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Bone marrow transplants for limbs

..., have found that injecting cells from a patient's own bone marrow stimulates growth of new blood vessels in the affected limb. In a trial of 40 patients, 35 reported a significant improvement in pain four weeks after the procedure. Fifteen of 20 patients who'd been scheduled for amputation were able to ...

Keep fit always

...itor progress. For stair stepping, just use your own stairs at home. Use four or five at a time, to simulate the effect of the stairmaster. Or climb the whole flight. For weights, use canned goods, or buy a cheap pair of dumb bells from the local store. And don't forget that simple activities, like pla...

Important cause of Arthritis

...itis may result from the body's mishandling of its own carbohydrates that, under normal circumstances, would not be interpreted as a threat." Wang found that inflammatory cells that accumulate in arthritic joints attach themselves directly to the glycosaminoglycans. This accumulation of cells leads to ...

Bacterial discovery may help CF patients

...rticularly resistant to antibiotics and the body's own immune response. Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease characterized by the build up of thick sticky mucus in the lungs and pancreas, leading to breathing difficulties and nutritional problems.Co-author of the paper, Professor John Mattick, said infe...

Quality of lives of older people

...more likely than women to still be living in their own home and independence in day to day tasks, as expected, declined with age. But the vast majority were still dressing themselves and were fully continent. The more independent the person, the better their skills in memory, reasoning and understanding....

Suicide might be inherited

...mpted suicide are more likely to try to take their own lives as well. The link is especially strong among those who have been exposed// to sexual abuse and women who suffer from mood disorders themselves. Research has shown people with a family history of suicide are at increased risk of committing suic...

New approach to anti-anxiety drugs

...hese mice seem to be more sensitive to the brain's own sedative molecules, known as neurosteroids. They are less fearful of heights and open spaces (a test of anxiety in mice). The researchers wonder if creating inhibitors for protein kinase C would be a useful way forward for treating anxiety in humans,...

Stroke risk might be linked to antibody

...Antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) fight a person's own body tissue. //Generally, antibodies fight foreign infections. Researchers say aPL antibodies increase the chance of blood clots, which can lead to an ischemic stroke. University of Texas Health Science Center researchers conducted a study to determ...

Novel way to fight cancer

...he laboratory to recognize and fight the patient's own tumor, then inject the cells back into the body an...asted for four months, at which time the patient's own immune system recovered and took over its usual job of fighting infections. The technique, say the ...

A new infection- 'hot tub lung'

...nge the filters as often as is recommended. If you own the tub, be scrupulous about keeping it clean. If it belongs to your health club, check with the owners if you think there might be a problem....

Gardeners, Beware of your back!

...ens. Though gardening has been proven to have it's own health benefits, researchers now suggest that enthusiastic// new gardeners who start with little or no idea of how to lift properly and do not have adequate preparation, land up having severe back pain. A recent study of nearly 2000 people showed th...

Imitating celebrity mums may prove unsafe for mom and child

...ted women to to diet while pregnant, putting their own and the baby's health at risk. A marketing compan...nant and motivate themselves to stay fit for their own and their baby's sake....

Women who care for sick spouse risk heart disease

...reveals that caregiving may be associated with its own health risks. They have found that women who care for a disabled or ill spouse have an increased risk of coronary heart disease. The findings were reported from a long-running Nurses' Health Study, which had collected data on caregiving and coronary ...

Marijuana 'gateway' theory strengthened by study of twins

...udy had relied on participants' reporting of their own experiences. Lynskey also added that though it is implied often that using marijuana changes one's brain or makes one crave for other drugs, the study did not show how marijuana could lead to harder drugs. He also said that there are a number of othe...

Bones repair themselves with bone marrow cells

... Earlier, when the bone was damaged, the patient's own bone tissue was used to grow new bone, but usually, bone tissue is unavailable and there are often problems involved in obtaining it. Therefore, such an alternative method developed by Juliette van den Dolder to treat bone defects is of considerable ...

New lung cancer vaccine on the anvil

...linical Oncology that vaccines made from patients' own tumors are safe and future enhancements could make them a powerful new treatment for deadly cancers. Researchers claim that the tumors grow out of control when the T-cells -- which orchestrate immune system attacks -- ignore them. In the new study re...

Anxiety following heart attacks not adequately managed

... 101 heart attack victims havefound that patients' own descriptions of anxiety after a heart attack and theway it is recorded and treated by their doctors do not match. In the group ofparticipants it was found that anxiety levels varied from none to severe.Researchers found that almost half of those who ...

Answer on SARS 3 to 4 weeks away

... for Disease Control and Prevention released their own sequencing of the virus' gene code Monday....

Use of sunbed is harmful

... skin has been damaged.// A suntan is not nature's own sunscreen, it does not protect you from ultra-violet radiation. There are some harmful effects like skin cancer particularly in young people, premature ageing, including leathery, wrinkled and sagging skin, eye damage, suppression of the immune syste...

Hypertension lowered by Bedtime Dosing

...ed by patients// by monitoring themselves in their own homes. The patients were then sub-divided into different groups according to their evening blood pressure. The researchers assessed the evening/morning ratio to assess the duration of action of the two drugs. The researchers found that evening dosi...

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