Osteoarthritis :: Exercise therapy may aid hip arthritis
Strength training may help ease the pain and immobility caused by hip arthritis, a new study suggests.
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Allergy :: Food Allergy Research Consortium Focuses on Peanut Allergy
The only advice doctors can give to the 4 percent of Americans with potentially life-threatening food allergies is to avoid the culprit food, often nuts or shellfish. But that may change as researchers in a new Food Allergy Research Consortium, announced, strive to develop therapies to treat and prevent food allergy.
Heart Disease :: BiDil Heart Failure Drug for Black Patients
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved BiDil (bye-DILL), a drug for the treatment of heart failure in self-identified black patients, representing a step toward the promise of personalized medicine.
HIV :: Aptivus – New Therapy for HIV Patients with Advanced Disease
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the approval of Aptivus (tipranavir) capsules, an HIV protease inhibitor, to be given with ritonavir for treatment of HIV-1 infected adults. This is the second drug approved for patients with advanced HIV disease, and provides a new therapy for patients with limited treatment options.
Joint Pain :: New Topical Therapy Brings Relief to Pain Sufferers
ALCiS Health Inc., a consumer health company specializing in pain relief and body therapy products that utilize unique drug delivery technologies, announced the availability of ALCiS Daily Relief, a topical pain cream engineered to provide fast relief from muscle and joint pain, including that associated with arthritis, backache, strains, sprains and bruises.
Diabetes :: Tight Glucose Control Lowers CVD by About 50 Percent in Diabetes
A significantly lower risk of heart disease can now be added to the list of proven long-term benefits of tight glucose control in people with type 1 diabetes. Researchers announced this finding today at the annual scientific meeting of the American Diabetes Association after analyzing cardiovascular (CVD) events such as heart attack, stroke, and angina in patients who took part in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) years ago.
Obesity :: Psychological interventions can help fight fat
People who are overweight or obese can use behavioural and cognitive-behavioural strategies to help lose weight.
Schizophrenia :: Music therapy can help people with schizophrenia
When added to standard care, music therapy helps people with schizophrenia improve their global state, mental state and social functioning.
HRT :: Don’t take HRT if the sole reason is to ward off cardiovascular disease
Doctors should not recommend that post-menopausal women start hormone replacement therapy (HRT) just to prevent cardiovascular events. Also, women at particular risk of blood clots should be discouraged from using HRT to prevent cardiovascular events.
HIV :: Human Cells Can Silence HIV Genes – RNA silencing
For the first time, scientists have shown that humans use an immune defense process common in plants and invertebrates to battle a virus. The new finding that human cells can silence an essential part of HIV?s genetic make-up could have important implications for the treatment of people infected with the virus. Led by Kuan-Teh Jeang, M.D, Ph.D., of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part the National Institutes of Health, the researchers published their findings in this week?s issue of the journal Immunity.