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Mice model becomes surrogate for human prostate

...l that we can easily test potentially new clinical therapies for prostate disease.” Renea Taylor, co team member, said. Therefore this research gains importance as prostate cancer is common among men. ...

Inclination of North Carolina’s Elderly Population towards Home Remedie

... what complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies older adults are using and why. The results of the...nd that the majority of participants don't use CAM therapies to treat diabetes or other chronic diseases. The people use CAM for prevention and for treating sy...

Biomarkers Could Prove Significant In Understanding Aging Process

...tory-simulated aging as well as potential drugs or therapies that alter the aging process.” The reserachers focused on the DNA of cellular organelles called mitochondria, which are known as the "power house" of the cell owing to their ability to generate energy that is vital for various cell processes to take ...

'Winter Blues' Treated by Breakthrough Lighting Technology

...effects in as little as 15 minutes versus the past therapies taking a time-consuming 30 minutes to 2 hours of light therapy. 3) With the new patented Blue-Lux(TM) technology, one simply has to be in the room to benefit. For more information on Blue-Lux(TM) and American Environmental Products' complete line...

Sterol Containing Pills, Good For The Heart

...o. They'll take plant sterols in addition to other therapies and benefit from the additive effect we observed in this study,' remarked the researchers. Following promising results from this small yet valuable study, it might not be long before sterol-containing pills are made commercially available....

Smoking Related Illness Could Become A Major Cause Of Death By 2020

...n are an early symptom." As of now, there are no therapies to rebuild lungs. What is destroyed is destroyed, said Pfeifer. --Edited IANS...

Early Diagnosis Of Oral Cancer And Sjogren's Syndrome Possible By Saliva-Based Tests

...nd of patients with Sjogren's syndrome, to develop therapies to halt disease progression, to follow their progress during clinical trials, and to develop more effective saliva substitutes," Atkinson said....

Carotid Stenting Can Help Patients With Silent Disease

...ter researchers are leading the discovery of novel therapies and advances to address a wide range of health conditions. http://www.cumc.columbia.eduNewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is the largest not-for-profit, non-sectarian hospital in the country. It provides state-of-the art inpatient, ambulatory and preventi...

Plants have ability to significantly lower LDL cholesterol through sterol pills

...o. They'll take plant sterols in addition to other therapies and benefit from the additive effect we observed in this study," Goldberg the lead researcher says. As a precautionary measure she puts it that, "We used a small sample size, but we still saw a significant effect." The pills of plant sterols us...

Rituximad Can Treat Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease: Study

...success of this approach suggests that anti-B cell therapies cold be tested as part of a strategy for preventing GVHD and treating it in its earliest stages.” Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (http://www.danafarber.org) is a principal teaching affiliate of the Harvard Medical School and is among the leading canc...

New Drug For Treating Chronic Shoulder Pain

...ter researchers are leading the discovery of novel therapies and advances to address a wide range of health conditions. Souce: Newswise...

Phobia Attack: Courting Fear with Cortisol, the Stress Hormone

...n to deal with the fear, than avoid it. Some other therapies include talking to persons and changing the way they perceive the fear. Cortisol is known to arrest the process of memory recall, and to test this idea in combating fear would mean giving a dose of this hormone before a fearful or phobic situation ...

Brian Imaging Can Foretell Results Of Treating Depression

...rue then researchers would be able to predict what therapies will be most effective for patients thus "bypassing the lengthy trial and error process that is often necessary to find the right treatment." Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers were able to identify areas of the brain tha...

Prevent Skin Cancer with Lifestyle Changes

..., radiation therapy, chemotherapy and photodynamic therapies being the common modes of treatment . The M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston has been ranked among America’s top two cancer hospitals in the U.S. News & World Report. <br...

Alcoholism Drug Vivitrol Approved By FDA

...patients receiving currently available traditional therapies relapse back to drinking within the first year of beginning treatment. Vivitrol can help these patients reduce alcohol consumption....

Fat cells lethally connected to heart disease

...nd ischemia could lead to new, rationally designed therapies for heart disease." Professor Jeremy Pearson, associate medical director of the British Heart Foundation, said: "This is an interesting piece of research. It has been recognized for several years that fat cells stored up around the body secrete hor...

Pfizer Acquires Worldwide Rights For New Overactive Bladder Drug

...ts and their doctors a new alternative to existing therapies for managing the symptoms of overactive bladder." Schwarz had submitted an application for fesoterodine approval to both the US Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA) earlier this year. Initially Pfizer will...

Fat Cells Can Trigger Heart Diseases

...nd ischemia could lead to new, rational design for therapies on heart disease. Stating that it is an interesting piece of research, Professor Jeremy Pearson, associate medical director of the British Heart Foundation, said that though it had been recognised for several years that fat cells stored up around th...

Immune-Boosting Therapies Of No Use In Preventing Miscarriage

...w of recent studies has found that immune-boosting therapies do not reduce the risk of miscarriage in pregnant ...egnancy between women treated with immune-boosting therapies and women who received no treatment. Further studies are needed to determine the exact cause of this...

Dry Eye Is A Symptom Of Menopause

... treatment options: artificial tears, prescription therapies and surgery. One of the latest therapy advances is the first prescription therapy that increases tear production in patients with dry eye resulting from ocular inflammation. Dry eye is a growing public health issue. The risk of dry eye increases w...

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