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Genetic tests for cancer

...e UK Human Genetics Commission is now studying the problem of the test kits, and has concluded that laboratory evidence alone could be highly misleading....

Errors in medication

...n hospitals and nursing homes may be in error. The problem occurs regardless of whether the facility has been...Heath System," which drew attention to the growing problem of medication errors in the nation's hospitals and other health care facilities. Many cited systems ...

Voice has to be looked after with care

...ulation above age 50 might have some form of voice problem which can be supported by following a few simple rules. There is a lot of natural variation in how the human voice sounds. //But once your voice prevents you from communicating properly you may have a problem. Parkinson's disease, for instance, makes...

Emotional intelligence in Cancer

...ists can develop therapies more geared towards the problem areas....

Focussed treatment for Hodgkin's disease

...of conventional radiation treatment. The problem lies with radiation damaging healthy tissue, if applied in the usual way. But researchers at Stanford University have been developing a new type of radiotherapy for Hodgkin's disease called Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT). This is a rela...

Pain relieved by ionized bracelets

...ple with muscle or joint pain are hopeful that the problem could be relieved// by ionized bracelets. So the researchers divided the participants into two groups - one of which was given an ionized bracelet, while the other received a placebo bracelet that looked identical. The participants were asked to ra...

Mediterranean diet aids Asian masses

...nary artery disease (CAD) is a major public health problem in South Asian people, especially if they move to the West. The high prevalence of CAD is not fully explained by conventional risk factors,// like diabetes and high blood pressure. Researchers in India and Israel have been experimenting with the ef...

A new infection- 'hot tub lung'

...and well-maintained in order to avoid developing a problem with a common bacterium that lives in hot water. ...h MAC readily enters the lung by inhalation. The problem is most likely to occur where owners do not properly clean the tubs or change the filters as often a...

Enduring anti-clotting treatment avails heart patients

...h has shown the advantage of tackling the clotting problem with aspirin and anti-clotting drugs given for a few weeks after the PCI. A new study now shows that giving the combination therapy for a whole year gives even better results. Researchers at the University of North Carolina studied a group of over...

New therapy improves quality of life for cancer

...he protein that carries oxygen round the body. The problem with anaemia is that it causes overwhelming exhaustion that is not relieved by rest. Patients find it hard to get the energy together to perform even the simplest everyday tasks. A new treatment, epoetin alfa, mimics haemoglobin and has just been t...

Acupuncture for cystitis in women

... cystitis, so long as the characteristics of their problem are well diagnosed - by either conventional medicine or TCM....

Handling forgetfulness

Forgetfulness is a common problem faced by the middle aged people. There are many re.... Yet many women younger than this say they have a problem with continually forgetting things. Doctors at the Mayo Clinic say there are many possible reasons f...

Bridge to liver transplant looks encouraging

...r transplant. Liver failure is a relatively common problem and most often the only cure is a transplant.// But donated livers are in short supply and many patients die while waiting for one. Research on an artificial liver has been going on for many years now, but the liver is such a complex organ that succe...

Imitating celebrity mums may prove unsafe for mom and child

...generation mums are being plagued by a new type of problem - that of trying to imitate celebrity mums. Experts say that though celebrity mums like Liz Hurley and Victoria Beckham have made// pregnancy more sexy with cropped tops and clingy dresses, it has not helped ordinary women, who have started feeling i...

Stroke also in list of common childhood ailments

... is identified, it would help in tackling the same problem in adults. They added that strokes in infants are a common cause of cerebral palsy, and that nearly 6 percent of children who have a stroke die, while about 25 percent of children have another stroke and about two-thirds have lasting neurological pro...

Human wasting disease linked to a gene

...a is a muscle wasting condition which is a serious problem in people with cancer, AIDS and a range of chronic diseases of the bowel, liver, lungs and heart. A recent study has found that the gene known as "twist", which was first found in fruit flies, where it is involved in muscle development, could help de...

Immune function could benefit from exercise

...on for absence from school or work, and a frequent problem in the ambulatory setting. In the elderly, it becomes a more serious problem because as people advance in age, the immune system function declines making them less resistant to ...

Lymphedema patients can benefit form exercise

Lymphedema, which is a common problem for breast cancer patients, is an abnormal buildup of fluid that causes swelling, most often in the arms or legs, and develops when lymph vessels or lymph nodes are missing, impaired, damaged, or removed. Secondary lymphedema can develop from infecti...

Resistant tumors could be treated with the discovery of a new molecule within cancer cells

...ch new cell receives a complete set. If there is a problem with the process of sharing out genes, an alarm will be triggered and the cell will not divide. However, cells with high amounts of AURORA-A seemed to over-ride the alarm and continue to divide, even when their genes were not correctly shared out. Th...

Ways to whiter teeth!

...te smile. But tooth discolouration is a persistent problem that is caused by aging and colored molecules in food and drink. Back in the Middle Ages, people used corrosive nitric acid, which bleached teeth white and kept it white for a while and then, destroyed them! However, dentists have now discovered many...

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