscle loss in aging. We nee...

Folic Acid may Help to Cut Down the Stroke Risk

...n to reduce homocysteine levels in the blood, also improves the health of arteries. The vitamin is known to lower levels of homocysteine in the blood, an amino acid believed to boost the danger of stroke, heart disease and deep vein thrombosis. Scientists, led by Professor Xiaobin Wang, from Northwestern ...

Dystonia Awareness Week: 4 -11 June, 2007

... hand, there are also individuals in whom dystonia improves or even completely disappears without reason! However, statistics of such total remission is anywhere between one-in-ten to one-in-twenty. One must remember that though dystonia is a chronic disorder, it generally does not impair the cognitive abi...

Velcade(R) Plus Doxil(R) Improves Previously Treated Multiple Myeloma Patients

... shows the combination of DOXIL(R) with VELCADE(R) improves the probability of survival by 41%. The follow-up study also showed no increase in serious side effects such as neuropathy with the addition of DOXIL to the VELCADE. The findings were presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) gl...

Pramlintide-A Boon to Restrain Fast Food Consumption

... reduces 24-hour caloric intake and meal sizes and improves control of eating in obese subjects appears in the online edition of the American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism. The findings of our clinical study further suggest that satiety hormones such as amylin can exert multiple effects o...

Mental Illness Foremost Reason for Absenteeism

... that successful treatment of depressive employees improves individual productivity by an average of 6 per cent while reducing absenteeism by 22 per cent. The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics identifies that mental problems result in lack of motivation for further education and training thus l...

A Handful of Pistachios a Day Helps to Keep Your Heart Healthy

... containing moderate amounts of heart healthy fat, improves risk factors for heart disease with no weight gain. The two researchers noted that in people with moderately high cholesterol levels, a daily diet consisting of 15 percent of calories from pistachios (about two to three ounces or one to two handful...

Australians Opt for DIY Kits to Test for Diabetes

...over the self-diagnosis trend: supporters claim it improves public awareness and critics insist professional medical advice is needed. Latest figures reveal that New South Wales residents have bought the largest amount of Betacheck tests, accounting for more than 40 per cent of total Australian sales. ...

Aerobics Turn Enlarged Heart into a Trimmer, More Efficient Organ

...ck. "If this study proves that training not only improves the exercise capability of patients, but also extends their life and reduces hospitalizations, insurance payers are likely to support this as an important addition to an increasingly potent array of treatments for heart failure," Dr. Rubin said. The ...

Simple Changes in Diet Could Improve Sex Life of Women

...r important brain chemical. It enhances alertness, improves mood and makes people feel cheerful. High levels of seratonin help us to handle stress, regulate appetite and give us energy. Avoiding caffeine and other stimulants, such as cigarettes and sugary, starchy foods, will help keep your seratonin at th...

Large Fluid Intake Won’t Help to Keep Cool for Marathon Runner

...r helps to keep the body's temperature down, which improves performance. A recent study led by Dr Chris Byrne ...evidence that fluid intake makes runners cooler or improves performance.' Dr Byrne and his team monitored a group of male runners taking part in the Singapore...

To Understand the Big Picture, Give It Time -- and Sleep

...alker and colleagues had shown that sleep actively improves task-oriented "procedural memory" – for example, learning to talk, to coordinate limbs, musicianship, or to play sports. Because relational memory is fundamental to knowledge and learning, Walker and Ellenbogen decided to explore how and when this "i...

Certain Vitamins may Have Adverse Effects on Human Lifespan

...plements, including vitamins A and E, believing it improves health. Nutritionists suggest a balanced diet instead. Food contains a complex matrix of different components, which could not be replicated by supplements, British Dietetic Association nutritionist Frankie Phillips said. 'Our advice is to eat a...

National Neurosurgery Awareness Week Kicks Off During Annual Meeting of the AANS

...nd painful, in about 90 percent of all cases, pain improves without surgery. . Vertebral Compression Fractures (VCFs) – VCFs are the most common fracture in patients with osteoporosis, affecting about 750,000 people annually. Traditionally, people with severe pain from VCFs have been treated with bed ...

New Clinical Trial Results Could Improve Survival for Myeloma Patients

...EVLIMID is an important finding because it further improves the outcome for an already successful treatment, while low dose dexamethasone is better tolerated by patients," said Brian G. M. Durie, M.D., chairman and co-founder of the International Myeloma Foundation. "We are recommending that physicians consid...

Canadian Researchers Raise Hopes of Treatment for Memory Loss

...o follow up their discovery by finding a drug that improves memory by interfering with the memory-blocking protein. "If such a pill could be generated, it might provide a new method for treating people with memory-related disease such as Alzheimer's," said Dr Costa-Mattioli, whose study appears in the jour...

Teens Get Needed Access to Care With State Health Insurance

...y shows that if you give adolescents insurance, it improves their access to care and eliminates disparities while promoting effective use of preventive care," Klein said. "Enrolling adolescents in these state insurance programs is a good investment because with greater access to preventative care, these child...

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