Hopkins, Israeli Scientists Link Soybeans With Pain Relief
...of the much-touted legume, soybeans: They maybring pain relief. A new study shows that laboratory rats fed a diet containingsoy meal develop far less pain after nerve injury than their counterparts onsoy-free diets. "In people, strong individual ......g for STDs because they fear the embarrassment and pain of apelvic exam, which is required for the traditional tests," Shafer said. "So inthe real world, urine tests will detect more cases of asymptomatic STDs." The UCSF researchers calculated that an annual urine test to screen for STDsamong the estimat...Human/Insect/Jellyfish Genes Team To Quiet "Hyper" Nerve Cells
...e, Marbnadds. "You might put silencing genes into pain nerve fibers," says Marbn, "andwait a few weeks, then try successively higher doses of muristerone until youget relief. If there's a bad effect, you can stop activating the system. We'dnever be so bold to think about doing gene therapy for problems ...... biggest fear expressed by surgical patientsis the pain they will have after surgery, and that proper pati...r overallresults and less pain. A unique housewide pain management initiative atCedars-Sinai Medical Center brings together techniques from a wide range ofd...University Of Pittsburgh Involved In First Successful Example Of Gene Therapy For Pain Control
... the first toshow that gene therapy blocks certain pain responses in animals. This landmarkstudy, which p...suggesting that this therapy may provide long-term pain relief if usedclinically," added Dr. Glorioso, who also directs the Pittsburgh Human GeneTherapy Cen......ts discovery holds promise for betterunderstanding pain and developing drugs to block pain, Julius said."The number of targets to relieve pain is limited. Any discovery of a receptorfor extreme temperatures or other noxious stimuli broadens th...Botanical Products Act Like Estrogen In Animals, Finds University Of Pittsburgh Team
...is a traditional American Indiancure for menstrual pain and menopausal discomfort. Black cohosh has been shownto relieve hot flashes in European clinical trials. Dr. Eagon's research is supported by a breast cancer research grant from theU.S. Army.......oss thatcauses bone to rub against bone, producing pain and loss of movement. "Naturally occurring clinical conditions in the horse, as well as ourmodels, simulate the human situation a lot better than earlier models did,"McIlwraith said. "For example, osteoarthritis can develop in a horse inone-t...Sharks Get Porthole Of Opportunity
... "The shark measures are tough and will cause pain for some time to come,but they are necessary if there is to be any chance of recovering large coastalsharks," said Dr. Ellen Pikitch, director of marine conservation programs forWCS. "The damage that has been done will take decades to undo." ...Vitamin D Deficiency May Increase Risk Of Hip Fracture In Older Women
...cent of olderAmericans who face the possibility of pain and debilitation from anosteoporosis-related fracture are women. One out of every two women and one ineight men over the age of 50 will have such a fracture sometime in the future. These fractures usually occur in the hip, wrist, and spine. The Nati...NIH scientists are attacking chronic pain with a novel form of gene therapy thattargets the ...cause it is the first processing pointfor relaying pain signals to the brain, and pain can be effectively controlledat this location. The idea was to have ...NIAID launches major step in trial of experimental shingles vaccine
... Although skin symptoms may heal within weeks, the pain (calledpost-herpetic neuralgia) can be intense, severely debilitating and last foryears. Other serious complications, such as blindness or hearing loss, may alsooccur. As people who have had chickenpox age, their body's ability to suppress thevirus ...UI researchers begin to unravel the underlying mechanism of migraines
...sults in continuedsecretion of CGRP and persistent pain for the person suffering the migraine. "We are ver...aine drugcurrently available, alleviating migraine pain in 50 to 75 percent of patients.Although clinicians know that it works, they had not understood how ...Vitamin C levels linked to amount of lead in blood
...ren, signs of acutepoisoning are anemia, abdominal pain and nervous system disorders. At sub-acutelevels of lead poisoning, there are often no symptoms, but such levels can causemental retardation, loss of cognitive function, language deficits, and behaviorproblems. As a preventive measure, Simon recomm......ein, or peptide,found in the brain and involved in pain perception and lowering bodytemperature. For the last few years, scientists worldwide have been testing thetheory that interfering with a protein's production on a molecular level mightstop it from carrying out its job in humans. Scientists were tryi...Mayo Clinic study shows dietary supplement may help fight heart disease
...ery day for sixmonths had significantly less chest pain and improved coronary blood flow thanthose who too...-arginine as a therapeuticagent for treating chest pain in some patients with heart disease." Mayo Clinic investigators studied 26 participants without sign...Good news for "wusses": Research links pain sensitivity to gene
...use (NIDA) report that much of humansensitivity to pain -- and the varied response people have to opiate p...- has a genetic basis. Many of the differences in pain perception byboth mouse and human, the scientists say, are likely due to variation in asingle key ge...New gene therapy found safe for treating coronary heart disease
... most participants saidthey experienced less chest pain after the injection. A variety of tests alsofoun... researchers assessedeach patient's level of chest pain (angina), the size of the heart areareceiving insufficient blood, the patient's response to exercise...Children are at greatest risk of eye damage during the eclipse
...r cells. The condition may occur rapidly, without pain and without being immediately apparent and no treatment has been shown to be effective for the condition, says the author. Furthermore, photochemical damage is cumulative and there are concerns that such injuries may predispose people to eye disease...Electronic dental anesthesia helps allay needle injection pain
... sleeping, the body knows when pain is present. Wewould still see a rise in heart rate during a painfulstimulus." "While the changes in both blood pressure and heartrates were not outside the normal limits for ...