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Eyeing a Good Memory - Not an Exercise in Futility!

... forgotten facts and figures. A study shows that improving memory may be as simple as getting to move the eye from one end to the other for 30 seconds every morning. This could improve memory by 10 per cent, a study suggests. This is no exercise in futility, because eye movements is thought to enable bette...

Family Planning Initiatives Central To Reducing Child Mortality in Developing Countries

...e mothers and children; and increasing funding and improving strategies to provide basic and effective lifesaving services to those in need. "More than 10 million children under age five still die each year," Save the Children CEO Charles MacCormack said, adding, "That's almost 28,000 a day - almost all in d...

Meditation May Fine-Tune Control Over Attention

..., which focuses on reducing mental distraction and improving sensory awareness. Volunteers were asked to look for target numbers that were mixed into a series of distracting letters and quickly flashed on a screen. As subjects performed the task, their brain activity was recorded with electrodes placed on th...

Brickbats And Bouquets For U.S Prison Healthcare In-Charge

...ntin, where Sillen established a pilot program for improving care. Another was Avenal, near Coalinga in the San Joaquin Valley, where three inmates died in December. In response to the deaths, Sillen sent a team of doctors and created more than 50 new medical positions at the severely overcrowded prison. W...

Spinal Manipulation Beneficial for Neck Pain

... found that mobilization therapy was beneficial in improving patients' pain levels, with many achieving full recovery after six to seven weeks of treatment; however, the current evidence did not support a similar level of benefit from massage therapy. Neck pain is a very common complaint approximately 15 pe...

Doctor of Indian Origin Honored by California

...ces (AIIMS) in recognition of his contribution to improving access to healthcare. Anmol Mahal, president of ...n the 1990's, it emerged as a leading advocate for improving the quality of healthcare. Recently, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Mahal to...

Sylvester Stallone Admits He Tried to Smuggle Banned Growth Hormone to Australia

...rtised as reducing body fat, boosting muscle mass, improving sexual prowess and regenerating major organs. Human growth hormone (HGH) is made naturally in the pituitary gland of humans, deep inside the brain just behind the eyes. It is a microscopic protein substance that is secreted in short pulses during...

Risk of Heart Attack, Death High Among Extremely Anxious Patients

...e most effective ways of both reducing anxiety and improving cardiac health. Anti-anxiety medications and psychotherapy will be evaluated in the next stage of the study, but Dr. Blatt and his colleagues will also be examining the doctor-patient relationship. "My hunch is that for the majority of patients, th...

Female Infanticide and Feticide Continue to Increase

...ed highlights discrimination and will work towards improving gender equality worldwide. Designed to run until 2015, the campaign will also follow the lives of 125 girls born in 2006 until their ninth birthday. Graa Machel, the children's rights campaigner from Mozambique, said: "The study shows that our fa...

Smokeless Cannabis Delivery Device Found Efficient and Less Toxic

...to pill forms, this device has great potential for improving the therapeutic utility of THC," said study co-author Neal L. Benowitz, MD, UCSF professor of medicine, psychiatry and biopharmaceutical sciences. He added that pills tend to provide patients with more THC than they need for optimal therapeutic effec...

Survey Shows That Patients Have Trust and Confidence in Their Doctors

... patients and their families worries and fears and improving accessibility. They also reflect the improvements of the whole healthcare team, so often led by doctors. We need to build on these results. Consultants always wish to achieve more for their patients, but the truth is innovative and progressive prac...

VA Should Revise Its Methods for Evaluating PTSD in Ex-military Personnel

...ation by an experienced professional is crucial to improving PTSD compensation decisions, the committee said. These exams determine whether former service members are experiencing PTSD and how severe it is. Currently, the time devoted to the evaluations varies widely as does the amount of detail examiners prov...

Quality Improvement Effort Pays Off in Diabetes Care

... this setting, we found that the economic value of improving the delivery of existing diabetes care was roughly equal to the benefits of developing a new treatment, such as a novel diagnostic technology or a better drug," said study author Elbert Huang, MD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of ...

US Hospital Group Offers Warranty on Surgeries

...hip making have long understood the importance of improving each piece of the production process to tamp down costs and improve overall quality. But hospitals have been slow to focus their attention on standardizing the way they deliver care, said Dr. Arnold Milstein, the medical director for the Pacific B...

Diabetes And Indigenous Australians

...cal interventions may make a difference, including improving the nutritional status of infants and pregnant mot...ng and managing the complications of diabetes, and improving the uptake and use of medicines....

Statins may Help Treat Hepatitis C Patients

...in important cholesterol management therapies, for improving the management of hepatitis C . Statins or HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors form a class of hypolipidemic agents, used as pharmaceutical agents to lower cholesterol levels in people with or at risk for cardiovascular disease. Two studies were conduct...

Sleep Apnea may Increase Risk of Diabetes

...open. It is successful in treating sleep apnea and improving daytime drowsiness, resulting in an improved quality of life and even reduction in risk for traffic accidents. It has yet to be determined whether treatment for sleep apnea with CPAP can actually improve conditions such as diabetes. Our next step w...

Sleep Apnea Increases Risk of Heart Attack or Death by 30 Percent

...preventing daytime accidents due to sleepiness and improving quality of life. The study included 1,123 patients referred for sleep apnea evaluation. They underwent an overnight sleep study to determine if they had sleep apnea. Over the next four to five years, they were followed to see how many had any heart...

Bird Flu: Bangladesh Situation Serious, Indian on High Alert

... Targeted vaccination to stop the virus spread and improving the capacity of veterinary laboratories to facilitate rapid diagnosis of suspected outbreaks were the other measures suggested the FAO official. Bangladesh has about 220 million chickens and 37 million ducks. Five million people are directly employ...

Yoga Helps to Combat Depression, Anxiety

...ding to the researchers, yoga has shown promise in improving symptoms associated with depression, anxiety and epilepsy. "Our findings clearly demonstrate that in experienced yoga practitioners, brain GABA levels increase after a session of yoga," said lead author Chris Streeter, MD, an assistant professor of...

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