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Good News for HIV Patients Also Suffering From Hepatitis C Virus

...h these genotypes who were on interferon-ribavirin saw a 36-percent effectiveness rate.The Pegasys-ribavirin combination in patients with genotype 1, typically the most difficult to treat HCV genotype, was 29-percent effective. This compares to an effectiveness of 7 percent among those taking interferon-...

Aerobic Exercise Beneficial In Treating Depression

...plete remission of symptoms. The other groups also saw a decline in depressive symptoms, but they were not considered statistically significant. Thus researchers say exercise may offer a viable treatment alternative to treat depression as it can be recommended for most individuals....

Migraines Found To Increase Stroke Risk

...s did not have an increased stroke risk. Women who saw spots and lines during or just before migraines had a 25-percent increased risk of stroke over women without migraines. But women who experienced vision loss during or before migraine had a 70-percent higher risk. This may indicate that vision loss i...

Help teenagers eat healthy by giving nutritional information along with food.

...th extra cheese to a standard pizza etc, when they saw the nutrition information on display. Some of the information provide to the students were serving size, calories per servings, total fat and saturated fats, carbohydrate and sodium content etc. Calorie content and fat level seemed to be the main in...

Research Finds How Post-traumatic Stress Leads to Long-Lasting Memories

...te more gene activation in the hippocampus. But we saw the same amount of the gene in the rats, regardless of the amygdala treatment. It was the Arc protein, created by the gene, that was different. This gives us new insight into the way lasting memories are stored." The research was supported by sever...

Acupuncture May Be An Effective Treatment Against Tension-Headaches

...up). Those receiving traditional acupuncture care saw their headache rates drop by almost half - suffering 7 days less headaches over the four weeks following the treatment. Those receiving minimal acupuncture had 6.6 less days of headaches. While the control group experienced 1.5 less days of headaches...

Vitamin Supplements - Good, The Bad And The Ugly

...edicines in their own right," added Collins. She saw nothing wrong with people taking a low-dose one-a-...DA) could be seriously harmful. Collins said she saw four or five people a year whose health was affected by high levels of supplements, and at least one...

Mentally Imbalanced AIDS patient Chained

...tion of Democratic Rights (APDR) Wednesday finally saw Arjun Debnath of Bagda in North 24 Parganas district freed. Debnath had developed mental illness after he was diagnosed with the virus two years ago. Following deterioration of his health during the last couple of weeks, his relatives tried to admi...

Seaweed Supplements Could Prevent Breast Cancer

...s, which are available in health food stores, they saw a significant decline in painful symptoms and a lengthening of their menstrual cycles. One of the women also had a drop in blood estradiol levels which led researchers to believe it was worth doing further controlled studies on kelp . Although the ...

The Kidney Transplantation conspiracy in South Africa

...en charged of alleged involvement in a scam, which saw Brazilians being paid paltry sums for their kidneys, which were transplanted into mainly Israeli clients.//The medical men were allegedly part of a team that performed more than 110 transplants at the St Augustine Hospital, which, according to the pr...

Popularity Of Homeopathy On The Increase

...listic medicine and the cause of illness, which he saw as a dysfunction of the life force in the body. Classical homeopathy, as developed by him, implies gathering information on all aspects of a patient's physical, emotional and mental state. The remedy is available in the form of small pellets of l...

The Effects Of Alternative Medicine Questioned

...bal treatments such as echinacea, St. John's wort, saw palmetto, melatonin, and glucosamine and chondroitin didn't work as well for readers. Thus readers report that alternative treatments were far less effective than prescription drugs for eight conditions: anxiety, rheumatoid arthritis, depression, hig...

Fibromyalgia Patients May Be Soothed By Acupuncture

...linic researchers noted that although the patients saw improvement in symptoms, which had reduced activity level, physical function did not increase even though the patients were less tired and felt less pain. Source: Newswise...

Dengue fever in Delhi after the Monsoon

... of these 423 were in Delhi alone. The year 2003 saw yet another outbreak with over 12,000 cases being reported from all over the country, resulting in 215 deaths. Delhi was again the worst affected with over 2,800 cases and 34 deaths. N.K. Yadav, deputy health officer, Municipal Corporation of Delhi (...

Vitamin D With NSAID Drugs May Prevent Prostate Cancer

...dition of Ivanhoe Broadcast News. The researchers saw a 25 percent reduction in prostate cell growth using only calcitrol. They noticed approximately the same reduction using only ibuprofen or naproxen. But the prostate cell growth came down by 70 percent when they combined calcitrol with ibuprofen or...

Novartis MS Drug Shows Promising Results

...es and inflammatory disease activity that we first saw during the six-month placebo-controlled phase of the study," said chief investigator Professor Ludwig Kappos, MD, Department of Neurology at the University Hospital in Basel, Switzerland, "We hope that the magnitude of benefits shown in Phase II will...

Feelings Of Sympathy And Empathy Dictated by Personal Experience

... In the second part of the task, the patients also saw videos of people who were lifting boxes. However, this time, in some cases, the people in the film were deceived about the actual weight of the boxes. So the actor, for example, received the information before lifting the box that he was lifting 18 k...

New Hope For Patients With Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis

...es and inflammatory disease activity that we first saw during the 6-month placebo-controlled phase of the study. FTY720 appeared to be well tolerated; there were no complications during the extension as compared to the 6-month placebo-controlled phase. According to the press release, oral FTY720 has a ...

Microscopic Nanobombs Blow Apart Breast Cancer Cells

...variety of conditions." When the other researchers saw these nano explosions, they came up with the idea of using them against cancer cells. "The nanobomb is very selective, very localized and minimally invasive," Panchapakesan said. "It might cause what I would call nanopain, like a pin prick." He is ...

Increased Monitoring By Parents May Result In Lower BMI In Children

...d that mothers and fathers of boys with a high BMI saw their sons as more overweight, were more concerned about their sons’ weight, and used pressure to eat with their sons less often than mothers and fathers of boys with an average BMI. In addition, fathers of boys with a high BMI monitored their sons’ ...

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