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A New Pill to Burn Away Unwanted Fat

...ons. Experts warn that although the drugs would maintain muscle size, they would not provide any of the other health benefits of regular exercise. Professor Paul Greenhaff at Nottingham University in the UK who has been conducting similar research into muscle growth and wasting warned of the inherent po...

Cancer Patient’s Life Improved With Anti-reflux Valv

... difference may translate into fewer procedures to maintain bile duct patency. That means a better quality of life for these cancer patients,” says Dr. Dua. “Our next step is to do electron microscopic analysis of clogged standard and anti-reflux stents to evaluate the role of reflux of intestinal contents ...

Lead Removing Drug Improves Muscle Function in Lead-Exposed Children

...signed to eliminate or challenge factors that help maintain postural balance, such as eyesight and visual context. “Our statistical analysis revealed that subjects who received succimer therapy showed a significant improvement in balance and movement compared to the non-therapy group,” says Bhattacharya. “T...

Chronically Ill Prisoners Face Great Healthcare Problems

... more aware of their own health needs. They also maintain that improving the health of prisoners may also help to reduce re-offending rates and problems such as drug abuse when they leave prison. Prisoners’ health is an international issue, they add. 'Some of the prisoners who took part in the study ha...

Reindeers Could Hold the Key to Elephantiasis Cure

...atic system, the network of nodes and vessels that maintain the delicate fluid balance between the tissues and blood and are an essential component for the body's immune defence system. They live for 4-6 years, producing millions of immature microfilariae (minute larvae) that circulate in the blood. The dis...

FDA Approves First Generic Versions of Ambien for Insomnia

...g products, a class of drugs used to induce and/or maintain sleep, strengthen their product labeling to include stronger language concerning potential risks. These risks include severe allergic reactions and complex sleep-related behaviors, which may include sleep-driving. Sleep driving is defined as driving ...

Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Disability in Older Adults

...peed, ability to stand from a chair and ability to maintain their balance in progressively more challenging positions. In addition, handgrip strength, a predictor of future disability, was measured using a hand-held dynamometer. The researchers found that physical performance and grip strength were about fi...

New Bill Introduced in US to Promote Public Health

...ive medicine's mission is to protect, promote, and maintain health and well-being while preventing disease, disability, and premature death. This is becoming increasingly more difficult as the number of preventive medicine physicians decreases. "Preventive medicine physicians represent an underutilized and ...

New Light on Working of Brain Networks

...led executive functions. The ability of the PFC to maintain such memory-based functions declines with normal aging, is weakened in people with ADHD, and is severely disrupted in disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The current study found that brain cells in PFC contain ion channels called ...

Brain Networks Strengthened by Closing Ion Channels

...led executive functions. The ability of the PFC to maintain such memory-based functions declines with normal aging, is weakened in people with ADHD, and is severely disrupted in disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The current study found that brain cells in PFC contain ion channels called ...

Insomnia-related Symptoms High Among ‘Night Owls

...tween seven and eight hours of sleep each night to maintain good health and optimum performance. Those who think they might have insomnia, or another sleep disorder, are urged to discuss their problem with their primary care physician, who will issue a referral to a sleep specialist. Source-Eurekalet SRM...

Eating Disorders Highly Prevalent Among Gay and Bisexual Men

...bout heterosexual women, they may feel pressure to maintain an ideal body image." To assess this theory, the investigators studied whether gay and bisexual men with greater connection and affiliation with the gay community are more likely to have eating disorders than those who are not affiliated with the g...

Britain’s Mental Health Scene Encouragin

...y 20 per cent by 2010, but it is important that we maintain the momentum."Two important areas are the management of risk in patients discharged from hospital, and in patients who are non-compliant with their treatment”, he opined. AN...

Phone Counseling Helps Patients Improve Eating and Exercise Habits

...hallenge as a field is to learn how to help people maintain those positive changes,” Eakin said. Only two studies evaluated costs; both concluded that phone interventions did offer cost benefits. Melissa Napolitano, Ph.D., an associate professor at the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple U...

Study Finds Dietary Fat Interacts With Genes

... percent — who can eat any combination of food and maintain a healthy BMI. Whether they eat cheesecake or four...ommend a well-balanced, healthful diet in order to maintain a healthy BMI and to reduce risk of certain diseases. But we study nutrigenomics with the idea that ...

Food Industry in India to Grow to $310 Billion by 2015: CII

...ng the tariff barriers with non-tariff barriers to maintain standards. The summit will also seek to bring in global perspectives and hold discussions on a range of issues pertaining to food regulatory systems, sustenance of quality by organizing interactions between producers and processors to ensure food s...

John Hopkins Hospitals- Now at Tokyo

...nd we see a greater need among retirees wanting to maintain their health.” The clinic is the latest of seven overseas projects since 2006 for Hopkins, which has topped U.S. News & World Report's ranking of American hospitals the past 16 years. While 69 percent of hospitals run by local governments had op...

Red Meat Increases Breast Cancer Risk

...Scowcroft of Cancer Research UK, said women should maintain a healthy body weight, take regular exercise, and avoid regular portions of fatty foods like red and processed meat. A US study published in November found eating large amounts of red meat might double young women's breast cancer risk. After a ...

Hope for Ending the Pain, Infertility of Endometriosis?

... months of recovery time. Women who do not wish to maintain their fertility occasionally resort to a hysterectomy, the full removal of the uterus and ovaries. None of these options is perfect, Lebovic notes. In many cases, the treatment of the pain and heavy periods can lead to the end of a woman’s fertilit...

Exposure to a Soil Bacterium can Boost Happiness

...tonin neurons - a chemical in the brain that helps maintain a 'happy feeling', and seems to help keep our moods under control by helping with sleep, calming anxiety and relieving depression. Mice exposed to the bacteria made more of the brain's "happy" chemical serotonin, the researchers told the journal Ne...

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