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The Benefits Of A Stretch

...ikely causes of injuries include fatigue, overuse, weakness and stress, but not inflexibility. Specialists also argue that stretching does not improve athletic performance in most cases. Past studies have shown that athletes who stretched prior to running actually performed worse than those who did not stret...

Stem cells offer hope for muscular dystrophy

...group of genetic diseases is marked by progressive weakness and degeneration of the muscles that control movement, as well as, sometimes, the heart and other organs. There is no treatment or cure. Cossu and colleagues worked with cells called mesoangioblasts, a type of stem cell. Stem cells are master cells...

Brain aneurysms can now be treated with a less invasive procedure

Brain aneurysm is a weakness in one of the blood vessels in the brain, causing the vessel to bulge, ultimately resulting in a brain hemorrhage. Around thirty thousand Americans, on an average, suffer a brain hemorrhage in a year and they are treated surgically or non-surgically ...

Women's stroke indications vary from men's

... The traditional symptoms of stroke include sudden weakness and/or paralysis of one side of the body, balance problems, visual disturbances and speech difficulties. But some people with stroke experience unexpected symptoms, such as headache, limb pain, hiccups, nausea and chest pain. A survey of 1,245 men ...

Clotting Protein plays a role in nerve repair

...n the brain and spine can lead to numbness, muscle weakness and stiffness, impaired vision and coordination problems. In nerves outside the brain or spinal cord, loss of myelin can also occur after an injury. Previous research has shown that fibrin gathers in the lesions of people with multiple sclerosis, bu...

Processed Meat, Diabetes connection Found

...th, said dietary studies such as this have a basic weakness because they depend upon how well people remember what they eat. ``The difficulty with this type of study is that you can't be sure how accurate it is,'' said Kava. She also noted that seeing a relative risk increase of 46 percent is only ``weakly s...

Relief from common back pain

...erves, causing pain in the lower back, numbness or weakness in the leg. He uses nucleoplasty to remove problem tissue and apply controlled levels of heat to the affected disk and low thermal energy to relieve pressure in an intervertebral disk. During the procedure, he mildly sedates his patient and, with t...

Detecting brain aneurysms

...of a blood vessel within the brain that leads to a weakness that, in turn, may cause a brain bleed. Till now, the technique for finding an aneurysm has involved injecting a dye into the blood vessels and imaging the result. Naturally researchers wondered if it would be possible to get the same diagnostic res...

Mushroom and muscle loss

...dicine, twelve people were hospitalized for severe weakness and muscle loss after eating the mushrooms, and three of them died, wrote Dr. Regis Bedry of the poison center of University Hospital Pellegrin in Bordeaux, France.Bedry said he confirmed the mushroom's toxicity by feeding extracts to mice and measur...

Bayer Voluntarily Withdraws BAYCOL - A Drug Associated With 50 Deaths

...e bloodstream and cause severe muscle pain, fever, weakness and vomiting. This condition can also lead to kidney failure. The FDA said fatal reports with Baycol had been reported most frequently when the drug was used at higher doses, in elderly patients, and especially when taken in combination with anothe...

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