Researchers at the Arizona May Clinic have found that excessive focal pressure to the neck and shoulder area can damage the spinal accessory nerve, which was not previously recognized as a cause of injury to the nerve.
The spinal accessory nerve is a small nerve traveling in the back side of the upper shoulder area.
To illustrate [...]
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Alzheimer’s disease researchers are using bio-markers in blood and spinal fluid to provide a real-time observation window into the brain to identify deposits of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, which are considered to be the cause of the disease.
Researchers used positron emission tomography (PET) image to locate a small molecule that binds with the abnormal proteins [...]
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Alzheimer - Dementia
Laughter is sometimes referred to as the best medicine. The organization Rx Laughter agrees and with UCLA researchers decided to put it to the test.
The purpose was to determine if humor could make stressful or painful procedures easier for children and adolescents undergoing cancer treatments or a simple blood draw. The study group involved 18 [...]
Researchers found a clue to how degenerative brain disease develops with help from an unlikely source–yeast. Yeast interacts with other genes in a way that has remained unchanged over evolutionary time and is similar to the way plant and animal genes interact.
What researchers found was a link between a virtually unknown signaling molecule and neuron health. The [...]
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Alzheimer - Dementia
A recent Institute of Medicine (IOM) exposed much of the studies for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as self-serving and biased. The report concluded that exposure-based therapy and cognitive processing therapy were the only proven treatments that were effective for PTSD. The report also concluded that pharmacotherapy requires additional research to prove its effectiveness.
The Department of Veterans [...]
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PTSD
In an University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Center for Medical Cannabis Research (CMCR) study, due to be published in the November journal of Anesthesiology, reports that cannabis in too high or too low of dosage provides little, if any benefit.
Healthy volunteers were given a placebo cigarette or a marijuana cigarette that contained either 2%, 4%, [...]
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The worst insurance policy to have is a long-term disability (LTD) policy because it usually falls under the guidelines of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). If you make a claim on an ERISA covered LTD policy and have been denied benefits, you will be unlikely to find [...]
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Bad Faith Stories
Most people instinctively know that a positive outlook on life improves both physical and mental health, while a pessimistic view of life, on the other hand, relates frequently with depressive symptoms.
What New York University researchers wanted to understand is if an optimistic attitude can be linked to the same brain regions that show irregularities in [...]
Since the early 1900s gold salts have been used to ease the pain and swelling of rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory diseases. Scientists never understood why gold worked in the treatment for arthritis and recently has been replaced by faster acting methotrexate. Now gold treatment is considered a last resort.
Gold treatment take months to work [...]
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Arthritis and Lupus
After surgery a patient frequently request a pain killer–usually an opioid. There are side effects associated with opioids and the less given the better.
Tong Joo Gan, M.D., at Duke University Medical Center, believes acupuncture before and during the surgery is an effective way to reduce the patient’s pain, which means a reduction in pain killers [...]
