Therapy in Medical News

State Regulation of Massage Therapy Will Improve Public Health, Safety

HARRISBURG, Pa., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At its initial meeting today, the State Board of Massage Therapy began drafting preliminary regulations that will protect the health and safety of residents, said Secretary of the Commonwealth Pedro A. Cortes. "By requiring massag...

Omaha School of Massage Therapy Adds Healthcare Programs, Joins Herzing University, and Changes Name

OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The highly regarded massage school now offers healthcare programs and regional accreditation, both attributed to becoming a part of Herzing University in May 2009. The school name has been changed to Omaha School of Massage and Healthcar...

Yoga Therapy for Binge Eaters

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- What does yoga have to do with binge eating? Apparently quite a bit. In a study conducted at the University of the Rockies, a graduate university specializing in master's and doctorate degrees in psychology, binge eaters who participa...

Developing gene therapy to fight blindness

An international team of scientists and clinicians from the United States and Saudi Arabia are working to develop gene therapy for treating a rare, hereditary retinal disease. The therapy has been shown to restore lost vision in animal models of retinitis pigmentosa (RP). Their work is being fun...

Ongoing Study Shows That Endovascular Therapy is Associated With High Cure Rate for Childhood Eye Cancer

Same Day Procedure May Transform Treatment Approach to Retinoblastoma BOCA RATON, Fla., July 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Expanded results of a study conducted on children with eye cancer (retinoblastoma) shows that chemotherapy delivered through endovascular (through the ...

First Customer Installs CyberKnife System in Existing Radiation Therapy Vault

SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Accuray Incorporated (Nasdaq: ARAY ), a global leader in the field of radiosurgery, announced today that CyberKnife Center of Chicago at Elmhurst Memorial Hospital in Elmhurst, Ill., has installed the CyberKnife((R)) Roboti...

Abilify Has Made Strong Gains in Patient Share Across All Lines of Therapy Since Last Year's Analysis of Prescribing Trends in Schizophrenia

WALTHAM, Mass., July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms focusing on pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that the patient share of Bristol-Myers Squibb/Otsuka's Abilify has grown in the first three lines of therapy si...

President's Council Projects Growth For Physical Therapy Profession

PTs and PTAs listed as occupations that will "likely grow in importance" ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The nation's aging population and expanded health care coverage will increase the demand for physical therapist (PT) services, says the American Physical Thera...

Washington, DC Plastic Surgeon Mark E. Richards, M.D. Says Bio-Identical Hormone Therapy has Staggering Health Benefits that Could Change the Way We Age

Dr. Mark E. Richards with Ageless Impressions Plastic Surgery Institute is a nationally recognized plastic surgeon, and has been certified in both general surgery and plastic surgery. Every day at his plastic surgery in Washington, DC , he sees people who want to improve their appearance in some...

Home Oxygen Patients and Family Members Visit Capitol Hill to Ask Congress to Protect Medicare Home Oxygen Therapy Benefit

Patient Advocates , Medicare Beneficiaries Visit Capitol Hill to Urge Congress to Pass Medicare Home Oxygen Therapy Act, Oppose Additional Cuts to Oxygen Benefit WASHINGTON, July 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Asking members of Congress to support patient-focused reform ...

Congressmen Mike Ross and Kendrick Meek Introduce Bill to Protect Medicare Patients Who Require Medical Oxygen Therapy at Home

American Association for Homecare Applauds 'Medicare Home Oxygen Therapy Act of 2009' Which Would Repeal Harmful Rules that Cause Confusion, Service Disruption, and Reduced Access to Care for More than One Million Seniors ARLINGTON, Va., July 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Th...

National Advocacy Organization Representing Home Oxygen Patients Praises Introduction of Medicare Home Oxygen Therapy Act

NEW YORK, July 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Providing a voice to home oxygen patients nationwide, including patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other lung diseases, the National Emphysema/COPD Association (NECA) today called the Medicare Home Oxygen The...

Hormone Therapy Increases Odds of Ovarian Cancer

But risk remains low and decreases two years after stopping, study finds,, TUESDAY, July 14 (HealthDay News) -- Women who take hormone replacement therapy or have taken it in the recent past have a higher risk of developing ovarian cancer, suggests new research. In a large Danish s...

Combination Therapy Best for Aggressive Prostate Cancer

Adding radiation and hormone treatment to brachytherapy improves survival, study shows MONDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) -- Men with aggressive prostate cancer who have brachytherapy alone are more likely to die than those who receive a combination of treatments, new findings show. I...

CNI College Massage Therapy Students Experience Plastination & Cadaver Lab

Recently, students attended a lab at a local junior college's plastination and cadaver lab. This experience during the Anatomy 200 module of their Massage Therapy program at CNI College prepared them for a deeper understanding of the bones, muscles and joints of the body which are the main focus ...

Three Cortiva Students Winners of Massage Therapy Foundation Student Case Report Awards

SEATTLE, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Three recent graduates of Cortiva Institute - Seattle, School of Massage Therapy were among the top winners in the Massage Therapy Foundation's annual Student Case Report Contest. The student case report contest promotes research literacy in massage therapy sc...

Survey: Speech Therapy Helps, But People Who Stutter Suffer Discrimination

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Four out of 10 adults who stutter have been denied a job or promotion and 82 percent of children who stutter have been bullied or teased, according to a new survey by the National Stuttering Association. People who stutter make up about 1 percent of the po...

To Save Payors Time, Effort and Resources, MEDai and Gold Standard Collaborate on New CMS Medication Therapy Management Initiative

ORLANDO, Fla., July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- MEDai, Inc. and Gold Standard, Inc., two Elsevier companies, today introduced MTM 360 , a complete medication therapy management (MTM) system that enables health plans, benefit sponsors and other payors to successfully meet CMS's expanded MTM Program requ...

Diplomat Specialty Pharmacy: Only Vendor to Receive URAC Accreditation for Both Disease Management and Drug Therapy Management

SWARTZ CREEK, Mich., July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Diplomat Specialty Pharmacy, a leader in disease management (DM) and drug therapy management (DTM) announced today that their specialty pharmacy has received accreditation from URAC, a Washington, DC-based health care accrediting organization that establ...

Can a Contact Lens Cure Nearsightedness? Five-Year Clinical Study Testing Corneal Reshaping Therapy as Possible Method to Arrest Myopia

Researchers have reported positive first-year results from a clinical trial that is testing whether specialized contact lenses can slow or halt the progression of near sightedness in children. Co principal investigators Drs S. Barry Eiden and Robert Davis, working with EyeVis Eye and Vision Resea...

Antidepressants aid electroconvulsive therapy in treating severe depression

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Combining antidepressant drugs with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) does a better job of reducing symptoms of severe depression and causes less memory loss than using ECT alone, according to a new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues...

Launch of Targeted Agents and Increased Use of Maintenance Therapy Will Drive the Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Drug Market to Nearly Triple to Almost $10 Billion in 2018

Emerging Agents from Pfizer, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Bayer/Onyx and Boehringer Ingelheim, and Increased Use of Existing Agents from Eli Lilly and Roche Will Drive Growth, According to a New Report from Decision Resources WALTHAM, Mass., June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of...

Bone Therapy May Not Always Need Monitoring

In older women, annual measurements are unnecessary, study finds WEDNESDAY, June 24 (HealthDay News) -- Monitoring bone density in older women after they've started taking drugs to prevent osteoporosis is unnecessary and could be potentially misleading, researchers say. In the study...

Dynatronics Begins Shipping New V-Force Vibration Therapy Units

SALT LAKE CITY, June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Dynatronics Corporation (Nasdaq: DYNT ) announced it has begun shipping its new V-Force Vibration Therapy units to customers. These new units employ powerful, whole-body vibration technology, which provides neuromuscular training to increase ...

Promising Therapy for Prostate Cancer

Experimental drug beat back inoperable cancer in two patients, study claims MONDAY, June 22 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental drug therapy appears to have helped destroy allegedly inoperable prostate cancer in two patients in a clinical trial. Use of the immunotherapeutic agent MD...

AthletiCo Opens 52nd Physical Therapy Center in South Elgin

AthletiCo, an Illinois-based leader in physical therapy, fitness, and performance services, opens its 52nd center in South Elgin. Oak Brook, IL (Vocus) June 22, 2009 -- AthletiCo, an Illinois-based leader in physical therapy, fitness, and performance services, opens its...

Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy (PRP) Accelerates Healing of Joint Injuries, Osteoarthritis Pain

PRP Uses The Patient's Own Blood to Speed Tissue Regeneration and Healing according to Dr. Steven Sampson. Los Angeles (PRWEB) June 19, 2009 -- According to Dr. Steven Sampson, Medical Director of the Orthohealing Center in Los Angeles ( www.orthohealing.com ), Platelet...

Video: New Biological Therapy Ilaris(R) Approved in US to Treat Children and Adults with CAPS, a Serious Life-Long Auto-Inflammatory Disease

- Phase III data show rapid and sustained remission in more than 90% of Ilaris-treated patients with cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome (CAPS) - Ilaris is the first approved treatment for children as young as four and is given only every eight weeks - Highly selective in targeting ...

Spinal Decompression Therapy Offers Hope for Back Pain

Los Angeles Spinal Decompression And Back Pain Specialist Discusses Alternative Back & Neck Pain Treatments On His Weekly Radio Program LOS ANGELES, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Edward Martin, the director of the Los Angeles Spinal Decompression & Back Pain Clinic, discusses why spina...

Clarient Launches New Gene Mutation Test to Help Select Therapy for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Mutation Test May Be Key To Identifying Patient Response to Drug Therapies ALISO VIEJO, Calif., June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Clarient, Inc. (Nasdaq: CLRT ), a premier anatomic pathology and molecular testing services resource for pathologists, oncologis...

3 studies confirm the value of etanercept therapy in treating juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Copenhagen, Denmark, Friday 12 June 2009: Three new studies have individually shown the anti-TNF (tumour necrosis factor) therapy etanercept to be effective, with a good safety profile, in children under four years of age with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), and associated with improved Healt...

IFX anti-TNF therapy associated with clinical benefit over 5 years in patients with active AS

Copenhagen, Denmark, Friday 12 June 2009: After five years of receiving infliximab (IFX) anti-TNF therapy, 61.8% of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) showed substantial clinical benefit (ASAS40, ASsessment in AS, 40-response) and 27.6% achieved ASAS partial remission. Moreover, at five ye...

MORE WOMEN SHUN HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY Garden of Life Offers a Natural Solution with Oceans 3™ Healthy Hormones™

Hormonal health is a struggle for women of all ages. Despite the turmoil of unbalance being accepted as "normal," women have been searching for something non-synthetic for symptomatic relief of menstrual and menopausal woes. Garden of Life, Inc., ( www.gardenoflife.com ) a leader in the...

Hormone therapy may confer more aggressive properties to prostate tumors

Hormone therapy is often given to patients with advanced prostate cancer. While it is true that the treatment prevents growth of the tumour, it also changes its properties. Some of these changes may result in the tumour becoming more aggressive and more liable to form metastases. This is one of th...

Pharmacy Organizations Brief Congress on Medication Therapy Management

Pro-Pharmacy, Pro-Patient Services Encouraged in Healthcare Reform Legislation Washington, D.C. (Vocus) June 9, 2009 -- Today, the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS), the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) and the Iowa Pharmacy Associatio...

Death rates same for diabetes and heart disease patients receiving drug therapy or surgery

NEW ORLEANS, June 7 There is no difference in mortality among patients with type 2 diabetes and stable heart disease who received prompt bypass surgery or angioplasty compared to drug therapy alone, according to a landmark study focused exclusively on patients with both conditions. The study, whi...

Can't Sleep? Try Online Therapy

Help with relaxation techniques and bedtime habits may ease insomnia FRIDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) -- You've tried counting sheep, maybe even taken sleeping pills. You might also want to try online therapy for help in getting a better night's rest. Chronic insomniacs who took par...

Astellas Adds CNS Therapy Area Leader to Global R&D Team

DEERFIELD, Ill., June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Astellas Pharma Global Development ("APGD"), a subsidiary of Astellas Pharma Inc. based in Tokyo, Japan, announced today that Dr. Betsy Garofalo has been hired as the global therapy area leader for CNS. Garofalo is a pediatric neurologist and epileptologist ...

Pausing Hormone Therapy Doesn't Cut Mammogram Recalls

Repeat imaging rates similar whether women stopped hormone treatment or not, study finds WEDNESDAY, June 3 (HealthDay News) -- Taking a break from hormone therapy before a mammogram doesn't lower the likelihood of being called back for extra imaging, a study including more than 1,700 w...

Oxygen + MRI might help determine cancer therapy success, researchers find

DALLAS June 3, 2009 A simple magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test involving breathing oxygen might help oncologists determine the best treatment for some cancer patients, report researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Prior research has shown that the amount of oxygen present in a tu...