which way is more effective to tone your butt: bike riding or squats? or is there a better way?
it's just that I've tried squats but I just can't do it "right" and I'm not patient. but riding a bike is easier and I can actually feel that I'm working out my legs/butt.
Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed an easier and more effective method for inserting genes into eye cells that could greatly expand gene therapy to help restore sight to patients with blinding diseases ranging from inherited defects like retinitis pigmentosa to degenerative illnesses of...
JAMA Pediatrics Study Highlight A study by Helen Wong, R.D., of The Hospital for Sick Children, Ontario, Canada, and colleagues examined the safety and efficacy of dietary flaxseed supplementation in the management of hypercholesterolemia (high levels of cholesterol) in children. (Online First)...
Low-dose intravenous infusions of ketamine, a general anesthetic used in minor surgeries, given over a long period are an effective treatment for depression, Mayo Clinic researchers found. The study is published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.
About a decade ago researchers discovered...
Scientists at UC Irvine have reported that a synthetic compound ShK-186, originally derived from a sea anemone toxin, has been found to enhance metabolic activity and shows potential as a treatment for obesity and insulin resistance. The findings published the week of May 27 in the Proceedings...
Children with autism showed significant improvement after six months of simple sensory exercises at home using everyday items such as scents, spoons and sponges, according to UC Irvine neurobiologists.
They found that a treatment known as environmental enrichment led to notable gains in male...
Bacteria are life forms, which, like all other life forms, struggle for the best living conditions for themselves. Therefore they will try to avoid getting attacked by the human immune system, and therefore they have developed various ways to protect themselves from the human immune system. When...
I have to watch my sister's three kids until the upcoming Thursday, they have been here since Friday and they are driving me up the wall with their cell phone noises. They never get off them. When they eat, one hand on the food the other on the phone. I ask them to go outside. One of them will...
A form of treatment called cyroneurolysis is being used for chronic pain caused by nerve damage; it involves using a tiny ball of ice to interrupt pain signals and eliminate pain while the nerves slowly recover. The results of the study, presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology's...
Novo Nordisk has just announced that their drug liraglutide is extremely effective at inducing weight loss among people suffering from type 2 diabetes. In a 56-week long double-blind phase 3a clinical trial, part of the SCALETM (Satiety and Clinical Adiposity Liraglutide Evidence in...
Transplants of blood-forming stem cells from umbilical cord blood may be an effective alternative to transplants of matched donor bone marrow stem cells to treat children with a rare, debilitating disease known as Hurler's syndrome (HS), according to results of a study published online in Blood...
Treatment with bendamustine plus rituximab (B-R) doubles progression free survival (PFS) compared with current standard of care CHOP-R (69.5 versus 31.2 months; p Results from the StiL NHL-1 study published in The Lancet this week show that a first-line treatment regimen of bendamustine plus...
Im 17 years old and prom is in a few months and i want to lose about 5 pounds. Do you think this video works well? And what should my diet be like? And are there other great videos?
Im 17 years old and prom is in a few months and i want to lose about 5 pounds. Do you think this video works well? And what should my diet be like? And are there other great videos?
I have always done Jillian Michaels DVDs, but I have seen the video going around about who she really is and I find myself believing it. I want a DVD that is NOT of Jillian Michaels, but one that is very effective. I do go to the gym and everything, but I also like having a DVD to do. I do not...
Taking tamoxifen for ten years following breast cancer surgery rather than five is more effective and better at reducing the risk of recurrence and death, according to a recent trial led by Oxford University's Clinical Trial Service Unit (CTSU), called ATLAS. The findings, published online in...
Breakthrough drugs have made it possible for people to live with HIV longer than ever before, but more work must be done to actually cure the disease. One of the challenges researchers face involves fully eradicating the virus when it is latent in the body. A new report appearing in the December...
"And don't let the bed bugs bite" is no longer a harmless adage. In reality today, these bloodthirsty bugs infest thousands of homes. According to a team of Penn State entomologists, biopesticides -- naturally occurring microorganisms -- might provide an answer to this pest problem. Bed bugs...