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Pain relieved by ionized bracelets

...those wearing a placebo. It looks as if there is a powerful 'placebo' effect at work here. The ionized bracelet works - because the wearer believes in it....

Anxiety and Peptic ulcers may be linked

...eating anxiety, as well as H. pylori may be a more powerful way of healing a peptic ulcer....

New AIDS vaccine may be in the offing

...tem, which triggers a chain reaction that starts a powerful immune attack on similar substances. In the study, the researchers injected these cells (i.e. DCs) that were loaded with a killed AIDS virus into monkeys, infected with the same virus. The monkeys which would quickly die in normal conditions, were al...

Thalidomide may stage a comeback

...ects stated that thalidomide is a unique drug with powerful effects potentially for harm and good and its wider licensing will require extraordinary measures....

New heart disease marker

...lesterol in blood has been believed to be the most powerful indicator of heart disease. More risk of heart disease is associated with increased levels of total amount cholesterol in blood. The relationship between LDL(Low-Density Lipoprotein)or 'bad' cholesterol and HDL(High-Density Lipoprotein) or 'good' cho...

New lung cancer vaccine on the anvil

...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 researchers have developed a vaccine that gets the attention of the T...

Hypertensives could benefit regular alcohol consumption

...researchers indicated that serum lipoprotein(a), a powerful predictor of organ damage, was reduced with regular alcohol consumption. The researchers studied 402 patients with untreated essential hypertension to assess the links between drinking// and serum lipoprotein(a) over a wide range of alcohol intake le...

Diabetes Cure With Gene Therapy

...he pancreas, because it avoids the lifelong use of powerful immunosuppressive drugs and eliminates the need to find a compatible donor....

Hope for 11 million children facing death from illnesses

The World Health Assembly has given a powerful endorsement to new strategic directions for child and adolescent health. The strategy brings together crucial elements to reduce childhood deaths and long term disability. It also aims to reduce the 1.4 million adolescent deaths each year. Last year,...

Vitamin D May Aid Breast Cancer Treatment

...vative of vitamin D known as EB1089 may yield some powerful anti-cancer properties,// particularly when combined with radiation therapy. When compared to other cancer treatments, the vitamin D analog is much less toxic and, at least preliminarily, it appears to aid radiation therapy in impacting the growth of...

It's Never Too Late to Stop Smoking,Study Finds

...ng these patients to stop smoking can have just as powerful an impact on their health as drugs. "Even when patients have had significant heart damage from previous heart attacks and are currently in heart failure, stopping smoking is still very important and prolongs lives," explained lead author Dr. Nevill...

How a man's mind really works

...elationships. The male brain secretes less of the powerful primary bonding chemical oxytocin and less of the calming chemical serotonin than the female brain. So while women find emotional conversations a good way to chill out at the end of the day, the tired male brain needs to zone out all that touchy-fee...

New vaccine for brain cancer

...ells then recognize it and divide into millions of powerful T-cells. Now, when they see the tumor with this protein on the surface, they will try to attack it and kill the tumor cell. It sounds confusing, but it works. By giving this vaccine, patients are surviving longer. Early research suggests, when com...

Risk of Heart Attack Can Now Be Predicted

... that, “PIGF plasma levels represent a potentially powerful clinical biomarker of vascular inflammation and adverse outcomes in patients with ACS.” Thus Measuring PIGF levels may extend the predictive and prognostic information gained from traditional inflammatory markers....

Drug to stop HIV spread to babies may Indirectly harm The Mother

...women with HIV are routinely given combinations of powerful AIDS drugs throughout their pregnancy. This reduces the risk of passing the virus on at birth to near zero and minimizes the chance of developing resistance. In Africa and other places where this approach is not considered practical, the WHO has rec...

Reducing The Risk Of Fractures After a Heart Transplant

...st year after the transplant, mainly due to // the powerful drugs that keep their bodies from rejecting the new organ. The bone loss greatly increases their risk for fractures. Studies suggest the prevalence of fractures among this group ranges from 22 percent to 44 percent. Preventing bone loss is a primary ...

Wrestling found To Be Good for the Immune System

...normal cells, and those without are blasted with a powerful cocktail of chemicals to destroy them. Researchers say white cell responses to exercise during childhood and adolescence may be important for the development of the immune system for overall growth and previous studies have shown exercise boosts the ...

Soaking In The Sun May Give You More Than Just a Tan

Experts have long suspected that sunlight has powerful -- and perhaps conflicting -- effects on the body's tendency to develop // a variety of diseases. The best example is the risk of too much sun triggering skin cancer. However, many suspect sunshine can have less obvious influences, and can even affe...

Rat Genetic Code Mapped

...n genome with those of other organisms is the most powerful tool available to understand the complex genomic components involved in human health and disease .That in turn will help show what makes mice different from people, and rats from mice . If we have two things we can't really tell how far apart we ar...

Laser Surgery for Allergy

... , of Methodist Dallas Medical Center, now uses a powerful laser to shrink nasal tissues called turbinates. He says: "This is the tip that is going to be placed in the nose. The idea is to vaporize some of this tissue as well as to cause a heat injury that, over several weeks, will reduce the size of the tur...

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