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Acupuncture for Cancer

...ing on a host of side effects that make quality of life poor. Now, doctors hope acupuncture will help them...uncture needles as a way to improve the quality of life for cancer patients. More than that, they’re trying to understand why it works. “I think we, in We...

Happiness Survey

...mark, where people have become more satisfied with life over the last three decades.Researchers believe the unchanging trend is linked to consumerism. Survey after survey has shown that the desire for material goods, which has increased hand in hand with average income, is a happiness suppressant....

How a man's mind really works

...robiological research with anecdotes from everyday life and Gurian's experience as a family therapist to p...een the male and female brain. I think that alters life and marriages," said Gurian . The science part Such are the advances in technology and understand...

Acupuncture for Cancer

...ing on a host of side effects that make quality of life poor. Now, doctors hope acupuncture will help them...uncture needles as a way to improve the quality of life for cancer patients. More than that, they're trying to understand why it works."I think we, in Weste...

Weight and Blood Pressure

...lights the importance of weight control throughout life to control blood pressure. The study also reports ... Study authors conclude weight control throughout life is key to prevention of raised blood pressure during middle age. They add that understanding the lin...

Diabetes, obesity rates shooting up

...ericans are obese //and two-thirds overweight. But life expectancy at birth continues to rise, reaching a ...79.8 years, an increase of one year from 1990. The life expectancy for boys born in 2001 was 74.4 years, up two years since 1990. "This tells the whole stor...

HDL - Key to Longevity

... biological or genetic factors that determine long life in individuals. They recruited more than 200 peopl... cardiovascular disease incidence rates and higher life expectancies than men. In looking at the offspring of long-living individuals, the researchers foun...

Key to Long Life

... biological or genetic factors that determine long life in individuals. They recruited more than 200 peopl... cardiovascular disease incidence rates and higher life expectancies than men. In looking at the offspring of long-living individuals, the researchers foun...

Comparing Psoriasis Treatments

... no significant reported differences in quality of life between the two groups. Authors of the study say the overall effectiveness of methotrexate is similar to that of cyclosporine. They conclude, "Differences between the treatments in terms of side effects, long-term adverse effects, ease of administra...

Smoking and Breast Cancer - A Deadly Combination

...searchers, say stopping smoking may save a woman's life , their findings suggest that women undergoing breast cancer therapy should consider smoking cessation to improve their chance of survival. Physicians and support staff should encourage and assist patients in this challenging ordeal. According to t...

New Liver Tumor Treatment

...ing the tumor, while maintaining a good quality of life for the patient.” These procedures are also FDA accepted and researchers say they may be used for other tumors including lung, bone and lymph node tumor....

Women who conceive after a year have a higher chance of giving birth prematurely

...at an increased risk of death in the first year of life and are more likely to develop heart, lung and brain disorders if they survive. The rate of premature births in the United States has jumped in the last 20 years from about 9.4 percent of all births to almost 12 percent. About a half million premat...

Leech Therapy for Osteoarthritis

...r overall symptom control, and improved quality of life throughout the study. In an accompanying editorial, Marc C. Hochberg, M.D., M.P.H., from the University of Maryland, suggests these findings offer hope to patients for whom no other treatment relieves the pain of osteoarthritis -- especially if rese...

Women who conceive after a year have a higher chance of giving birth prematurely

...at an increased risk of death in the first year of life and are more likely to develop heart, lung and brain disorders if they survive.The rate of premature births in the United States has jumped in the last 20 years from about 9.4 percent of all births to almost 12 percent. About a half million premature...

Elevated LDL levels in Childhood could be Predictors of Heart Disease

...levels and BMI are important risk factors early in life and may predict eventual heart disease risk. They say LDL levels measured in childhood, adulthood or as a cumulative burden since childhood are a consistent predictor of carotid IMT in young adults who are still too young to experience coronary event...

Preventing Vision Loss

...nced AMD can have a major effect on the quality of life for an individual ... These data suggest that the recommendations of such a supplement for those individuals should have a major impact on them as well as on the public health....

New Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment

... of the disease, physical function, and quality of life in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Researchers also say both doses of the drug were well tolerated by the patients. They say this study shows the value of this new class of drugs in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis...

Preventing Vision Loss

...nced AMD can have a major effect on the quality of life for an individual ... These data suggest that the recommendations of such a supplement for those individuals should have a major impact on them as well as on the public health....

New Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment

... of the disease, physical function, and quality of life in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Researchers also say both doses of the drug were well tolerated by the patients. They say this study shows the value of this new class of drugs in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis....

Changing Partners may put Expectant Mothers at Risk

...likely she is to lose her baby during its first of life -- even if a woman changed partners. Pre-term birth and low birth weight were less common in women with more education, but only if they had the same partner. However, a high level of education does not seem to protect against premature delivery or l...

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