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Practicing Spirituality may Help Smokers to Quit

Unlike many traditional alcohol and drug dependence treatment programs, mainstream smoking cessation programs generally exclude spiritual practice and beliefs from the treatment process. But a study by Oregon Health & Science University Smoking Cessation Center researchers...

Now Kidney Stones can Be Healed With Low-cost Laser Technology

... doctors opted for laser technology instead of the traditional open surgery method. The operation was absolutely bloodless and the patient was cured without any post-operative complications. "With the induction of the laser technology, we have successfully treated over 200 patients suffering from kidney stones...

Tissue Engineered Scaffolding Allows Reproduction of Cartilage Tissue

...ore effective means of regenerating cartilage than traditional therapy. The shrinkage of cartilage that occurs frequently in other tissue engineering methods, and often renders the replacement tissue wrongly-sized for implantation, did not occur in the study. The scaffolding allowed the newly grown cartilage t...

Younger Women At Risk Of Heart Disease

...rt disease.The vast majority (88 percent) reported traditional symptoms of severe chest pain. Yet only 42 percent suspected something was wrong with their heart. Less typical symptoms included pain in the jaw/shoulder area (experienced by 58 percent of the women); sweating (38 percent); nausea (29 percent); shor...

Spinal Manipulation Beneficial for Neck Pain

...ditions can be more effective and less costly than traditional medical care....

Heart Attack Risk Increased by Unfair Treatment

...es. The figures were adjusted to take account of traditional risk factors for heart disease, as well as socioeconomic status, gender, age, chronic job stress unfair treatment at work, and personality traits, such as hostility. But the results still showed that the higher the sense of injustice, the greater w...

Check Your Physiology Before You Choose A Diet

...half followed a low-glycemic load diet similar to traditional diets around the world, including the Mediterranean diet. These dieters were allowed to eat a 'liberal amount of healthful (unsaturated) fats,' such as olive and canola oil, and encouraged to eat vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans and nuts, he...

Cow Protein Aids in Treatment of Gastrointestinal Disorder

...m was eliminated in more patients treated with the traditional therapy plus lactoferrin than with the existing treatments and may be used without risk of resistance. Various studies are under way to evaluate new antibiotics and different therapeutic methods to increase the efficacy of H. pylori therapy, says l...

No Evidence Older Women Generate New Eggs

...inician-scientists at USF Health which affirms the traditional dogma of a finite period of fertility in women, sa...graduate affairs at the College of Medicine. The traditional view of fertility holds that women are born with all their eggs and they are released one by one (oc...

Yoga Enthusiasts Oppose Patenting Yoga Overseas

...rnment has set up a task force that is cataloguing traditional knowledge, including Ayurvedic remedies and yoga postures to protect them from being pirated and copyrighted by foreigners. The data, which will be translated from ancient Sanskrit and Tamil texts, will be stored digitally and be available in five ...

Health Benefits Of Traditional Land Ownership

Handing back control over remote areas to the traditional Indigenous land owners could help improve the over...s people who regain ownership and control of their traditional lands enjoy improved health, says Ms Nicole Watson, Senior Research Fellow at the Jumbunna Indigenou...

Myths About Melanoma Could Lead to Delayed Diagnosis and Treatment

...us 57 percent of patients classified with the more traditional superficial spreading melanoma that noted a color change in their lesions. This is one example where NM patients relied more on the changing nature of their suspicious lesions primarily bleeding and catching on clothing than the ABCD characteristic...

Nanocomposite Labeled Cancer Cells Targeted and Destroyed by Using Lasers

...ce of size, surface functionality and payload than traditional small in vivo devices where the agent is conjugated directly to the surface. A laser can be used to kill cells indiscriminately, but it is really a blunt instrument. High powered lasers do so much damage that the tissue becomes opaque to further li...

Sleep Apnea Increases Risk of Heart Attack or Death by 30 Percent

... heart attack and death, but also adjust for other traditional risk factors for heart disease, says researcher Neomi Shah, M.D., of Yale University. We recommend that patients who experience symptoms of obstructive sleep apneaexcessive daytime sleepiness, or snoring along with breathing pausesconsult their phy...

Aggressive Family Planning Sparks Riots in China

...ns and a dangerously imbalanced sex ratio due to a traditional preference for male heirs, which has prompted families to abort female fetuses in hopes of getting boys....

Flash-heating Inactivates HIV in Breast Milk: Study

...to test for an enzyme produced by viable HIV since traditional tests for HIV do not distinguish between dead and live viruses. The RT test, however, cannot detect HIV within cells, but preliminary data suggest that flash-heat inactivates cell-associated HIV as well. "We hope this technique will not only provid...

Sling Surgery Better Than Burch for Treating Stress Incontinence in Women

...largest and most rigorous U.S. trial comparing two traditional operations for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in women, a team of urologists and urogynecologists supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has found that a sling procedure helps more women achieve dryness than the Burch technique. ...

Anti-inflammatory Drugs Interact With Hormone Replacement Therapy

...n odds ratio of 0.78. However, in women who used traditional nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as ibuprofen, which variably inhibit both cyclooxygenase (COX)-1 and COX-2, at the same time as hormone replacement therapy, the chance of heart attack among this group o f women, as compared to non...

Climate Change Reorganized Tibetan Culture 700 Years Ago: Study

...plant their crops earlier, before the start of the traditional growing season. "Water conflicts are likely to increase in the future as problems of this kind worsen," he noted....

FDA Approves Wyeth's Oral Contraceptive Lybrel

...er dose of synthetic hormones in a daily dose than traditional oral contraceptives, is taken 365 days a year with no placebo pills. The usual regimen for oral contraceptives is 21 active pills taken consecutively, followed by seven placebo pills. According to Wyeth, 59% of women taking Lybrel stopped bleeding ...

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