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Hydrotherapy Found to be Effective for Patients with Osteoarthritis

A new study shows hydrotherapy, or water exercise, may improve strength and mobility in patients with osteoarthritis.// Researchers from Australia studied more than 100 patients with osteoarthritis who were older than age 50. Patients were divided into three groups. The first group exercised three times a week in a swimming pool, the second exercised in a gym, and the third did not exerc...

Hydrotherapy Found to be Effective for Patients with Osteoarthritis

A new study shows hydrotherapy, or water exercise, may improve strength and mobility in patients with osteoarthritis.// Researchers from Australia studied more than 100 patients with osteoarthritis who were older than age 50. Patients were divided into three groups. The first group exercised three times a week in a swimming pool, the second exercised in a gym, and the third did not exer...

Hydrotherapy Could Be Effective For Osteoarthritis

A new study shows hydrotherapy, or water exercise, may improve strength and mobility in patients with osteoarthritis.100 patients with //osteoarthritis who were older than age 50 were involved in the study. Patients were divided into three groups. The first group exercised three times a week in a swimming pool, the second exercised in a gym, and the third did not exercise at all. Both the...

Heart Transplant Twin Recovering, But Brother Critical

LOS ANGELES - Doctors have revealed that the 7-month-old boy who was battling to survive after a life-saving heart transplant has shown good signs of recovery in the past few days, but his twin brother continues to fight for life.// Nick Draper was fitted in with a new heart during a 5-hour operation last week at the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center. But due to heali...

Big Brother Star Pete Burns, Checks Into a Mental Health Clinic

The 80’s Pop star, Pete Burns, following complaints of "sleep deprivation and exhaustion", has got him admitted into the St Charles Mental Health Unit//. Burns, who is 46, had been residing at the Posh Hempel Hotel in West London that costs an expensive pounds 450-a-night. There has been gossip doing the rounds that police had to intervene after the hotel bosses locked the star out of...

Big Brother to the Rescue

It is an act of gratitude, and Nathan Hartley is only too happy to perform it. Nathan aged 13, is one of four brothers, all who had been diagnosed with X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome, //a rare genetic defect, in November 2003. X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome has affected around 100 males worldwide. Life expectancy is very low in those diagnosed with th...

Atherothrombosis Patients at High Risk for CV Events

A large, international study finds that patients with arterial disease have relatively high risk of experiencing a cardiovascular// event (such as heart attack, stroke or cardiovascular death) within one year. This study is published in the March 21 issue of JAMA. Atherothrombosis (arterial disease, such as coronary artery disease [CAD], cerebrovascular disease [CVD], and peripheral art...

Atherothrombosis Associated With High Rates of Cardiovascular Events

Patients with arterial disease have relatively high rates of experiencing a cardiovascular event (such as heart attack, stroke or //cardiovascular death) within one year, and these increase with the number of arterial locations afflicted, according to a study. Atherothrombosis (arterial disease, such as coronary artery disease [CAD], cerebrovascular disease [CVD], and peripheral arter...

Chinese Cooks Spoil the Broth

Little kindergartners did not know what they were in for, as they tucked into appetizing breakfast on Thursday at a private school. No sooner, they had to be rushed to the// hospital due to food poisoning. This is certainly not a rare case of food poisoning in China. Many cooks in china have been pulled up in the recent past for adopting unhygienic standards while cooking. The culpr...

Disabled Orissa Brothers Lives Saved by Timely Intervention

Help is finally on the way for 70-year-old Hakimuddin of Orissa and his three physically challenged sons with the district administration promising assistance after the impoverished man wrote to India's president seeking permission to end their lives. The district collector of Bhadrak in Orissa constituted a team of doctors and administrative officials to conduct an inquiry on the...

Twin Brother may Reduce Sister's Fertility by 25 Percent

Sheffield University researchers say that a woman who has a twin brother is likely to have 25 per cent reduced fertility. A study conducted by them, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, blames exposure to male hormone testosterone in the womb for this. Lead researcher Dr Virpi Lummaa tells that both testosterone and the female hormone oestrogen can cros...

Accused 13yr Old Admits to Stabbing Her Brother

A 13-year-old girl accused of killing a Medicine Hat family broke down on the witness stand Tuesday while admitting to stabbing her eight-year-old brother who was pleading for his life. She said that she did it only because her boyfriend told her to. She is accused of murdering her parents and eight-year-old brother in April 2006. Taking the stand in her own defense s...