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Health Canada approves cold and flu medicine

...esponsible for evaluating the safety, efficacy and quality of natural health products (NHPs) ?has issued COLD...s the NHPD reviews supporting safety, efficacy and quality information for all natural health products. Although there are grey areas between the definition...

Long-term narcotics use for back pain may be ineffective and lead to abuse

...lusive. "Our results also demonstrate that the quality of the literature on these topics is generally weak and more studies need to be done before firm conclusions can be made," said Martell....

NIH announces phase III clinical trial of creatine for Parkinson's disease

... director of the NIH. "The goal is to improve the quality of life for people with Parkinson's for a longer p...gression using standard rating scales that measure quality of life, ability to walk, cognitive function, and the ability to carry out other activities of daily...

Using dental X-rays to detect osteoporosis

...tures and suffer from other problems, reducing the quality of life. By analyzing a small area depicting the trabecular bone on the ordinary dental radiographs, dentists can predict the osteoporotic condition of the patients to the same extent as the BMD measurements. The image analysis can be automate...

Key found to kill cystic fibrosis superbug

...from cystic fibrosis patients and to improve their quality of life by developing new treatments."...

Pregnancy hormone key to repairing nerve cell damage

...some of the effects of the disease and improve the quality of life for those who live under its influence." ...

Hay fever can send work productivity down the drain

...der symptoms. A lack of sleep and a decrease in quality of life had the greatest impact on a person's ability to work, regardless of the treatment group they were in. Participants also cited watery eyes and sneezing as having a moderately negative effect on their productivity at work. While hay fever m...

Study finds mercury prevalent in many western fish

...sis of the impact. The EPA's "tissue-based water quality criterion" is set at 0.3 micrograms of mercury per gram of fish tissue. In the survey, only 2.3 percent of the stream network that contained large (5 inches or longer) salmonids had mercury levels at or exceeding that 0.3 mg level. Salmonids were the...

Reminding doctors which antibiotics to prescribe cuts C. difficile infection rates

...ing interventions to improve prescribing were poor quality unplanned studies with no control groups or outcom... in other hospitals would enhance the pool of good quality evidence on the best ways to change antibiotic prescribing. It would also enable meaningful comparis...

Plastic that degrades in seawater could be boon for cruise industry and others

...nly for their interesting results but also for the quality of the study design, execution, and report." He continues, "Perhaps most importantly, the authors chose neonatal morbidity, a ‘health outcome,?as the primary endpoint instead of a surrogate such as days gained or percent of births before 32 or 35 we...

Improving outcomes in premature births

...nly for their interesting results but also for the quality of the study design, execution, and report." He continues, "Perhaps most importantly, the authors chose neonatal morbidity, a ‘health outcome,?as the primary endpoint instead of a surrogate such as days gained or percent of births before 32 or 35 we...

Cornell researcher helping develop quick, cheap HIV/AIDS test

...re electricity is unreliable or nonexistent, water quality is poor and there are few, if any, highly skilled health-care technicians. "This test, however, is being developed to endure harsh temperature conditions and be truly simple -- no batteries will be needed, for example." ...

Groundbreaking Canadian asthma study

...es in days with no asthma symptoms, improvement in quality of life, reduction in using medication, and an improvement in asthma control. "These findings are very encouraging and are consistent with earlier trial results on bronchial thermoplasty," explains Dr. Cox. "These results make us hopeful that bron...

'Exercise pill' switches on gene that tells cells to burn fat

...ing access to an "exercise pill" would improve the quality of muscles, since muscles like to be exercised, and increase the burning of energy or excess fat in the body. And that would result in less fatty tissue, lower amounts of fat circulating in the blood, lower blood glucose levels and less resistance t...

New fMRI technology making brain tumor surgery safer

...t harming areas that are critical to the patient’s quality of life. Functional MRI creates a series of images that capture blood oxygen levels in parts of the brain that are responsible for movement, perception, and cognition. Functional MRI, which reveals the brain in action, differs from standard MRI, w...

Performing surgery on a beating heart may be safer

...stopped-heart method,?says Raja. “For this reason, quality training needs to be provided for those surgeons who wish to offer this option to their patients.? ...

Stress hormones may play new role in speeding up cancer growth

...extending the patient's lifespan and improve their quality of life."...

Mechanical 'artificial hearts' can remove need for heart transplant by returning heart to normal

...ecurrence of heart disease five years later. Their quality of life was measured as being at nearly normal. Dr Emma Birks, from the Heart Science Centre at Imperial and the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, and lead author of the study, said: "Donor heart transplant has for many years been the gold s...

Single molecule extends fat mice lives by reversing gene pathways associated with disease in obese

...also found that the HCR fed mice had a much higher quality of life, outperforming the HC fed mice on motor skill tests. "The mice on resveratrol have not been just living longer," says Sinclair. "They are also living more active, better lives. Their motor skills actually show improvement as they grow older...

By 2048 all current fish, seafood species projected to collapse

...hat have declined involve the maintenance of water quality by biological filtering, the provision of nursery habitats and the protection of shorelines by marine species. The loss of marine diversity also appeared to increase the risks of beach closures, harmful algal blooms (red tide, for example), oxygen de...

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