Science backs Cod Liver Oil as cure for arthritis
...eplacement surgery. Cod Liver Oils reputation for relieving the inflammatory processes involved in rheumatoid arthritis, a disease of the immune system affecting around 350,000 people including children, is already well established. These new findings, by Professor Bruce Caterson at Cardiff University, brin...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, March 5, 2002
...associated with pregnancy. It may be effective for relieving dental pain. It is not effective in treating ringing in the ears or addiction to alcohol, tobacco or chemicals. Several clinical trials have come to contradictory conclusions on its effectiveness in treating chronic pain, back pain and headache. Acup...Prozac is effective for depression...and hot flashes too
...e newer antidepressants for their effectiveness in relieving hot flashes and to measure their side effects. It is likely that some of them will be better than others. #...Postmenopausal hormone therapy offers no protection against heart attacks
...or not they are treated. Hormones are effective in relieving hot flashes and sleep disturbances that substantially diminish quality of life, according to Grady. For most women early in menopause, a few years of hormone therapy will relieve symptoms with minimal risk of adverse effects, said Grady....Toxin injections prove useful for spasticity after stroke
... the hand with a drug that has proven effective in relieving muscle tightness or twitching in other areas of the body, according to an article in the Aug. 8 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The report indicates that botulinum toxin type A, also known as Botox, reduces disability caused by spastici...FINAL ALERT: RPB Science Writers Seminar in Eye Research to be held in Washington, DC Sept. 22-25
...rimentally promising: gene therapy aimed either at relieving the fluid pressure in the eye that leads to optic nerve damage and vision loss or at protecting the nerve from said damage; newly discovered, natural molecules that act to regenerate nerve cell growth in the optic nerve and, as a consequence, promote...Scientific task force to examine usefulness of testosterone replacement therapy in older men
...a scientifically unproven method for preventing or relieving any physical and psychological changes that men with normal testosterone levels may experience, as they get older. Until more scientifically rigorous studies are conducted, the question of whether the benefits of testosterone replacement outweigh any...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet Nov. 19, 2002
... phytoestrogens, such as soy, show some promise at relieving hot flashes, but they say that clinical trials do not support the use of other herbs or CAM therapies. Well-designed but small trials found that vitamin E, red clover, evening primrose oil, and dong quai were ineffective for hot flashes. Common probl...Black cohosh may reduce hot flashes by targeting brain's thermostat
...ugh preliminary evidence of the herb's efficacy in relieving hot flashes, night sweats and other symptoms of menopause is encouraging, further studies are still needed before it can be recommended, Bolton says. Long-term safety data on black cohosh is also needed, she adds. To determine whether black cohosh is...Protecting against heart attack: The beat goes on thanks to erythropoietin
...world. Current therapeutic strategies are aimed at relieving the ischemia by opening blocked arteries; however, no current therapies can directly protect the heart and ensure ongoing heart function. Faced with this challenge, Walter J. Koch and fellow researchers at Duke University Medical Center, North Caroli...NIA statement on IOM testosterone report
...a scientifically unproven method for preventing or relieving any physical or psychological changes that men with normal testosterone levels may experience as they get older. Except for a relatively few younger and older men with extreme deficiencies, testosterone treatment is not deemed appropriate therapy for...New drug combination might be more effective pain reliever
...tritional supplement, glucosamine, boosts the pain relieving power of ibuprofen, according to a new study by Te...which also include aspirin, are quite effective in relieving pain. They are so effective, in fact, that pain sufferers sometimes take higher and higher doses in ...Drop in hormone therapy use shows physicians heed clinical trial findings, Stanford researchers say
...t heart disease in addition to its intended use of relieving postmenopausal symptoms. The multiyear trial was an effort to assess the efficacy of a variety of HRT regimens. The portion dealing with the estrogen/progestin combination was halted early when researchers for the federally funded Women's Health Init...Climara Pro (TM) helps alleviate menopausal hot flashes and night sweats
...trogen therapy remains the most effective means of relieving vasomotor symptoms and, in fact, recent studies are showing a significant number of women return to hormone therapy after discontinuation. They restart this therapy because they are again experiencing symptoms that significantly and negatively affect...Northwestern Memorial researchers study role of botanicals in management of menopausal symptoms
...herbal products - black cohosh and red clover - in relieving symptoms associated with menopause. This one-year study, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), will also test the safety of these products when used for an ex...New study shows sinus surgery can improve chronic fatigue
...onducted on functional endoscopic sinus surgery in relieving fatigue. All 11 studies, including two from Harvard, demonstrated statistically significant decreased rates of fatigue post-surgery. "Knowing there is a documented relationship between sinusitis and chronic fatigue, it seemed important to examine i...Family therapy reduces stress symptoms in adolescent survivors of childhood cancer
...brief psychological interventions are effective in relieving traumatic stress symptoms in family members, may have a broader relevance beyond childhood cancer. "This approach may be applicable to other situations in treating the aftereffects of trauma associated with medical diagnosis and treatment," said Dr. ...Detrol LA combined with standard treatment for enlarged prostate is twice as effective
...t for enlarged prostate, was twice as effective in relieving overactive bladder (OAB) symptoms as the alpha blocker alone in men with both bladder obstruction and OAB, according to a study published in the October issue of the British Journal of Urology. Six million American men suffer from a combination of a...Researchers find ultrasound helps drug dissolve stroke-causing blood clots
...se of the clot-busting drug tPA to and through it, relieving the obstruction to blood flow and helping the brain heal. All of the patients also received the clot-busting tPA, and their results were compared with 63 other patients who received tPA alone. Andrei Alexandrov, M.D., assistant professor of neurolog...... in Norway analysed 23 trials to estimate the pain relieving effects of NSAIDs in patients with knee osteoarthritis. The final sample involved 10,845 patients, of whom 7767 received NSAIDs and 3078 received placebo. The analysis revealed that NSAIDs can reduce short term pain slightly better than placebo, but ...