Wheelchair technology & spinal cord injury
...iopsies show that this progressive training almost reversed long-term muscle atrophy/dystrophy. Manual wheelchair skill influences social participation This study describes the relationship between manual wheelchair skill and social participation in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) one year after inju...Political prejudice preventing progress on prison health
... transmission in prisons can be prevented and even reversed by simple, safe, and cheap harm reduction strategies. However, while the public-health case for action is strong, political commitment for this method of combating health problems in prisons remains elusive, states the editorial. Most strategies for ...Goals for TB control reachable for most of world
...(about 1 percent per year), this increase could be reversed by further reductions in transmission in high-burden countries," the authors write. They add that the difficulties of managing TB in Africa and Eastern Europe are closely linked to HIV/AIDS and drug resistance, and specific solutions will be needed f...Two-thirds of patients brush off their dentist's advice, study suggests
...ss, but in many cases damage can be stabilised or reversed if treatment is combined with a good home toothcare regime. For the study, patients were given advice on a regime which in particular said they should brush their teeth twice a day for two minutes each time. Each of the 17 study participants used a...New fat is needed to clear old fat from the system
...ar levels on the zero fat diet. Both symptoms were reversed with dietary fat, and in fact on a normal diet, the transgenic mice were no different than normal mice in terms of body weight, body fat, metabolic rate and food intake. The effect of added dietary fat was duplicated when the mice were treated with a...'Fickle' enzyme helps protect, but also can promote heart failure, animal study shows
.... When the researchers restored levels of BH4, it reversed these harmful effects. In the first experiment, mice without NOS3 better compensated for the damaging stress of hypertrophy, showing less muscle growth, and fibrosis (scar tissue) and better heart function than mice with the enzyme. Normal mice w...Study shows that a kidney transplant can reverse heart failure
... that systolic heart failure was more likely to be reversed if patients received a transplant soon after they began dialysis to treat their kidney failure." The study followed 103 patients between June 1998 and November 2002. Prior to their transplant, all of the patients had congestive heart failure with ...