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A new herbal therapy to quit smoking

Smokers trying to quit now have one more way out of their nicotine addiction. Newtrition Remedies, a herbal medicine manufacturer, launched its "Quit Smoking Programme". Known as the "Trans-Alpha-Herbal Therapy", //the programme will focus on assisting smokers over...

Accomplishment of nicotine replacement therapy

...d. They found an increase in the number of smokers trying to quit - from 38 per cent of smokers in 1992 to 60 per cent in 1999. Use of NRT increased three fold over this time - probably as it became easier to obtain. But much of the increased use of NRT is down to light smokers (consuming fewer than 12 ci...

Relief of pain for suffering patients

A medical ethics group in Canada is trying to clarify the guidelines for giving dying patients pain relief. Most people dread the prospect of dying in pain, more than death itself. //But sometimes doctors hesitate to give the amount of painkiller needed for fear of accelerating the patient's ...

Resolving Autism

...antly less activity in prefrontal brain areas when trying to complete the spatial tasks than the healthy volunteers. Researchers conclude abnormalities in this area of the brain may play a role in autism. They write: "Higher-order cognition, which continues to develop throughout childhood and adolescence, ...

Vegetable and fruit intake depends on shopping

...ing facilities needs to be taken into account when trying to persuade people to eat a healthy diet....

How to arrest cough

...arcel of a cold or flu and, aside from resting and trying not to spread the infection, there's little you can do.// Other coughs, however, may signify a more serious underlying medical condition. Doctors at the Mayo Clinic point out the situations where a cough needs prompt medical attention. First, if yo...

Healthy ways to eat nourishing food

...rating on what your body wants to eat, rather than trying one diet after another. And the key is to get in touch with your body, first, by more physical activity - whatever you like to do, be it swimming, dancing or lifting weights. Then have regular nourishing meals to get back properly in touch with the...

Memory deprivation after operations

Researchers in there study are trying to observe why surgery may trigger cognitive problems in some people but studies are ongoing. It's long been known that some older people develop problems with memory and other mental functions after an operation// - a condition known as Post Operat...

Juices are Best! but which one?

...ice or prune juice .On the contrary those who are trying to restrict their intake of iron (hemochromatitics and astronauts) can use these juices to help better. To sum up a proper balance of the various juices is suggested by study authors to remind consumers that the compounds that may be controlling...

Myth of 'female impotence' created to boost sales

...ew markets for their products. Drug companies are trying to recreate// the kind of market that Viagra, the drug used to treat male impotence, created during its launch in 1998. Doctors however claim that female sexual disorders are being unduly medicalised and the coining of the term "female sexual dysfun...

Imitating celebrity mums may prove unsafe for mom and child

...e being plagued by a new type of problem - that of trying to imitate celebrity mums. Experts say that though celebrity mums like Liz Hurley and Victoria Beckham have made// pregnancy more sexy with cropped tops and clingy dresses, it has not helped ordinary women, who have started feeling inadequate and und...

New ways to help children with trauma

...at were designed for adults. So now, they are also trying to find better ways to assess children after traumatic brain injury, such as how they function, walk, talk, speak, and perform other daily activities. Dr. Adelson said that younger children's brains don't deal with trauma as well and they do poorly o...

Diabetes could become an epidemic

..., or by non-healing wounds. Hence it is well worth trying to prevent it....

China tells officials not to hide SARS damage

..., still reeling from an official SARS cover-up, is trying to stop more deception, this time of the extent of economic damage the deadly flu-like virus has caused to the world's sixth-biggest economy. The State Statistical Bureau said the illness, which hit retail sales and foreign investment last month, was...

Canada stunned as mad cow discovery leads to beef ban

...from eating beef.Above all, Canadian officials are trying to calm fears of the disease spreading to humans, as happened in Britain and Europe. "The risk to human health is low," insisted Dr Claude Levigne, a senior agriculture ministry official. About 130 people died in Europe in the Nineties, mostly in Bri...

Age should not rule out visectomy reversal

...logy, are based on a study of 46 couples that were trying to conceive. In each couple, the male partner had undergone vasectomy reversal and the female partner was at least 35. The average time between vasectomy and reversal was 10 years. Of the 40 couples with adequate follow-up, pregnancy occurred in 14 (...

SARS-Free Taiwan to Mark End Phase of Global Fight

...lence startled the health community which is still trying to establish its origin and how it is spread. The fact that it jumps from one infected person to another easily, even in well-equipped modern hospitals where many victims have been doctors and nurses, means countries will have to be on guard for some...

Study to look at early surgery to treat epilepsy

...edications. Most people spend more than a decade trying different drugs before considering surgery. For some patients , the surgery provided a way to get their epilepsy under control. Not all patients respond as well to the surgery, and doctors warn the procedure is not for everyone. "There is approxima...

'Designer' baby for British couple

...e. "We are not creating anything new. We are just trying to choose between the embryos to find the one that is normal and can save the life of its sibling. "There was no selection on the basis of color of eyes or hair or sex."Charlie has Diamond Blackfan anemia which can only be cured with a transplant of...

Bowel diseases linked to bug in milk

... in 600 of the population. Prof Hermon-Taylor is trying to develop a vaccine against Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) as a treatment for Crohn's disease and is shortly to test it on mice. Research by his team and others suggests that MAP, which infects cattle, is infiltrating water su...

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