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Shorter Radiation Schedules Found To Be More Effective For Patients With Breast Cancer

A more intense course of radiation after a lumpectomy may be safe for breast cancer patients say researchers // based on findings of a recent study. Standard treatment for women with breast cancer usually involves six or seven weeks of radiation daily after undergo...

Strong Pelvic Muscles Found To Facilitate Childbirth

...otherapist and were advised to perform eight to 12 intense contractions twice a day on their own. The other half of the sample served as the control. Researchers looked at the length of the second stage of labor, measured by the time of active pushing, and the number of prolonged deliveries, which were defi...

Adopting Easier Methods To Screen Insulin Resistance

... are likely to be useful in selecting patients for intense weight reduction efforts....

Intensive Treatment Found To Help Patients With Arthritis

...nths in an outpatient clinic. Patients on the more intense therapy also underwent monthly assessments of thei...savings may also result if patients receiving more intense therapy are able to avoid joint replacement surgery, the need for institutional care, or disabilitie...

Counting Calories Might Be The Ideal Way To Stay Healthy

... your free time and preferences, brief sessions of intense activity can burn the same number of calories as longer or more frequent sessions of a less intense activity. For an inexpensive and accessible option, researchers suggest walking as a good exercise....

Effective Control Of Blood Sugar Levels

...cipant was assigned to practice either standard or intense diabetes control. Patients in the standard thera...reatment with an insulin pump. Patients who kept intense control of their blood sugar levels for about six years had a lower risk of developing nerve damage....

A Solution For Patients Suffering From Shingles

...s. A new study shows tai chi -- slow exercise and intense meditation -- protects seniors against the shingles virus. Each tai chi class is about 45 minutes long. Tai chi has also been shown to help illnesses such as Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia and arthritis. Specialists say that...

Easier Methods Required to Screen Insulin Resistance

... are likely to be useful in selecting patients for intense weight reduction efforts. ...

Easier Methods Required to Screen Insulin Resistance

... are likely to be useful in selecting patients for intense weight reduction efforts. ...

Diabetes, obesity rates shooting up

...ent of five brisk, 30-minute walks a week or three intense sessions of exercise a week in their leisure time....

Dog DNA reveals man's link with best friend

Since the start in recent years of intense genetic sequencing, more than 150 species, mostly bacteria, have been completed, but the study appearing this week in the journal// Science is the first for a companion animal. A standard size poodle named Shadow, the family pet of gene researcher ...

Dog DNA reveals man's link with best friend

Since the start in recent years of intense genetic sequencing, more than 150 species, mostly bacteria, have been completed, but the study appearing this week in the journal Science is the first for a companion animal. // A standard size poodle named Shadow, the family pet of gene researcher...

Teens' vitamin D deficiency an epidemic

...od pressure say specialists. Youngsters with less intense year-round sunlight are especially prone to vitamin D deficiency, as are blacks and other dark-skinned ethnic groups whose pigmented skin doesn't absorb sunlight as easily as whites. Ironically, so are kids who follow the advice of moms and doctors ...

Different Sun Rays, Different Damage

...ects the skin's //outer layers and tend to be more intense during the summer month, at higher altitudes, and as you get closer to the equator. Less harmful are UVA rays, which are longer-wavelength rays that can damage the skin's connective tissue, leading to premature aging as well as playing a role in caus...

Some more sensitive to pain

... a painful stimulus is located in the body and how intense it is, and in the anterior cingulate cortex, which is involved in processing the unpleasant feelings evoked by pain....

Answers For OCD soon

...sive disorder about contamination fears had a more intense reaction to disgusting images than those without OCD....

Cardiac events better treated with intense cholesterol-lowering regime

... United States, have suggested in a new study that intense lifestyle changes plus pharmacologic lipid treatment reduces myocardial perfusion abnormalities and cardiac events to a greater extent than usual-care cholesterol lowering drugs. They studied 409 patients with coronary artery// disease by performing ...

Way out of winter depression

... of four of those with SAD. The light has to be as intense as the light outdoors just after dawn or before sunlight. The exposure needed for a therapeutic effect varies from 15 minutes to two hours a day. SAD, whether mild or severe, has serious implications and needs medical help. Antidepressants, psycholog...

COPD patients can benefit through intense training

...reathing problems. However, it was found that this intense training// is difficult for the patient, and this ...ons, three times a week, where the participant did intense bouts of breathing into a machine. The respiratory strength and endurance were measured during the t...

Drink more fluids during exercise

...the best drink for sports and exercise. But during intense or prolonged exercise, you might need to replenish your energy supplies. If so, go for a drink containing not more than eight per cent of carbohydrate. Avoid additives like caffeine, guarana, and - especially - ephedra (this herb is linked to known h...

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