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Too Much Texting Can Spell Neck, Arm Pain

Hunching over, using one thumb increases the risk, study shows MONDAY, July 6 (HealthDay News) -- Beyond the already well-known "BlackBerry thumb," avid texting may also cause pain to the hand, arm and neck, new research shows. But there may be ways to avoid this discomfort, the stu...

In Elderly Women, Hip Fractures Often Follow Arm Breaks

Problem may stem from the way older people fall, expert says,, MONDAY, March 2 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly women who suffer a broken upper arm are five times more likely than normal to break a hip within a year after the arm fracture, a finding from a new study that might help in effor...

HealthLeaders-InterStudy Offers District Survival Kit to Arm Pharmaceutical Sales Teams With Local-Level Managed Care Market Intelligence

Customizable Survival Kit Offers Extensive Enrollment Information and Insights into Local Market Drivers and Health Plan Trends NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthLeaders-InterStudy , a leading provider of managed care market intelligence, introduces its District Survival Kit de...

Physical therapists test mechanical arm to help patients recover from stroke, traumatic brain injury

DALLAS Jan. 28, 2009 Physical therapists at UT Southwestern Medical Center are evaluating a new mechanical arm that allows people recovering from neurological injuries such as strokes and traumatic brain injury to enter a virtual world where they can repeatedly practice movements needed to regai...

A Shot in the Arm to Fight Skin Cancer

TORONTO, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Skin cancer patient Debra Gardocki receives an injection from oncologist Dr. Sanjiv Agarwala as part of a study exploring a new approach to treat advanced melanoma -- an often fatal form of cancer for which there are limited effective treatment options. The study -...

Overweight children at increased risk of arm and leg injuries following motor vehicle crash

Children who are overweight or obese are over two and a half times more likely to suffer injuries to their upper and lower extremities following a motor vehicle crash compared with normal weight children, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center f...

Idea to Arm Cancer Patients with Information Specific to Their Disease and Treatment Receives Nod, Grant from American Cancer Society

Individual DVDs Developed By McLaren Health Care's Great Lakes Cancer Institute Will Be Expanded With $102,000, Three-Year Grant Program Goal To Provide National Availability Of DVDs, Web sites To Cancer Patients FLINT, Mich., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Prov...

Monkey Controls Robotic Arm With Brain

Cutting-edge research shows animals learned brain signal manipulation to feed themselves WEDNESDAY, May 28 (HealthDay News) -- Relying solely on brain signal manipulation, monkeys have learned to operate human-like robotic arms to feed themselves, U.S. researchers reported Wednesday. ...

Current Trends in Arm Lift Surgery

SAN DIEGO, May 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Innovations in Brachioplasty (arm lift) techniques will be discussed by leading experts at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) being held at the San Diego Convention Center May 2-6, 2008. "Rejuvenation...

New Technology and Improved Techniques Arm Dermatologists With Tools to Minimize Facial Scars From Skin Cancer Surgery

SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- While most skin cancer patients would like nothing more than to put their experience behind them, the majority carry constant reminders of their battle with cancer in the form of surgical scars. In some cases, skin cancer surgical scars can cause serious dis...

Botox Offers Shot in Arm for Arthritis Sufferers

Small trial found it eased shoulder pain caused by osteoarthritis THURSDAY, Nov. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Botox seems to relieve shoulder pain in arthritis sufferers, a preliminary study found. "We don't recommend people start using it until we have the definitive study," said study a...

New discovery gives tuberculosis vaccine a shot in the arm

A new article appearing in the March 2009 issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology ( http://www.jleukbio.org ) may lead to improvements in the efficacy of the current tuberculosis vaccine. Specifically, a team of Italian researchers discovered a new role for type I interferon, in which it impro...

Sensitive, Smart and Strong - Too Bad it's Just a Robotic Arm

For decades, researchers have dreamed of creating robots with human-like abilities. Now an interdisciplinary team of European researchers has developed a robotic arm and hand that moves and 'senses' like a human, and is controlled by a human-inspired electronic 'brain'. Can a ...

Healthy Coffee International, Inc. Establishes Healthy Coffee USA, Inc. as Its Marketing Arm

ANAHEIM, Calif., Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Healthy Coffee International, Inc. (Pink Sheets: HCFE) has established HEALTHY COFFEE USA, INC. as its marketing arm to handle the distribution of Healthy Coffee drinks and wellness products through network marketing in North America and the w...

AUDIO from Medialink and AARP: Giving Flu Prevention a Shot in the Arm

NEW YORK, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- You may not have to get sick this flu season. That is if, according to health experts, you get your flu shot now. But, not enough people are being vaccinated against the virus that causes 36,000 deaths annually. Listen to this report from AARP at: http://medi...

Teen Torture iPhone App Discontinued Due to Public Alarm

Company Reiterates Intended Usage of Controversial App (PRWEB) January 20, 2009 -- It has come to Inner Four's recent attention that there is some very unfortunate confusion as to the intentions of its iPhone application previously for sale on Apple's iTunes App Store e...

Computer Mouse can Cause Arm Pain

Frequent incorrect use of a mouse when working on the computer can lead to a condition known as Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI), otherwise known as mouse arm, warn experts . "Tingling, numbness, and weakness in the lower arm and hands are the first signs of overstressing of the tendons and n...

A Realistic Arm on the Anvil for Injured Soldiers

As the Iraq war continues to take its toll and the number of injured soldiers is increasing, there is some cheer for the marines who have// lost their limbs. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in the US has announced that its team has developed a breakthrough prosthetic arm...

A Shot in the Arm for Cancer Enzyme Research

Sydney- In what is being termed as a breakthrough in cancer research,// scientists from the Children's Medical Research Institute have cracked the composition of the cancer enzyme, telomerase, a constant in more than 85% of all cancers. This finding could pave the way for the design of precise drug...

Surgeon Develops Procedure to Prevent Arm Swelling in Breast Cancer Patients

A surgeon has developed a new procedure to prevent one of the most common side effects associated with breast cancer treatment – lymphedema or swelling of the arms due to faulty drainage of the lymph nodes. // V. Suzanne Klimberg, M.D., director of the UAMS breast cancer program, led a study o...

Dr Reddy's Eyeing for Generics Arm of Merck

Dr Reddy's Laboratories, one of India's largest manufacturers of generic medicines,// is the latest Indian company working on putting in a bid for a major European company - the generics arm of German pharmaceuticals giant Merck. "We will take a look at it and then decide," G.V. Prasad, Dr Re...

A novel vaccine proves a shot in the arm for colorectal cancer patients

British researchers have produced a vaccine that activates the immune systems in colorectal cancer patients to attack cancerous cells. // During a clinical trial of 67 patients, researchers at the University of Nottingham discovered that when the vaccines were injected pre and post surgery of...

Three Teslas magnetic resonance imager acquired. Shot in the arm for research

The University Hospital at the University of Navarra and the Applied Medicine Research Centre (CIMA) of the University has purchased a 3 Teslas magnetic resonance// imager for use in research, being the first of its kind for research applications in Spain. The 3 Teslas is the magnetic resonance ima...

Antiretroviral Drugs: A Shot in the Arm to Fight Malaria?

A few of the anti-retroviral drugs in use to assist HIV infection, may aid the fight against malaria, Australian researchers said. Detailed research on existing// antiretrovirals that are already in use to combat HIV is need of the hour, which can form the basis of development of a new genre of ant...

Apollo's Global Arm Acquires US-based Firm

Apollo Group's global arm has acquired US-based Armanti Financial Services (AFS) for $31 million in a deal that makes the combined entity one of the largest healthcare// processing companies in the hospital business for receivables management. Apollo Health Street (AHS), the global healthcar...

Simple Arm Exercises Could Help Relieving Leg Pain

Simple arm exercises could help beat peripheral vascular disease - a blood circulation problem that causes severe leg pain, says a study //. John Saxton and other researchers from Sheffield Hallam University's centre for sport and exercise science studied more than 100 patients aged between 50...

Third Arm Removed Successfully

Doctors at the Shanghai Children’s Medical Center have successfully accomplished the removal of an extremely rare, well-developed third arm from a two-month-old Chinese boy//. They removed one of his two left arms that had been laid across Liu Junjie's chest. The second left arm is furthe...

Hormone - A Shot in the Arm for Weight Loss

The obese may just have a succor to turn to for help with their weight problems. According to a new study, injections of the gut hormone oxyntomodulin may assist// the obese in getting back to shape. Incidentally, Oxyntomodulin is generated by the body, among other hormones that monitor the feeling...

Women Health : Acute Stress, A Shot in The Arm For Flu?

England : Women, If you have been physically or mentally active just before taking a Flu shot, be rest assured that your body is better equipped to churn out antibodies// greater in number than those women who have been inactive before a flu shot! This has been suggested by a study conducted by Un...

NEW ROBOTIC SURGERY ARM APPROVED BY FDA

FDA today cleared for marketing a robotic device that enables a surgeon to perform laparoscopic gall bladder and reflux disease surgery while seated at a console with a computer and video monitor. The surgeon can use hand grips and foot pedals on the console to control three robotic arms that can p...

UK Hospital Performs Heart Surgery Using Robotic Arm

Surgeons at the St. Mary's Hospital in London, have used a robot to carry out an intricate life-saving heart operation. Over 20 patients have been operated on with the robot, which is only one of four in use in the world. According to the BBC, the robotic arm is used to guide thi...

University Envisages Improvements in Artificial Arm

Concerted efforts by the University of Utah researchers in the development and testing of a 'peripheral nerve interface' which is an implanted device// that would transmit the nerve impulses from nerves in the residual limb to a small computer worn on a belt and then to the bionic arm. This will fa...

Under-Recognition Of Mental Disorders As A Cause Of Deliberate Self-Harm

Deliberate self-harm, such as cutting, poisoning or piercing, is an important risk factor for subsequent suicide.// Researchers from the Columbia University Medical Center, New York set out to examine national patterns in the emergency department assessment and treatment during visits by young p...

Verizon and California Partnership to End Domestic Violence Launch Program to Help Victims Protect Themselves by Using Technology

...artnership to End Domestic Violence (CPEDV) and Verizon. The program, funded by a $130,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Verizon, is designed to teach domestic violence advocates about the use of new technology. Armed with the latest tools, advocates will be able to ...

Surgery, 'Sham' Equal in Treating Compression Fracture Pain

...one-to-three osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures to receive either vertebroplasty or a "sham" surgery without cement. Those in the placebo arm went through the motions of surgery, including being brought into the procedure room and being sedated before surgeons put novocaine in the skin and o...

Families With Special Needs Children Need Special Financial Strategies

...nancial Network is a nationwide network of financial service firms and financial specialists. It is the marketing name for the sales and distribution arm of Securian Financial Group, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliates, including Minnesota Life Insurance Company. (1) "Future Planning," Autism Societ...

Journal of Clinical Oncology Publishes TREANDA Study Demonstrating Significant Improvement in Overall Response and Progression-Free Survival in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

... response rate was significantly higher in patients receiving TREANDA than chlorambucil (68% vs. 31%; p<0.0001). Patients in the TREANDA treatment arm also had a higher complete response rate than those treated with chlorambucil (31% vs. 2%) which means that after treatment with TREANDA, some patient...

AMERIGROUP Foundation Honors Warehouse of Hope Founder Craig Parson as a 'Healthy Hero'

... "We're honored," Parson said. "Thank you very much." About the AMERIGROUP Foundation The AMERIGROUP Foundation is the philanthropic arm of AMERIGROUP Corporation, a multi-state managed healthcare company based in Virginia Beach, VA. The Foundation works to create healthy communities b...

Sports Icons Troy Aikman, Clyde Drexler, Mike Piazza, Ivan Lendl and Dara Torres are Among the Elite Named 2009 'Great Sports Legends'

...as will host the prominent annual event which benefits The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis, a nonprofit organization that serves as the fundraising arm of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, the world's most comprehensive spinal cord injury research center. The 2009 Great Sports Legends includ...

Advanced targeted therapies effective as first-line treatment for lung cancer

...acebo. A statistically significant difference in PFS was seen (HR = 0.79) in favor of vandetanib. The median PFS time was 17.3 weeks in the vandetanib arm versus 14 weeks in the control arm. While there was no statistical difference in overall survival, a significant improvement in objective response rat...