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New Cure for Addiction?

...raditional medicines and is said to have cured his own addiction by taking the herbal preparation....

Restricted Activity Predicts Disability

...followed 680 older people who were living in their own homes to see if restricted activity might predict increasing disability and functioning. The subjects were divided into three groups according to their risk for disability in activities of daily living (ADL), such as bathing, cooking, etc. Monthly te...

Alternative Therapy in HIV Patients

...anding about patients' need for control over their own health care and the benefits and risks of CAM in HIV care may open channels of communication." Researchers conclude that with one quarter of HIV-infected patients using CAM at the risk of potential side affects, physicians should openly ask their pa...

Stem cells offer hope for muscular dystrophy

...tance, the approach would work best if a patient's own mesoangioblasts were used, but these cells have so far only been isolated from fetuses. "I'm convinced this is an important result, but this is still not the therapy, for the mice or for patients," Cossu said....

Cancer Patient Exercises for the Throat

...cases, patients are not even able to swallow their own saliva and need feeding tubes. Participants in the study either receive exercises that target the muscles, exercises that do not activate any muscles, or standard care. Researchers identified different exercises they believe have an impact on certai...

Hormone Replacement Therapy -- What to do?

...king cyanide.They say women have to consider their own individual risk, including their risk for breast cancer, heart disease and osteoporosis, and then consider how severe their symptoms are, how great a fear they have of the risks, and how willing they are to make lifestyle changes. Doctors also say ...

Same molecule found in meat, milk, tumors

... More tests showed that most people had made their own antibodies that recognized Neu5Gc, and thus could potentially initiate an inflammatory immune response. “Meat eating has certainly been a feature of human ancestors for many hundreds of thousands of years," they said. "Thus, it is indeed possible t...

Bone Marrow Cells Help Heart Attack Patients

...ed a patient treated with stem cells made from his own bone marrow had improved heart function. In the c...ents were injected with stem cells made from their own bone marrow, and the other 20 patients served as a control group. Stem cells are immature cells that...

Islets May Lead to Diabetes Cure

... that cells were growing from both the recipient’s own cells and from the donor cells.In order to determine how the new islet cells had developed, researchers carried out the same treatment using spleen cells from healthy male donors to re-educate the immune cells of female diabetic mice. Using male and ...

House heads for Medicare drug vote

...gs, D-Fla. The House and Senate each passed their own versions of a Medicare drug bill earlier this year -- the House by one vote. Republican House and Senate negotiators and two Democrats -- Sens. Max Baucus of Montana and John Breaux of Louisiana -- reached agreement on a final bill last Saturday. Ne...

Mattresses do Play a Role in Low Back Pain

...pain. The study included 313 people who had their own bed mattresses replaced with either a firm or a medium-firm mattress. The participants did not know what type of mattress they were given. The individuals reported the degree of low back pain experienced while lying in bed, and after waking up in the...

Islet Cells May Lead to Diabetes CureChildren

... that cells were growing from both the recipient’s own cells and from the donor cells. In order to determine how the new islet cells had developed, researchers carried out the same treatment using spleen cells from healthy male donors to re-educate the immune cells of female diabetic mice. Using male an...

Accuracy of Some Natural Family Planning Methods Questioned .

...he symptothermal method, which relies on a woman’s own observation of two indicators of fertility -- chan...[natural family planning] that relies on a woman’s own observations proved to be the most effective of the natural family planning methods. The temperature...

Photographs An Effective Tool In Detecting Skin Cancer

...search shows patients who use photographs of their own skin for reference are more likely to keep better track of new or changed moles. Researchers in New York studied 50 patients who had five or more atypical nevi, or pigmented moles that may change shape or have irregular borders. Patients in the study...

Tissue Transfer for Skin Cancer

...alth & Science University //are using the person's own body to heal the area and improve their appearance. Dorothy Fahland grew up sunbathing, first as a toddler and then as a teenager and young adult. Decades later, she had a skin cancer cut from above her eye, but the cancer grew back -- this time as...

A Vaccine For Non – Hodgkin’s Lymphom

...e from a unique protein pattern from the patient's own tumor. It teaches the immune system to recognize cancer cells and kill them. Researchers say , "There are certainly patients who've been vaccinated who have yet to have their cancer return, and whether those patients are cured, or simply having very ...

Prediction Of Disease In The Future Questioned

... autoantibodies (antibodies that attack the body's own tissue) are often apparent several years before an illness manifests. According to a recent study among people with rheumatoid arthritis , it was found that specific autoantibodies were detected more than four years before the onset of disease sympt...

Leveling Lupus Lesions

...that causes the body's immune system to attack its own cells. "It's changed my life a lot," she says. The condition caused lesions inside her mouth and on her face. Even make-up wouldn't cover the spots completely. "I felt like everybody was looking at me, and you know, when they looked at me, all they ...

Cancer Patients Might Be Able To Actually Help Themselves

...ed anti-cancer specific T cells from the patient’s own body may be effective at reducing tumor size if more studies could be done to confirm the same....

Reasons For Low Back Pain

...pain. The study included 313 people who had their own bed mattresses replaced with either a firm or a medium-firm mattress. The participants did not know what type of mattress they were given. The individuals reported the degree of low back pain experienced while lying in bed, and after waking up in the...

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