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About 5 Percent of Adults with Insomnia Use Alternative Therapies

...ral history of the condition or other unidentified influences rather than efficacy of the CAM treatment." The survey results provide valuable information about the use of CAM that can guide future studies of whether these therapies are effective, they conclude....

Nepal Plans to Promote Health Tourism Based on Traditional Medicine

...also combines components of Buddhist religion with influences from Indian ayurveda and Chinese medical traditions. "As an offshoot of our rich herbal heritage, we are planning to promote the wellness theme. We already have the Kunfen organisation with branches all over Nepal and even overseas where healing is...

Probing Into the Reasons for Alarming Increase in Breast Cancer

...he rise in breast cancer is attributed to the deep influences on the hormone, oestrogen, which is quite at the receiving end of fluctuations and changes in diet and reproduction. With an increase in nutritive food, girls attain menarche much earlier, consequently menopause also arrives much later. Money power...

Teen Smoking Cessation Programs Improve Quit Rates

... cope with stress and temptation, or combat social influences that encourage smoking. The review appears in the latest issue of Health Psychology as part of a new series. Each evidence-based review published centers on a specific psychological assessment or treatment conducted in the context of a physical dis...

Identifying Bottlenecks to Breastfeeding

...urphy of the HSE reiterated the impact of cultural influences that has become a key deterrent to breast feeding. "This results in many myths developing which become sustained because only a minority are engaged in breastfeeding and can pass on that valuable 'how to' knowledge from mother to daughter, sister to ...

Portion Sizes in Restaurants Larger than Before

...nion that the amount of food served in restaurants influences how much people eat and that large portions are hard on people watching their weight. Around, 60% of chefs serve steaks that are about 2 ounces or larger when the serving of cooked meat according to the government's dietary guidelines is three ounc...

Testosterone Levels in Men Decline Over Past Two Decades

...ble to account for certain health or environmental influences that may have impacted the subjects’ testosterone levels prior to enrolling in the study. “This analysis deals with men who were born between 1915 and 1945,” said Travison, “but our baseline data were not obtained until the late 1980s, when the eld...

Women's Skin Tone Influences Perception of Beauty, Health, Age

...umulative UV damage from too much sun dramatically influences skin tone, giving women yet another reason to prevent future UV-related skin damage or try to correct past sun damage.” The researchers said that tone variances could be caused by several factors including cumulative UV damage (freckles, moles, age...

The Holy Grail of Diabetes Management

...d comparative insulin insufficiency. But lifestyle influences can make or mar a potential diabetic. Excess weight, inactivity, high blood pressure and poor diet are major risk factors for its development. This type of diabetes is tricky as symptoms may not really manifest for many years and by the time it surfa...

WHO Urges Shah Rukh Khan to Stop Endorsing Tobacco Products

...music, film and sports should not do anything that influences the public behaviour negatively." He said New Zealand had already banned celebrities from endorsing tobacco products and "it should be considered as a case in point for other countries". "The Indian government should persuade popular sports and f...

Health Of Residents Is Affected by Various Factors

...g conditions and other social issues to know what influences health. The amount of greenery around, safety of people on the streets, public transportation, and how well people know their neighbours were some factors found to affect health. How much of their income is spent on housing also has an impact, they...

Gene Linked With Aggressive 'Wet' Form Of AMD

...for a distinct component of the AMD phenotype: CFH influences the drusen of dry AMD, whereas HTRA1 influences blood vessel development, the hallmark of the wet disease type. When the two processes are combined,...

A New Research Explores Connection Between Emotionality And Alcoholism

...etails with research that indicates shared genetic influences on these disorders, it is important to note that the difference we found between controls and alcoholic subjects was pretty small," she said. Nonetheless, said Grekin, "these results are compelling and suggest that EEG asymmetry may be an index of...

Tuning to Raga Maybe Beneficial for the Heart

...h Cardiovascular Society that suggests "slow music influences a person's relaxation and that musical pauses modulate heart rhythms (in a good way)". The study was published in BMJ journal Heart. For the study, a variety of musical genres were used, from techno to raga to classical. Researchers found that mu...

Asian-American Teens More Likely Than Whites to Learn Healthier Lifestyles

... is needed to compare family, school and community influences on health behaviors to better understand why there are differences in outcomes between racial/ethnic groups with high immigrant populations. Source-Newswie SRM...

Low Doses Of Arsenic Have Broad Impact On Hormone Activity – Says A Researc

...itical to our overall understanding of how arsenic influences human health, and should be considered as an important component of determining the overall disease risk of people who are exposed to arsenic in their drinking water, " says Hamilton. The work is funded by grants to Dartmouth collaborators Hamilton...

Excessive Dietary Fat can Lead to Asthma

...ot develop inflammatory diseases. Thus, your diet influences your immunity which in turn prevents inflammatory diseases. KOM...

Estrogen Study Provides New Hope For Colon Cancer Treatment

...urther study the basic mechanism by which estrogen influences the development and progression of colon cancer," states lead author Jennifer Chan, MD, MPH, of Dana-Farber. "By understanding how estrogen offers potentially beneficial effects in some types of cells yet deleterious effects in others, it may be poss...

Anti Allergy Drugs Reduce Tumor Growth

...ssible that cromolyn has more than one target that influences cancer," he says. Logsdon discovered the cancer-stimulating protein, determined how it triggers tumor growth and spread, and identified cromolyn as an inhibitor. "Through serendipity and basic science sleuthing we may now have something that helps ...

Genetic Mechanism Helps Explain Chronic Pain Disorders

... study has identified a new genetic mechanism that influences an individual's susceptibility to develop chronic ...rations in protein expression, which substantially influences pain sensitivity in humans. These findings are clinically important because pain conditions result...

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