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Attitude Determines How Much Exercise is too Much

...reoccupied about your bodys appearance, weight and muscle mass. You spend a lot of time looking at yourself,... yourself and constantly working out to create the muscle mass or lean body that you want," Dr. Fassihi says. She further said that many persons with exerci...

Dynamic Sonography Accurate in Diagnosing Muscle Tears

...eful in the diagnosis, management and follow-up of muscle tears and hematomas, according to a recent study c...important tool to diagnose, follow-up and document muscle tears for proper management, said Ashok Kumar Nath, MD, lead author of the study. Of the 50 patien...

New Device for Stroke Patients Improves Walking

...ulation to the peroneal nerve to activate the calf muscle and correct their gait. Offered on an inpatient and outpatient basis, the NESS L300 has been shown to improve walking coordination, speed and blood flow, and decrease the effort required in walking while wearing the device. Generally, electrical st...

Adults Who Are Overweight and Obese Experience a Lowered Response to Resistance Training

...rmal weight adults. The study determined that peak muscle strength gains in people who are overweight and obese are significantly weakened when compared to that of normal weight people; therefore, resistance training programs for adults who are overweight or obese need to be altered to counteract the respon...

Fibroid Symptoms in Women can Be Relieved by Focused Ultrasound

...ston. Uterine fibroids are benign growths of the muscle inside the uterus. According to the National Institutes of Health, at least 25 percent of women in the United States age 25 to 50 suffer from symptomatic uterine fibroids. Fibroid symptoms can include excessive menstrual bleeding, enlarged uterine si...

Nervous Systems of Insects may Offer Clues on Neurodegenerative Diseases

... their ability to communicate with one another and muscle cells, Palter said. Our mutant flies may provide a model system to study a class of human diseases whose symptoms include memory loss, ataxia, epilepsy and neurodegeneration. Both of these studies are being done in collaboration with scientists at ...

IDRI and Chembio to Develop Tests for Leishmaniasis and Leprosy

...vity. The damage of the peripheral nerves leads to muscle weakness and atrophy, and numbness or loss of sensitivity to touch and heat in several areas of the skin. Viable leprosy bacilli are transmitted by droplets from the nose and mouth of infected persons. The stigma attached to leprosy has often cause...

Aerobic Exercise Helps Maintain Muscle in Elderly: Research

Why do older people tend to lose muscle mass and grow frail? One important factor identifi...lucose and insulin (which itself also works within muscle cells as a powerful protein growth factor). In young adults, these normally closed vessels open wide...

Use Caution With All Pain Medications, Warns Experts

...g with aspirin or acetaminophen (Tylenol) to quell muscle or joint pain. Aspirin is good for the heart, and acetaminophen doesn't affect blood clotting. If they don't work, the next step for most people would be a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). Try naproxen (Aleve) first, then ibuprofen (Advil...

Regular Use of Laptop Could Seriously Damage Your Health

...urge in the number of computer users with back and muscle problems, reported online edition of BBC News. Gir...ould take a break every 20 to 25 minutes otherwise muscle ligaments and joints could be damaged," Gupta added....

Sleepwalking to sex during sleep, a new disorder detected

...ems as anxiety, insomnia, agitation, seizures, and muscle spasms, as well as alcohol withdrawal....

Mouse Model Points to Strategy for Treating Rare Muscle Disease & Kidney Disorders

...clusion body myopathy (HIBM), a rare, degenerative muscle disease. In an unexpected finding, the research in...emerge in adulthood and lead to slowly progressive muscle weakness. Most patients develop symptoms while in their early 20s and become wheelchair-bound by the...

Gene Therapy a Better Alternative to Viagra Please

...production of proteins which, in turn, help smooth muscle cells relax. Relaxing the smooth muscle in the penis allows it to fill with blood and achieve an erection. Dr Geoff Hackett, president of th...

Dystonia Awareness Week: 4 -11 June, 2007

...? You are right about that; only that it refers to muscle tone or rather, impaired muscle tone . Dystonia is a medical term for a neuro-muscular condition. It is more aptly described as a m...

A New Target for Cancer Therapy-Integrin Alpha7 Molecule

...r of the prostate, liver, brain (glioblastoma) and muscle (leiomyosarcoma). They found mutations in the integrin alpha7 gene, particularly those that resulted in an abnormally shortened protein product, or truncation, in 16 of 28 prostate cancers. They also found truncation-inducing mutations in five of 2...

Mental Illness Foremost Reason for Absenteeism

... second largest cause for absenteeism only next to muscle related problems like bad back. The study showed that worker took up to 30 days off on account of depression and those suffering from stress took almost 21 days sick leave. Thus it has become a major cause of lost productivity. Research conducte...

Legionnaires Outbreak in Australia

...mptoms, including headache, fever, chills, coughs, muscle aches and pains, to visit their local general practitioner," Dr Pickin said. Legionnaires' can present up to 10 days after contact with the bacteria. Smokers and the elderly are at the greatest risk from the disease, while those with chronic medica...

Breast Cancer Drug Curbs Heart Disease.

... effect of trastuzumab is that it can damage heart muscle cells. Heart abnormalities have been detected in 2...he early development and later sustenance of heart muscle cells. It appears that trastuzumabs mechanism for blocking HER2 is different. We found that lapati...

First Case of West Nile Virus Death in Madison County

...u like - fever, headache, nausea, and vomiting and muscle weakness. About 80 percent of people who are infected with West Nile do not experience any symptoms, according to the CDC. Some experts blamed the West Nile spike on weather, saying last summer's heat wave may have contributed to mosquito breeding ...

Apollo Launches Chest Pain Clinics in Kolkata

... occurs when the blood supply to part of the heart muscle itself - the myocardium - is severely reduced or s...the coronary arteries supplying blood to the heart muscle are blocked, Maini told a press conference here Friday. 'It may not be possible for a patient to r...

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