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Acupuncture provides relief

Acupuncture works better than massage as a treatment for chronic neck pain, but it may need to be combined with other therapies when used over long periods.That's the conclusion of one of the most rigorous trials into the effectiveness of the complementary medicine technique, which involves inserting needles into special sites in the nervous system.// The study compared 157 patients u...

Micro-camera provides new breast imaging technique

A minute endoscope, less than 1mm in diameter, presents a new opportunity for the early detection of breast cancer. The research team included Hollywood film technicians who worked alongside Dr Nicolas Beechey-Newham and colleagues from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund’s clinical oncology unit at Guy’s Hospital in London to produce the “micro-camera”. // The camera – small enough to...

Hormone therapy provides no heart benefit

According to a new study, it shows that hormone replacement does not improve the outcome for postmenopausal women with existing heart problems. It has long been assumed that replacing female sex hormones after menopause will protect// a woman from heart disease. For women have far lower rates of heart problems than men - until after menopause. But a new report from the Heart and Estrogen/...

MicroRNA provides new insight into birth defects

Molecules of microRNAs may be responsible for birth defects, cancer and other health problems.// The researchers of UF Genetics Institute have used genetically modified mice to see how the microRNAs are responsible for the physiological growth of animals. When the mice were grown without the microRNA molecules they grew to be malformed and with nonfunctional limbs. MicroRNA...

Drug Spironolactone Provides Renal And Cardioprotection In Diabetic Patients

Professor Kaspar Rossing and his colleagues from the Steno Diabetes Center, Denmark has found that supplementation of Spironolactone drug to diabetes patients taking //antihypertensive drugs, reduced the chances of developing kidney failure and reduced blood pressure and albumin protein in urine of these patients. Diabetes patients with high blood pressure are more prone to kidney dis...

Neurobiology Provides Answers To Block Memory-Related Drug Cravings

Drug addiction can be better handled following discovery of a novel chemical compound that blocks memory-related drug cravings. The finding has all the potential to be the basis of new therapies to aid drug-addiction recovery efforts // according to neurobiologists. Because exposure to people, places and objects previously associated with a drug habit can trigger overwhelming memory-b...

Cholesterol provides immunity against infection by certain parasites

For years biomedical researchers have known that high density lipoproteins, commonly called HDLs or "good cholesterol," are responsible for protecting humans from certain parasites. // The mechanism however remained unclear but has now has been uncovered by Scientists. Human HDLs work by serving as a platform for the assembly and delivery of two naturally occurring proteins that combi...

John Hopkins CGHH program provides Global Health education

The initiative for Center for Clinical Global Health Education was started by Bob Bollinger of John Hopkins who felt that improvement of medical care to patients would improve only if health care providers are trained in a better way//, his initiative was to provide training by John Hopkins through Global health education through telemedicine and distance learning for healthcare providers...

Protein provides antioxidant protection to Neurons

EAAC1 protein was found to be responsible for transferring the amino acid Cysteine into neurons, which is very important for reducing oxidative stress as Cysteine present in glutathione is responsible for it’s free radical scavenging activity in brain.// Free radicals are responsible for causing diseases, which is scavenged by antioxidants. Professor Raymond Swanson and his team from Neur...

London Hospital Provides Specialized Care For Pregnant Women

A dramatic improvement in the maternity care is expected, with a London- based NHS hospital willing to offer a privileged one to one service, for pregnant women who pay ￡4,000. The novel scheme would be implemented at the Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital. // The provision of such a cost-effective one-to-one service during final stages of pregnancy and labour has been a target impo...

Hope Lodges provides free stay to cancer patients

American Cancer Society is planning to start “Hope Lodges” near major cancer hospitals to provide free accommodation to cancer patients when they are getting treatment in these major cancer hospitals//. These Hope Lodges would provide free accommodation to these patients who are coming from far off distances to get cancer treatment and these lodges could provide staying facilities to th...

Breastfeeding Provides Added Protection To Babies

Babies receive protection from respiratory illness as a result of breast-feeding, according to a Caroline Chantry led research study. As many as 2,277 children belonging to the age group of 6 years to 24 months were studied during the course of the research. // They identified five groups, formula-fed only, full breastfeeding for less than one month, full breastfeeding from one to four m...

Far East Provides A Path To Contain Bird Flu

As bird flu spreads its tentacles far and wide, it has become paramount for health officials to follow the example of Vietnam and Thailand in containing the virus. Vietnam was the worst hit with 93 human cases and 42 deaths,// but this tiny country has successfully contained the virus and no new human cases have been reported since November last year. Hans Troedsson, director of the WHO...

Direct To Home: Television Provides Powerful Fillip to Smoking Cessation Campaigns.

American Journal of Preventive Medicine has weighed the impact of advertisements that carry an anti-smoking message, with other types of cessation help -nicotine // replacement therapy (NRT), prescribed medications, professional help or advice, self-help materials, cessation programs, telephone quit line, or web-based cessation sites. The study has revealed that television advertisement...

Latest Version of Echocardiography Provides Improved Pictures of the Heart

Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is a recent progress in echocardiography providing doctors with improved imaging of the heart. This procedure entails the insertion of a // probe into the esophagus, which emits radio waves. These waves, bounce off the heart and help in enabling a motion picture of the heart, far clearer than a conventional echocardiogram. These detailed images a...

Hearing May Be Regained: Research Provides Hopes

A US –based research has given hopes that researchers will be able to re-establish growth of specialized hair cells in the ears of humans challenged by deafness//. These tiny hairs in the ear are capable of detecting vibrations, which is then translated by the brain into sound. Once lost, these hairs could not be replaced and this resulted in permanent hearing loss. Approximately...

Study Provides Evidence That Obesity Leads To A More Aggressive Ovarian Cancer

A new study states that the outcome of a woman diagnosed with ovarian cancer might be affected on whether or not she is obese// . A new study that is to be published in the October 1, 2006 issue of CANCER (http://www.interscience.wiley.com/cancer-newsroom), a journal of the American Cancer Society, states to have found evidence claiming that obesity leads to more aggressive types of o...

Food Safety Extension Specialist Provides Spinach E. coli Advice

AMES, Iowa -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an alert about a nationwide outbreak of E. coli traced to packaged spinach//. The alert advises consumers not to eat bagged fresh spinach at this time. Sam Beattie, a food safety extension specialist and assistant professor of food science and human nutrition at Iowa State University, tells consumers that it's almost impossible...

A New Approach to Heart Bypass Surgery Provides Patients with 'One-stop Shopping'

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has become the first hospital in the region to offer a novel approach to cardiac surgery//, which doctors believe will change the standard of care for cardiovascular patients. Called the Hybrid OR/Cath Lab, the state-of-the-art operating suite houses all the equipment and monitoring devices necessary to perform open-heart surgeries, like coronary b...

Rajasthan Government Provides Free Dengue Tests for Patients

The Rajasthan government has decided to provide free tests to patients suspected to be suffering from the dengue fever to check against the spread of the disease.// "We have taken a decision to provide free tests for patients suspected to be suffering from dengue in our hospitals," Rajasthan's Health Minister Digambar Singh told a press briefing here Tuesday. The decision i...

"Umbrella" Valve Provides Potential Alternative to Lung Surgery

A new umbrella-like valve may help patients with emphysema breathe easier and may ultimately provide a noninvasive alternative to lung reduction surgery. // In a new study presented at CHEST 2006, the 72nd annual international scientific assembly of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), the IBV? Valve, a nonsurgical, investigational device, was shown to be safe and effective f...

Exercise In Childhood Provides Lifelong Benefits

According to a Journal of Bone and Mineral Research study by Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) researchers, exercise when young may reduce risk of// fractures later in life. The study is now available in an advance online edition of the journal and will appear in a print edition in 2007. 'Our study demonstrates that exercise when young may reduce the risk of fra...

Proper Intake Of Medicine Provides Relief; Discontinue Medication, Continue Suffering

Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), is a common neurobehavioral disorder.Children found affected with this disease are prescribed// stimulant medications. A new study indicates that due to social stigma and feeling lifeless and/or alienated from one’s peers, children and adolescents discontinue medications. ADHD is affecting 4.4 million children in the United States betw...

Durable Critters Provides Better Way to Human Egg Preservation

Researchers say that a tiny, six-legged critter that suspends all biological activity when the going //gets tough may hold answers to a better way to cryopreserve human eggs. Tardigrades, also called water bears, can survive Himalayan heights or ocean depths as long as they have moisture. When they don’t, they produce a sugar, trehalose, slowly dehydrate and essentially cease functionin...

Estrogen Study Provides New Hope For Colon Cancer Treatment

A new research finding by Jennifer Chan and her colleagues from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute suggests// that the female hormone estrogen may hold important clues for scientists working on new therapies for colon cancer. Using data from a long-running study of women’s health, the investigators found that postmenopausal women with colon cancer lived longer and had less likelihood of dying...

UNICEF Provides 1,000 ITNs to Help Combat Malaria Outbreak in Jamaica

UNICEF has provided about 1,000 insecticide-treated nets (ITN’s) to the Jamaican Ministry of Health to help control the recent outbreak of malaria in the country, the// Caribbean Media Corporation reports. UNICEF was scheduled to provide a total of 3,000 ITNs by the end of 2006, according to Marion Bullock-Ducasse, the ministry's director of emergency, disaster management and special...

VBI Provides Potential Targets to Diabetes Therapeutics

Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) Assistant Professor Biswarup Mukhopadhyay has provided important information for researchers designing drugs for type 2 diabetics in the// December 22, 2006, Journal of Biological Chemistry. The information should in time help researchers to identify potential targets for docking inhibitors that will slow down, but not fully eliminate, the body'...

Heart Failure Medication Provides Some Symptom Relief

A medication used to treat heart failure, tolvaptan, appears to improve some symptoms and signs of heart failure during hospitalization//, but does not reduce the risk of re-hospitalization or death, according to two articles in the issue of JAMA. The study is being released early to coincide with its presentation at the American College of Cardiology's annual conference. During the p...

Global Fund Provides $68M for HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria Programs in Cameroon

The government of Cameroon and the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria recently signed an agreement to provide Cameroon with roughly $68 million// to help implement the second phase of programs aimed at combating the three diseases in the country. The money will be used to provide treatment for people living with the diseases, as well as to fund promotional materials...

Bird Song Study Provides Clues to Human Speech Disorders

A recent research has found that songbirds have a distinct right-brain response to the sound of songs, and can provide clues to human speech disorders . Researchers at the Methodist Neurological Institute (NI) in Houston and Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City used functional MRI to find out the results. The study has created base for a foundational study for futu...

California Pharmacy Chain Provides Services to Hispanic Community

The Contra Costa Times on Monday profiled California-based pharmacy chain Farmacia Remedios, which seeks to create a "personal connection" with Hispanic consumers . The chain was founded in 2004 by Ben Singer and Eduardo Rallo, who wanted to give Hispanics a "pharmacy experience that reminded them" of Mexico, according to the Times. The chain, which has three locations, provides Mex...

Intensive Psychotherapy Provides Helping Hand in Borderline Personality Disorder.

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) can be reduced by an intensive form of talk therapy, known as transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) thereby reducing the symptoms and improving their social functioning, according to an article in the June issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, a premier psychiatry journal. BPD, a chronic and disabling condition affecting about 1% of...

NGOs New Book Provides Emotional Support for Cancer Patients

The Wellness Community(R) (TWC), an international, non-profit organization dedicated to providing free support and education for all people affected by cancer, today announced release of their newly published book, The Total Cancer Wellness Guide. Released in conjunction with the organization's 25th anniversary and National Cancer Survivors Day, The Total Cancer Wellness Guide uses evide...

Blood from Bird Flu Survivors Provides Breakthrough in Treatment of H5N1

US researchers report that antibodies extracted from the blood of bird flu survivors have helped cure mice infected with the dreaded H5N1 bird flu virus. Scientists have long suspected that culling immune-system molecules from survivors could provide a new therapy for the hard-to-treat H5N1 flu strain. If the research pans out, it could be possible to stockpile these antibo...

Hospital Provides an Oppurtunity to Quit Smoking

A Cochrane Systematic Review has found that the chance of successfully quitting can be enhanced if patients receive smoking cessation counselling during their stay, and then have at least one month of supportive contact after going home.For many people, going in to hospital provides an opportunity to stop smoking. Because hospitals are now smoke-free, any smoker has to stop tempora...

Southeast Missouri State Provides High-tech Protection Against Staph Infections

Southeast Missouri State (SEMO) has adopted the high-tech, proactive SportsAide(TM) system throughout its athletic complexes in its mission to prevent the spread of bacterial infections. Provided by SportCoatings and partner General Sports Venue(TM) (GSV), the university has treated the locker rooms, training rooms and the moveable mats at the Rosegarten Athletic Facility, the Show...

NanoSensors Provides Update on Its Biosensor to Detect E.coli and Salmonella

NanoSensors, Inc., a nanotechnology development company that is developing a biosensor device to detect e.coli and salmonella announced today an update regarding its product development timeline for its biosensor. The Company stated that although it had received multiple prototypes of its e.coli biosensor for field testing from its contract manufacturer, due to its limited personnel and...