A new guideline issued by the American Academy of Neurology finds that transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation (TENS), a widely used pain therapy involving a portable device, is not recommended to treat chronic low-back pain pain that has persisted for three months or longer because research...
New research from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has found that an alternative therapy may be possible for treating some types of hypertension using an enzyme called ACE2. The research, conducted on mice in the laboratory of Daniel Batlle, M.D., professor of medicine at...
Individuals with single-gene mutations that mean they have abnormally low levels of the protein alpha-1 antitrypsin are highly susceptible to emphysema, a progressive lung disease that causes severe shortness of breath. Previous attempts to correct single-gene defects that cause lung disease by...
Protein therapy - the delivery of healthy proteins directly into human cells to replace malfunctioning proteins - is considered one of the most direct and safe approaches for treating diseases. But its effectiveness has been limited by low delivery efficiency and the poor stability of proteins...
In connection with the New York Times' recent coverage of hormone therapy1, Pfizer Inc. released important facts and context to respond to the newspaper's account. Pfizer believes the coverage is based on a misleading and selective reading of both the science and history of hormone therapy (HT)...
Two medications approved as treatment for drug-resistant chronic myeloid leukemia continue to provide patients with quicker, better responses as a first treatment than the existing front-line drug, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reported at the 51st Annual...
I suffered a broken leg (tibia) a month ago and the x-rays showed a gap at the tibia ( my bones are being held together by a titanium rod that was inserted). I know bone stimulators help but expensive. My question is what vitamin is the best for bone regrowth and is there anything else I can...
i only bought the hair growth treatment one, has anyone done that? i dont want to waste my time if i have to buy the shampoo and conditioner too.. any help?
I got my cast off after 5 weeks, broken 5th metacarpal. There is a lot of pain when i do my exercises. Is that normal? And I can't move it very well. I cannot make a fist at all. I got it off about 2 days ago, by the way.
On Christmas Eve I shattered my Left Humerus and had to have pins put in (9 to be exact). I'm now in physical therapy. My range of external motion has gone down by 30 deg. and the PT is afraid my arm is freezing. I refuse to take the stim because I am afraid. If I take the stim, will it help...
While you were drunk or high? Well last week i smoked pot before my session with one of my friends. When i got there i was kinda high and she could tell. I have never been there high before. I don't wanna go to therapy, but my parents make me. Well, she ended up kicking me out and saying that...
...depression, the music therapist uses a? music songwriting activity so that clients can express their feelings about illness. At the beginning of therapy sessions, the therapist noted that the majority of the client’s lyrics to the songs were very sad and somber. Six months later, the music...
okay so i can basically only find the good stuff of ECT(electrovonvulsive therapy) but my teacher said we also need to show the flip side so what the bad things are...so does anyone know a website..that is all about the negatives of ECT?