Posts tagged Helps
Vitamin E helps diminish a type of fatty liver disease in children, study suggests
ScienceDaily (Apr. 27, 2011) A specific form of vitamin E improved the most severe form of fatty liver disease in some children, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. Results appear in the April 27 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. A previous study found vitamin E effective in some adults with the disease.
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic liver disease More >
Vitamin E helps diminish a type of fatty liver disease in children, study suggests
ScienceDaily (Apr. 27, 2011) A specific form of vitamin E improved the most severe form of fatty liver disease in some children, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. Results appear in the April 27 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. A previous study found vitamin E effective in some adults with the disease.
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic liver disease More >
Vitamin E helps diminish a type of fatty liver disease in children, study suggests
ScienceDaily (Apr. 27, 2011) A specific form of vitamin E improved the most severe form of fatty liver disease in some children, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. Results appear in the April 27 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. A previous study found vitamin E effective in some adults with the disease.
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic liver disease More >
Sequencing Genome Helps Get Target Right Treatments For Cancer Patients
Sequencing a cancer patient’s genome can be a brilliant diagnostic tool because it helps doctors select the best treatment for them, researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis wrote in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) – they carried out two studies.
The First Study – a 39-year old female patient with AML (acute myeloid leukemia) had her genome sequenced, which revealed a novel genetic More >
A4M: Estrogen helps prevent risk of breast cancer in women
After timely breaking news this week about a study showing that estrogen lowers breast cancer risk in women, The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M, http://www.worldhealth.net) could have almost started its 19th Annual Conference here today saying "I told you so."
Long on the cutting-edge of medicine, the A4M has long held that estrogen helps prevent heart attacks and breast cancer.
According to Pamela Smith, More >
Genetic change that helps tumors move to other parts of the body identified
ScienceDaily (Apr. 6, 2011) MIT cancer biologists have identified a genetic change that makes lung tumors more likely to spread to other parts of the body. The findings, to be published in the April 6 online issue of Nature, offers new insight into how lung cancers metastasize and could help identify drug targets to combat metastatic tumors, which account for 90 percent of cancer deaths.
The researchers, led by Tyler Jacks, director of More >
American Heart Association’s Walking Paths app helps motivate people for healthy life
Finding a safe, free and centrally located walking path is now as easy as picking up the phone, thanks to a new smartphone application from the American Heart Association.
The free Walking Paths app enables users to find, tag and "like" more than 2,500 American Heart Association-designated walking paths across the country, or even create and save favorite walking paths using the GPS function as they walk.
The app is available More >
Internet program reduces infant and toddler sleep problems, helps moms sleep better too
ScienceDaily (Apr. 1, 2011) A study in the April 1 issue of the journal Sleep demonstrates that an Internet-based intervention was effective at reducing infant and toddler sleep disturbances, as well as providing positive, indirect benefits for maternal sleep, mood and confidence. The study suggests that the Internet can give parents widespread access to individualized, behaviorally based advice for sleep problems in young children.
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Moderate amount of protein added to three regular meals a day helps appetite control and feeling of fullness
Eating fewer, regular-sized meals with higher amounts of lean protein can make one feel more full than eating smaller, more frequent meals, according to new research from Purdue University.
"We found that when eating high amounts of protein, men who were trying to lose weight felt fuller throughout the day; they also experienced a reduction in late-night desire to eat and had fewer thoughts of food," said Heather J. Leidy, an assistant More >
Depression Care in Hospital Helps Cardiac Patients
Action Points Explain that a collaborative program to manage depression among patients with cardiac disease before they leave the hospital appears to ease depression, anxiety, and mental health-related quality of life.
Note that subjects receiving collaborative care also reported improvements in their cardiac symptoms as well as self-reported adherence to medical recommendations at six months after discharge.
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Intervention helps women manage weight during and after pregnancy
ScienceDaily (Feb. 28, 2011) A simple behavioral intervention that provided pregnant women with advice and feedback about weight control helped normal-weight women control their weight gain during pregnancy, according to the newly published "Fit for Delivery" study. It also helped normal-weight and obese and overweight women return to pre-pregnancy weight after delivery.
Excessive weight gain isn’t healthy at any stage of life, More >
Transcranial magnetic stimulation helps rats to learn more quickly
What sounds like science fiction is actually possible: thanks to magnetic stimulation, the activity of certain brain nerve cells can be deliberately influenced. What happens in the brain in this context has been unclear up to now. Medical experts from Bochum under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Klaus Funke (Department of Neurophysiology) have now shown that various stimulus patterns changed the activity of distinct neuronal cell types. In addition, certain More >
Eating poorly can make you blue: Trans-fats increase risk of depression, while olive oil helps avoid risk
ScienceDaily (Jan. 26, 2011) Researchers from the universities of Navarra and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria have demonstrated that the ingestion of trans-fats and saturated fats increase the risk of suffering depression, and that olive oil, on the other hand, protects against this mental illness.
They have confirmed this after studying 12,059 SUN Project volunteers over the course of six years; the volunteers had their diet, lifestyle and More >
Experimental Med Helps Treat Aggressive Breast Cancer
The experimental breast cancer drug Iniparib appears to shrink tumors, increase the time tumors take to progress, and prolongs survival in women with triple negative breast cancer. Researchers say the drug appears to prevent cancer cells from repairing themselves after they’ve been damaged by chemotherapy. Experts are hopeful the new drug will give those with the difficult cancer another treatment option, but results of a Phase 3 trial will need to More >
Glioblastoma’s molecular flexibility helps resist nearly all treatment efforts
Glioblastoma, the most common and lethal form of braincancer and the disease that killed Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, resists nearly all treatment efforts, even when attacked simultaneously on several fronts. One explanation can be found in the tumor cells’ unexpected flexibility, discovered researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
When faced with a life-threatening oxygen shortage, glioblastoma cells can shift gears More >
Chiropractic treatment helps female Army Brigadier General in battle against fibromyalgia
After 27 years of service,decorated U.S. Army Brigadier General Becky Halstead (Retired), the first female West Point graduate in U.S. history to command at the strategic level in Iraq and Afghanistan, decided to retire after being diagnosed with fibromyalgia – a medically unexplained syndrome affecting the muscles and connective tissues. Currently, the disease affects as many as 12 million Americans and has been reported two times as prevalent in More >
Chiropractic treatment helps female Army Brigadier General to battle against fibromyalgia
After 27 years of service,decorated U.S. Army Brigadier General Becky Halstead (Retired), the first female West Point graduate in U.S. history to command at the strategic level in Iraq and Afghanistan, decided to retire after being diagnosed with fibromyalgia – a medically unexplained syndrome affecting the muscles and connective tissues. Currently, the disease affects as many as 12 million Americans and has been reported two times as prevalent in More >
Brain Stimulation Helps Lower Blood Pressure
Action Points Explain that British investigators noted control of hypertension in a single patient treated with deep brain stimulation for a central pain syndrome following a stroke.
Point out that the patient was able to discontinue four antihypertensive drugs and that blood pressure control was independent of pain control, since pain returned to preprocedure levels.
British researchers have successfully treated refractory hypertension More >
Stress management program helps prevent heart events in patients with heart disease
ScienceDaily (Jan. 24, 2011) A cognitive behavioral therapy program focusing on stress management appears to decrease the risk of recurrent heart attacks and other cardiovascular events in patients with heart disease, according to a report in the January 24 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Psychosocial factors account for an estimated 30 percent of heart attack risk, according to background information More >