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An effective way to treat angina

...viduals with angina, average age 60, took part and reported reduced chest pain alongside the increase in growth factors. EECP is non-invasive and safe and, if larger studies prove its effectiveness, offers new hope for people with angina who are not responding to current therapies....

Bupropion relieves nerve pain

.... Seventy three per cent of the bupropion patients reported their pain was improved or even much improved while 90 per cent of those taking the placebo found their pain the same, or worse. What's especially interesting is that the patients were chosen because they did not suffer from depression. It's often ...

New therapy for pimples

According to a research reported in the British Journal of Dermatology, a blue and red light mixture seems to be most effective treatment for acne - reducing the number of spots by three-quarters.As many as one in 18 adults have persistent pimples, which can prove stubbornly resista...

Allergies are related to mothers' menses

... first periods, and their allergies. The study was reported in the journal Thorax....

Sex life enhanced by cycling

...ication for heart failure. Researchers in France reported on the study of the effects of exercise// on men w.... While the rest of the group did no exercise, and reported no improvement. The benefits of exercise relate to an improvement in circulation - for medical tes...

Implantable Contact Lens Found Safe and Effective

...r 429 eyes implanted with the contact lens. Vukich reported that 45% of the implanted eyes had visual acuity of 20/20 or better, and 84% had visual acuity of 20/40 or better. The lens does not correct astigmatism, which is blurry vision caused by an irregular curvature of the cornea. The implantable contact...

Tai chi helps arthritis

...ises//. At the end of the study, the tai chi group reported significantly less pain, and fewer difficulties in activities of daily living. They also had improved abdominal strength and balance in comparison to the controls, though there were no difference in flexibility, upper muscle or knee muscle strength. ...

Left handed have better episodic memory

...nswer in the affirmative. This recent reasearch is reported in the jornal Neuropsychology. Stephen D. Christman and Ruth E. Propper of the University of Toledo in Ohio, studied memory as a function of family handedness. Interestingly, people don’t have to be personally left-handed to share a unique trait: Th...

Birds breed viruses

...nd (H9N2). The first human case of the disease was reported in Hong Kong in mid-May . The outbreak - of the H5N1 sub-type - went on to kill six people and infect 12 others in a small but densely populated area. Nine cases were children under the age of 10.Both viruses were known to be circulating among chic...

Nasal Spray Could Take Drugs Directly to Brain

...lzheimer's Research Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, reported that “a direct path from the nose to the brain” could breach the blood-brain barrier, which protects the brain from foreign substances, including drugs. Senior investigator Dr. William H. Frey II said that his team used a nasal spray to deliver insu...

Almost a death experience

...medical explanation for the near death experience reported by some patients during cardiac arrest. The near d...ully resuscitated from a cardiac arrest. One fifth reported NDE - but this was not linked to the duration of the arrest or time unconscious. It was more common ...

Teen smoking declines

...lar drug with teens, though a slight reduction was reported in 2001....

New treatment for depression

... show signs of improvement in the early trials had reported a reduction in symptoms later on....

Stem cell research

...gapore, is the first to succeed. Their results are reported in this week's issue of Nature biotechnology.// Great hope has been placed in stem cells because their ability to grow into any type of cell means they could be used to develop new tissues for disease treatment, and possibly organs for transplantat...

Hope For Stiff-Person Syndrome

...ble to walk more easily, fell down less often, and reported improvements in their ability to perform work-related and household tasks. The Findings indicate that intravenous immune globulin is safe, well tolerated, and effective for stiff-person syndrome and significantly improves patients' ability to perfor...

Genes for Vision discovered

...dystrophy. The newly identified gene set, which is reported in the journal Cell, could lead to the identification of genes which, when mutated, cause these degenerative diseases. According to Connie Cepko, HMS professor of genetics and senior author of the study the search for disease genes was cut by 100...

Depression linked to mortality

... pressure. The worse the depression and anxiety as reported by standardized tests, the higher the risk of a fatal stroke. Depressed people often don't take medicines as prescribed, so some of the men may not be taking medicines for high blood pressure, thereby increasing their risk for stroke. There could al...

The superior steroids

...perienced significantly fewer allergy symptoms and reported less impact on their quality of life than those who took the antihistamine. During the four-week study, 88 participants took either the steroid nasal spray or antihistamine on an as-needed basis. They kept a daily diary of their allergy symptoms and ...

The way you talk matters a lot

... neurologist at Sainte-Anne Hospital in Paris, who reported the case, said long styl oid processes( a slender, pointed bone which runs from both sides of the skull under the ears and behind the jaw)could be a more common cause of tears, or dissections, in the walls of the carotid artery. He said around 20% ...

Appropriate treatment for breast cancer

...adjuvant chemotherapy after surgery, or tamoxifen, reported sexual discomfort and vaginal dryness. It calls into question whether it's worth having chemotherapy or tamoxifen in the case of a very small - less than one centimeter in diameter - tumour. For larger tumours, these treatments have a definite surviv...

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