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Emory Participates in Study to Slow Progression of Parkinson's Disease

... the nutritional supplement creatine can slow the symptom progression of this disorder. PD is a degenerative disorder of the brain in which patients develop tremor, slowness of movements and stiffness of muscles. It affects at least one million people in the U.S. Currently, there are a number of effective...

Fibroid Symptoms in Women can Be Relieved by Focused Ultrasound

...r. Tempany said. The findings showed significant symptom relief at three months and sustained relief at one...eated with the optimized protocol reported greater symptom relief and quality of life improvement than those treated with the original protocol. No serious adv...

How to Cope With Side Effects from Pelvic Radiotherapy

...fear of cancer coming back. Included inside is a symptom diary to help patients keep track of what they experience on a daily basis. And there is information on how patients can find help to cope with a wide range of problems. One useful example is how to apply for a special access card and key to allow ...

Journal Sleep: Advanced Cancer Patients Have Less Quality Sleep

... importance, since in cancer, an initial sign of a symptom may hint the underlying cause of that symptom and, thus, indicating the need of a more effective symptom management," said Mystakidou. "Poor sleep...

Implanting Electrodes in the Brain Could Help Treat Severe Depression

...tivity in a specific area. Because a significant symptom of major depression is anhedonia, the inability to find delight from activities formerly experienced as delightful, Schlaepfer's group concentrated on the brain's reward center, a region called the nucleus accumbens, which responds to stimuli from su...

Doctors Stress on Cardiac Emergency Units to Save Lives

...eriously because if not heart attack it might be a symptom of another fatal disease," said Satyajit Bose, a consultant cardio-thoracic surgeon....

Hot Flashes in Men Treated for Prostate Cancer Reduced by Non-hormonal Drug

...me of which can actually fuel their cancer. So any symptom relief these men get comes with worry about new cancer growth. "To my knowledge, this is the first nonhormonal treatment of hot flashes in men, where results from a placebo-controlled trial are positive enough to support that a nonhormonal medicati...

Dystonia Awareness Week: 4 -11 June, 2007

...mmon than motor neuron disease. It is also a major symptom in about 50 diseases and conditions. Ethnic popula...s. The only exception is when dystonia occurs as a symptom of another disease or condition. Research is on to gain a better insight into the cause and treatm...

Intensive Psychotherapy Provides Helping Hand in Borderline Personality Disorder.

... carefully assessed on a wide range of psychiatric symptom and functioning domains, such as depression, anger, social functioning, suicidal behaviors, impulsivity, social adjustment, and various forms of irritability and aggression. At the end of the year of treatment, a detailed examination of the change ...

Alcohol Injections to Tolerate Mortons Neuroma

... of 100%. In 94% of the patients, partial or total symptom improvement was reported, with 84% becoming totally pain free. Thirty patients underwent sonography at six months after the last injection and showed a 30% decrease in the size of the neuroma. Surprisingly, most patients maintain innervation to the...

Significant Rise in Proportion of Chronically Ill Children Dying in Intensive Care

... child and parents and that early involvement of a symptom care team could be helpful. Source-BMJ SR/V...

Primary Urinary Tract Infection in Infants

...ths after therapy. The group found that the main symptom of these infants with a UTI was fever. High white blood cell count was not necessarily present and urinalysis was also imperfect for diagnosing UTI's. They also found they colony count from urine cultures in kidney ultrasonography was not efficacious...

Chances of Developing Parkinson’s High Among Depressed Patient

Depression may be an early symptom of Parkinson’s disease, according to research//. ...isease, which suggests that depression is an early symptom of the disease.” For the study, researchers examined a database of more than three million people...

Understanding of Schizophrenia Could Lead to New Treatment Options

...ice also showed behaviors suggestive of anxiety, a symptom seen in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and increased sensitivity to amphetamine, also seen in many schizophrenia patients. Is it possible to modify NRB1-erbB signaling with drugs, or otherwise protect oligodendrocytes (and white...

Autoimmune Diseases can Be Prevented by Green Tea

...a extract, suggesting a reduction of the Sjogren's symptom commonly referred to as dry mouth. Dry mouth can also be caused by certain drugs, radiation and other diseases, according to a report published in medical college website. Approximately 30 percent of elderly Americans suffer from degrees of dry mou...

Ever-Controversial Mental Health Act To Be Decided Upon

... This was followed by treatment in the 1960s with symptom suppressing drugs and other psychiatric treatment. Yet this policy of leniency began to be questioned after the early nineties due to incidents of murders carried out by mentally unsound persons, as they roamed around society, at free will. There ...

Intravenous Delivery of Clot-busting Drug Still Best Intervention for Ischemic Stroke

... is only approved to be used within three hours of symptom onset. The panel said other techniques – mechanical devices and intra-arterial administration (IA) of tPA – are becoming more widely available and should be considered for patients with moderate-to-severe strokes who arrive at the hospital too lat...

Encephalitis Kills 6 in Western Bangladesh

...ment as the disease could not be identified. The symptom of the disease is high fever and one stage the patient loses sense. A virus causes the disease, the doctors said. The patients should be kept quarantined during treatment. Civil Surgeon Dr Abu Taher with a team of specialist doctors from Kushtia ...

Sleep Disorder Linked to Heart Failure Patient Deaths

...(24%) died. Patients in each group were similar in symptom severity, heart failure therapy and other factors. Source-Newswise SRM/B...

Physical Exercise Could Relieve Menopause Symptoms

...ercise doesn't help hot flashes - an uncomfortable symptom of menopause that involves a brief feeling of intense warmth and sweating. The four-month study is not the final word on the effects of exercise on menopause but researchers led by professor Steriani Elavsky say the bottom line is: exercise is alw...

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