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Soy, Omega 3s convalesce artery health

...ed either an EPA supplement, a DHA supplement or a placebo for seven weeks. Researchers found arterial elast...t in the DHA group, but there was no change in the placebo group. If an artery is too stiff, blood flow is unable to pass smoothly through it and cholesterol p...

Drug used to treat hypertension effective in countering Migraines

.... The researchers assigned 30 patients to take the placebo in the first 12 week period and a 16mg Atacand in ...bove regime (ie. Atacand in the first 12 weeks and placebo in the next 12 weeks), though none of the groups were aware whether they were taking the placebo or ...

Zinc Effective In Helping Kids Recover From Pneumonia

...ms of zinc per day while the other half received a placebo supplement for comparison purposes. All the kids r...nts recovered about a day sooner than those on the placebo and stayed in the hospital about a day less. The treatment was well tolerated. However researchers ...

Getting A Suntan The Easy Way

...eers who were given MT-1 and four who were given a placebo for 10 days. A UV-B light was used to tan the volunteers’ necks. In the second study, 12 volunteers received MT-1 with a higher dosage than the first study. UV-B radiation was given to the volunteers’ buttocks. And in the third study, eight volunteer...

Stem Cell Therapy Effective For Treating Heart Attacks

...ffects would last. Seven of the pigs that received placebo did not appear to recover and actually had a worsened condition, leading to the development of congestive heart failure within two months after heart attack. Thus researchers say they have discovered what could become a widely used treatment to re...

Red Clover- A Future Remedy For Menopause And An Alternative To HRT

...ceive either 40mg a day of red clover extract or a placebo for six months. At this point they will be given an option to carry on treatment for a further six months. The researchers will look particularly at the effect on hot flushes, a symptom that affects around three quarters of all women during menopau...

Good News For Those Of You Suffering From Rheumatoid Arthritis

... compared with 9 percent of all subjects receiving placebo plus methotrexate. In addition, adalimumab injections slowed progression of joint damage as revealed by joint X-rays. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease, which develops when certain cells of the immune system malfunction and attack health...

Popularity Of Homeopathy On The Increase

...Mueller-Oerlinghausen. "It is, however, simply a placebo effect." Biologist and homeopathic critic, Raine...Sceptics argue that there is much in favour of the placebo argument because homeopathy is very effective in so-called psychosomatic illnesses such as migraine,...

Reaction To ADHD Medication May Be Genetic By Nature

...ation response over a four-week period, first on a placebo and then on three increasing dosages of methylphenidate. The researchers tested 47 children with ADHD between 5 and 16 years old to determine which variant of the dopamine transporter gene they carried. They focused on two specific variants -- calle...

Latest Research Shows That Multivitamins Might Not Prevent Infections In All Elderly

... also had fewer colds over the study period than a placebo group. Although some trials have shown that other ...aily multivitamin and multimineral supplement or a placebo for one year. While on the study participants were asked to record contacts with primary care for in...

Antidepressant Medication Leading To Suicidal Thoughts

...o been compared with a group of 550 patients under placebo where the suicidal rate was significantly less. It has therefore been concluded that the recommendation of restrictions in the use of paroxetine (Seroxat) in children and adolescents ... should be extended to adults as well. Seroxat is a Selective S...

Aliskiren: A New Treatment For Hypertension

...reduces blood pressure significantly compared with placebo and is as effective as two commonly prescribed ARBs with a similar tolerability profile. The article also noted that, although further examination is needed, there is preliminary evidence from one study that adherence to aliskiren therapy is high, av...

Wishing the pain away

...rphins, play a role in the phenomenon known as the placebo effect — and that this response corresponds with a...cific brain chemistry mechanism for a pain-related placebo effect. It may help explain why so many people say they get relief from therapies and remedies with ...

Natural Sulfur Can Treat Pain From Osteoarthritis

... administered MSM 3g twice a day and 25 were given placebo twice a day for 12 weeks (OptiMSM?, Cardinal Nutri... and aggregated total symptoms. The changes in the placebo group were non-significant. This study showed that MSM 3g twice a day for 12 weeks improved pain a...

Researchers Question The Effectiveness Of Homeopathic Remedies

...effects of homeopathic remedies are as weak as the placebo effects. Researchers, from University of Berne, Switzerland, had // compared 110 placebo controlled, randomized trials of homoeopathy with 110 conventional-medicine trials matched for disor...

Will you be willing to patch up your vertebrae with cement?

...smit pain. Perhaps the treatment might also have a placebo effect in providing symptomatic relief. The procedure has been regarded to be harmful in the long run because of the increased possibility of adjacent vertebral fractures. Kyphoplasty, another form of treatment is becoming increasingly popular and...

Chitosan May Not Conclusively Help Weight Loss

... weight loss of almost 4 pounds more than those on placebo in the short term, and their cholesterol and blood...ssure levels also decreased more than those in the placebo group. There were no side effects noted in the group taking chitosan. The average age of participa...

Medicines Used In Antiplatelet Therapy Can Reduce Heart Attacks And Strokes

...of a drug more quickly], then 75 mg once daily) or placebo initiated with fibrinolysis and given until coronary angiography, which was performed 2 to 8 days after initiation of the study drug. The researchers found that pretreatment with clopidogrel significantly reduced by 46 percent the odds of cardiovas...

Junior Doctors Working Long Hours May Perform Poorly

...iability was 29 percent greater in heavy call with placebo than light call with alcohol, and there were similar errors and reaction times. Source: Newswise ...

Another Breather For People At Atherosclerotic Risk

...in B12, 2.5 mg folic acid, and 25 mg vitamin B6 or placebo daily for a year. The researchers found that homocysteine in the participants who received vitamin supplements decreased from 10.50 to 6.56 units, while homocysteine in the untreated group did not change. As for IMT, 5 percent decrease was observed ...

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