Acupuncture calms nerves, improves heart function
...ference. Acupuncture the practice of piercing the skin with needles at specific points to treat illness or relieve pain dramatically reduced sympathetic nerve activity among heart failure patients. The sympathetic nervous system regulates involuntary movements such as heartbeat and blood pressure. Ove...Rensselaer researchers seeing farther and faster with terahertz (Thz) imaging
...T-rays have been demonstrated to effectively image skin burn severity, tooth cavities, and skin and breast cancer. As an alternative method of mammography, for example, T-rays can detect breast ca...Initial clinical study shows safety and bioactivity of cancer vaccine
...ntigen, they are injected back under the patient's skin and activate the T cells to attack tumors. In the trial, 13 men with metastatic prostate cancer were given three escalating doses of the vaccine. Overall, the vaccine was well tolerated, reported Vieweg and his colleagues. Four subjects had low-grade...Urinary incontinence of rural older women dramatically improved by behavioral techniques
...lasted up to 12 weeks. Sensors were placed on the skin over the pelvic muscles and attached to a notebook computer. Signals would appear on the screen that reflected the voluntary contractions of the pelvic muscles and allowed the women to monitor the effectiveness of their exercises. Dr. Dougherty e...Trunk fat causes heavy load for boys
... boys being 2 mmHg higher on average. Trunk fat by skin fold and DXA measurement was positively associated with systolic and diastolic pressure. However, when we looked at the gender groups separately, we found the relationship was limited to boys and this difference was not influenced by race, says Gall...Tanning lamps may increase risks of skin cancers
...f tanning lamps may have an increased incidence of skin cancers and younger users may be at greatest risk,...o the incidence of melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer, results to date are not definitive. Few studies have looked at the association between tan...Tanning devices may contribute to incidence of common skin cancers
...contribute to the incidence of two common types of skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell car...e incidence of melanoma, one of the major forms of skin cancer. Few studies have looked at the association between tanning devices and the more common types...NICHD scientists develop vaccine against deadly hospital-acquired infection
...aureus infection causes illness ranging from minor skin infections to life-threatening diseases such as severe pneumonia, meningitis, bone and joint infections, and infections of the heart and bloodstream. Many strains of S. aureus are resistant to methicillin, the antibiotic used to treat it. Similarly...... participants received leptin injections under the skin twice a day for four months. After four months of the therapy, they experienced a 60 percent decrease in blood triglyceride levels and a 28 percent decrease in liver volume. Blood glucose levels also showed marked improvement. Six of the eight patie...Scleroderma research receives a boost from multiple NIH grants
...al growth of connective tissue, which supports the skin and internal organs. In some forms of scleroderma, hard, tight skin is the extent of the disease. In other forms, however, the problem goes much deeper, affecting blood...Multimillion-dollar pain research center funded at Wake Forest
... will recover from nerve injuries, just like their skin sensation returns to normal after a sunburn goes away. But a lot of people develop chronic pain, and when that happens there are changes in the spinal cord, with the chemicals and receptors. So even without the sunburn actually there, light touch can...Rare form of meningitis contracted in Jamaica
...wing symptoms: severe headache, neck pain, altered skin sensation or visual disturbance. Nine of the 12 individuals with meningitis had to be hospitalized. The Caesar salad associated with the illness included romaine lettuce, which reportedly was washed, and canned, salted anchovies but no shellfish or ...Cancer patients emotional needs often undetected by oncologists
...ears, had genitourinary, breast, gastrointestinal, skin or other cancers. During the medical consultations, the patients asked an average of nine direct questions and gave an average of three indirect verbal cues signaling that they needed information or emotional support. Indirect informational cues inc...Yale study shows 25 percent of obese children are at high risk for developing diabetes
...is associated with darkening and thickening of the skin around the neck and under the arms. Possible long term complications from diabetes include premature artherosclerosis, often affecting the legs and leading to ulcers of the feet; early coronary artery disease; kidney disorders; eye disorders, someti...Study finds drops work as well as patch for 'lazy eye'
... anopaque adhesive patch, or "eye bandage," on the skin to cover theunaffected eye. This forces the child to use the eye with amblyopia, whichstimulates vision in the eye with amblyopia and helps the part of thebrain that manages vision to develop more completely. However, many children do not like the ap...Eye drops to treat childhood eye disorder work as well as patching the eye
... quality of life issues, such as irritation of the skin and teasing by other children. This new study foun...g an opaque adhesive patch, or eye bandage, on the skin to cover the unaffected eye. This forces the child to use the eye with amblyopia, which stimulates v...Immune system in hamsters bolstered during winter, especially in times of stress, study finds
...es an immune response -- was then applied to their skin to determine the vigor of the ...m to rush to areas such as the skin where the antigen is placed. For the long-day hamsters, there was no significan...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March (second issue)
... 946 contacts of the MDR-TB cases, with tuberculin skin test conversion documented in 58 (6 percent). This conversion percentage was considerably lower than previously reported among contacts of inner city pulmonary TB cases. Despite social factors similar to New York City, the proportion of MDR-TB cases...People suffering from epilepsy continue to lack a good quality of life
...ll pacemaker-like device, implanted just under the skin in the left chest pocket, which sends mild electrical stimulation to the brain via the left vagus nerve. VNS Therapy has been proven to decrease or sometimes eliminate seizures and improves quality of life in many patients whose seizures do not respo...NIAID study results support diluting smallpox vaccine stockpile to stretch supply
...stigators administered the vaccine by pricking the skin 15 times with a tiny two-pronged needle, and then ... received the 1:10 dilution developed a take. The skin lesion correlated with measurable cellular and antibody-mediated immune responses. The lower take r...