Science backs Cod Liver Oil as cure for arthritis
...ruce Caterson at Cardiff University, bring hope to sufferers of the more prevalent osteoarthritic joint disease, particularly to those who are unable, because of adverse side effects, to take the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and COX-2 inhibitors commonly prescribed for the condition. Professo...Chemical engineers suggest Alzheimer's onset tied To cholesterol, brain chemicals
... understanding of how the disease robs Alzheimer's sufferers of their memory and reason. They've also found hints of new ways to eventually prevent its onset. Laboratory studies conducted by chemical engineer Theresa Good, an Assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, and Ph.D. students Da...New study highlights impact of bipolar disorder on society
...de; between 25 and 50 per cent of bipolar disorder sufferers attempt suicide world-wide, and 10 to 15 per cent succeed each year. The research on what this means in cost to UK society was conducted by Catalyst, a health-economics consultancy. However, while the actual monetary cost may vary from country to cou...Researchers develop white wine with health benefits similar to red
...who cannot drink red wine, including some migraine sufferers whose condition can be exacerbated by red. At least one wine manufacturer in Israel (Binyamina Winecellars and Distillers) has already begun manufacturing the healthier white wine using the technique developed by Avirams lab. The new beverage, whic......iabetes is a complicated disorder that occurs when sufferers develop a resistance to otherwise perfectly normal insulin. The insulin secreting cells of the pancreas are unable to compensate by making more of the hormone. In healthy individuals, insulin triggers a series of events that allows certain cells to t...Researchers gain insights on pulmonary fibrosis
...g lung disease, which claims the lives of half its sufferers within five years. In the largest U.S. study of families in which more than one member has been diagnosed with the disease, the researchers have determined that it appears to strike patients at a younger age (average age at diagnosis is 58), and ...Lidocaine patch shown in large trial to relieve post-herpetic neuralgia
...Medical School. "This study is significant for PHN sufferers as it demonstrated that Lidoderm effectively relieved PHN pain in a large patient population and that the majority of patients experienced reduced pain relief and improved quality of life within the first week of treatment. Achieving pain relief with......re around the scalp or neck, and depression. Many sufferers also find it difficult to sleep.......n promoting public awareness is the fact that most sufferers do not come forward and report the condition-- believing it, instead, to be a problem with their glasses or just a temporary, passing phase. This failure in reporting is critical, as researchers have been hampered by limited access to affected perso...Survey finds chronic pain sufferers unsatisfied with pain treatments
Chronic pain sufferers would spend more for treatment if they knew it would work Stamford, CT Nov. 14, 2000 - Patients in chronic pain are so dissatisfied with the efficacy of their prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) pain control medications that 78 percent are wi...GL701 (prasterone) significantly reduces lupus flares
...n. Common signs and symptoms of disease that lupus sufferers experience - severe fatigue, arthritis, facial rash, fever, seizures, headache, muscle weakness, memory loss, hair loss, and photosensitivity - can lead to a poor quality of life....... Because disease progression may prevent arthritis sufferers from commuting or working a physically demanding job, as many as 50 percent of RA patients discontinue working after 10 years of onset, increasing to 90 percent with longer disease duration. One out of every 100 Americans -- more than 2.1 million...Rise in non-communicable diseases commands pharmaceutical scientists attention
...ications Evolving From 15 Pills to Two a Day AIDS sufferers currently can take 15 pills or more a day to control the virus. A new drug being evaluated by the FDA incorporates the complex cocktail into two pills. According to the study being presented at the AAPS Annual Meeting, this new drug, Trivizir, i...Can you have headaches without pain?
...e suffer from cluster headache and the majority of sufferers are men....Media coverage of new drugs is often misleading
... terms, only two percent of untreated osteoporosis sufferers sustain hip fractures, meaning the new drug would reduce hip fractures from two to one percent of this affected population. Of the stories using figures, only 15 percent mentioned both relative and absolute benefits. Further, 53 percent of the stori...Cranfield technology noses ahead
...eases requiring medical attention. The majority of sufferers are women as the female urethra is shorter than that of the male. By the age of thirty, 20% will have suffered a UTI with many having recurrent episodes. The most common complaint affects the bladder cystitis, more serious complaints can go on to aff...Depression costs UK economy 2 billion a year, conference will be told
...es yet the condition is still so stigmatised that sufferers are often afraidto tell their families and friends...his would send a clear signal to the public and to sufferers that depressiondoes not prevent one leading a productive, responsible life. Recent polls ** show th...New research on Tourette's syndrome
...s, but decidenot to, says Flanagan. But Tourette's sufferers lack the ability to suppressthese impulses. "It's probably an extreme variant of a normal thing felt by manypeople," he says. "It's a nice observation," says John Rothwell, an expert on movementdisorders at the Institute of Neurology in Londo...Exercise and encouraging a return to normal activities can help low back pain sufferers
... after participating in the classes, low back pain sufferers found a significant benefit compared with the control group who continued with usual primary care management. After one year a continuing and greater improvement in pain and disability was reported in the group who had attended the classes as compar...Keep an eye on the weather if you take herbal antidepressants
...he side effect may be a particular problem for any sufferers ofseasonal affective disorder (SAD), who combine St John's wort with light-boxtherapy. "Certainly never take this drug and use light therapy," says Roberts.But she cautions that all users should be warned of the risks, particularly iftaking the herba...