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NewYork-Presbyterian Receives Highest Accreditation for Bariatric Surgery

... diet and exercise are important to maintaining an optimal weight, surgery is the only option for many obese individuals. We offer the full range of treatment options, including gastric bypass, adjustable gastric banding, duodenal switch, sleeve gastrectomy and others," says Dr. Fabrizio Michelassi, surgeon-...

Researchers Studying Novel Therapy For Prostate Cancer

...arch trial is a Phase I study designed to test the optimal dosage at which the therapeutic agent can safely be given to patients. The clinical study is being co-led by Thomas Griffith, Ph.D., an associate professor in the UI Department of Urology, and Richard Williams, M.D., the Rubin H. Flocks Chair in Ur...

Burnout Explains Link Between Job Strain and Depression

...care professionals, provides leadership to promote optimal health and safety of workers, workplaces, and environments. Source-Newswise SR...

Popular ADHD Drug Safe and Effective for Pre-Schoolers

...en ranges from 15 mg per day to 50 mg per day. The optimal dose needed to reduce symptoms ranged widely in preschool-age children, but on average, 14 mg daily was effective in reining in symptoms. “One of the surprises was that in some cases, doses as low as even 3 to 4 mg a day were helpful to some presch...

Making Headway Against Hepatitis C

...ergen were also virus negative after 24 weeks. The optimal response to antiviral therapy is for the hepatitis C viral RNA to become undetectable on treatment and to remain undetectable for at least another six months off therapy; this is referred to as a sustained virologic response, essentially a cure of th...

Drug Prescribed for Migraines and Seizures Increases Risk of Kidney Stones

...d Dr. Sakhaee said. “Studies are needed to explore optimal measures to prevent kidney-stone formation with topiramate use.” Other UT Southwestern researchers contributing to the study were Dr. Orson Moe, director of the Charles and Jane Pak Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research, Dr. Naim Maal...

Unwind with Yoga

Yoga is a path to optimal health by achieving a healthy mind as well as a health body. This path has been undertaken by many for over 5,000 years//. The November issue of Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource offers an overview of yoga and its health benefits. Yoga has its roo...

Brain disorders caused by Industrial chemicals

...in is a precious and vulnerable organ. And because optimal brain function depends on the integrity of the organ, even limited damage may have serious consequences," he said. Grandjean and co-author Philip Landrigan, M.D., of New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified 201 chemicals that hav...

Noise In Neurons Is good

...oise may actually be the brain's way of running at optimal performance.' As you reach your decision, you'd have a lot of trouble articulating most of the variables your brain just processed for you. Similarly, intuition may be less a burst of insight than a rough consensus among your neurons. 'The way y...

Pregabalin Proves Durable Pain Relief Option for Fibromyalgia

...le-blind study to receive either pregabalin at the optimal dosage established during the 6 weeks prior or placebo. The primary goal of this six-month study, one of the longest control studies conducted to date, was to determine how long their therapeutic responses lasted. One-fourth of placebo-treated pati...

Cardiocerebral Resuscitation, A New Technique For Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

...n after the cardiac arrest. 'We think CPR is not optimal because it is advocated as a 'one-size-fits-all' a...periods of time,' says Ewy. 'This does not provide optimal perfusion of the vital organs.' The new data confirm a study published earlier this year (The Amer...

Adding Radiation Therapy For Treatment of Advanced Prostate Cancer May Offer Benefit

...s. It is commonly accepted that this treatment has optimal results in patients with cancer confined to the prostate. But cancer outside of the prostate is detected at radical prostatectomy in 38 percent to 52 percent of patients, and this is associated with a risk of disease recurrence, progression, and deat...

International Collaboration Takes Aim at Rabies

...t can carry significant side effects and is not an optimal product. To address the supply problems and side-effect issues, the CDC and MBL launched an effort to find a MAB that could be used in place of hRIG. The work used, in part, the HuMab mice? from Medarex, Inc. (Princeton, N.J.) which uses transgenic...

Vaccine For Bird flu virus Discovered

... study with at least 600 patients to determine the optimal dosage in humans for the vaccine to be effective. No vaccine against the bird flu is currently available on the market....

AAD Warns Against Indoor Tanning for the Holiday Season

...e exposure to the sun or a tanning lamp to produce optimal amounts of the nutrient,” Dr. Kauvar said. “But there are safe ways to get vitamin D each day – drinking a couple of glasses of vitamin D-fortified milk or orange juice, eating salmon or mackerel and other foods rich in vitamin D, or taking a supplem...

Growth Hormone and Its Benefits on Women

...avy exercise schedule with more repeats to achieve optimal results in building muscle and bone. When a woman undergoes a vigorous and intense weight training programme, it results in heavier secretion of growth hormone. Apart from helping them build muscle and bone, the growth hormone helps women in a good m...

Elderly Lung Transplant Patients More Likely to Survive

...stablished a multidisciplinary team to ensure that optimal care is provided during this crucial time,” said Jones. Another factor, noted Smith, is that UVa “almost exclusively performs SLT rather than BLT for recipients aged 60 and older – and we do so at a significantly higher rate than other transplant c...

Tennis Elbow is Not Caused Due to Improperly Sized Tennis Racket Grip

...ue of The American Journal of Sports Medicine. "An optimal grip size may influence the force with which a player hits the ball, but variations in grip size are unlikely to be contributing factors in overuse injuries such as tennis elbow," concludes George F. Hatch III, MD, currently of the Department of Orth...

India Stands Eighth Among South Asian Countries in Infant Mortality Rates

... of child deaths could be averted in South Asia if optimal breastfeeding were in place up to 90 percent. Source-IANS...

Balance Training Better Than Tai Chi at Improving Mobility in Older Adults

...termine which balance training program may be most optimal to improve balance and eventually reduce falls. Among older adults, falls are becoming an increasing problem, so it is important that we find ways to help prevent them in the first place.” This is the first comparison of two balance training progra...

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