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You may Live Long and Think Clear With a Variant Gene

...eadly Alzheimer’s disease. Living to 100 can be a painful proposition if one is not mentally agile, points out the researchers. This study has helped the researchers to gauge how important are the genetic aspects are that helps to decrease the risk of disease in those who live to see a complete century or ...

Kidney Stones Occurring More Often in Children

...e rarely a serious condition, but can be extremely painful and can cause urinary tract infections. Limitin... the lower-back and/or in the sides ? Frequent and painful urination ? Blood in the urine and/or cloudy urine ? Urinary tract infections, secondary to kidney s...

Role Of Faith In Healing Process

... of the volunteers initially received a moderately painful heat stimulus to both arms. The placebo cream was then applied to the skin, but they were led to believe that the cream on one of their arms may be a local anaesthetic. After the application of the cream, the intensity of the heat stimulus was tur...

Girl With Cancer Forced to Undertake Treatment

... of her apparent //reluctance to continue with the painful radiotherapy. Having beaten the condition called Wilm’s Tumour in two distinct episodes spanning over six years, Leah has been confronted by the tumour after a three year respite. According to her parents Kathryn and Mark Richards, the attack has le...

Drinking Plenty of Water may Prevent Kidney Stones

...e rarely a serious condition, but can be extremely painful and can cause urinary tract infections. Signs and ...n the lower back and/or in the sides, frequent and painful urination, blood in the urine and/or cloudy urine, urinary tract infections, secondary to kidney sto...

Use of Mammograms in Men

...ny men have breast symptoms, including enlarged or painful breast tissue, but the majority do not need a mamm...n which includes breast swelling, a tender mass or painful breast tissue. “Mammography is being performed with increasing frequency in men with breast sympto...

New Ayurvedic Remedy for Radiation Pain

... from inflammation of gums and mouth tissue. It is painful and often interrupts their treatment. During this time, the tumor can recur. That's why it is important that patients with oral cancer have a solution whereby they can have relief from pain and their treatment continues till the cancer is totally con...

Vaccines For Cervical Cancer Will Soon Be Available In Developing Nations

..., women in these countries with the disease face a painful and protracted death. Nothemba Simelela, of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, said: "There is usually a 15 to 20 year delay between the time that new vaccines are approved in the West and the time they reach developing countries. "...

Addicts in India Taking to Pharmaceutical Drugs: UNAIDS

...cocktail of these drugs for a better high. What is painful is that in northeastern states the interface between IDUs and sex workers is increasing, leading to a higher chance of getting infected with HIV," Kumar told IANS. D.C.S. Reddy, national professional officer of WHO, said the UN bodies and the cent...

Knee Osteoarthritis More Painful for Smokers: Study

... loss of cartilage in joints, is likely to be more painful for smokers, say US scientists. // Researchers led by David Felson, a professor at the Boston University Medical School, studied 159 men with symptomatic osteoarthritis of the knee for 30 months. Twelve percent of the participants were current smoke...

Uses for Botulinum Toxin — A Miracle Poison — Continue to Grw

... the hands, feet and underarms and can help manage painful neck spasms (dystonia). Other clinical uses include treating muscle conditions associated with cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, stroke and Parkinson's; and improving swallowing and speaking problems for people with vocal cord disorders. Newe...

Chemotherapy Affects The Structures Of The Human Brain – Says A Researc

...astrointestinal complaints, immunosuppression, and painful mucositis, for example, are the immediate risks of the treatment. Patients receiving chemotherapy have also long complained of problems with memory, problem-solving and other cognitive abilities. Although chemotherapy was thought not to affect bra...

Migraine Sufferers More at Risk of Heart Attack

...heart attacks, says a new study.// Migraine is a painful neurological condition, of which the most common symptom is an intense and disabling episodic headache. Men with migraines were more likely to have high blood pressure or elevated cholesterol levels, compared to men who didn't have migraines, a st...

It's the Heat and the Humidity: How Each Worsens Gout Symptoms

...consider drinking more fluids to avoid potentially painful gout attacks.” Gout afflicts about 1 in 100 people and as many as 6 – 7 percent of older men. This condition and its complications occur more often in men, women after menopause, and people with kidney disease. Gout is strongly associated with obes...

Ozone Treatment - A Good Alternative For Spinal Injury

...n than surgery. This new form of treatment is less painful as well as cost effective,' Vijay Sheel Kumar, president of the World Federation of Ozone Therapy (WFOT), told IANS. Over 40 dignitaries from countries like Spain, Italy and Germany are here to train doctors and share the finer nuances of the treatm...

IMRT Versus 3D CRT For Prostate Cancer, New Long-Term Data Assesses Side Effects

...ts such as urinary frequency, urgency and, rarely, painful or difficult urination or obstructive symptoms. "There were no differences in the reporting of acute gastrointestinal or genitourinary side effects for the two treatment modalities," explained Alexander Kirichenko, M.D., Ph.D., lead author of the s...

Indian radiologist spearheads cure for osteoarthritis sans surgery

...out surgery and helped hundreds suffering from the painful condition to walk again, holding// out promise of ...the over billion-strong Indians suffering from the painful condition. After having successfully treated about 500 people in the age group of 40-75 years and ...

Laborious efforts of NHS Trust to confine labor to homes

...ituation admits that the transition is going to be painful but is optimistic that it will eventually work out for the good of both the mothers–to-be and the NHS which apparently is struggling to make both ends meet. MT...

PM promises forward-looking IT, electronics policy soon

...erson Sonia Gandhi said: "Sriperumbudur is full of painful memories for me but now I also have pleasant memories. It was Rajiv Gandhi who ushered India into the era of computers. He saw technology as an instrument of change." Source-IANS...

Fighting cancer - Multiple Myeloma with long-term therapy

... of abnormal cells in the bone marrow leads to the painful destruction of bone. In this study, pamidronate, a drug often used early in the treatment of multiple myeloma to help protect against bone damage, was for the first time studied as a maintenance therapy. Its use alone was compared against its combina...

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