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Acupuncture for conception

...o explore for women who are trying to conceive the latest of it being Acupuncture. According to an article from the San Francisco Chronicle, older women are particularly favour acupuncture because they may have been through the other options. They usually face multiple problems when it comes to conception....

Acupuncture provides relief

...ure to control for acupuncture). Published in the latest British Medical Journal, it found the acupuncture group had a significantly greater improvement in motion-related pain compared with massage, but surprisingly, not with the "sham" acupuncture group. However, after three months follow-up, there were n...

Probiotics can help

... boost health – can protect against infections.The latest study in the field shows children fed milk boosted...tudies into its possible preventive effects. The latest study in the British Medical Journal is the first to examine long-term effects in normal healthy chi...

A poke to cure your snore

...is based at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, said: "This latest technique is one method of stiffening the palate and there is some logic to that....

Snake venom a treatment for digestive disease

...traditional comparisons with other animals and the latest computerized informatics research. Qun-Yong Zhou, assistant professor of pharmacology, and his colleagues found that the prokineticin proteins controlled movement of muscles in the intestines of guinea pigs. These muscles regulate the movement of f...

Emphysema surgery - unbeneficial

...es not help the sickest patients, according to the latest report.In emphysema, the air sacs of the lungs - the alveoli - are progressively destroyed, leaving the patient so short of breath that they cannot do everyday activities like climbing stairs or carrying their shopping. In the mid-1990s, studies seem...

Surgeons implant second artificial heart

...led a second such device in a 70-year-old man. The latest patient, who was not identified, was recovering in intensive care at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, the hospital said in a statement. // The self-contained mechanical heart, made by Abiomed Inc. of Danvers, Massachusetts, is the first major advance...

Acupuncture can ease cancer

...t strengths of electrical current through them.The latest study to back the technique was carried out at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland, US, and reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Thirtyeight patients were given electroacupuncture through two "classic" points. They...

Cost-effective antibiotics for sinusitis treatment

... in replacing older and cheaper antibiotics by the latest and most expensive drugs when treating acute, uncomplicated sinusitis, according to US researchers. Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine set out to determine whether the symptoms could be treated with older and less expensive (...

Inadequate epilepsy treatment

...atments. Only 11 per cent of patients received the latest medication and 7 per cent had been kept on the same drug despite failing to achieve remission after two years. UK doctors are reluctant to prescribe drugs to patients who have had one seizure, the researchers say. About 15 per cent of the patients ...

Cipro Has Cheaper Cousins to Treat Anthrax

...icillin. Although alternatives exist, Cipro is the latest and greatest, so it tends to get attention. // It helped that Cipro was the only drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat inhaled anthrax. But Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson today encouraged the use of two oth...

Miscarriage linked to late embryos

...carriage, new research has found.The report in the latest New England Journal of Medicine details the most precise information the timing of implantation - the true start of pregnancy - influences its success or failure. Fertilised eggs can attach themselves to the lining of the womb anywhere from six to 1...

Gene Treatment for Heart Disease

...e treatments has created another problem. This latest treatment option is still in early testing, but relies on the use of genes to produce proteins called growth factors that stimulate the heart to grow new vessels. The treatment with the growth factor called VEGF-2 worked better, says researcher Dougl...

An effective way to treat angina

... of tiny new blood vessels serving the heart. The latest study on EECP, carried out by researchers in Japan, reveals that three out of four known blood vessel growth factors have their levels raised during EECP. Eleven individuals with angina, average age 60, took part and reported reduced chest pain along...

Breast cancer evidence

... been linked to breast cancer. The results of the latest study were based on the work history of 822 women ...d Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle the latest study was carried out, said: "The numbers in our study are small, but they are statistically signifi...

First Artificial Heart patient has Major setback

...the same area damaged by a stroke 10 days ago. The latest setback caused swelling and made the patient, Robert Tools, 59, of Franklin, Kentucky, less responsive, implant surgeon Laman Gray said. // Robert Tools received the AbioCor mechanical heart on July 2 at Jewish Hospital in Louisville. At the time, ...

MSI puts on hold plans for operations in Chennai

...danger its interests if it began operations. The latest decision of the company means that Chennai will still continue to have the existing five corporate retailers, viz, Apollo Pharmacy, Subiksha Trading Company, TruValue, Health & Glow and Vitan, which have been offering discounts to attract customers. ...

Too much fibre can aggrevate cancer

...hich grow on the wall of the bowel. However, the latest research, conducted in France, Denmark, Italy and Germany, suggests that new adenomas are actually more likely to grow in patients given this fibre supplementation. In 456 patients with a history of polyps, roughly a third each were given extra fibre...

Armpit odour enhances mood

The armpit smells of old ladies are the latest mood-enhancing substances to be uncovered by scientists - but they warn that those of young men may have the reverse effect. The Pennsylvania-based team believe that the effect may be due to the human ability to detect the presence or absence of horm...

Alcoholism Drug Fails To Prevent Drinking Relapses

...ppress cravings and prevent relapses. In fact, the latest study was intended to learn not whether the drug was effective, which was assumed, but for how long.The study says naltrexone fails to prevent drinking relapses, and in fact is no better than sugar pills at keeping hardened alcoholics on the wagon....

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