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Patients can report statins' adverse effects on new web site

...ny people have reported ?such as effects on muscle pain or weakness, memory and thinking, or mood," said Beatrice A. Golomb, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, and head of the UCSD Statin Study. A statin is any of a class of lipid-lowering drugs that reduce serum cholesterol levels by inhibit...

Pleasure and pain: Study shows brain's 'pleasure chemical' is involved in response to pain too

... system is highly active while someone experiences pain ?and that this response varies between individuals in a way that relates directly to how the pain makes them feel. It's the first time that dopamine has been linked to pain response in humans. T...

Gene chip technology shows potential for identifying life-threatening blood infection

...sis of pneumonia or someone came in with abdominal pain with a suspicion of infection, wouldn't it be wonderful if we could run a blood test in the emergency department and more accurately triage patients so they could be treated earlier with the appropriate antibiotic," Cobb says. The researchers used...

Renewed dolphin slaughter prompts new campaign

...animal welfare, and these hunts inflict measurable pain and suffering on animals that are intelligent, sen...ns possess the mental and emotional capacities for pain and suffering on a par with great apes and humans. It is also increasingly clear that dolphins have ...

Like a snail through the intestinal canal

... the walls being stretched and the patient feeling pain and discomfort. A better method, according to TU Delft researcher Dimitra Dodou, is in fact to use this layer of mucus and allow the robot to imitate the forward movement of a snail. A snail leaves a trail of slime behind it on the ground. This sl...

New biologic treatment for tennis elbow may replace surgery for chronic sufferers

...ent age was 48 years. Their baseline score on the pain scale was 80.3. Five patients served as a contro...ent age was 42 years. Their baseline score on the pain scale was 86. Twenty-four hours post-treatment both groups began a 2-week standardized stretching ...

Bird flu vaccine additive may stretch supply

...d serious reactions to the vaccines. However, mild pain or swelling was more common in the adjuvant group....

Researchers add to understanding of how brain cells communicate

..., known as synapses. If you touch a hot stove, the pain signal from your hand and the visual signal from your eyes reach the brain at about the same time, forging a memory. Specifically, memory requires the coordinated activation of many types of receptors at synapses. The flow of calcium ions through a c...

Striking the right balance between excitation and inhibition

...lding explains. "Initially it hurts a lot, but the pain then eases. One of the reasons that this happens i...erneurons play such critical roles in transmitting pain signals, it is thought that some chronic forms of pain are due to an imbalance in excitatory and inh...

ABCB6 is key to production of heme in hemoglobin

...nd acute porphoryia, a nerve problem that triggers pain in the chest, abdomen, limbs or back, as well as paralysis, cramping and personality changes or mental disorders. "Also, people with porphyria can suffer sudden, acute attacks if they take certain tranquilizers and other drugs that interfere with thi...

Study shows pine bark naturally decreases severe chronic venous insufficiency

...ma (leg swelling), tight calves, skin alterations, pain during walking and swelling limbs than Daflon®, a combination of diosmin and hesperidin and a commonly prescribed drug used to treat CVI. About 500,000 people in the United States develop leg ulcers due to CVI. If left untreated, leg and ankle swe...

Natural pine bark extract relieves muscle cramp and pain in athletes and diabetics

...ted that Pycnogenol significantly reduces muscular pain and cramps in athletes and healthy, normal individ...for all individuals interested in muscle cramp and pain relief with a natural approach. These findings indicate that Pycnogenol can play an important role i...

Bedsores and bald hides: Novel roles revealed for a 'scaffolding' protein

...ng from long periods of immobility. Along with the pain and scarring, bed sores significantly increase health care costs in nursing homes and hospitals. A separate report by the same Hopkins group, published in the May 15 issue of Genes and Development, reports a new and different role for the same prot...

Novel therapy combinations gain ground in treating hepatitis

...dication present in more than 300 preparations for pain relief and flu-like symptoms. But for people who are suffering from viral hepatitis A or B, use of acetaminophen may play a role in accelerating liver failure, ordinarily a rare complication of viral hepatitis. Serum samples from 72 patients with ...

Virtual realities against pain

...ly applied in clinical practice in order to reduce pain associated with certain medical procedures. The us...this study, peer-reviewed publications on ADTs and pain have been reviewed to determine the clinical effectiveness and importance of using these techniques ...

NASA technology helping injured US troops

...ed hip joint movement, which ultimately alleviated pain to injured patients by reducing the amount of weight placed on the legs. In 2003, Enduro Medical Technologies, East Hartford, Conn., licensed these patented NASA technologies and modified the cable-compliant system into an advanced walker with a f...

Device effective in zapping the pain out of migraines

... electronic device designed to "zap" away migraine pain before it starts may be the next form of relief fo...lated headaches reported to have either no or mild pain at the two-hour post-treatment point compared to 48 percent of the placebo group. In addition, 42 pe...

Pest control research leads to pain control discovery

... looking for biological pest controls, may lead to pain relief for sufferers of arthritis and other inflam...ed the focus of the research from "pest control to pain control." M. Eric Gershwin, chief of the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Clinical Immunology...

New MRI technique quickly builds 3-D images of knees

...u'd have a much better chance to make sense of the pain you're feeling, your doctor's diagnosis and your treatment options," he says. The technique, which Block patented through the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, also will make it easier to image parts of the body, such as the heart or abdomen, i...

Stanford snake venom study shows that certain cells may eliminate poison

Death by snakebite is horrible. The immediate pain of the bite is followed by swelling, bruising and weakness, then sweating or chills, with numbness, nausea, blurred vision and possibly convulsions before it's all over. Such misery is produced by a veritable witches' brew of toxins in snake venom. ...

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