September 21st, 2008
With numerous advancements in medical science, some studies have been done to treat the heart diseases recently and medical fraternity has come up with some interesting facts. Among various treatments that keep a check on your cardiovascular health, digoxin treatment figures prominently. Extensive studies have been done to find the real root cause and cure of heart diseases. Further attempts are being made to establish if certain genes cause specific groups of diseases. Read the rest of this entry »
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September 14th, 2008
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, ADHD, and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are common mental disorders that develop in children. If you want basic information on ADD and ADHD, go to aboutadd.org for more detail. Children with ADHD have difficulty functioning as expected in school at home or with their peers. Treatments for this disorder can make a difference and a lot of studies are ongoing to better understand this disorder.
Below are a list of many clinical trial studies on this disorder currently underway.
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September 12th, 2008
In a study by the National Institute of Health and other institutions, the drug acyclovir, when changed by the herpes virus, has been used to reduce the ability of the AIDs virus to reproduce. The study was published online in Cell Host & Microbe.
“The findings open up promising new avenues of investigation in the fight against the AIDS virus,” said Duane Alexander, M.D., director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
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August 29th, 2008
Ou August 27,2008 Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers posted the results of a startling new experiment: using mice, they converted adult pancreatic cells into insulin-producing beta cells. Although early in the process, this experiment opens the door for new cures for a variety of illnesses. A diabetic, for example, could have their own cells transformed to help them produce insulin. The study was published on the online journal, Nature.
Douglas A. Melton, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator at Harvard University and co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and postdoctoral fellow Qiao “Joe” Zhou were involved in this study. Mr Melton comments, “What this shows is that you can go directly from one type of adult cell to another, without going back to the beginning.”
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August 19th, 2008
A new study just published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute offers hope to breast cancer patients who survive five years from diagnosis of their condition. The good news is that in study of 2,838 patients with stage I to III breast cancers, the chance of remaining disease-free for another 5 years is 89%. For the 5 years after that (15-years out from their first diagnosis) a patient’s chance of being cancer-free is 81%.
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August 15th, 2008
Sinus Allergies are all too common and often preventable. All the following are signs of an allergy attack: A runny nose, excessive sneezing, excess coughing, sore throat, an itchy nose, watery eyes, loss of taste and smell.
If you know you have a sinus allergy, the next two questions to answers are:
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August 8th, 2008
A recent study by over 20 doctors spanning two years has performed a comparison of three popular diets. Those diets are:
- Low-Caborhydrate Diet
- Mediterranean Diet
- Low-Fat Diet
In the study, the low-carbohydrate and teh Mediterranean-style diets outperformed the traditional low-fat diet.
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August 1st, 2008
The journal Archives of Internal Medicine (July 28,2008) has published a comprehensive study on the misuse of prescription or over-the-counter medications. The study has indictated that over the last 20 years deaths from mixing medications and alcohol or street drugs has increased over 3200 percent. This study is lead by University of California sociologist David Philips.
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July 4th, 2008
Since the government passed Title IX in 1972 the number of girls participating in high school sports has increased 10 fold. While there are many positives to this statistic, there is also a concerning trend: women/girls have statisically been more prone to injury that their male counterparts. One major concern is that girls/women are at much higher risk than men for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears which are serious injuries to the knee that can have life long consequences. The Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma (reference http://www.nismat.org/ptcor/female_knee) says: “The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has gathered statistics over a three year period in the early 90s showing that women suffered anterior cruciate ligament injuries more often than men, nearly 4 times as often in basketball, 3 times as often in gymnastics, and nearly 2 and a half times as often in soccer. Orthopedic doctors, physical therapists and athletic trainers are concerned and have suggested many reasons so many more women tear their ACL.”
Why are woman/girls more prone to injury?
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July 2nd, 2008
New Findings on Why Cravings for Cocaine Intensifies after Stopping Drug Use
Scientists have puzzled over the fact that cravings can intensify the longer a drug user has stopped taking cocaine. A new finding has new hope in developing treatments for cocaine addiction that can reduce the risk of relapse.
The study published in the May 25 issue of the journal Nature, “reveals a novel mechanism for why cocaine craving intensifies after cessation of drug use and suggests a new target for the development of medications to decrease the risk of relapse in abstinent cocaine abusers,” says National Institute on Drug Abuse Director Dr. Nora Volkow.
Marina E. Wolf, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Neuroscience at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago was the lead investigator in the study. She found ” “that medications could be developed to block …. receptors in the nucleus accumbens,(without harmful effects) thus reducing drug craving and the risk for relapse ….”
If you know anyone who has trouble with abuse, you can find a treatment center at http://www.resistaddiction.com/
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