Shaking Legs Syndrome Is Curable
..., University of South Carolina. "The symptoms may interfere with their sleep and as a result they may feel sleepy during the day, too tired to participate in their daily activities." Results of a multi-centric trial in Europe and the US, published in the Journal of Sleep Medicine 2004, found 23,000 people s...Silicone Implants Make No Significant Difference To Breast Cancer Survivors
...tes the FDA findings in saying that these implants interfere with mammography and biopsy procedures and thus limit the detection for relapse. It was also found that many companies like Implant and Mentor Corporation did not include a sizeable number of breast cancer patients in their trials. Also women with re...Task Learning Made Simple By Taking Short Breaks
...uggest that eliminating such breaks could actually interfere with learning, and perhaps even explain why hyperactive children often have learning difficulties, reported the online edition of Nature. The researchers inserted a pincushion of fine wires into the animals' skulls and monitored the electrical activ...Avastin under trial to test efficacy for pancreatic tumours!
...vessels. By inhibiting VEGF, Avastin is thought to interfere with the blood supply to tumours, a process that is critical to tumour growth and metastasis.” As per statistics by the American Cancer Society, pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death among adults in America. Approximately 1 o...Negative Effects of Asthma Can Be Countered With Personality changes
...s may be less likely to have their asthma symptoms interfere with school. These children inspite of facing the stress related to urban scenario and facing asthma symptoms were associated with fewer school absences, more participation in activities, and less missed sleep. The study was published in the Journal ...Vitamin E: good, bad or ugly???
...-tocopherol quinone did not kill cells, nor did it interfere with protein folding. According to Ma, “We think that gamma-tocopherol may have this kind of damaging effect on nearly every type of cell in the body.” The study propels future researchers to delve deep in the sphere of antioxidants as there is muc...Fat fighters’: Whole-grain foods’: under the microscoe
...sed risk of heart disease. It's also been shown to interfere with the work of an enzyme called "lipoprotein lipase." VLDLs are naturally rich in triglycerides, so you want the lipoprotein lipase-your triglyceride-removing mechanism-to be very efficient. If the apoCIII protein on your VLDLs slows down the lipop...Doctors Protest Against Allowing Nurses To Perform Minor Surgeries
...indeed agreed that nurses should not be allowed to interfere in the surgeon's autonomy. In addition to the protest, the health care providers have also provided suggestions regarding mass advertising programmes. 'For financial advice I don’t ask a bank teller, I ask an accountant. For legal advice I don’t as...Prayers Do Not Help Healing Process In Bypass Patients
...t we found. Nothing this study has produced should interfere with people praying for each other,” said lead author Dr Herbert Benson, of Harvard Medical School. He added that the study was inconclusive. “Intercessory prayer under our restricted format had a neutral effect,” said Dr Charles Bethea, a co-author ...Teenagers Get Hooked To Ecstasy
..., and sensitivity to pain. In high doses, it can interfere with the body's ability to regulate temperature. This can lead to a sharp increase in body temperature (hyperthermia), resulting in liver, kidney, and cardiovascular system failure. Animal research studies indicate it is not a safe drug for human con...Saudi Women Undergo Sex Change
...eport also said that the Saudi Authorities did not interfere in any of the operations nor bothered anybody. An interior ministry official said that such cases are taken care off by the religious authorities, and the psychologists. But a senior cleric said that a legal case has to be filed issuing laws agai...Human Intelligence Gene Identified By Scientists
...the genetic blueprint for dysbindin may ultimately interfere with cell communication and fail to protect brain cells from dying, with a resulting negative impact on cognition and intelligence. ...Sertraline Can Prevent Recurrent Depressive Episodes In Diabetics
...epression-free interval of maintenance and did not interfere with glycemic improvement achieved during the recovery phase. Treatment with sertraline is relatively simple, safe and widely available, and although it is not curative, it offers patients with diabetes a potentially viable method for ameliorating t...Kid's Headaches Not to be Treated Lightly
... their difficulties and to have these difficulties interfere with their home life, friendships, classroom learning, and leisure activities. Children with headaches were also significantly more likely to have visited a mental health professional, or a general physician in the previous year because of emotiona...Non Hormonal Therapies for Menopause Not Proved to be Effective
...eral years after menopause, and for some women can interfere with activities or sleep to such a degree that treatment is requested, according to background information in the article. Estrogen has been used as a hormone supplement for nearly 60 years to treat menopausal symptoms. However, recent studies report...Drug Zoloft May Prevent Recurring Depression In Diabetics
...epression-free interval of maintenance and did not interfere with glycemic improvement achieved during the recovery phase. Treatment with sertraline is relatively simple, safe and widely available, and although it is not curative, it offers patients with diabetes a potentially viable method for ameliorating th...Receptor for H.pylori Identified in Stomach
...stomach.’ These findings suggest that drugs that interfere with DAF binding could be used to prevent or treat peptic ulcer disease or distal gastric adenocarcinoma. These new drugs will be a welcome alternative to the current treatment for H. pylori infections which typically involves taking 3 to 4 medicatio...Alzheimer's-linked apolipoprotein E produced by neurons, Gladstone study
...ne and elsewhere indicate that those fragments may interfere with glucose metabolism in the mitochondria (small intracellular organelles responsible for energy production, among other functions), leading to mitochondrial dysfunction and neuronal cell death. The paper, ‘Profile and Regulation of Apolipoprotei...Parents of Junior Athletes do More Harm than Good
...coaches felt that a significant number unknowingly interfere with their child’s development,’ conclude the authors. ‘This is not surprising given the fact that sport parents receive little or no training about how to help their child develop and are exposed to a youth sports environment that is increasingly ......k for infection and malignancies because the drugs interfere with immunological mechanisms critical to fighting infection and the body’s normal function in surveying itself for cancerous cells. The risk patients undertake when receiving TNF-blocking antibody treatment is 'moderate', according to Dr. Matteson...