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Green LED Light May Be a Solution for Chronic Pain Relief
Mar 3, 2017A study by UA researchers revealed that rats with neuropathic pain that were bathed in green LED showed more tolerance for thermal and tactile stimulus. A clinical trial involving people suffering from fibromyalgia is underway. It wasn't ...
Tags: LED, green light
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Mercury From Fish Not an Alzheimer's Risk
Feb 5, 2016A study published on 2 February 2016 in Volume 315, Issue 5 of the Journal of the American Medical Association has found eating seafood at least once a week could lower an individual’s chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease. ...
Tags: Mercury From Fish, seafood
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Eating Green Leafy Vegetables Could Help Slow Cognitive Decline
Apr 14, 2015Something as easy as adding more spinach, kale, collards and mustard greens to the diet could help slow cognitive decline, according to new research from Rush University Medical Centre in Chicago. The study, which was presented at the ...
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Next-Gen Heart Valve in U.S.A.
Jun 17, 2014Edwards' Sapien XT transcatheter aortic heart valve (Courtesy Edwards Lifesciences) Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, CA) has announced both the FDA approval and the U.S. launch of its next-generation Sapien XT transcatheter aortic ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, heart valve
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Doctors in The United States Are Writing More Prescriptions for Sedatives Than Ever Before
Mar 11, 2014Doctors in the United States are writing more prescriptions for sedatives than ever before, and the frequent use of these powerful drugs in combination with narcotic painkillers may be causing medication-related deaths, a new study ...
Tags: prescriptions, Health&Medicine, care visits
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Researchers Are Recruiting Women for a Study
Feb 27, 2014Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing researchers are recruiting women for a study to better understand how early life adversity and stress over one's lifetime are related to risk of developing heart disease and ...
Tags: difficult life experiences, greater inflammation, psychosocial factors
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A New Combination MRI-Ultrasound Imaging System Can Result in Fewer Biopsies
Feb 26, 2014A new combination MRI-ultrasound imaging system can result in fewer biopsies and better treatment decisions for prostate cancer patients. The technology, called UroNav®, fuses images from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with ...
Tags: MRI, PSA blood, Prostate Cancer, aggressive tumor, Loyola
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The Whipple Procedure Is One of Surgery's Most Extensive and Challenging Operations
Feb 26, 2014The Whipple procedure, used to remove tumors from pancreatic cancer patients, is one of surgery's most extensive and challenging operations. Now, surgeons are using a minimally invasive robotic surgical system to perform the surgery. ...
Tags: Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgical System, Whipple Procedure
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More Than Half of Babies and Children Are Surviving Many Years
Feb 7, 2014More than half of babies and children who receive heart transplants are surviving many years, say the authors of a new study. Pediatric heart transplant patients are living 15 years and longer with good heart function, the scientists ...
Tags: kids, Heart Transplant, Kidney failure, health
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Explains Why Some Motor Neurons Are Not Vulnerable to ALS
Jan 23, 2014Explains why some motor neurons are not vulnerable to ALS and points to potential therapeutic target Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have identified a gene, called matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9), that appears to ...
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Could Your Warm and Cozy Home Be Hindering Your Weight-loss Efforts
Jan 23, 2014WEDNESDAY Jan. 22, 2014, 2014 -- Could your warm and cozy home be hindering your weight-loss efforts Dutch researchers say keeping temperatures a little chillier at home and the office might be an additional weapon in the fight against ...
Tags: NST, cool side, Mitchell Lazar, Lose Weight
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Obese Children Exposed to High Levels of Air Pollutants Were Nearly Three Times
Jan 23, 2014Obese children exposed to high levels of air pollutants were nearly three times as likely to have asthma, compared with non-obese children and lower levels of pollution exposure, report researchers at Columbia University Medical Center ...
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Jersey Shore University Received "Outstanding Emergency Medical Services Educator Award"
Jan 21, 2014Jersey Shore University Medical Center's Molly Berkowitz, R.N., Trauma Injury Prevention Coordinator, recently received the "Outstanding Emergency Medical Services Educator Award" at the annual New Jersey statewide conference on Emergency ...
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More Than 90% of The Patients Treated with The Vaccine Candidate Were Alive at Six Months
Jan 21, 2014Agenus Inc. (Nasdaq: AGEN), a biotechnology company developing novel immune system activating treatments for cancers and infectious diseases, announced that Phase 2 results of Prophage G-200 vaccine in recurrent patients with glioblastoma ...
